Our Spring 2023 Events Programme is Now Live

We have one conference, four Research Seminars and five Research Lunches running from January to March 2023. Please note we’ve moved our Research Seminars to an hour earlier to start at 5pm.

11 January 2023

5:00 – 7:00 pm

Research Seminar

Food and the Senses with Holly Shaffer and Sussan Babaie

20 January 2023

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Research Lunch

Bazaar: South Asian Arts Magazine (1987–92) with Alina Khakoo

27 January 2023

9:00 – 6:30 pm

Conference

Synthetic Histories: Plastics, Climate and Colonialism (at V&A Dundee and online) with Heather Davies, Alia Farid, Max Liboiron, Alice Mah, Charlotte Matter, Hoyee Tse, Amy Woodson-Boulton, Alexander Davidson and Elizabeth Darling

1 February 2023

5:00 – 7:00 pm

Research Seminar

Cinema and Empire: Technologies and Practices with Kirsty Sinclair Dootson and Erica Carter

10 February 2023

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Research Lunch

Pythagorean Visions: Picturing Harmony in British Art, 1719–1753 with Dominic Bate

24 February 2023

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Research Lunch

Between Book and Body: Art, Language and the Limits of Interpretation in the Manuscripts of the English Benedictine Movement with Avantika Kumar

1 March 2023

5:00 – 7:00 pm

Research Seminar

Indigenous Objects Abroad with Robbie Richardson and Ruth Phillips

10 March 2023

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Research Lunch

Plantation Failures, Famine Crops and Contesting Tropicality: Trials of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in the Early Nineteenth Century with Deepthi Bathala

15 March 2023

5:00 – 7:00 pm

Research Seminar

Neo-colonial Visions: Artificial Intelligence and Epistemic Violence with Anthony Downey and Maya Ganesh

17 March 2023

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Research Lunch

Viewing Virtually and Learning to Look: The Topographical Asylum Print with Anna Jamieson

All our Research Seminars will be in person at the Paul Mellon Centre and online. Our Research Lunches will all be only in person except for Pythagorean Visions which will be online only.

Listing image: Detail of a painting attributed to Muzaffar 'Ali, from The Coronation of the Infant Shapur II, Folio 538r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, ca. 1525–30, opaque watercolour, ink, silver, and gold on paper.