Thursday 18 October, 3:30
for Stage 2 students
Alistair is a Research Fellow at the London College of Fashion. This is what he says about his own work: "As a writer and curator my research centres on the interpretation of visual culture particular to metropolitan contexts. The central project to date has been the single-author publication 'Mapping Fashion in London' for Reaktion Books. The book is an account of the relation between fashionable identities and the capital across the twentieth century that considers unusual instances, much of it drawn from archive sources. Recent exhibitions have focussed on the citation of fashion as a concept in photographic archives, these include 'Wolf Suschitzky: Charing Cross Road in the 1930s' (Elms Lester Painting Rooms, 2004) and 'The Harry Jacobs Archive' (Fashion Space Gallery, LCF, 2003). I am also researching the career of the Savile Row tailor Tommy Nutter." [http://www.arts.ac.uk/15408.htm]
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This discussion page has been set up to let BACCC students share opinions and comments about guest lectures.
What we'd like is that you write up your notes from the lectures and post them here. You can also respond to posts.
The blog represents a project I'm doing as part of my teacher-training (PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education). My aim is to try to get students to engage with the guest lectures in a more critical way, learning how to ask better questions of the speaker and draw the material from the lectures into the work you do in essays and other projects.
When I was doing my MA in art history, first year students were required to attend every guest lecture and write up a 1-page critical analysis, which was marked by our tutor. We were also encouraged to pose informed questions of the speaker. The exercise was effective because it made us into active listeners, gave us practice taking good notes, and, by writing up our notes, created a context where we reflected on the lecture, its content and the speaker's particular approach, developing an 'argument' about it, much like you would about a reading.
By making this activity take place online (instead of something students share only with their tutor) my hope is that the exercise will accomplish, for those who take part, the things mentioned above, but also generate a dialogue between students.
The discussion also has the potential to be expansive--you might like to post comments referring to related material or relevant links, in effect sharing research.
I hope this works. Please let me know!
The Lecture series
- Kathleen Madden--Wed. 10 Oct.
- Paula Smithard--Mon. 15 Oct.
- Judith Batalion--Wed. 17 Oct.
- Alistair O'Neill--Thurs. 18 Oct.
- Sir John Tusa--Thurs. 25 Oct.
- Sonia Ashmore--Mon. 5 Nov.
- Speaker TBA--Tues. 6 Nov.
- Judith Batalion--Wed. 7 Nov.
- Eldrid Herrington--Wed. 14 Nov.
- Linda Sandino--Wed. 14 Nov.
- Mary Schoeser--Thurs. 15 Nov.
- Gavin Wade--Tues. 20 Nov.
Welcome to the BACCC Forum
This discussion page has been set up to let BACCC students share opinions and comments about guest lectures.
What we'd like is that you write up your notes from the lectures and post them here. You can also respond to posts.
The blog represents a project I'm doing as part of my teacher-training (PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education). My aim is to try to get students to engage with the guest lectures in a more critical way, learning how to ask better questions of the speaker and draw the material from the lectures into the work you do in essays and other projects.
When I was doing my MA in art history, first year students were required to attend every guest lecture and write up a 1-page critical analysis, which was marked by our tutor. We were also encouraged to pose informed questions of the speaker. The exercise was effective because it made us into active listeners, gave us practice taking good notes, and, by writing up our notes, created a context where we reflected on the lecture, its content and the speaker's particular approach, developing an 'argument' about it, much like you would about a reading.
By making this activity take place online (instead of something students share only with their tutor) my hope is that the exercise will accomplish, for those who take part, the things mentioned above, but also generate a dialogue between students.
The discussion also has the potential to be expansive--you might like to post comments referring to related material or relevant links, in effect sharing research.
I hope this works. Please let me know!
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