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ArtsKeele
Lecture Series
Public Lecture Public Lecture Public Lecture
Cornelia Parker
Reginald Haggar
Memorial Lecture:
“Avoiding the Object” Dr Helen Parr
Commemorating
the dead: bodies,
cemeteries and
mourning Dr Paul Mulvey
MP, Col. Josiah
C. Wedgwood
3 November
2.00pm
Westminster Theatre,
Keele University
Free Entry
6 November
6.00pm
Westminster Theatre,
Keele University
Free Entry
In 1980, as a student, Cornelia
Parker caught the eye by winning
the top prize in the new ‘Midland
View’ open exhibition, at the City
Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-
on-Trent. Since those early
days, of course, she has gone
on to become one of the UK’s
most exciting and innovative
contemporary artists, with a
solo exhibition at the Whitworth,
Manchester (2015); the creation
of the monumental ‘PsychoBarn’
on the roof of the Metropolitan
Museum, New York (2016); and
her commission as official artist
for the General Election (2017).
Her vision and imagination
is often applied to ordinary
and familiar things, which she
transforms into the extraordinary
and the unforgettable.
The industrialised slaughter
of the Great War was
unprecedented. Between 1914
and 1918, three quarters of a
million Britons lost their lives
in military service. More than
one in seven of the adult male
population under the age of
twenty-five was killed, and about
one in nine households lost a
man in the war.
This lecture examines the
challenges of remembering
the dead; and asks how, a
century after the Great War,
the contemporary practice of
bringing bodies home reflects
Britain’s changing relationship
with its war dead.
22 November
6.45pm
Keele Hall
Free Entry
The History of Parliament
Trust, Keele University and
the Remembering Eleanor
Rathbone Group will host a
public seminar to commemorate
the exceptionally active
campaigning career of
longstanding Staffordshire MP,
Col. Josiah C. Wedgwood, MP
for Newcastle-under-Lyme,
1906-1942, during the 75th
anniversary year of his death.
Dr Paul Mulvey, Wedgwood’s
latest biographer, will give a
brief biography and account
of Wedgwood’s activism.
He’ll focus particularly
on Wedgwood’s tireless
campaigning for democracy
and freedom in the 1930s
and 1940s and his vehement
opposition of Nazism and
those he considered willing
to appease it.