RESEARCH SEMINARS 2024-25

All seminars take place on Tuesdays 3 to 5pm, in Arts Complex: Villa 11 Woodland Road: Lecture Theatre 2 from 3-4pm, followed by a drinks reception. All welcome!

Week 2, Tuesday 24 September: Professor Beth Williamson, University of Bristol, 'Artistic Invention in Fourteenth-Century Siena:
The Rise of Painting'

Week 4, Tuesday 8 October: (Co-hosted with the Department of English) Professor Dewey W. Hall, California State Polytechnic University and Bristol Next Generation Visiting Researcher, 'A Materialist Approach to the Parthenon Sculptures: Subject, Object, and Thing'

Week 7, Tuesday 29 October: Dr Edwin Coomasaru, 'Queer Ecologies and Anti-Colonial Abundance in Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon'

Week 9, Tuesday 12 November: Dr Lizzie Robles, University of Bristol, ‘It all started with new carpet’: The Visual Culture of Domesticity Under Threat in Liverpool’s Welsh Streets'

Week 11, Tuesday 26 November: Nicholas Thornton, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum of Wales, 'The Welshness of Welsh Art? The contested history and museology of Art in Wales'