OAR@UM Collection:https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/111842024-03-28T20:42:03Z2024-03-28T20:42:03ZAbout our contributorshttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/125232018-03-01T14:42:25Z2014-06-01T00:00:00ZTitle: About our contributors
Abstract: Short biographies of the contributors.2014-06-01T00:00:00ZEncountering Malta II : British writers and the Mediterranean 1760 - 1840 : literature, landscapes, politics : conference reviewCaruana, ChristineFarrugia, Jameshttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124982018-03-01T14:42:54Z2014-06-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Encountering Malta II : British writers and the Mediterranean 1760 - 1840 : literature, landscapes, politics : conference review
Authors: Caruana, Christine; Farrugia, James
Abstract: In January 2014, the Department of English at the University of Malta held the second in a series of conferences, entitled ‘Encountering Malta II – British Writers and the Mediterranean 1760-1840: Literature, Landscapes, Politics’. The first, held in 2011 in conjunction with the School of English at the University of St Andrew’s, Scotland, grounded itself within the same eighty year span, and had featured keynote speakers Professor Peter Vassallo and Professor Michael O’Neill. This series was inspired, in part, by the book Encounters with Malta—a work that details the interaction of various artistic figures with the Maltese archipelago over the centuries, as Dr Petra Caruana Dingli, one of the co-editors of the work, pointed out in the roundtable discussion on the first day of the event. This second two-day conference took place at the Old University Building in Valletta, Malta. It was a moderately paced event with a comfortable schedule that allowed for two keynote speakers and an intriguing variety of papers which attested to the tumultuous richness of the late 18th and early 19th century period in question.2014-06-01T00:00:00ZEditorial [Antae, Vol.1(2)] https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/122972018-03-01T14:43:41Z2014-06-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Editorial [Antae, Vol.1(2)]
Abstract: History attests to the fact that monologic worlds are all too often the most self-destructive and, thankfully, short-lived forms of civilisation. Such worlds manifest themselves with worrying regularity, impacting every aspect of life. They lead to a full realisation of all five of Hobbes’s famous epithets: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. At heart, they constitute a failure of the imagination, a failure of language and of communication, in which the human capacity for intellect either slowly dissolves or is renounced, giving space instead to a single-minded severity that breeds polarity and extremism.2014-06-01T00:00:00ZPortraiture : finding the valid fragmentMuscat, Sergiohttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/122962018-03-01T14:43:51Z2014-06-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Portraiture : finding the valid fragment
Authors: Muscat, Sergio
Abstract: The paper deals with the concepts of fragmentation and reconstruction in the field of portraiture. Taking a portrait as a large fragment of information, we look into ways in which it can be optimised and reduced such that it remains valid but becomes more efficient. The paper commences by exploring the concept of the fragment from various facets, including historically, especially from the modernist point of view, and goes forth to investigate various techniques from practices both adjunct and outside of the field of art in order to inform the portraiture process itself on how information can be collected, optimised and presented to the viewer.2014-06-01T00:00:00Z