Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35)


2011-10-13 13:15: “Rex Metallorum/King of Metals”: Golden treasures in princely collections in the 16th and 17th-centuries (Dr Heike Zech, Victoria & Albert Museum)

2011-10-14 13:15: Telling Secrets: Vermeer’s Women and their world (Dr Marjorie E. Wieseman, The National Gallery)

2011-10-19 13:15: African headrests, hair combs and hair (Dr Sally-Ann Ashton, Antiquities Department)

2011-10-21 13:15: Making Money: The art, science and entrepreneurship of Matthew Boulton (1728 – 1809) (Dr Chris Loughlan, Anglia Ruskin University)

2011-10-22 13:15: Looking is Thinking: The visual analysis of paintings (Dr Nina Lübbren, Anglia Ruskin University)

2011-10-26 13:15: Artist’s Pigments: All there in black and white (Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute)

2011-10-28 13:15: Love for sale in the 17th-century: Secrets of the oldest profession (Colin Wiggins, The National Gallery)

2011-11-09 13:15: Turkish Delights: Exploring the Ottoman Ceramic Collection (Dr Rebecca Bridgman, Applied Arts Department)

2011-11-10 13:15: The art and craft of ivory carving in Baroque Europe (Dr Marjorie Trusted FSA, Victoria & Albert Museum)

2011-11-16 13:15: Indiana Jones in bloomers: The remarkable story of Agnes Smith Lewis, bible hunter and benefactor (Professor Janet Soskice, Fellow of Jesus College and Professor of Philosophical Theology)

2011-11-17 13:15: Imperial portraits of Yuan Emperors (Professor Shang Gang, Tsinghua University, Beijing)

2011-11-18 13:15: The rediscovery of Vermeer and the reception of genre painting (Dr Meredith Hale, History of Art Department, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-23 13:15: The Ripley Scroll unrolled: Alchemy and art in Renaissance Europe (Dr Jennifer Rampling, History & Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-30 13:15: French Impressions: The re-display of the 19th-century collections (Jane Munro, Department of Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

2011-12-01 13:15: “Whims and drolleries”: Silver in the 17th-century (Dr Kirstin Kennedy, Victoria & Albert Museum)

2011-12-22 13:15: Kunstkammer in China? The Hapsburg collections in Vienna compared with the Chinese Imperial household in the Forbidden City in the 18th-century (Nicole Chiang, Applied Arts Department)

2012-01-25 13:15: Three New Acquisitions on Religious Themes (David Scrase, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings & Prints)

2012-02-08 13:15: Projects in manuscript conservation (Kristine Rose, Conservator of Manuscripts and Printed Books)

2012-02-16 13:15: Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (Dr Kathleen Doyle, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts, The British Library)

2012-02-22 13:15: A Roman ‘Swiss Army Knife’ (Lucilla Burn, Keeper of Antiquities)

2012-03-28 13:15: People and Pots: Use and Collection of Islamic Ceramics (Rebecca Bridgman, Applied Arts Department)

2012-05-09 13:15: The King of Nanyue and the barbarians (Dr Lukas Nickel, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

2012-05-23 13:15: Secrets of the scarab beetle (Dr Sally-Ann Ashton, Senior Assistant Keeper of Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum)

2012-05-30 13:15: Chinese mirrors (50 BCE) and their symbolism (Dr Michael Loewe, University of Cambridge)

2012-06-06 13:15: Gateways to paradise: twin towers in early Chinese art (Dr Li-kuei Chien, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge)

2012-06-13 13:15: Reversing the slump: reshaping a rare Egyptian mummy case (Sophie Rowe, Department of Antiquities (Conservation), Fitzwilliam Museum)

2012-06-20 13:15: Monsieur Desprez’s monster (Elenor Ling, Research Assistant for Paintings, Drawings & Prints, Fitzwilliam Museum)

2012-06-27 13:15: Rituals and recipes: food, religion and politics in ancient China (Professor Roel Sterckx, Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science and Civilisation, University of Cambridge)

2012-07-04 13:15: Scrutinising sgraffito: conservation of Medieval Cypriot glazed bowls (Penny Bendall, Independent Ceramics Conservator; Alexandra Zappa, Department of Antiquities (Conservation), Fitzwilliam Museum)

2012-07-18 13:15: The puzzle of Byzantine ceramic plates (Professor Robin Cormack, University of Cambridge)

2013-09-11 13:15: An introduction to the Fitzwilliam Museum’s sampler collection (Carol Humphreys, Honorary Keeper, Applied Arts)

2013-09-18 13:10: Stories behind the Stitches: Schoolgirl samplers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries  (Leena Rana, Fitzwilliam Museum Applied Arts Intern)

2013-10-02 13:15: Ancient tears and laughter: Some visual clues (Dr Nigel Spivey, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.)

