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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.