The History of Art Graduate Seminar Series will meet on Wednesdays during Lent Term from 5-6:30pm in the Audit Room, King's College.
*31 January
Living Objects in Conversation
Sir Paul Ruddock (Collector and former Chairnan of the V&A)
*Provost's Drawing Room, King's College 6:00-7:30pm
7 February
Sèvres Porcelain: Revelations of the Everyday Object
Dame Rosalind Savill (Independent Scholar and Former Director of the Wallace Collection)
14 February
The Object Tells Many Tales: Methodological and Material Advances through Studying 17th Century Panel Paintings
Dr Justin Davies (Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge), Dr Joost Vander Auwera (Senior Curator, Royal Museum of Fine Art, Brussels), Co-Founders of the 'Jordaens Van Dyck Panel Paintings Project'.
6 March
Digital Replication and Repatriation: The Bakor Monoliths of Cross River State, Nigeria
Dr Ferdinand Saumarez Smith (Director, Factum Foundation, London)
13 March
Display as Collecting Practice: Chinese Ceramics in Global Contexts, 1500-1900
Dr Stacey Pierson (Professor of the History of Chinese Ceramics, SOAS, University of London)
Co-Convenors: Ana-Cornelia Pade, Isabelle Kent and Zifeng Zhao