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It's black and white, silent and just short of ten minutes in length. But D.W. Griffith's 1909 classic The Lonely Villa inspired Dr John David Rhodes, Director of Cambridge's new Centre for Film and Screen, to look at the role and meaning of the house in American cinema.

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Would you rather eat an apple or a banana? Read Moby Dick or A Tale of Two Cities ? Is a cup or a mug holding that coffee? How quickly the decision gets made matters. That's because the longer someone takes to draw a conclusion, the more likely that person will disengage from the process altogether and simply never decide.

The almost-anthropomorphic shape on the Ag Quad that was once a tree was intended by its creator, artist and associate professor of design and environmental analysis Jack Elliott , to draw attention to climate justice.

The University of Queensland's Symphony Orchestra and Chorale will take to the stage at Brisbane's QPAC on Sunday for a concert commemorating 400 years since Shakespeare's death and the Bard's influence in the classical music sphere.

A consortium of university-based centres with a combined annual audience of over 1.2 million people has been launched to share best practise and offer opportunities for collaboration.

Artists today engage with a world very different from that of their predecessors: globally connected, technologically advanced and highly diverse.

People in Merthyr will stage a one off piece of theatre and live debate exploring the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act (2016) and how it relates to their lives.

AUSTIN, Texas â?- The University of Texas at Austin has released a digital edition of The Collections, the first encyclopedic account of the universityâ?'s repository of cultural artifacts. With more than 170 million objects, the university outpaces the largest collections in America and rivals many in variety and importance.

A project which will shed light on how musicians rehearsed and interacted with each other in the 19th Century has begun at Oxford University.

Migration is one of the major forces shaping the world today, with more than 60 million displaced people.

A public event remembering the centenary of one of the bloodiest battles fought by Welsh soldiers during World War 1 will take place at Wales Millennium Centre on Saturday 21 May.

The Cal Band launches a tour of China and Japan next week by assembling in formation near the Great Wall for a few of its traditional musical productions.

An archaeologist studying musical horns from iron-age Ireland has found musical traditions, thought to be long dead, are alive and well in south India. The realisation that modern Indian horns are almost identical to many iron-age European artefacts reveals a rich cultural link between the two regions 2,000 years ago, said PhD student Billy Ó Foghlú, from ANU College of Asia-Pacific.

A portrait of the Holocaust survivor, Ruth Klüger, by Renata Schmidtkunz on 13 May, 2016, at 19:30 in DAS KINO.

Moving tales of humanity showcased at media degree show Stories from 'the Jungle' at Calais, a multi-sensory exploration of a Holocaust survivor's childhood and an interactive box of memories for dem

At the Stanford Center in Peking University, Stanford Associate Professor Jindong Cai conducts a re-creation of the first performance, in 1922, of a Beethoven symphony by an all-Chinese ensemble of 15 musicians.

Alumna and faculty member was praised by Martha Graham for ability to see dance through a 'demonic eye' Dawn Setzer It's an indelible image and among the most famous dance photographs ever taken: Modern dance icon Martha Graham performing the work "Letter to the World.

AUSTIN, Texas - The Harry Ransom Center , a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, invites applications for its 2017'2018 research fellowships.

A dark-haired girl, rendered in angular figures of copper against black as if from ancient Greece, hauls mightily on a water jug, following her mistress.

Members of the public will have the opportunity to 'become' embodied energy fields within a virtual landscape as part of an interactive research residency by University of Bristol graduate student, Lisa May Thomas at the Arnolfini's Dark Studio next week [Tuesday 10 - Friday 13 May].

Two professors from the University of Pennsylvania have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) has announced 10 faculty-in-residence fellows in the social sciences, humanities and arts for 2016-17.

The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) has announced 10 faculty-in-residence fellows in the social sciences, humanities and arts for 2016-17.

Fifty years since its founding, the Medieval Studies Program is thriving, says Alice Colby-Hall, professor emerita of Romance studies and a founding member of the program.

By Leigh Kish / 412-268-2900 / lkish [a] andrew.cmu (p) edu Jamie Earnest created paitings for her "Meeting of the Minds" project, "Your Home or My Home?" Research can inspire a paint stroke.

People desperately want to put the past behind and to identify a clear vision for the future that can be pursued with passion and enthusiasm.

When Rich Medina graduated from Cornell in 1992, he did not imagine he'd return a quarter-century later as an instructor.

An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery features paintings of some of Russia's legendary creative figures.

By Christina Cook University of Pennsylvania senior Nick DeFina has spent his last four years engaged with the various intricacies, insights and intrigues of scholarly research.

Micrometric and sub-micrometric contaminant particles - what most of us call "dust" - can cause big problems for art conservators, the electronics industry, aerospace engineers, and others.

Paul Heald is the Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law at the University of Illinois and an expert in patent, copyright and international intellectual property law.

Cornell University Library will develop new tools and methods to better describe libraries' scholarly information resources and share those descriptions among different institutions, thanks to a new grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In collaboration with the libraries of Harvard and Stanford universities and library researchers at the University of Iowa, Cornell has been awarded a $1.5 million, two-year grant to help libraries use linked data to improve the exchange and understanding of information about scholarly resources.

"KNBC" by UCLA professor of digital media arts Casey Reas is an audio and visual distortion of television signals broadcast during December 2015.

Music education is still not easily accessible for all children due to a number of barriers including parental concerns about career prospects and time pressures on the curriculum, according to new research from the UCL Institute of Education (IOE).

An ancient song repertory will be heard for the first time in 1,000 years this week after being 'reconstructed' by a Cambridge researcher and a world-class performer of medieval music There have been

Steinway piano makes a grand entrance at Sussex A piano with an illustrious past is soon to arrive at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts on the University of Sussex campus.

We're at UC Berkeley's Campanile courtyard listening to sounds of an ancient bell that have never been heard before. It's the 20-foot-tall, 200-ton Russian "Tsar Bell" - the largest bell in the world - in duet with the campus's carillon.

Tom Mitchell , the Fredkin University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), joining the world's most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists and civic leaders.