Category Archives: Seminars & Lectures

Lecture: ‘The Power of Blue: Didactic models in text and image in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othea’, Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis, University of York, Wednesday 6 December 2023, 6-7pm (GMT)

Discover the empowering blue-hued imagery of female figures in Christine de Pizan’s ‘Epistre Othea’, in this lecture with Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis.

Lecture: ‘Foreignness and Architecture in late fifteenth-century Castile’ with Dr Costanza Beltrami, The Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, 5 December 2023, 5pm (GMT)

Join Dr Costanza Beltrami who will be presenting on fifteenth-century Castilian architecture and its evolution through migration and artistic exchange.

Lecture: ‘Birth, death and protective imagery in a rock-hewn church from tenth-century Cappadocia’, with Dr Niamh Bhalla, Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Wed 15 November 2023, 5.30pm-7pm (GMT)

Discover how medieval Byzantium navigated life’s uncertainties through divine imagery, as Dr. Niamh Bhalla explores Eğri Taş’s Nativity in this lecture.

Online Lecture: ‘The Wall Paintings of Angers Cathedral’ with Professor Paul Binski, Dr Emily Guerry, and Dr Lucy Wrapson, Monday 27 November 2023 5-7pm (GMT)

Professor Binski, Dr Guerry, and Dr Wrapson will discuss their work on Gothic Wall Paintings in Angers Cathedral in this online lecture.

Online Lecture: ‘Chess and Skin Colour in the Global Middle Ages’ with Dr Krisztina Ilko, Wednesday 8 November 2023, 9am-10.30am (GMT)

In this online lecture, Dr. Ilko discusses chess’s role in mediating cross-cultural interaction in medieval times.

Lecture:’Towers, travel, and architectural habits’ with Dr Tom Nickson, Courtauld Institute of Art, Wednesday 25th October 2023, 5.30pm-7pm (BST)

Dr. Tom Nickson discusses the historical importance of tower climbing as an architectural experience in global contexts.