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Dear colleagues The following series of lectures taking place in the V&A Museum in London may be of interest to you. - David Crowley RESEARCH SEMINAR AUTUMN TERM, 2001 The seminar meets weekly on Thursdays during term at 4.00 pm in the Victoria and Albert Museum. It takes place in V&A/RCA Course Seminar Room 2, which is in the premises of the Museum's Research Department. Access to Course Seminar Room 2 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 field are welcome. Admission to the Museum will be free after November 22nd. Until then those attending the Seminar will be allowed free entry on showing a copy of this list. Allow at least five minutes to get to Course Seminar Room 2 from the Museum entrances. NOTE CHANGE OF TIME TO 4.00 pm Thursday, 15th November Contexts of Innovation: Painting in Some Northern Renaissance Cities. Neil Demarchi (Duke University) Thursday, 22nd November A Cultural Historian's Approach to Rococo Furniture. Dena Goodman (University of Michigan) Thursday, 29th November Sensibility and Genealogy in the Eighteenth-Century Family Portrait: the Collection at Kedleston Hall. Kate Retford (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge) Thursday, 6th December 'A Paradise of Venus': the Domestic Interior of the Seventeenth-Century Roman Courtesan. Dr Tessa Storey (Royal Holloway, University of London) Thursday, 14th December Sylvia Lennie England Lecture. (speaker and title to be announced) David Crowley Humanities Royal College of Art London SW7 2EU t: 0207 590 4485 / f: 0207 590 4490 / e: [log in to unmask]