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

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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.

20th October 2016

Michael Clarke (National Gallery of Scotland)

The Reluctant Matriarch: Madame Mére, the Painter Gérard and Dynastic Portraiture under Napoleon

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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.

13th October 2016

Dr Michael Bachmann (University of Glasgow)

Distributed Aesthetics, Contemporary Criticism and the Public Sphere

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5.15pm, Project room 1.06, 50 George Square.
Marika Mägi (Tallinn University): In Austrvegr: Revisiting the Viking Age Eastern Baltic.
[Northern Scholars Lecture, with support from the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies]

Professor Desmond Bell (National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IASH Fellow): On research and intellectuation in the creative arts. 

(The editor has written me that he is in favor of avoiding “the notion that the artist is a kind of ape that has to be explained by the civilized critic”.     (Sol Le Witt, 1967)

 Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Work in Progress Talk. The abstract is below (word doc, click on link to open)

23rd Nov

4.30pm, Seminar Room 5, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square.

Papia Sengupta (Jawaharial Nehru University, New Delhi): Violence and Ethnic Conflict in Northeast India: Need for Effective Multilevel Federal Governance-A study of Bodoland.

[Centre for South Asian Studies]

18th Nov 2016

3pm, Room G.02, 16-20 George Square.

Daniel Munster (University of Heidelberg): Cultivating Hope in South India: The Affective Ecologies of Zero Budget Natural Farming.

[Centre for South Asian Studies]

17th Nov

4pm, 6th Floor Staff Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square.

Malathi de Alwis (International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka): Trance/Trans Gendered Incorporations among Pattini-Kannaki Devotees in Sri Lanka.

[Centre for South Asian Studies]

26th Oct

4pm, Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square.

Dana Rush (University of Strasbourg): The Idea of “India” in West African Vodun Art and Thought.

[Centre for South Asian Studies]

13th Oct Please note different time of 4.30pm instead of 4pm

4pm, 6th Floor, Staff Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square.

Asha Sarangi (JNU (New Delhi): Language Rights in an Imagined Nation State: Reflection from the Constituent Assembly Debates in Modern India.

[Centre for South Asian Studies]