Submitted by M.L. R. Grove on Wed, 06/10/2021 - 13:16
The Department is delighted to welcome Professor Philippe Descola (Emeritus, Collège de France, Paris). He will give the Slade Lectures this Michaelmas, which had to be postponed from last year because of Covid19. Professor Descola is one of the most distinguished anthropologists, who has transformed the field of the study of images. A student of Claude Lévi-Strauss, he did his field work in the Amazon region of Ecuador, where he laid the foundation for his life's work: questioning conventional Western distinctions between nature and culture, humans and animals and its implications for understang human image-making across the globe. In 2011 he curated the exhibition 'La fabrique des images' at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, which showed his work to a wider community of art historians and theorists in France and beyond. He has been a regular visitor to Cambridge, holding Visiting Fellowships at CRASSH, Pembroke and King's. In his Slade Lectures he will speak about his latest book, just published in French: Les formes du visible, which is the next chapter in his anthropology of human image-making.
We warmly invite all members of the arthistorical community, and especially the undergraduates, to attend these lectures, which will be held at the Law Faculty Building. Registration details will follow shortly.
Michaelmas Term 2021:
- The Embodied Sign (12th October) - Watch the lecture here:https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3679344
- Animated Spirits (19th October) - Watch the lecture here: https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3679372
- Templates and Tracks (26th October) - Watch the lecture here: http://upload.sms.csx.cam.ac.uk/media/3684938
- Exercises in Composition (2nd November)
- Facing the World (9th November) Watch the lecture here: https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3697017
- Having it Both Ways (18th November)
- Forms of Transposition (23rd November)
- Saliency, Agency, Ostension (30th November)
Read the press release here.