Fitzwilliam Museum


2009-10-03 11:00: Art and the African Diaspora (Temi-Tope Odumosu and Robert ‘Beyonder’ Asare)

2009-10-06 11:00: Black to Kemet: Placing Egypt back in Africa (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-10-07 13:15: The Nativity and the Iconography of the Black King (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-10-10 11:00: Nubian Spirit: The African Legacy of the Nile Valley (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-10-14 13:15: Images of Africans in the Ancient World (Dr Sally-Ann Ashton)

2009-10-17 11:00: From Kemet to Egypt (Dr Sally Ashton)

2010-10-05 10:00: Exhibition: Nubia - Past and Present - 5 – 31 Oct (Andrew Crowe)

2010-10-06 13:15: An introduction to the Nubian collection (Dr Sallly-Ann Ashton)

2010-10-09 11:00: Patchwork Tales (Arnisha Paxman, Textile Artist)

2010-10-16 14:00: Nubia, Kush and the Land of the bow (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-09-19 13:15: A biblical masterpiece of storytelling and its interpretation (Julia Poole)

2013-05-14 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-05-15 13:15: Can Guido Reni still speak to us? Two Reni paintings through 17th and 21st  century eyes (Libby Howie)

2013-05-17 18:00: Museums at Night  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-05-22 13:15: Walruses in uniform: researching the history of the Fitzwilliam Museum (Lucilla Burn)

2013-06-05 13:15: Swiss depictions of regional costumes and landscapes: 1762-1840 (Amy Marquis)

2013-06-12 13:15: 'Composed of the same materials': dressing alike in Victorian art (Anna Marie Kirk)

2013-06-15 14:00: Searching for Sikh Soldiers on British Medals (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-06-18 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-06-19 13:15: The genies on the stairs: a 3,000 year journey from Assyria to Cambridge (Eleanor Robson)

2013-06-26 13:15: A call to arms: re-displaying the Armoury (Victoria Avery)

2013-07-03 13:15: Display, piety and dedication: the re-use of coins in later medieval England  (Richard Kelleher)

2013-07-06 14:00: Natural hair past & present (Sandra Gittens)

2013-07-10 13:15: An introduction to Origins of the Afro Comb exhibition (Sally-Ann Ashton)

2013-07-13 14:00: Object handling session  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-07-16 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-07-17 13:15: Myths and realities of food consumption and cuisine in Ancient Greece (Anastasia Christophilopoulou)

2013-07-24 13:15: The stone of heaven: the scientific study of ancient Chinese jades (Dr. Rong Wang)

2013-07-31 13:15: John Smart Senior’s miniature self-portrait on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum (Amy Marquis)

2013-08-03 14:00: Press and curl: Imitating or embracing fashion (Sandra Gittens)

2013-08-10 14:00: Object handling sessions  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-08-13 13:15: Art Speak (Sally-Ann Ashton )

2013-08-17 14:00: Object handling session  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-08-28 13:15: ‘No Smiling Please’: Northcote Thomas’ ethnographic portraits of southern Nigeria (Jocelyn Dudding)

2013-09-14 14:00: Natural hair past & present (Sandra Gittens, Author and Lecturer with a specialism in African Caribbean hair.)

2013-09-17 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-10-15 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-11-12 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-12-03 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-05-20 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-05-23 13:00: Italian Renaissance objects handling session (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-06-17 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-07-15 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-08-12 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-08-20 13:15: Coins and currency in the crusader states (Dr Richard Kelleher, Assistant Keeper (Coins and Medals), The Fitzwilliam Museum)

2015-10-20 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-11-17 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-12-08 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-05-04 13:15: Death comes as the end: Burial practice in ancient Thebes (Dr Nigel Strudwick, Director, Cambridge Theban Tombs Project)

2016-05-11 13:15: Egyptian coffins: Exploring the painter’s craft (Elsbeth Geldhof, historic paint Conservator)

