Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures


2011-09-23 10:00: Colloquium: The past on display (Variety of speakers)

2011-09-23 16:50: The New Acropolis Museum: Project and realization (Professor Dimitrios Pandermalis, Director of the New Acropolis Museum, Athens)

2017-09-06 13:15: “This Noble Repository”: a Fitzwilliam Museum for its third century? (Tim Knox, Fitzwilliam Museum Director and Marlay Curator)

2017-09-20 13:15: Seeing samplers as stitched documents (Carol Humphrey, Honorary Keeper of Textiles, Fitzwilliam Museum)

2017-09-27 13:15: The Making of Sense: creating ground-breaking public art commissions (Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier creators of In Other Words)

2017-10-04 13:15: Curator’s introduction to Degas: a passion for perfection (Jane Munro, Keeper of Paintings Drawings and Prints, Fitzwilliam Museum)

2017-10-11 13:15: Keynes and collecting Degas in Britain and Cambridge (Professor Jean Michel Massing, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-18 13:15: Degas's sculptures: how truthful are they to his artistic intentions? (Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum)

2017-10-20 13:15: Truth and artists’ intention (Dr Spike Bucklow, Senior Research Scientist, Hamilton Kerr Institute)

2017-10-25 13:15: Curators’ introduction to Codebreakers and Groundbreakers (Dr Anastasia Christofilopoulou (Fitzwilliam Museum), Dr Yannis Galanakis (Faculty of Classics) & Dr James Grime (Mathematician and Public Speaker))

2017-10-27 13:15: Terra Firma: a conversation with Pallavi Paul (Contemporary artist Pallavi Paul)

2017-11-02 13:15: Reading Between the Lines: the worlds of linear B (Professor John Bennet, a contributor to the Codebreakers exhibition catalogue)

2017-11-08 13:15: Cobbling things together: new insights into Degas’s working methods (Jane Munro, Keeper of Paintings Drawings and Prints; Jo Dillon, Conservator of Objects, Applied Arts; Jane Ison, Senior Technician, and Richard Carpenter, Technician, Paintings Drawings and Prints)

2017-11-15 13:15: Currencies of Conflict: siege and emergency money from antiquity to Second World War (Richard Kelleher, Assistant Keeper of Coins (Medieval and Modern), Fitzwilliam Museum)

2017-11-22 13:15: Degas’s Drinker: Marcellin Desboutin and the portrait print after photography (Amy Marquis, Research Assistant, Department of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Fitzwilliam Museum)

2017-11-29 13:15: Gendering Decryption - Decrypting Gender (Annie Burman, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge)