Sheffield: Spring Concerts

Message from the University of Sheffield's Concert Season

EVENING CONCERTS

Tuesday 28 April, 7.30pm, Firth Hall

BENJAMIN FRITH (PIANO)

Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Op. 67, Book 6

Beethoven: Sonata in C Sharp minor, Op. 27, No 2 (Moonlight)

Mendelssohn: Fantasy in F Sharp minor, Op. 28

Schumann: Fantasy in C, Op. 17

Benjamin Frith has performed with many of the great orchestras and conductors including the Israel Philharmonic, the BBC Philharmonic, CBSO, and the Berlin Symphony. He achieved international recognition by sharing the top prize in the Busoni International Piano Competition, and 1st prize in the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition. He regularly appears at international festivals and has won several golden opinions for his recordings.

"Benjamin Frith is the prodigy of prodigies"

DENNIS MATTHEWS

Tuesday 05 May, 7.30pm, Firth Hall

CAMARILLA ENSEMBLE

Mozart: Fantasia in F minor, K.608

Zemlinsky: Humoreske (Rondo)

Gordon Jacob: Sextet in B flat, Op.6

Ligeti: Bagatelles

Poulenc: Sextuor

Wind Quintet; the Camarilla Ensemble are winners of 2008's Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition Ensemble prize. They are quickly establishing themselves as one of Europe?s leading chamber ensembles, and individual members have performed extensively world wide, working with Sir Elton John, Bombay Chamber Orchestra, Royal Opera House and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra amongst others. The ensemble enjoys a programme of varied engagements from recitals to workshops, and has been coached by such eminent musicians as Sir Colin Davis, Sebastien Bell and Matthew Souter.

Sunday 10 MAY, 7.30pm, Firth Hall

SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Mendelssohn: Overture - Ruy Blas

Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56

Sibelius: Symphony No. 1, Op. 39

Amy Finch (violin)

Edward Harper (?cello)

Gary O?Shea (piano)

Nigel Simeone (conductor)

FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

All at 1.10pm, University Drama Studio

Thursday 30 April: Rosie Williamson (soprano) Alan Brown (piano)

Thursday 07 May: Sheffield University Ensembles Concert

Thursday 14 May: Sheffield University Composers Concert

TICKETS AND ENQUIRIES

EVENING CONCERTS: £8, £5, (senior citizens/staff) and £2.50

(students,unwaged)

FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERTS: Admission is free and tickets are not required. These concerts are designed to be an informal, alternative way to spend part of a lunch hour and members of the audience may arrive and leave between items.

Complimentary wine and juice is available during the interval at all our evening concerts.

For more information on all concerts and information on how to purchase tickets please contact us on:

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0114 222 0499

concerts@sheffield.ac.uk

www.sheffield.ac.uk/concerts

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Sheffield: Arts-Science Encounters

2009 Arts-Science Encounters presents...

Three Ways of Looking at Deception

Tuesday 28th April. 5:30pm. Humanities Research Institute, 34 Gell Street.

An exploration of lying in brain science, Holocaust testimony and philosophy with Dr Paul Faulkner (Philosophy), Professor Sean Spence (Neuroscience), and Professor Sue Vice (English).

Dr Paul Faulkner is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. His research interests lie in epistemology and in particular the epistemology of testimony. He explores such questions as: 'What is the psychologically correct description of how we respond to testimony? In what ways does believing what someone says introduce problems of trust? Is there anything wrong with lying?' Paul's publications include 'What is Wrong With Lying?' (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2007) and 'On Telling and Trusting' (Mind, 2007)

Sean Spence is Professor of General Adult Psychiatry in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Sean and his research team are exploring ways of mapping the neural correlates of deception in the human brain. Neuroimaging can detect differences in brain response ('signatures') when a subject is lying or telling the truth, which may have a practical application in legal cases of possible miscarriage of justice. Sean Spence's work has appeared in Nature, Science, Wired, The Sunday Times, and a 2007 Channel 4 documentary series called 'Lie Lab'.

Sue Vice is Professor of English Literature and one of the foremost critics of Holocaust literature in the UK. Her recent work has focused on false or embellished Holocaust testimony, which includes articles analysing Binjamin Wilkomirski's notorious false testimony 'Fragments' and attempting to account for such texts in literary terms. Sue Vice's publications include Holocaust Fiction (2000) and Children Writing the Holocaust (2004).