2016-05-17 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-05-18 13:15: Detecting the work of painters and scribes on ancient Egyptian coffins (Dr John H. Taylor, Assistant Keeper, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum)

2016-05-25 13:15: Three stories of money in the Age of Discovery (Richard Kelleher, Assistant Keeper of Coins (Medieval and Modern))

2016-06-01 13:15: Hill Arches and other works by Henry Moore at the Fitz (Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts)

2016-06-15 13:15: Rescuing Sebastiano del Piombo’s Adoration of the Shepherds (Rupert Featherstone, Director, HKI / Assistant Director, Conservation)

2016-06-21 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-06-22 13:15: Furniture at the Fitz: New arrivals (Helen Ritchie, Research Assistant, Applied Arts)

2016-06-29 13:15: Turner, Goya and Cornelius in 1816 (Elenor Ling, Research Assistant (Prints) and Amy Marquis, Study Room Invigilator, Department of Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

2016-07-13 13:15: The Goodison gifts of contemporary British craft (Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts)

2016-07-19 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-07-20 13:15: An introduction to the Dr John Shakeshaft collection of British studio pottery (Helen Ritchie, Research Assistant and Lindsay Millington, Volunteer, Applied Arts)

2016-09-07 13:15: The colours of illuminated manuscripts  (Dr Stella Panayotova, Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books)

2016-09-14 13:15: Collaborating on a manuscript: Creation, rediscovery, conservation (Edward Cheese, Conservator, and Dr Stella Panayotova, Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books)

2016-09-20 13:15:  Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-09-21 13:15: Calibrating the colour of Mars (Matthew Gunn, Research Fellow, Aberystwyth University)

2016-09-28 13:15: Van Dyck and Reynolds: Two giants of portraiture (Henrietta Ward, Assistant Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

2016-10-05 13:15: Colour and Meaning (Dr Deirdre Jackson, Research Associate, Manuscripts and Printed Books.)

2016-10-12 13:15: Lord Fitzwilliam and his passion for prints  (With Elenor Ling, Research Assistant, Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

2016-10-13 13:15: Inside the Macclesfield Psalter (Dr Stella Panayotova, Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books)

2016-10-18 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-10-19 13:15: The art and science of red  (Spike Bucklow, Senior Research Scientist, Hamilton Kerr Institute.)

2016-10-22 13:15: Art on film: When movement stops  (Dr Nina Lübbren, Art Historian; Principal Lecturer in Film Studies, Deputy Head of English and Media, Anglia Ruskin University)

2016-10-26 13:15: Moving pictures: Mathematical reconstruction of painting  (Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Dr Stella Panayotova, Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books and Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute)

2016-11-02 13:15: The making of a manuscript  (Penny Price, Calligrapher)

2016-11-09 13:15: The history of Gallery 3 and its Parthenon frieze  (Dr Lucilla Burn, Assistant Director, Collections and Keeper of Antiquities)

2016-11-15 13:15: Art speak  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-11-15 13:15: In Focus: Lucie Rie   (Eloise Donnelly, History of Art, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-16 13:15: Conserving manuscripts for COLOUR  (Edward Cheese, Conservator, Manuscripts and Printed Books)

2016-11-22 13:15: Art speak  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-11-23 13:15: Behind the scenes at the exhibition: Creating COLOUR  (John Lancaster, Senior Technician, Manuscripts and Printed Books)

2016-11-30 13:15: Colour and colourants in manuscripts: The role of technical analyses  (Dr Paola Ricciardi, Research Scientist, Manuscripts and Printed Books)

2016-12-07 13:15: The Castle Howard cabinets and other bicentenary acquisitions  (Tim Knox, Director)

2017-01-11 13:15: Realisation: Susan Aldworth and Jane Dixon in discussion (With artists Susan Aldworth and Jane Dixon)

2017-01-17 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-01-18 13:15: From Cambridge to Athens: The Benaki Museum collection of Chinese ceramics (Professor George Manginis)

