- 11 October 2006
- 6:00 – 7:30 pm
- Public Study Room, Paul Mellon Centre
John Vanbrugh, North Court Gateway at Eastbury, Dorset, begun 1717
This autumn the Paul Mellon Centre will be running its fifth annual programme of research seminars in British art and architectural history.
The seminars provide an opportunity for those who have held Senior Fellowships to air the new ideas they have been working on during their tenure. They also provide an opportunity for oyunger scholars who have either held Postdoctoral Fellowships or who are engaged in doctoral research work in British art and architectural history at Yale University to share their ideas with a British audience.
11 October
Dr Nicholar Grindle, 'Landscape, Commercial Modernisation and Political Opposition to the Three Kingdoms, 1660-1714'
18 October
Jo Briggs, 'Global Doubt: Socialist Visual Culture and the Boer War Protest Modement in Fin-de-Siècle London'
25 October
Dr Francis Spalding, 'Taking Nothing for Granted: John Piper's Pursuit of National Identities'
8 November
Dr Riann Coulter, 'Louis le Brocquy's "Presence" Series, 1956-1966: Irish, British or International?'
15 November
Dr Amy Sargeant, 'The Man in the White Suit: New Textiles and the Social Fabric'
22 November
Rachael Oberter, 'Spiritualism and the Visual Imagination in Victorian Britain'
29 November
Prof. Vaughan Hart, '"A Pretty Impudent Countenance": The Architecture of Sir John Vanbrugh'
6 December
Prof. Angela Rosenthal, 'Making Light of Race: Visual Humor in the Age of Abolitionism'