The University of East Anglia's Department of Art History and World Art Studies is pleased to announce the Spring Programme of its World Art Research Seminar.

Lectures run from 5-7pm in the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art's Lecture Theatre.

All are welcome!

PROGRAMME

17 Jan
Dr. Dan Rycroft (Art History and World Art Studies, UEA):
"Indian Anthropology: What Does it Mean Now?"

24 Jan
Dr. Cadence Kinsey (History of Art, University of York):
"Fluid Dynamics"

1 Feb
Dr. Sarah Guérin (History of Art, University of Pennsylvania):
From Seville to Paris: Ivory Carving in Gothic Europe

7 Feb:
Dr. Ben Thomas (History of Art and Media, University of Kent):
"Curating Raphael's Drawings: Invention and Eloquence"

14 Feb:
Dr. Philip Riris (Archaeology, UCL, and SRU Fellow, UEA):
"Rock Art and Sacred Landscapes of the Atures Rapids (Middle Orinoco, Venezuela)"

28 Feb:
Prof. Kojiro Hirose (Natoonal Museum of Ethnology, Osaka):
"Hands of Goze: The Tactile Culture of Visually-impaired People in Modern Japan"

7 Mar:
Prof. Caroline van Eck (History of Art, Cambridge):
"Piranesi's Colossal Candelabra: Trophies, Totems and other Ritual Objects"

14 Mar:
Prof. Matthew Treherne (Italian Literature, University of Leeds):
"Seeing and Unseeing: Visual Art and Contemplation in Dante’s Commedia"

18 Apr:
Dr. Annie Grant (Hon. Research Fellow, Art History and World Art Studies):
"Detecting the Undetectable? Investigating Transhumance: from Heidi to Prehistoric Stele"

25 Apr:
Dr. Sussan Babaie (Courtauld Institute):
"For the Love of Joseph: Taste, Blood and Beauty"

2 May:
Dr. Sarah Lowndes (Research Associate, Norwich University of the Arts):
"We are Born as Nouns Not Verbs: Agnes Martin and the New Mexico Desert (1968-2004)

For more information please contact:
Ed Krčma (e.krcmauea.ac.uk) or Jack Hartnell (j.hartnelluea.ac.uk)