2017-01-25 13:15: The Dollar: Rise of the global currency (Dr Richard Kelleher, Assistant Keeper, Coins and Medals)

2017-02-01 13:15: For heaven's sake Stanley! Stanley Spencer in the Fitzwilliam Museum  (Libby Howie, Independent Curator)

2017-02-08 13:15: Queer British Art 1861 – 1967 An exhibition at Tate Britain (Dr Clare Barlow, Assistant Curator, Tate Britain)

2017-02-15 13:15: Houghton Hall: Three centuries of privacy and display (Dr Andrew Moore, Programme Director, The Attingham Trust)

2017-02-21 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-02-22 13:15: Mission to China With reference to the ‘Wedgwood’ vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Nixi Cura, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and co-founder of the Arts of China Consortium)

2017-03-01 13:15: Images of women in the ancient world (Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Cyprus Curator & Assistant Keeper)

2017-03-08 13:15: Painting and narrative in France, from Poussin to Gauguin (Dr Nina Lübbren, Deputy Head of English & Media, Anglia Ruskin University)

2017-03-15 13:15: Introduction to Madonnas and Miracles (Dr Mary Laven and Dr Maya Corry, Co-Curators of the exhibition)

2017-03-21 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-04-18 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-04-26 13:15: A pious home? Italian Renaissance devotional jewellery and amulets (Dr Irene Galandra Cooper)

2017-05-03 13:15: Family reading and praying in the Italian Renaissance home (Dr Abigail Brundin, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages)

2017-05-10 13:15: Making Waves and Sea to Shore Images inspired by the sea across five centuries, from the Fitzwilliam Museum and Kettle’s Yard  (Henrietta Ward, Assistant Keeper Paintings Drawings and Prints, and Guy Haywood, Assistant Curator, Kettle’s Yard. Galleries 14 and 27.)

2017-05-16 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-05-17 13:15: Porcelain (Helen Ritchie, Research Assistant, Department of Applied Arts.)

2017-05-24 13:15: Domestic devotions: Thinking with things  (Dr Dora Thornton, Curator of Renaissance Europe and the Waddesdon Bequest, British Museum.)

2017-05-25 13:15: Madonnas & Miracles: The inside story  (Dr Vicky Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts.)

2017-05-31 13:15: Imagining the holy land in the Italian Renaissance home  (Professor Deborah Howard, Department of History of Art.)

2017-06-07 13:15: Idylls and oaks: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe's prints after Gessner  (Anna Schultz, Akademie der Künste, Berlin.)

2017-06-20 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-06-21 13:15: Wonderwalls: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in art  (Professor Emily Gowers, Faculty of Classics.)

2017-06-28 13:15: Free speech and seditious libel: James Gillray and the crisis of Revolution  (Tim Clayton, independent scholar and bestselling author.)

2017-07-05 13:15: Silver, gold and copper for India’s money: Ancient to present  (Dr Adrian Popescu, Keeper of Coins and Medals.)

2017-07-12 13:15: Elephants and emperors: Elephants in Indian painting and culture  (Marcus Fraser, Honorary Keeper of Islamic Manuscripts and Miniatures.)

2017-07-18 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-07-19 13:15: The Alfred Wallis factor in St Ives art  (David Wilkinson, author of The Alfred Wallis Factor.)

2018-01-10 13:15: Degas's legacy (Anna Gruetzner Robins, Emeritus Professor, University of Reading)

2018-01-17 13:15: The story of Domenico Veneziano's altarpiece for La Chiesa di Santa Lucia de' Magnoli, Florence (Philip Stephenson, Fellow of Homerton College)

2018-01-23 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-01-24 13:15: Discovering writing in Bronze Age Greece (Dr Yannis Galanakis, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Classics and Director of the Museum of Classical Archaeology)

2018-02-07 13:15: Queer stories at the Museum (Dan Vo, V&A Coordinator LGBTQ Tours)

2018-02-14 13:15: The Object of My Affection: stories of love from the Fitzwilliam collection (Rebecca Virag, Research Assistant, Prints)

