Personal tools

• Log in

Sections

• Home
• About the Department
• People
• Admissions
• Undergraduates
• Graduates
• Research
• Jobs
• Contact Us

• University of Cambridge
• Department of History of Art
• Events
• Modern and Contemporary Art Seminar Series: The Neurobiology of Beauty

• 2012 Gender Symposium: Appearances of Gender
• “Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary” - Abraham Thomas
• Graduate Research Seminar - ‘Fashioning Identities: Clothing the Renaissance Body’
• ‘Light Points': A Conversation between artist Linda Karshan and art historian Alyce Mahon, supported by the AAH.
• Slade Lectures Lent Term 2012: The Gothic Cathedral: a New Heaven and a New Earth - An Architecture of Reason?
• Art and Politics in Britain
• Slade Lectures Lent Term 2012: The Gothic Cathedral: a New Heaven and a New Earth - Cathedrals and their Cities
• ‘The Cult of Venus’: Jean-Jacques Lebel and Alyce Mahon
• Slade Lecture: The Gothic Cathedral: A New Heaven and a New Earth
• Demolition Projects: Absence as Contemporaneity
• CRASSH Conference 20-21st September 2012: Design without Frontiers: Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration in Soviet Art, Architecture and Design
• Slade Lectures Lent Term 2012: The Gothic Cathedral: a New Heaven and a New Earth - Ductus and Memoria at Chartres Cathedral
• CRASSH Conference: Impressions of Colour: Rediscovering Colour in Early Modern Printmaking, ca 1400-1700
• The Cambridge History of Art Post-Graduate Medieval Research Seminars: 'From Better to Worse: Ecclesia and Synagoga in the Long Middle Ages'
• The Cambridge History of Art Post-Graduate Medieval Research Seminars: 'Exempla in Context, Policraticus and Bestiaries'
• Graduate Research Seminar - ‘Making Art in Tudor Britain - New Findings on Portraiture’
• Graduate Research Seminar - ‘(Dis)playing the Self: Claude Cahun and Hannah Höch’
• Graduate Research Seminar - ‘Identity in Conflict: Religion, Architecture, and Anglican Church Expansion in the British Empire, c. 1840-1900’
• Graduate Research Seminar - 'The Matter of Baroque and the Excess of Art History’
• Graduate Research Seminar - 'Taste, Gender & Modern Design’
• Graduate Research Seminar - ‘Heroes, Saints and the Glamour of the Gods: a Trans-historical Look at the Celebrity Image’
• Graduate Research Seminar - ‘Eastern Influences on the Christian Cultural Identity of Britain and Ireland, c. 550-850’
• Graduate Seminar Series 2012: From Natural History Museum to Ecomuseum: A Personal Journey
• Graduate Seminar Series 2012: Conservation at the National Gallery: An Overview
• Graduate Seminar Series Lent 2012: The Politics and Ethics of Museum Architecture
• Graduate Seminar Series Lent 2012: Collecting and Looting: The Effects of Museum Self-Indulgence
• Graduate Seminar Series 2012: The Art of the Picture Frame. Or, the Frame as Message from Artist and Patron: Museums Interfere at Their Peril
• Graduate Seminar Series Lent 2012: Representing loot from the Summer Palace in China: Auctions, Exhibitions and Museums in Britain and France
• Graduate Seminar Series 2012: Turning the King’s Library into the Enlightenment Gallery – Ten Years On
• Graduate Conference 2012/13:"Charming Intentions: Occultism, Magic and the History of Art"
• Graduate Lecture: 'The Meaning of Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Cemeteries'
• Graduate Lecture: 'The Surrealist Aesthetic in Fashion Magazines: Man Ray, Lee Miller, Cecil Beaton'
• Graduate Medieval Art Seminars: A Medieval Giant in Modern Britain: The Metamporphases of Gogmagog from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the 21st Century
• Graduate Medieval Art Seminars: Spolia, reuse and recycling in the papacy's XIVth century building sites, with special reference to La Chaise-Dieu Abbey in France
• Graduate Research Seminar: Cézanne’s Homosocial World, from the Bathers to the Cardplayers
• Graduate Research Seminar: Perverse Implantations: Surrealism’s Language of Flowers
• Graduate Research Seminar: Re-Presenting Emilia for a Queen: Text and Image in Anne de Graville's “Beau roman”
• Graduate Research Seminar Series: Peering through Cracks: Erotic Art and the Voyeur in Renaissance Italy
• Graduate Research Seminar Series: Tainted Love: Menstrual Taboo and Iconography at Kamakhya Temple (India)
• Graduate Research Seminar: The Graphic Experience of War: Heinrich Hoerle’s “Krüppelmappe” (1920)
