Dear Colleagues
The following London-based research seminars may be of interest to you. Full
details of location and times can be found at the bottom of the list of
speakers.
Many thanks - David Crowley
V&A / RCA History of Design Research Seminars
Design and Material Culture 1800 to Present Day
Thursday 20th January
The Flaneur in late 19th century/ early 20th century modernity
Professor Elizabeth Wilson, London College of Fashion,
Thursday 27th January
³Changing Rooms": Mapping the Domestic in Late Nineteenth Century Naturalist
Theatre
Dr Chris Megson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Thursday 3rd February
Performing, displaying, showing off: the material culture of ceremony in
Ireland, 1922 - 1939
Lisa Godson, RCA
Thursday 10th February
The Ruins of War and Empire: redesigning the post-war tourist city in Europe
Dr Fiona Henderson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Thursday 17th February
Ideas of the Opposite: Chemistry and the Magic of Colour in Weimar and the
Third Reich
Dr Esther Leslie, Birkbeck College, University of London
Thursday 24th February
Into the Great Wide Open - the West German modernist bungalow and its
cultural symbolism
Carola Eburt, independent scholar, Berlin
Thursday 3rd March
(In)visible Revolutions: Space and society in the Barbacoas of Havana
Dr Patricio del Real, Clemson School of Architecture, South Carolina /
Barcelona
The seminar meets weekly on Thursdays during the autumn term at 4.30 pm in
the Victoria and Albert Museum. It takes place in V&A/RCA Course Seminar
Room A, which is on the premises of the Museum's Research Department. Access
to Course Seminar Room A is via the entrance to the Research Department,
opposite the Metalwork Department offices. To get there, go to the top of
the staircase decorated with ceramic tiles that leads from the Italian
Renaissance Gallery (Room 11) on level A past the Silver Gallery (Room 70a)
on level B. All those with a research interest in the respective fields are
warmly welcome. Admission to the Museum is free. Allow at least five minutes
to get to Course Seminar Room A from the Museum entrances.
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