Research Archives

Black outline drawings of people with text written over the top

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Mapping Senufo: Art, Evidence, and the Production of Knowledge

2:00pm, 5 Oct 2022 | Free, very limited space, booking essential

This workshop will explore in greater depth the collaborative process involved in the Mapping Senufo project. ...

Drawing depicting three women with elaborate hair styles.

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‘Female Trouble’: Vamps, Vixens and Viragoes in the Art of Henry Fuseli

6:00pm, 13 Oct 2022 | Free, booking essential

The first in the 2022 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series, Kevin Salatino explores Henry Fuseli's depiction of women in his work. ...

Photograph showing a group of Black children and adults looking into a window and pointing. Behind the window are various photographs on display

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Centre for American Art, Research

Modern Enchantments, Anachronistic Space: The American Office of War Information Overseas Radiophoto Section in Central Africa and the British Raj, 1942-1945

5:30pm, 21 Nov 2022 | Free, booking essential

Jonathan Dentler delivers this online talk about the impact of the American Office of War Information's dissemination of news photography in colonial societies. ...

A stereoscopic image showing a dual image of a woman sat at a table with her head back, face covered by her wet hair, while she holds hands with figures on either side of her

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Science in the Séance Room: Stereographs, Medical Men, and the Testing of 'Margery' Crandon’s Extraordinary Body, c. 1925

5:00pm, 14 Nov 2022 | Free, booking essential

Dr Emma Merkling explores the stereoscopic photographs made of medium Mina 'Margery' Crandon in the mid-1920s. ...

Detail of a drawing depicting the torso and arms of a woman wearing a long dress

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Fuseli’s mutable bodies

6:00pm, 6 Dec 2022 | Free, booking essential

In the final lecture in the Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series, Martin Myrone considers Fuseli's portrayal of the body and considers the mutability of these portrayals. ...

William Blake drawing depicting a male figure with his back to the viewer, hands raised together above his head, facing towards a Star of David and a figure crouched above pyramids in the distance

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The Art of Thinking through Collaboration: Fuseli, Blake and Darwin

6:00pm, 29 Nov 2022 | Free, booking essential

In the third in the Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series, Dr Sarah Carter considers the significance of collaboration between Henry Fuseli, William Blake and Erasmus Darwin. ...

Drawing depicting the top half of a man's body. He wears a hat pulled down over one eye with a feathered arrow piercing it.

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Fools, Heroes and Whores: Henry Fuseli’s Switzerland

6:00pm, 22 Nov 2022 | Free, booking essential

In the second event in the Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series for 2022, Camilla Smith explores Henry Fuseli's Swiss roots. ...

Photograph of a woman suspended on a rope, swinging across a white room covered with black writing

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Centre for American Art, Research

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics

9:45am, 9 Sep 2022 | Free, booking essential

Exploring her interdisciplinary approach, her engagement with and assessment of urgent political questions, her relationship to feminism, and her connections with wider artistic communities, this day-long symposium will consider Schneemann’s work and...