• Graduate Research Seminars: Orpheus Then and Now: Looking/Feeling Backward
• Graduate Seminar Series: 'Finding the Art within 'Violence''
• Graduate Seminar Series: 'Heroic Vioence and Headlessness in the French Gothic Imagination'
• Graduate Seminar Series Lent 2012: Curating Postmodernism
• Graduate Seminar Series: 'Pain and the Ideal Body: The Representation of the Flagellation in 15th Century florence'
• Graduate Seminar Series: 'Real and Figurative Violence in the Work of the Chapman Brothers'
• Graduate Seminar Series: 'Terrifying Mother: Sexuality and Violence in the Cult of Kali'
• Graduate Seminar Series: 'The Birth of Terrible Beauty'
• Slade Lectures Lent Term 2012: The Gothic Cathedral: a New Heaven and a New Earth - From Judgement to Atonement: Sculpture at Strasbourg, Lincoln and Naumburg
• Cambridge University Modern and Contemporary Art Seminar Series: Elite Art in an Age of Populism
• Cambridge University Modern and Contemporary Art Seminar Series: Cézanne's Colour
• Modern and Contemporary Art Seminar Series: Multiple Meter in Modern Art: Picasso, Braque, and the African Temporal Aesthetic
• Modern and Contemporart Art Seminar Series: Blue is a Colour Where it is Hard to Find Anything Missing: the Aran Islands, Venice, the Cyanotype and Agnes Varda's 'Le Bonheur'
• Medieval Art in East Anglia Symposium
• The Art and Science of Medieval Church Screens
• Medieval Research Seminar Series: Invention, Allegory and Enchantment at Fourteenth-Century Ely
• Medieval Research Seminar Series: On the Destruction of Buildings in Medieval England
• Medieval Research Seminar Series: One Long Crisis? A Survey of Church Building and the Medieval Economy
• Medieval Research Seminar Series: Crisis? What Crisis?' Interactions Between Extreme Events and the Material Record, AD 500-1500: Some Reflections
• Memory and Dutch Modernism: a lecture by Simon Schama
• Modern and Contemporary Art Seminar Series: The Neurobiology of Beauty
• Orientality: Cultural Orientalism and Mentality
• Oskar Schlemmer's Dance Against Enlightenment: a lecture by Dr Noam M. Elcott (Columbia University)
• Pillow and Mirror: Absence as Subjectivity
• 'Putting the Art into Artisan': a lecture by Graham Short, "the world's smallest engraver"
• Renaissance Encounters
• Representing Vacancy: Absence as Memory
• Slade Lectures Lent Term 2012: The Gothic Cathedral: a New Heaven and a New Earth - Royalty and the Cathedral
• Slade Lectures 2013: Professor Gulru Necipoglu - Architecture of Empire: The Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals in a Comparative Perspective
• Slade Lectures Lent Term 2012: The Gothic Cathedral: a New Heaven and a New Earth - Architecture as Spolia: Suger and St-Denis
• Slade Lectures Lent Term 2012: The Gothic Cathedral: a New Heaven and a New Earth - Dark Gothic
• Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC) Conference: ‘On the Spiritual in Russian Art’
• Slade Lectures Lent Term 2012: The Gothic Cathedral: a New Heaven and a New Earth - Stained Glass: From narrative to moral meaning
• The Cambridge History of Art Post-Graduate Medieval Research Seminars: 'Statis Crisis, or 10 Different New Ways of Doing the Same Thing'
• The 3rd Cambridge-Columbia Graduate Student Symposium: The Persistence of Tradition in Art and Art History
• The Cambridge History of Art Post-Graduate Medieval Research Seminars: 'The Anxiety of Orthodoxy; or, English Art c.1400'
• The Medieval Art Seminar Series: Constructing the Basilica of St Nicholas in Bari
• The Medieval Art Seminar Series: Footprints and Foundations: Representing Ground Plans in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
• The Medieval Art Seminar Series: Monumental Painting in early Romanesque England
• The Medieval Art Seminar Series: Neuroarthistory. The Hundred Years War between Perpendicular and Flamboyant
• Things: Material Cultures of the Long Eighteenth Century
• Third Year PhD Symposium: From Manuscripts to Multimedia:New Approaches to Art History
• University of Cambridge History of Art Graduate Conference 2012: Beyond Borders: The Impact of Cultural Exchange in Art History
• Writing, Art and Chinese Culture

Info

Events

Modern and Contemporary Art Seminar Series: The Neurobiology of Beauty

Professor Semir Zeki (UCL)

When	Feb 07, 2013 from 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Where	Lecture Room 2, History of Art Department
Add event to calendar	vCal iCal

• ©2013 University of Cambridge
• Accessibility