studium

Most of the time she sat motionless by the fire or at the large window in the room she called her studium, where the two younger ladies-in-waiting would read aloud, or make music, or simply chatter to one another as they played games or embroidered, while paying no more attention to their helpless mistress than to a piece of furniture.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

In Camera Lucida, Barthes distinguishes between the "studium" and the "punctum" of the photograph.

The power of the holiday photo 2010

One Sports studium built for a University had a Alumni skybox which cost more to build than it did to run the University for a year.

Economics of Higher Education Subsidies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

It's all punctum – if there's any studium there you can have it for free and use it for a boring sociological thesis.

The power of the holiday photo 2010

Perhaps studium and punctum merge in one detail: look at my mother's hemline – she never wore a dress that short before or since.

The power of the holiday photo 2010

The studium denotes the cultural or political interpretation of the photograph; the punctum denotes the personally touching detail that establishes a direct relationship with the object or person within it.

The power of the holiday photo 2010

As for studium, note the Austin A30 in the field behind, or consider how my father has composed his family, rather conventionally, on a tree stump with the misty English landscape behind.

The power of the holiday photo 2010

In his Camera Lucida (Reflections on Photography), Roland Barthes distinguishes between the studium of a photograph, those elements of a photograph that provoke an interpretive (cultural, social, political) response, and the punctum of a photograph, the element of a photograph that punctures, or wounds – that which provokes an emotional response in the viewer by establishing a direct relationship between the viewer and the subject of the photograph.

Exposed | Her Bad Mother 2007

Showcasing documents and images from the University Archives, the exhibition explores and illustrates the journey the university has made since a migrant band of scholars first reached the town in 1209 and established their studium

January 2009 2009

And historically the universitas studium, the universe of studies that makes up the university, has cared corporately about the life of the mind.

'Faith, Reason and Quality Assurance - Having Faith in Academic Life' 2008