5 November, 5.15-6.30pm, Elliott Room, 20 Chambers Street.
Dr Morgan Ng (St John’s College, Cambridge): ‘The Renaissance Superstructure’
(ESALA Architectural History and Theory seminar)
22 October, 5.15-6.30pm, Elliott Room, 20 Chambers Street.
Professor Victor Plahte Tschudi (Oslo): ‘Modernist Piranesi’
(ESALA Architectural History and Theory seminar)
8 October, 5.15-6.30pm, Elliott Room, 20 Chambers Street.
Dr Elizabeth Merrill (Warburg Institute): ‘Early Modern Machines and the Architecture of the Worksite’
(ESALA Architectural History and Theory seminar)
24 September, 5.15-6.30pm, Elliott Room, 20 Chambers Street.
Professor Ralph Ghoche (Columbia University): ‘Erasing the Ketchaoua Mosque: Catholicism, assimilation, and civic identity in C19th France and Algeria’
(ESALA Architectural History and Theory seminar)
Event name: New Perspectives on the Belt & Road Initiative
Date: Thursday 3 Oct - Friday 4 Oct
Location: McEwan hall and Playfair library
Event Page: http://www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/bri/
11 DECEMBER: The Body
Dr Freya Gowrley, ’Visual and Material Cultures of the Fat Body in
Britain & its Empire, 1750-1830’
Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik, ‘Do Not Flush Feminine Products!’ The
Environmental History, Biohazards and Norms Contained in the UK
Sanitary Bin Industry since 1960’
Material and Visual Culture
Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, Room 5.21, 17:00-19:00
27 NOVEMBER: Textiles and Fashion
Cacsi Ritchie, ‘Fashioning Prince Rogers Nelson, 1980-1984: A
study of Trench Coat’
Dr Alison Mayne, ‘A Very Scottish Stash’
Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, Room 5.21, 17:00-19:00
*13 November Room TBC
*13 NOVEMBER: Politics and Material and Visual Culture
Dexter Govan, ‘Orange aesthetics: material and visual culture in
Belfast Orangeism during the third Home Rule crisis, 1910-1914’
Carlo Scapecchi, ‘Tapestries as status-markers in Early Modern
Europe and Renaissance Italy’
30 OCTOBER: Books and Materiality
Dr Natalie Ferris, ‘”making a wall be a page”: Literature in an
Expanded Field’
Lillian Elliot, ‘Under Which King Bezonian? Reading Scottish
Materiality in Scott’s Waverley; or, ‘Tis Sixty Years Since’
Material and Visual Culture
Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, Room 5.21, 17:00-19:00
16 OCTOBER: Colour and Materiality
Joyce Dixon, ‘Colour, word, thing: representing natural colour
1760–1820’
Jillian Luke, ‘Adam and Eve printed, painted, poeticised’
Material and Visual Culture
Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, Room 5.21, 17:00-19:00