From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V6 #252 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Friday, February 1 2008 Volume 06 : Number 252 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:46:03 -0500 From: Red Subject: seven-seas Nick Cave conference... I know there are a few big Nick Cave fans on these lists. Someone posted this on the forum: NICK CAVE CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER, SATURDAY 5th JULY 2008 The University of Westminster will host a one-day international conference on the work of acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave in July 2008. Cave is one of the most critically admired songwriters and performers of our time; his extensive body of work, produced over thirty years, ranges from the cacophonous intensity of The Birthday Party to the hushed reverence of The Good Son, and from the savagery of Murder Ballads to the melancholia of The Boatman's Call. His latest album with his long-term musical collaborators, The Bad Seeds, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, will be released in March 2008. He has also worked very successfully in other genres, including fiction, scriptwriting, and acting. Speakers at the conference include: Charlie Blake (Liverpool Hope University): 'Cruel Wisdom: Nick Cave, Archaic Violence, and the Perversity of Song'. Isabella van Elferen (Utrecht University): 'Mediating the Uncanny: Nick Cave's Gothic Modalities'. Nick Groom (University of Exeter): ''Executioner-Style'': Nick Cave and the Murder Ballad Tradition'. Rebecca Johinke (University of Sydney): ''Welcome to Hell': the Rhetorics of Masculine Violence in Ghosts of the Civil Dead'. Paul Lumsden (Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton): ''The College Professor Says it': Using Nick Cave's Lyrics in the College Classroom'. Emma McEvoy (University of Westminster) and Catherine Spooner (Lancaster University): ''Now They've Changed Their Tune': Nick Cave's Appropriations of American Folk Traditions'. Nathan Wiseman-Trowse (University of Northampton): 'Oedipus Wrecks: Cave and the Presley Myth'. Attendance at the conference is free, but places are strictly limited. To reserve a place, please e-mail the conference organiser, Dr John Baker, on bakerj@westminster.ac.uk. Dr John H. Baker Department of English & Linguistics University of Westminster Tel: 0207-911-5000, x. 2367 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **************Bunnymen Online Presence******************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ http://www.villiersterrace.com/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stevedoughty/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V6 #252 ********************************