2018-02-21 13:15: RA250 at the Fitz: academicians celebrating 250 years of the Royal Academy (Stephen Chambers, Royal Academician)

2018-02-27 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-03-07 13:15: Hide and seek: medieval creatures on the manuscript page (Abigail L. Glen, Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge)

2018-03-20 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-03-21 13:15: From ‘Do Not Touch’ signs to barriers: can we successfully provide access without compromising preservation principles? (Helena Rodwell, Assistant Conservator, Collections Care)

2018-04-11 13:15: A lifelong project in clay: Virtues of Unity (Halima Cassell, ceramic artist)

2018-04-17 13:15:  Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-04-18 13:15: A passion for pottery: a photographer’s dream job (Ben Boswell, photographer)

2018-04-25 13:15: My ceramic practice, and Moon Jars for the 21st century (Nao Matsunaga, ceramic artist)

2018-05-02 13:15: Flux: Parian unpacked (Matt Smith, artist and Curator of Flux, Professor of Ceramics and Glass, Konstfack University, Stockholm)

2018-05-09 13:15: Remembering the dead: The art of stelae in Egypt’s First Intermediate Period (Dr Melanie Pitkin, Research Associate Egyptian Coffins)

2018-05-16 13:15: Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery - a curator's perspective  (Helen Ritchie, internal exhibition curator)

2018-05-22 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-05-23 13:15: In conversation: 2 on 3 dimensions (Elizabeth Fritsch CBE, artist, in conversation with Joanna Bird, Gallerist, Curator and Consultant)

2018-05-30 13:15: Joining the hemispheres: A potter's response to the Korean Full Moon Jar in the British Museum (Gareth Mason, artist)

2018-06-06 13:15: Making production: The journey through an artwork (Clare Twomey, artist)

2018-06-13 13:15: From plant to painting - the journey of making a botanical painting  (Penny Price, Botanical artist and calligrapher)

2018-06-19 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-06-20 13:15: The botanical art of Clarence Bicknell (A screening of Marcus Bicknell’s short film about his great great uncle, followed by a joint talk with Graham Avery)

2018-06-27 13:15: A Michelangelo discovery: Project update and conclusions (Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts, Editor and a contributing author of Michelangelo Sculptor in Bronze: The Rothschild Bronzes)

2018-06-27 15:00: A Michelangelo discovery: Project update and conclusions (Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts, Editor and a contributing author of Michelangelo Sculptor in Bronze: The Rothschild Bronzes)

2018-07-04 13:15: Sleeping by John Everett Millais: "The most beautiful picture the artist ever painted" (Jane Munro, Acting Assistant Director, Collections)

2018-07-11 13:15: From memory: Nigel Hall, sculpture and drawing (Nigel Hall RA in conversation with Barry Phipps, Curator of Works of Art at Churchill College)

2018-07-18 13:15: Robert Hamilton Lang and the decipherment of Cypro-Syllabic (Dr Thomas Kiely, A. G. Leventis Curator of Ancient Cyprus, British Museum)

2018-07-24 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-09-05 13:15: Curator’s introduction to Designers & Jewellery 1850 – 1940: Jewellery & Metalwork from The Fitzwilliam Museum (Helen Ritchie, Research Assistant, Applied Arts, and Exhibition Curator)

2018-09-12 13:15: Architect Owen Jones, the Alhambra, and The Grammar of Ornament (Dr Deniz Turker, Research and Outreach Associate, Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge)

2018-09-19 13:15: The tea bowl: East and West (Dr Bonnie Kemske, Artist and writer)

2018-09-25 13:15:  Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-09-26 13:15: Mychael Barratt in conversation with Jane Stobart (Mychael Barratt (ex-president of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) and Jane Stobart (artist-printmaker))

2018-10-03 13:15: “Thinking in common”: A community of creativity (Dr Hana Leaper, Painting Prize Senior Lecturer and Development Manager, Liverpool John Moores University)

