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This blog was created as part of the Erasmus Mundus Crossways in Cultural Narratives Masters programme, which is the only one of the EU approved and funded Erasmus Mundus Masters programmes to specialise in traditional humanities with a modern languages background. The Crossways Consortium comprises 6 top-class European universities.

For further information, please check the programme's official website and the universities' websites on the Useful Links section on the left. If you wish to have a specific question answered, please click on Email here and submit your query.

Mundus students, here you will find regular posts regarding the universities of the consortium, tips, activities, events, pictures, etc. Apart from checking it regularly to keep yourself up to date, a good way to use the blog is through the search device. We already have a significant amount of information on some universities of the consortium, so if you want to find information on a specific city, type its name in the search field (top left). You will then see all posts related to that specific city (because each post title contains the city's name in it). You can also type "General" in order to find information concerning everybody.

Friday, 24 April 2009

Lisbon: IndieLisboa Festival

IndieLisboa

"INDIELISBOA is a privileged event to meet the most recent and interesting works of independent cinema from all over the world.

The main aim of the Festival is to discover new films and new directors, in the universe of independent cinema. Keeping its attention on the author's creativity and independence, INDIELISBOA was able to become the most important Portuguese Film festival.

On its way to the 6th edition, INDIELISBOA is looking forward to enhance its national and international position as the main Portuguese film festival." (Festival's official website)

When? 23 April to 3 May 2009

Where? Cinema São Jorge, Cinema Londres, Cinema City Classic Alvalade and Museu do Oriente

How much? 3.5€ per film

For more information and for the Festival's day to day films and events, please click here.

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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
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For video clips and pictures of our performers, as well as the opportunity to purchase tickets online, please see our website

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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/.

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