Research Archives

Section of a painting showing a grup of four men talking to each other with a depiction of a black devil standing at the back of one of the men

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Giotto’s Ugliness. Art, Literature, and Pictorial Naturalism

5:00pm, 3 May 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Marco Ruffini for this talk on the portrayal of Giotto as ugly and how this links to his style of painting. ...

A dark haired man walks towards the camera through a beaded curtain. He is walking into a kitchen, barefoot, and is carrying a pair of snakeskin boots with him.

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Front and (Off-)Centre: Fashion and Southeast Asia

9:00am, 5 May 2023 | Free, booking essential

The conference seeks to highlight the diversity and sophistication of fashion practices within or relating to Southeast Asia, and contributes to efforts to decentralise fashion studies....

Large medieval painting depicting the virgin Mary central surrounded by religious figures including nuns and angels

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“Así repiten aún las piedras”: Juan de Roelas, Seville of 1615, and the City as Substrate

6:00pm, 25 May 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Aaron M. Hyman for this ARTES supported lecture based on his current book project 'Formalities: The Art of Script in the Early Modern Spanish World'. ...

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From Simone Martini (briefly) to Donatello: Recreating the Objects of the Goldsmith’s Art

5:00pm, 17 May 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Amy Bloch for this lecture on Donatello and his practices relating to goldsmithing. ...

Brightly coloured abstract painting showing horses and human figures on a carousel

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Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s: Exhibition Presentation and Book Launch

6:00pm, 5 Apr 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join us for an evening of conversation about artistic modernism in Ukraine of the early 20th century. ...

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Acaye Kerunen: “Iwang Sawa—In the Eye of Time”

6:00pm, 30 Mar 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the 2023 Annual Artist's Lecture supported by the Sculptural Processes Group, delivered by Acaye Kerunen. ...

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Buddhist Heritage of Sri Lanka: Moving away from the Notion of ‘Pious Vandals’ in Conserving the Sacred

6:00pm, 14 Mar 2023 | Free, booking essential

Speaker Gamini Wijesuriya will explore the impact of conservation and its development in Sri Lanka around Buddhist heritage. ...

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Reflections on the Cushion Capital

6:30pm, 24 Apr 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join CRSBI for their annual lecture, delivered in 2023 by Dr Richard Plant...

Photograph showing two people standing on the ground against the end of a log which is three times their height. Another figure stands on top of a ladder leaning against the log end.

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Photography, Archives and Ecologies in Anthropocenes

1:30pm, 10 Mar 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Bergit Arends and others for this workshop considering the uses of historic archives of environments, particularly when coloniality and imperialism are embodied in collections of the natural world. ...

Photograph showing the colourful decorated spines of a series of books

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Exploring the provenance and digitisation of the British Library’s Hugh Nevill Sri Lankan Palm Leaf Manuscripts

6:00pm, 28 Mar 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Arani Ilankuberan as she presents on the British Library’s holdings of the Hugh Nevill collection of over 2,000 Sinhalese palm leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka, with a focus on what is currently known about Hugh Nevill and his collecting practice...