2018-10-10 13:15: Rooms of their Own: Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Eddy Sackville-West (Nino Strachey, Head of Research and Specialist Advice at The National Trust, and author of Rooms of their Own)

2018-10-17 13:15: The Pastons: From poverty to wealth and back again  (Dr Spike Bucklow, Senior Research Scientist, Hamilton Kerr Institute)

2018-10-20 15:00: Extreme sculpture: Politics and monuments in Germany 1918 -1945 (Dr Nina Lübbren, Anglia Ruskin University)

2018-10-24 13:15: Eileen Cooper RA in conversation with Dr Meredith Hale (Eileen Cooper - one of the RAs taking partin RA250 at the Fitz; and Dr Meredith Hale - Excellence 100 Lecturer, Loughborough University, and Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge)

2018-10-30 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-10-31 13:15: The Art of Ithell Colquhoun: Symbols from the magian world (Richard Shillitoe, Independent researcher and editor of website: www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk)

2018-11-07 13:15: An Arts and Crafts jeweller: The life and work of Fred Partridge (1877-1945) (Thomas Holman, Director, Wartski)

2018-11-14 13:15: Will you fade? Will you perish? Virginia Woolf and the art of still life (Dr Claudia Tobin, Department of English, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-20 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-11-21 13:15: Reused coffins from ancient Egypt: Tomb robbery or recycling of materials? (Helen Strudwick, Associate Curator, Egyptian Antiquities)

2018-11-22 13:15: In Focus: William Scott (Judy Zhou, History of Art Department, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-28 13:15: Virginia Woolf: The Curator’s perspective (Laura Smith, Curator, Whitechapel Gallery, and Exhibition Curator)

2018-12-05 13:15: The odd couple: Virginia Woolf and Rupert Brooke (Dr Claire Nicholson, Chair, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain)

2018-12-12 13:15: An introduction to the collection of Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, and the exhibition Collecting and Giving (Jane Munro (Acting Assistant Director, Collections), Henrietta Ward (Assistant Keeper, Paintings Drawings and Prints), and Julia Poole (Former Keeper, Applied Arts))

2018-12-18 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-01-16 13:15:  Coin Coinage in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its numismatic legacy (Dr Richard Kelleher, Assistant Keeper (Medieval and Modern), Coins and Medals)

2019-01-23 13:15: Colonisations and landscape successions: Later prehistoric and Roman North West Cambridge (Dr Chris Evans, Cambridge Archaeological Unit)

2019-01-29 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-01-30 13:15: The Trojan War: Then and now (Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney, Associate Professor in Ancient History, University of Leicester)

2019-02-06 13:15: A temple to marble: The Main Entrance landing restoration and new displays (Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts)

2019-02-13 13:15: The Attic inscriptions in The Fitzwilliam Museum ( Prof. Stephen D. Lambert, Professor of Ancient Greek History and Epigraphy, Cardiff University)

2019-02-20 13:15: How We got here (Emma Smith, artist)

2019-02-26 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-02-27 13:15: Love and politics: A wedding gift for a medieval duchess (Dr Stella Panayotova, Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books)

2019-03-06 13:15: Enriching Collections: Recent acquisitions of prints and drawings 2009 – 2019 (Keepers of Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

2019-03-13 13:15: Whistler & Nature: Looking both ways from the industrial to the horticultural (Dr Patricia de Montfort, Curator, and Prof. Clare A P Willsdon, joint authors of the book which accompanies the exhibition)

2019-03-20 13:15: Small paintings, big discoveries: Recent research on Isaac Oliver’s miniatures (Dr Paola Ricciardi, Research Scientist)

2019-03-26 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-03-27 13:15: Design Evolution: Highlights from the Keatley Trust collection (Helen Ritchie, Research Assistant, Applied Arts, and display Curator)

2019-04-03 13:15: Discovering Islamic geometric design (Eric Broug, author, educator and designer specialising in Islamic geometric design)

