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ROUSSEAU 300: NATURE, SELF AND STATE Date: 9 January - 27 April | Time: 1pm-5pm | Location: UCL Art Museum | Price: FREE | Age group: Any | This exhibition features rare items from UCL’s art and book collections to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the most controversial authors in the history of philosophy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Among the items on show are first editions of Rousseau’s works, including On the Social Contract (Du contrat social, 1762), frontispieces and translations. The display highlights his unique and interdisciplinary characteristics as a philosopher who not only wrote on politics, economics and education, but also composed music and wrote best-selling novels. The show coincides with an international conference marking Rousseau’s tercentenary and a special performance of his rarely produced opera, Le Devin du village (UCL, 19-21 April 2012).
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STRANGE CREATURES: UCL ART MUSEUM POPS-UP AT THE GRANT Date: 23 February | Time: Drop in 1-2pm | Location: Grant Museum of Zoology, Rockefeller Building, University College London, University Street, WC1E 6DE | Price: Free. There is no need to book | Age group: All | Huge volumes of art have been produced with representations of animals, but not all are particularly accurate. Historically, artists may have never seen the creature they depicted and mythological and religious themes allow for the creation of some truly strange creatures. Take this chance to see these intriguing works and more contemporary creations from UCL Art Museum amongst the strange, but real, creatures in the Grant Museum.
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POP-UPS AT UCL ART MUSEUM: IMAGES OF ROUSSEAU Date: 28 February | Time: 1pm-2pm | Location: UCL Art Museum | Price: FREE | Age group: Any | Avi Lifschitz, UCL History, uses works from the Rousseau 300 exhibition to explore how the way we perceive Rousseau now is very different from his 18th-century reputation.
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