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SUMMARY:Discovering the Peculiarity of the English - a talk by Alan Macfarlane and Fabienne Bonnet
DESCRIPTION:The watercolour of the White Cliffs of Dover is by Richard Andrewes (Trinity)\nThis event is on Zoom\nAlan Macfarlane  (Worcester Oxford (MA & PhD)\, King’s Cambridge (Fellow)\, London School of Economics (MPhil)\, SOAS (PhD).) was born in Shillong\, Meghalaya\, India. Alan is an anthropologist and historian\, and a Professor Emeritus of King’s College\, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of 20 books and numerous articles on the anthropology and history of England\, Nepal\, Japan and China. He has focused on comparative study of the origins and nature of the modern world. In recent years he has become increasingly interested in the use of visual material in teaching and research. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. \n \nHow did I become interested in the English? My colonial background and birth in India; my schooling in English boarding schools and training in history at Oxford; my anthropological investigations in Nepal\, Japan and China; my interest in grand social theory and particularly in French commentators – Montaigne\, Voltaire\, Montesquieu\, Tocqueville\, Taine and Marc Bloch among others. And what are the peculiarities? Some outlined in”Understanding the English A-Z”\, and others\, which I will briefly sketch in\, in a sequel “The Peculiarity of the English” – Games\, Humour\, Class\, Education\, Empire and more. \nSociety Member Fabienne Bonnet\, the translator of “Understanding the English” will also talk about the process of translation of the book into French. \n \nFabienne’s background is St Thecle\, Chamalières (73)\, American Field Service scholar\, Waukesha WI. (74) MPhil Montpellier (79)\, Lectrice King’s Cambridge (90-94)\, Bye-Fellow\, Homerton (2011-2016)\, Faculty of English\, affiliated supervisor literary translation (1994-2014) (Franciscan. Life vows. 2001)
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SUMMARY:PADFAS - Zoom Lecture on Paul Strand
DESCRIPTION:PADFAS (The Arts Society Paris) invites members of the Cambridge Society of Paris to join their Live online Zoom lecture on Thursday 17th February\, 2022 at 14.00. \nDeborah Jenner will present Paul Strand’s “Straight Photography”.\n \nPaul Strand’s sharply focused Straight Photography elevated this Machine Age tool – a camera – to a medium of Fine Art through exquisitely composed images in highly contrasted tones of black and white. His 1915 shot of “Wall Street” extracted the ready-made (yet hidden) symbols of J P Morgan’s bank façade to reveal parallels with Di Vinci’s Last Supper mural. It suggests the misplaced sanctity of modern financial institutions. Strand’s 1922 article on The New Trilogy (making “God\, Christ\, and the Holy Ghost” into “the machine\, materialism and science”) clearly criticises the Industrial Age’s worshipping of false gods. His and Charles Sheeler’s chillingly still and vacated views of Henry Ford’s River Rouge automobile plant portray it as a soulless cathedral. \nStrand was always there at the cutting edge from Gallery 291 and NYC Dada to documentary filmmaking in LA & Mexico. Banished from the USA during the McCarthy Era\, he travelled the world’s political hotspots to finally settle in France compiling photo-book portraits of place. Ever shooting iconic views\, his objective\, mechanical recording of reality ironically reveals the subjectivity of all human vision. \nDeborah Jenner is an American-born art historian; member of College Arts Association. Residing in Paris since 1990\, she has worked at the Ecole du Louvre\, the Sorbonne\, the Catholic Institute and the British Council. Her Doctorate thesis proved non-western influences in Georgia O’Keeffe’s art. Her publications include catalogue essays for Musée d’Orsay (New York City et l’Art modern) and Centre Pompidou (Les Traces du Sacré)\, scholarly papers with the research laboratory S.A.R.I. and Gallery critiques in ArtAsiaPacific\, and PerformArts: Artvisuel-Artvivant. She gives public talks\, guided walks and museum tours for ex-pat organisations and study-abroad programs and volunteers as an Al Gore Climate leader and JCF Round Table coordinator. She is a member of The Arts Society Paris. \nPlease book your free place directly with PADFAS by using this link.
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