2019-04-10 13:15: Lenten fasting and Easter feasting: The food of Easter in early modern Europe (Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts, and Dr Melissa Calaresu, Director of Studies and Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge)

2019-04-23 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-05-08 13:15: Curator’s guide to the Beggarstaffs exhibition (Stephen Calloway, Exhibition Curator)

2019-05-15 13:15: Dressed up like a Julius Caesar: Late Stuart coin design (Dr Barrie Cook, Curator of Medieval and Early Modern Coins, British Museum)

2019-05-21 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-05-22 13:15: Some scraps of paper: Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale at The Fitzwilliam Museum (Dr Suzanne Reynolds, Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books)

2019-05-29 13:15: Celebrating the 200th birthday of Queen Victoria and our recent acquisition of her bust by Alfred Gilbert  (Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts and Dr Emma Jones, Sculpture Research Associate)

2019-06-05 13:15: Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection (Flavia Ravaioli, Assistant Conservator)

2019-06-12 13:15: Coin collecting and politics in the Tudor age (Dr. Andrew Burnett former Deputy Director of the British Museum)

2019-06-18 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-06-19 13:15: Revealed in the Hayley Papers: Literary, artistic and domestic gossip from late 18th and early 19th century cultural life (Dr Lisa Gee, post-doctoral researcher)

2019-06-26 13:15: Can you handle it? Using 3D prints to improve museum access (Dr Catriona Cooper, Dr Abi L. Glen and Dr Jennifer Wexler, AHRC Creative Engagement Economy Fellows)

2019-07-03 13:15: Caring for ancient Egyptian coffins in Cairo: A new collaboration for the future (Melanie Pitkin, Research Associate and Helen Strudwick, Associate Curator)

2019-07-10 13:15: Artist Unknown: Stories from the University of Cambridge Museums and Collections (Eliza Spindel, Curatorial and Research Assistant, Kettle’s Yard)

2019-07-17 13:15: The early modern revolution of colour palettes on ceramics with over-glazed painting (Professor Chingfei Shih, Art History Department, Taiwan University)

2019-07-23 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-07-24 13:15: Jennifer Lee: A personal selection (Jennifer Lee, Artist )

2019-08-21 13:15: Giovanni Belzoni and the allure of Egypt (Jane Munro (Keeper of Paintings, Drawing & Prints), Helen Strudwick (Associate Curator Egyptian Antiquities) Briony Llewellyn, independent Art Historian specialising in British artists’ depictions of the Near and Middle East)

2019-09-17 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-09-18 13:15: City of beasts: The forgotten sights, sounds and smells of Georgian London (Thomas Almeroth-Williams, author of City of Beasts: How Animals Shaped Georgian London.)

2019-09-25 13:15: Giovanni Belzoni and the allure of Egypt (Jane Munro (Keeper of Paintings, Drawing & Prints), Helen Strudwick (Associate Curator - Egyptian Antiquities), Briony Llewellyn, (independent Art Historian specialising in British artists’ depictions of the Near and Middle East))

2019-10-02 13:15: Caring for ancient Egyptian coffins in Cairo (Part 2): The ‘Pop-Up’ museum outreach project (Helen Strudwick (Associate Curator) & Dr Melanie Pitkin (Research Associate, Egyptian Antiquities))

2019-10-09 13:15: Isabella’s wish: patronage and production of Northern Netherlandish altarpieces (c.1520) (Kristin Kausland (Research Fellow) & Dr. Lucy Wrapson (Senior Painting Conservator and Assistant to the Director) Hamilton Kerr Institute)

2019-10-15 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-16 13:15: From the exotic to the everyday: Changing attitudes to the pineapple (Dr Melissa Calaresu and Dr Emma Spary (Faculty of History) and Dr Kasia Boddy (Faculty of English))

2019-10-30 13:15: The life and work of Emmanuel Cooper (David Horbury, Author)

2019-11-06 13:15: Sex and death: Looking at Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia in the age of #MeToo (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-11-13 13:15: Modes of listening: How what we see greatly impacts what we hear (Dr Mine Dogantan-Dack, Faculty of Music)

