Stevie Wishart takes part in an exploration of musical improvisation through the ages and in different idioms in a concert at The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.

Chairman John Rink (Music, University of Cambridge) in conversation and performance with:

• Paula Chateauneuf, lute (The Division Lobby and the University of Birmingham)
• Stevie Wishart, violin and hurdy-gurdyPresented in association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice

This is part of 'The Future University' conference, a major Mellon-funded conference to conclude CRASSH's current theme.

About the Conference

‘The Future University’ - The conference will address post-disciplinary developments along with policy implications, as well as the catalyst provided by the creative and performing arts on one hand, and the social sciences on the other, when it comes to rethinking the very basis of ‘the Future University’ as a place where education and research (including practice-based research) remain vitally inter-connected within the broad field we know as the Humanities.

Panels will consider musical performance and creative practice, the reorientation of old disciplines in new regions, the relation between universities as they are or might be, and between digitality and democracy, higher education policy and the humanities, the role of ‘the human’ in global literature, and a range of literacies that include both digital literacy and the literate eye in looking at and writing about art. Keynotes will address ‘Digital Technologies and the Conditional University’ (Bernard Stiegler, Pompidou Centre) and ‘The Impact of International History’ (Sir Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy).

The programme will also feature a musical performance event called ‘Improvisation in the Round’, a panel discussion on ‘The Fate of the Humanities’, and a closing panel at the Fitzwilliam Museum on the role of the University Art Museum.

Please click on the link at the right hand side of the page to see the programme.

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Presented in association with the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice