Thursday 25 October, 3:30
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Sir John Tusa is the new Chairman of the University of the Arts London. Previously Managing Director of the Barbican Centre, Tusa has made significant contributions to British art in the last two decades.
One website notes: "Sir John Tusa Chairman of the Wigmore Hall Trust, Chairman of the Government Art Collection, has been a Trustee at the British Museum since 2000, a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1988 - 2000, a Trustee of the Design Museum from 1999 - 2000, and a Board Member of English National Opera since 1994. He has Honorary Doctorates from London University, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh and City University, London. In July 1999 he was awarded Honorary Membership of The Royal Academy of Music and in October 1999 Honorary Membership of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
He has co-authored two books of contemporary history with his wife, the historian Ann Tusa: "The Nuremburg Trial" (1983) and "The Berlin Blockade" (1988). He has also written two volumes of essays on broadcasting and journalism: "Conversations with the World" (1990) and "A World in your Ear" (1992). In May 1999 he published a book of essays on the arts and culture called "Art Matters, Reflecting on Culture", issued in paperback with additional material in August 2000. His most recent book "On Creativity" explores the process of creativity thorough a collection of interviews from his BBC Radio 3 series and features such internationally acclaimed artists as Howard Hodgkin, Paula Rego and Frank Auerbach. He regularly writes arts and culture pieces for the national newspapers, arts magazines, and gives lectures."
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He's also been recenlty appointed as Chairman of the V&A, as of this November.
see the Wikipedia entry on him which eloaborates on his previous career, as a broadcast journalist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tusa
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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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