Professor Sam Cohn (University of Glasgow, IASH Honorary Fellow):
Towards A Conclusion
Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
Join us for the first sIREN (student-led Interdisciplinary REsearch Network) seminar workshop 'Designing Interdisciplinary Research Projects'!
Schrödinger’s Cinema: The Matter of Life and Death
In this paper Dr William Brown (University of Roehampton) discusses the way in which cinema regularly dissolves the boundary between life and death.
26 October 4.30pm Room G.03 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LH
The Crises of Film Criticism and the Promises of Film Studies.
For a discipline in its relative adolescence, film studies has experienced a whole host of trends in its methodologies, emphases and even subject matter. In this talk Dr Mattias Frey (University of Kent) argues against a zero-sum scenario and for a more comprehensive and broad-church attitude to film and media research, using the example of a research project on the future of film criticism in the age of the internet.
22 November 5.30pm Project room (1.06) 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LH
History of Art Research Seminar Series. Seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.15pm in the Hunter Building Lecture Theatre on Lauriston Place, with drinks afterwards in the John Higgit Gallery
1st December 2016
Dr Richard McClary (University of Edinburgh)
Mina'i: Gilded Polychrome Ceramics of Kashan and the Birth of Persian Painting
History of Art Research Seminar Series 2016 - 2017. Seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.15pm
24th November 2016
Dr Helen Langdon (writer, scholar, and curator)
Watson Gordon Lecture: Caravaggio, the Caravaggisti and Cupid
Please note that this lecture takes place at the Scottish National Gallery
History of Art Research Seminar Series 2016 - 2017. Seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.15pm in the Hunter Building Lecture Theatre on Lauriston Place, with drinks afterwards in the John Higgit Gallery.
17th November 2016
Professor Hilary Robinson (Middlesex University)
Griselda Pollock and the making of UK feminist art history and criticism in the 1970s
History of Art Research Seminar Series 2016 - 2017. Seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.15pm in the Hunter Building Lecture Theatre on Lauriston Place, with drinks afterwards in the John Higgit Gallery.
10th November 2016
Professor Phillip Lindley (University of Leicester)
The Union Duke’s Marbles
History of Art Research Seminar Series 2016 - 2017. Thursdays at 5.15pm in the Hunter Building Lecture Theatre on Lauriston Place, with drinks afterwards in the John Higgit Gallery.
27th October 2016
Professor Catherine Asher (University of Minnesota)
The Taj Mahal: Mughal Architecture, Ideology and the Construction of Kingship