2013-10-09 13:15: Picturing Prometheus (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-10-12 14:00: The use of wigs and extensions in Afro hairdressing (June Forbes, Freelance Hairdresser and Afro Hair Consultant.)

2013-10-23 13:15: Healthy, humours and paintings (Spike Bucklow, Research Scientist, Hamilton Kerr Institute)

2013-10-23 15:00: Healthy, humours and paintings (Spike Bucklow, Research Scientist, Hamilton Kerr Institute)

2013-10-24 13:15: It’s not easy being green: exploring the use of green pigments and mixtures in manuscript illumination (Dr Paola Ricciardi, Research Associate, Manuscript and Printed Books)

2013-10-30 13:15: Models of collaboration: Artistic interventions in a fifteenth-century Book of Hours (Dr Deirdre Jackson, Research Associate, Manuscripts and Printed Books)

2013-11-06 13:15: Looking at Japanese erotica (Dr. Ellis Tinios, Honorary Lecturer in History, University of Leeds)

2013-11-13 13:15: A call to arms: Redisplaying the Armoury (Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts)

2013-12-04 13:15: University Challenge : Conservators versus Collections (Richard Farleigh, Newton Paper Conservator, Paintings, Drawings and Prints.)

2013-12-11 13:15: On white: Porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam (Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts)

2013-12-18 13:15: The night of longing: Love and the sex trade in Japanese prints (Craig Hartley, Senior Assistant Keeper, Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

2014-05-28 13:15: Hidden music: The mystery of early Chinese bronze vessels with bells (Kirie Stromberg, MPhil student, Cambridge University)

2014-06-11 13:15: The age of the collector: History of the Woodwardian and Sedgwick Museums (Ken McNamara, Director of the Sedgwick (and Woodwardian) Museums)

2014-06-18 13:15: Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints (Dr Joshua Nall, Assistant Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science)

2014-07-09 13:15: Fish and flowers: Roman mosaic glass plaques (Dr Lucilla Burn, Keeper of Antiquities, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

2014-07-23 13:15: Recreating ancient everyday life within the Museum (Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Outreach Officer Greece and Rome, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

2014-08-06 13:15: La Grande Guerre: A WWI Centenary exhibition of French prints (Elenor Ling, Exhibition Curator and Researcher (Paintings, Drawings and Prints), The Fitzwilliam Museum)

2014-08-27 13:15: Fantastical pottery creatures by Andrew Hull (Kathy Niblett, Author)

2015-09-30 13:15: An introduction to the Kettle’s Yard display Beauty and Balance (Dr Jennifer Powell, Senior Curator, Kettle’s Yard)

2015-10-07 13:15: Manet: Sex and/or beer (Paul Joannides, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Cambridge)

2015-10-14 13:15: ‘For with perfect balance, all would be well’ - Why balance is so integral to the works at Kettle’s Yard (Lucy Wheeler, Learning and Engagement Officer, Kettle’s Yard)

2015-10-21 13:15: Colour and power (Spike Bucklow, Research Associate, Hamilton Kerr Institute)

2015-10-24 13:15: Power and resistance in sculpture in the aftermath of WWI (Dr Nina Lübbren, Art Historian; Principal Lecturer in Film Studies, Deputy Head of Department of English and Media, Anglia Ruskin University)

2015-10-30 13:15: Hercules: The thinking person’s superhero (Dr Emma Stafford, Senior Lecturer in Classics, Leeds University)

2015-11-04 13:15: Hercules and the aesthetics of exhaustion (Dr Nigel Spivey, Senior Lecturer in Classics)

2015-11-11 13:15: 1945: Paying for WWII (Dr Adrian Popescu, Keeper of Coins and Medals)

2015-11-18 13:15: The literariness of caricature (Dr David Francis Taylor, Associate Professor, Dept. of English & Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick)

2015-11-25 13:15: Constellations: Rene Magritte and astronomy (Dr Patricia Allmer, Chancellor's Fellow, Edinburgh College of Art)

2015-12-02 13:15: Ronald Searle, Cambridge, and caricature  (Professor Martin Salisbury, Director, Cambridge School of Art, Jane Munro (Keeper) and Elenor Ling (Research Assistant) Paintings Drawings and Prints)

2015-12-09 13:15: Henry Moore’s Hill Arches (Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts)

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)

2017-10-18 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)