This is the second of a series of six Gifford Lectures by Prof. Carlisle. Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy Biography is a humble literary genre, yet it opens up grand philosophical questions. What is the shape, purpose, value and meaning of a human life? Which parts or aspects of a life are most…
Join us for Professor Susan Laxton’s Research Seminar on ‘Surrealist Photomontage c. 1931: Politics and Desire’ at 4pm on the 21 February in School 2 and also the wine reception afterwards at 79 North Street. Historically, pictorial evidence of Surrealism’s engagement with practical politics has been scarce to nonexistent, supporting the ultimate incompatibility of their…
A lecture celebrating the intellectual legacy of Amazonianist anthropologist Peter Gow. Delivered by Prof Aparecida Vilaça (Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) with a response by Dr Paolo Fortis (Durham University).
Join us for Professor Christopher S Wood Research Seminar on ‘Aby Warburg’s Europe’ and a wine reception afterwards at 79 North Street. In 1926 Aby Warburg delivered a long lecture on a famous painting by Rembrandt, ‘The Oath of Claudius Civilis’. Late in life, and unexpectedly, Warburg had become obsessed with this painting. This talk…
Presenters at this Art History workshop will be: 9.15am to 9.55am – Stephanie O’Rourke, John Martin and the Art of Infrastructure, School of Art History 9.55am to 10.35am – Ariel Kline, William Wallace at Kanpur: Joseph Noel Paton’s ‘In Memoriam’, PhD candidate, Princeton University 10.35am to 11.15am – Luke Gartlan, The Lindsays of Balcarres and…
This is the first of a series of six Gifford Lectures by Prof. Carlisle. They are open to all. The Principal will chair this opening lecture. Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy Biography is a humble literary genre, yet it opens up grand philosophical questions. What is the shape, purpose, value and meaning of…
Polish artist Stanislaw Chlebowski’s career was forged in multiple worlds, in multiple studios and across multiple national narratives. Chlebowski created history paintings for the Ottoman, Polish and French clients, constantly reframing the historic narratives for these diverse patrons. The challenges of code-shifting across this nationally bound genre of artistic practice is most apparent in his…
Join colleagues from the School of International Relations and Mykola Bielieskov to discusses the Russo-Ukraine war. Mykola has an MA in International Relations from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. From 2016 to 2019 he worked at the Institute of World Policy, a Ukrainian non-governmenatl organisation (NGO). Since October 2019, he has worked at…
Join us on the 15th November at 4pm in School 2 of St Salvator’s Quad for Dr Mira Xenia Schwerda’s Research Lecture. During the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-11) photography played a critical role in defining, mobilizing, and memorializing political movements and their leaders in an era of spectacle. The wide circulation of picture postcards featuring…
Join us on the 1st November at 4pm in School 2 of St Salvator’s Quad for Dr Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani’s Research Lecture. This talk explores literary and artistic responses of Afro-Caribbean artists to the Eurocentric conceptions of the universal underpinning the philosophies of existential-humanism that framed discourse surrounding modernist art practice in postwar Britain. More specifically,…