Category Archives: Seminars & Lectures

Online Lecture: ‘Zero Hour for Illuminated Manuscripts? The Acquisition and Alienation of Medieval Art in Post-World-War II Nuremberg’, London Society for Medieval Studies,14 November 2023, 5.30-7pm (GMT)

Prof William Diebold, historian of early medieval art at Reed College, will share his latest work at the London Society for Medieval Studies.

Lecture: ‘Byzantine Tradition in Africa: Art and Culture in Northern and Eastern Africa’ with Dr Andrea Achi, Friday 13 October 2023, 6:30–7:30pm, The Met Fifth Avenue, New York City

Join Dr Andrea Achi to learn about the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had a lasting impact on the Mediterranean world.

Online Lecture: ‘Emblems of the Past: saints, stained glass and early medieval antiquities’, Dr Martin Crampin, 12 October 2023, 5.00pm (BST)

Sign up for this upcoming online lecture with Dr Crampin on medieval Welsh Saints in stained glass.

Lecture: ‘Medieval and Medical: Developing The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in the 1940s’, Lauren Rozenberg, University of East Anglia, 11 October, 5pm (BST)

Join the Department of Art History & World Art Studies at UEA for a lecture by Dr Lauren Rozenberg.

Online Lecture: ‘Reconstructing Bury St Edmunds Abbey’, with Steven Brindle, British Archaeological Association, Wednesday 4 October 2023, 5pm (BST)

This month’s British Archaeological Association Lecture will take place via Zoom. Tune in to hear Dr Steven Brindle from English Heritage to present on ‘Reconstructing Bury St Edmunds Abbey’.

Lecture series: Medieval Work-in-Progress Seminars at The Courtauld 2023-2024

Medieval Work-in-Progress Seminars at The Courtauld, London, 2023/4. All seminars are held on Wednesdays at The Courtauld’s Vernon Square campus, and begin at 5.30pm. Talks usually last approx. 45-60 minutes, followed by questions and drinks. Events are free and open to all, and you can book your place via https://myaccount.courtauld.ac.uk/overview/11300

Virtual Conversation: Exhibitions, Museum Collections, and Environment, 27 July 2023

Join Heather Alexis Smith, Assistant Curator at the Pulitzer, and Dr. Julia Perratore, Assistant Curator at The Met Cloisters on Thursday, 27 July 2023 for a conversation about ecology-centered museum practices. Smith will describe the process of organizing the Pulitzer’s spring show The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550 and will discuss howContinue reading “Virtual Conversation: Exhibitions, Museum Collections, and Environment, 27 July 2023”

Lecture: ‘Analysis of Pigments on Painted Byzantine & Japanese Manuscripts’, Kate Fulcher, Bodleian Libraries Oxford, 26 June 2023, 1:00–2:00 pm (BST)

Head to the Bodleian Library to hear the Library’s new Heritage Scientist speak about Byzantine manuscripts from the 10th to 13th centuries, and Japanese scrolls from the 17th century.