Wonder, Art and Entrepreneurship: Monique Boddington In Conversation with Tim Yip (Oscar and BAFTA winning art director and designer) and Professor Alan Macfarlane (anthropologist and historian)
The recording of this event can be found here.
Timothy Yip Kam-tim (Chinese: 葉錦添) is an Oscar-winning costume designer (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), filmmaker (Love Infinity), artist, calligrapher, sculptor, museum curator and much more. As a Hong Kong art director and designer for fiction films, he is best known for his work on the 2000 martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which he won the Oscar for Best Art Direction and Costume Design and the British Academy Film Award for Best Costume Design in 2000.
Alan Donald James Macfarlane FBA is an anthropologist and historian, and a Professor Emeritus of King's College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of 40 books and numerous articles on the anthropology and history of England, Nepal, Japan and China.He has focused on comparative study of the origins and nature of the modern world. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. He is also a Life Fellow of King’s College Cambridge.
Tim and Alan explored the themes of creativity, discovery, the arts of communication, the nature of parallel worlds, the relations between arts and sciences, and the differences between the civilization and arts of the East (especially Japan and China) and the West (especially the Anglosphere).
Entrepreneurship is not only about asking new questions and making new connections but also about finding ways to put them into practice. This promises to make the meeting of entrepreneurship, art and anthropology especially inspiring.
Tim Yip and Alan Macfarlane held a conversation in 2022 which has been published as Wonder and Art: Cambridge Conversations with Tim Yip (Cam Rivers Publishing, 2023).
Monique Boddington is a Management Practice Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the MSt in Entrepreneurship programme at the Judge Business School. Her research focuses on early-stage entrepreneurship, the application of sociological approaches, and gender and entrepreneurship. She previously worked as an archaeologist and holds a PhD in the subject.
WHEN: Thursday 7 March 2024
5.30 pm – 6.00 pm: Wine reception in Provost’s Lodge
6.00 pm – 7.00 pm: Talk in Provost’s Drawing Room
WHERE: King's College, Cambridge