To book a place for this event, and others in the series, please visit http://www.arts-scienceencounters.co.uk/

Places are limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Information related to this message is available at http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/arts-science/.

Sheffield: New Creative Writing Master's course

Message from the English department at Sheffield University

The University of Sheffield

Creative Writing Pathway

The New Creative Writing Pathway through the MA in English Literature

Following on from the success of creative writing initiatives the School of English has developed at undergraduate level – with courses offered through the Institute for Lifelong Learning, a thriving student writing magazine, Route 57, CILASS initiatives, and significant courses across the School which involve writing – the School is proud to announce the launch of a creative writing pathway to the MA in English Literature, with a view to helping young and emergent writers towards successful publication. These new writers are following in the footsteps of graduates such as Ann Sansom, Chris Jones, Cliff Ashcroft, Eleanor Rees (all of whom have published two or more collections), Claire Lockwood (published in Poetry Review), Andrew Bailey (winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize) and Ben Wilkinson.

General description

The course is made up of one theory course and one practical workshop module – students taking the pathway will take these two 30-credit courses as core, and choose a further 60-credits from the modules available on the general English Literature Masters programme. The pathway ends with a 60-credit dissertation (80% creative; 20% critical-reflective) written over the summer. The practical workshop is an autumn semester module, students submitting the portfolio and essay at the end of the semester. The workshop continues, however, through the Spring term as a combination of dissertation-preparation workshops and student-led, peer-feedback editorial sessions. The theory module is a Spring semester module, run weekly, and team- taught, dealing with the more abstract issues related to writing. The staff teaching on the course will be: creative writing professional, Vahni Capildeo; course leader, Prof Adam Piette; members of staff with creative writing experience, including Neil Roberts, Matthew Campbell, Sue Vice, Richard Canning, Rachel Falconer, Brendan Stone.

Teaching staff

Vahni Capildeo, a Trinidadian poet, will be the leading force behind the creative writing pathway in its launch year. She is the author of four collections of poems, a book-length poem sequence No Traveller Returns (Salt, 2003), Person Animal Figure, a three-character series of dramatic monologues (Landfill Press, 2005), a three-section book that actively engages with William Carlos Williams's Paterson, The Undraining Sea (Eggbox Press, 2009), Dark and Unaccustomed Words (completed 2008, forthcoming). She is currently working on her fifth collection, Utter, on the theme of 'Monolithicity'. She is a Contributing Editor at the Caribbean Review of Books (edited by Nicholas Laughlin) and a freelance researcher for the Oxford English Dictionary. We have experience of creative writing provision within the School – not only with published creative writers on the staff, but also Adam Piette, who helped set up the highly successful Edwin Morgan Creative Writing Centre when at the University of Glasgow, and taught creative writing there for eight years. Members of staff with creative writing experience will also be involved in the course provision, including Neil Roberts, Matthew Campbell, Sue Vice, Richard Canning, Rachel Falconer, Brendan Stone.

Entry requirements

Portfolio submission of 2000 words of prose/drama or 8 poems (or equivalent, roughly 150 lines), to be sent along with the application form. This is a pathway through the MA in English Literature so applicants must also abide by the entry requirements of that programme. Students apply for the MA in English Literature – Creative Writing pathway. The application form is available at: http:// www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/apply/

http://www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/apply/

The general requirements for the MA in English Literature are as follows:

Students wishing to take this degree should have a good first degree (2.i or above) in English literature, language, linguistics, or a related discipline (e.g. history, philosophy, modern Languages).

International students whose first language is not English are required to provide proof of English language proficiency. For example, students may have an IELTS certificate (7.5 minimum) or a ToEFL certificate (paper test: 630 minimum score, with a Written English Score of 5; computer test: 267 with a Written English Score of 5).

There is no specific deadline for places on the course – we will be processing applications into the summer. But early applications are encouraged as we have a maximum number of places. Do please contact Cathy Shrank for information about the courses offered on the general MA in English Literature; Jane Lowe, MA secretary, for administrative questions or Adam Piette for enquiries specific to the creative writing pathway.

email : c.shrank@sheffield.ac.uk

email : j.lowe@sheffield.ac.uk

email : a.piette@sheffield.ac.uk

The website for the course is: http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/prospectivepg/creativewriting.html