The University of Cambridge Senior Seminar in Medieval Art meets every other week during full term, attracting an impressive range of speakers from home and abroad.
The Department of the History of Art is pleased to announce the programme for the annual Medieval Art Seminar Series 2016-17. The seminars will explore ideas of craft and process in medieval art at practical and theoretical levels.
Papers (and in one case, a trip to the V&A) will be held on alternating Mondays during Michaelmas and Lent terms and the final two papers of our series will be held in Easter term. The venue for the seminars is Lecture Room 2 of the History of Art Department (1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge CB2 1PX), beginning promptly at 5.30pm. Following questions, attendees are invited to stay and speak more informally with speakers over wine and light nibbles. Lectures are free and open to the public.
Organisers: Robert Hawkins, Amy Jeffs
Please email Robert Hawkins at rh540@cam.ac.uk with any queries.
Programme:
Monday 10th October
Zoe Boden (Victoria and Albert Museum & University of Glasgow)
Opus Anglicanum and the Steeple Aston Cope
Monday 24th October
Group visit to the Opus Anglicanum Exhibition, meet 1.45pm at the V&A
Monday 7th November
Dr George Younge (University of York)
Anglo-Saxon sources of the Theological Windows at Canterbury Cathedral
Monday 21st November
Prof Richard Sennett (LSE and NYU)
The Craftsman: a Discussion
Monday 23rd January
Dr Lucy Wrapson (University of Cambridge, HKI)
Thomas Gooch and Thomas Loveday, two Suffolk Carpenters and their Rood Screens
Monday 6th February
Anya Burgon (University of Cambridge)
The Mechanical Arts in Twelfth-Century School Poetry
Monday 20th February
Dr Peter Dent (University of Bristol)
‘Domine dio fece scolpire questa croce’: Carving the Crucifix in Late Medieval Italy
Monday 6th March
Dr Tom Nickson (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Gothic Encounters? Architectural History, Phenomenology and the Gothic Church
Monday 1st May
Prof Susan Rankin (University of Cambridge)
Writing sound : Designing Notation : Carolingian Musical Techne
Monday 8th May
Prof Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
The Craft of Spinning
Monday 15th May
Agata Gomolka (University of East Anglia)
Carving Romanesque Chiaroscuro