2019-11-19 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-11-20 13:15: Picturing what cannot be seen: Visualising sound within 19th-century acoustics (Dr David Trippett, Faculty of Music)

2019-11-27 13:15: Curators’ introduction to Feast & Fast (Dr Victoria Avery and Dr Melissa Calaresu, Exhibition Curators)

2019-12-04 13:15: Good enough to eat? Preparing ceramic fake food for the Feast & Fast exhibition (Tim Matthews, Applied Arts Technician)

2019-12-11 13:15: The fragrance of lotus: Archaeology and sensorial experimentation in Afghanistan caves 1960s – 1980s (Professor Vimalin Rujivacharakul (Department of Art History, University of Delaware, Newark, USA))

2019-12-17 13:15: Art speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-12-18 13:15: The food of Christmas past (Ivan Day, Feast & Fast Food Historian)

2020-01-21 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-01-22 13:15: Inspire project (Luke Syson, Director, and Kate Noble, Education Officer)

2020-01-29 13:15: ‘The Season of Spiritual Warfare’: Fasting in early modern Europe (Dr. Christopher Kissane, Editorial Fellow at History Workshop and Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck)

2020-02-05 13:15: Art and simulation in philosophy (Dr Tom McClelland, Lecturer in Faculty of Philosophy)

2020-02-12 13:15: Chicken or Pastirma? Fine dining Ottoman style (Dr Helen Pfeifer, Faculty of History)

2020-02-18 13:15: Art Speak (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-02-19 13:15: Food service by the book in early modern Europe (Prof Deborah Krohn, Bard Graduate Center, New York)

2020-02-26 13:15: Reconstructions in the exhibition Sharpening Perceptions  (Dr Spike Bucklow, Reader in Material Culture.)

2020-03-04 13:15: A love story for the Medici? The story of Cupid and Psyche on Florentine Renaissance wedding chests  (r Donal Cooper, Senior Lecturer in History of Art)

2020-03-11 13:15: A vision of the universe: The Astronomicum Caesarium of 1540 (Edward Cheese, Conservator of Manuscripts and Printed Books, and Dr Sara Öberg Strådal, Research Associate)

2020-03-18 13:15: CANCELLED: Cupid and Psyche: Scientific insights into the painting behind Inspire (Dr Paola Ricciardi, Senior Research Scientist, Fitzwilliam Museum and Victoria Sutcliffe, Painting Conservator, Hamilton Kerr Institute)

2020-03-24 13:15: CANCELLED: Art Speak  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-03-25 13:15: CANCELLED: Curator’s introduction to Virtue, Vice & the Senses: Prints 1540 – 1650 (Elenor Ling, Assistant Keeper, Paintings Drawings and Prints)

2020-04-08 13:15: CANCELLED: Jewish food and the Passover rite (Julia Biggs, Independent Art Historian)

2020-04-21 13:15: CANCELLED: Art Speak  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-04-22 13:15: CANCELLED: How we fell in love with Italian food (Professor Diego Zancani, Emeritus Professor of Italian, University of Oxford)

2024-04-04 18:30: In Conversation: Spirituality and Technology (Curator, writer, and Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, Dr Clare Carolin, and artists Margarita Gluzberg and Babar Suleman)

2024-09-18 13:00: Sport and the Media Revolution (Roger Mosey, former Head of BBC News and Director of Sport)

2024-10-17 18:30: In Conversation: Sport and Gender (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-10-17 18:30: In Conversation: Sport and Gender (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-11-21 18:30: In Conversation: Interventions and Looking Afresh (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-11-28 18:30: Critical Co-Lab: Habda Rashid and Ekow Eshun (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-11-28 18:30: Critical Co-Lab: Habda Rashid and Ekow Eshun (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-03-13 13:00: Cambridge Connections: George Bridgtower  (Dr Victoria Avery, Curator)