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HIGH CULTURE AND TALL CHIMNEYS:
Arts, Sciences and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Manchester
A one-day interdisciplinary conference on the history and development
of the arts and sciences in the first industrial city.
Saturday, 3 November 2001
at John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/arthist/patron_conf/CONFER~1.HTM
This conference will bring together leading Manchester historians,
sociologists, geographers and museum and library professionals who
will offer papers on many different aspects of the city's
nineteenth-century cultural and educational development. It will be
of interest to students of culture, class formation, education and
identity, together with all those with a general interest in
Manchester's local history.
The conference organisers welcome contributions from all disciplines
and methodological traditions. The conference is being organised
around several key themes including:
· Art, culture and civic identity
· Cultural activity and the urban middle classes
· Exhibitions, collections and public museums
· Scientific knowledge and popular education
· Public space and the politics of cultural production
· Art and sciences: the economics of patronage
· Culture, refinement and urban governance
Please send an abstract (up to 150 words) of your paper by 30th June
to Sam Alberti [[log in to unmask]].
The organising panel is composed of Melanie Tebbutt (MMU History), Sam
Alberti (MU CHSTM), James Moore and Dongho Chun (MU Art History).
for more details, including registration information, see
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/arthist/patron_conf/CONFER~1.HTM
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