Wednesdays - 5:00 pm. in the School Lecture Theatre, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

  

SPRING 2013 PROGRAMME:

9th January
The Brain as Parnassus and the Neurons as Muses. Studying the Biology of Artistic Creativity: A tale of two Laboratories, the Warburg Institute and the Sainsbury Institute for Art.
Prof. John Onians (UEA)

16th January     
Blast and Vorticism
Prof. Paul Edwards, (UEA)

This talk is the concluding paper in a special Event with Literature, Drama and Creative Writing

ASPECTS OF BRITISH MODERNISM: ART AND LITERATURE

23rd January   
Fearing (for) the Past: the Historical Significance of Sufi Saint Shrines in Africa and the Current Political Threat.
Dr. Sada Mire, Director of Horn Heritage & Research Associate SOAS

30th  January     
Holy Week in the Andes: the Immanence of the Sacrificer
Dr. Aristóteles Barcelos-Neto, Sainsbury Research Unit, UEA

6th February     
Pope Hadrian's Epitaph: the Creation and Survival of a Carolingian Masterpiece in Old St. Peter's, Rome
Prof. Joanna Story, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester

13th February  Reading Week – no meeting

20th February
Churches and Mosques in Early Medieval Syria
Dr. Matthiae Guidetti, Dept. of History of Art, University of Edinburgh

27th February
I Object! Reflective Debate, Radical Transparency and Trust in the Cultural Sector
Dr. Bernadette Lynch, Cultural sector writer, researcher, consultant. Honorary Research Associate, University College London

6th March  
Fleshtones, Skin-Colour and the Eighteenth-Century Colour Print
Dr. Mechtild Fend, History of Art, University College London

13th March  
TOWARDS AUTHENTICITY: The rise of the antique applied art object in the later 19th century.
Stefan Muthesius, Emeritus Professor in the School of Art History & World Art Studies, UEA

20st March             
A ‘Striptease of Hidden Presence' in Power Association Arts on the Senufo-Mande Cultural ‘Frontier'
Dr Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Visiting Fellow, SRU UEA

17th April       
Illustrating History in the Anglo-Norman World
Dr. Laura Cleaver, Dept. of History of Art & Architecture, Trinity College Dublin