RCA/V&A Research Seminar Series
Spring 2009
Renaissance Decorative Arts and Culture
All seminars will be held at 4pm on Wednesdays, in Seminar Room A of the
Research Department at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The seminars are
free, no booking is required and all those with a research interest in
the field are welcome to attend. For more information please contact
Katrina Royall at 020 7942 2574 or [log in to unmask]
January 21
Equipping the Embassy. Stuart Ambassadors and their Life Abroad, 1660-1714
Helen Jacobsen, Oxford University
January 28
Early-Modern English Prints and Material Culture
Malcolm Jones, Sheffield University
February 4
Presents for the Emperor: Material Cultural and the Jesuit Mission to
China, 1580-1610
Mary Laven, Cambridge University
February 11
Material Subcultures: A Pasteboard Triptych in Reformation England
Richard L. Williams, Birkbeck College, University of London
February 18
Something old, something new: the Trousseau and Private Devotion in
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Florence
Suzy Knight, Queen Mary, University of London
February 25
Listening to the Past: Sound, Spaces and Objects in Fifteenth- and
Sixteenth-Century Italy
Flora Dennis, Sussex University
March 4
Street Life and Street Culture in Early-Modern Italy
Fabrizio Nevola, Oxford Brookes University
March 11
The Art of Spending Well in Early-Modern Nuremberg
Ulinka Rublack, Cambridge University
Access to Seminar Room A is via the Research Department offices. To get
there, go to the top of the Ceramic Staircase decorated with ceramic
tiles that leads from Gallery 11 on the ground floor, past the Silver
Gallery (gallery 70) to the very top of the staircase. The research
department doors are on the left.
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