Early Modern Material Cultures Summer 2011
http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/308
Collaborative Research Seminars between the V&A/RCA History of Design
and Material Culture Postgraduate Programme and the Institute of
Historical Research
Wednesdays 5.00 pm
Venue: Weeks 1, 3, 5 in Seminar Room A, Research Dept., V&A; Weeks 2, 4
in the Low Countries Room, IHR.
Drawing on research that engages directly with material culture by
scholars from a range of disciplines and approaches, seminars will
alternate between papers at the IHR and papers at the V&A which will
involve direct contact with objects.
4 May Mark Jones (Director, V&A) Venue: V&A, Seminar
Room A
‘Ain't Misbehavin’: Museums and Conspicuous Consumption
11 May Stephen McDowall (Warwick), Venue: IHR, Low
Countries Room
Artisan and Connoisseur in the Ceramics Markets of Late-Ming China
18 May Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes), Venue: V&A,
Seminar Room A
Material Culture of the Dutch Reformation
25 May Flora Dennis (Sussex), Venue: IHR, Low Countries
Room
Delighting Ears and Pleasing Eyes: Music, Images and Objects in
Sixteenth-Century Italy
Robert H. Smith Renaissance Sculpture in Context Research Seminar
1 June Alexander Marr (Southern California; Robert H. Smith
Renaissance Sculpture in Context Scholar in Residency, V&A): Venue: V&A,
Seminar Room A
Casting from Life in Early Modern Europe
Access to V&A Seminar Room A is via the entrance to the Research
Department. To get there, go the top of the staircase decorated with
ceramic tiles that leads from the Asian Sculpture Galleries (Rooms
17-20) on the ground floor, up past the Silver Gallery (Room 70a).
Please allow at least five minutes to get to the seminar room from the
Museum entrances. Alternatively enquire at the Cromwell Road entrance
main desk.
For more information about the V&A/RCA History of Design and Material
Culture Postgraduate Programme please contact the course administrator,
at: [log in to unmask] or visit us, at: www.rca.ac.uk.
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2 April - 17 July 2011 at V&A South Kensington
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Food Glorious Food
29 January - 25 April 2011 at V&A Museum of Childhood
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