Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures

Gendering Decryption - Decrypting Gender

Annie Burman, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 13:15-14:00

Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures

Degas’s Drinker: Marcellin Desboutin and the portrait print after photography

Amy Marquis, Research Assistant, Department of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Fitzwilliam Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:15-14:00

Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures

Currencies of Conflict: siege and emergency money from antiquity to Second World War

Richard Kelleher, Assistant Keeper of Coins (Medieval and Modern), Fitzwilliam Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 13:15-14:00

Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures

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.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 13:15-14:00

Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures

Reading Between the Lines: the worlds of linear B

Professor John Bennet, a contributor to the Codebreakers exhibition catalogue.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:15-14:00

Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures

Terra Firma: a conversation with Pallavi Paul

Contemporary artist Pallavi Paul.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Friday 27 October 2017, 13:15-14:00

Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures

Curators’ introduction to Codebreakers and Groundbreakers

Dr Anastasia Christofilopoulou (Fitzwilliam Museum), Dr Yannis Galanakis (Faculty of Classics) & Dr James Grime (Mathematician and Public Speaker).

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 13:15-14:00

Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures

Truth and artists’ intention

Dr Spike Bucklow, Senior Research Scientist, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Friday 20 October 2017, 13:15-14:00

Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures

Degas's sculptures: how truthful are they to his artistic intentions?

Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 13:15-14:00

Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures

The Making of Sense: creating ground-breaking public art commissions

Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier creators of In Other Words.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 13:15-14:00

Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures

Seeing samplers as stitched documents

Carol Humphrey, Honorary Keeper of Textiles, Fitzwilliam Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 20 September 2017, 13:15-14:00

Fitzwilliam Museum talks & lectures

“This Noble Repository”: a Fitzwilliam Museum for its third century?

Tim Knox, Fitzwilliam Museum Director and Marlay Curator.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 06 September 2017, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Henry Moore’s Hill Arches

Dr Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 09 December 2015, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

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.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Constellations: Rene Magritte and astronomy

Dr Patricia Allmer, Chancellor's Fellow, Edinburgh College of Art.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

The literariness of caricature

Dr David Francis Taylor, Associate Professor, Dept. of English & Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

1945: Paying for WWII

Dr Adrian Popescu, Keeper of Coins and Medals.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Hercules and the aesthetics of exhaustion

Dr Nigel Spivey, Senior Lecturer in Classics.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Hercules: The thinking person’s superhero

Dr Emma Stafford, Senior Lecturer in Classics, Leeds University.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Friday 30 October 2015, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

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.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Saturday 24 October 2015, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Colour and power

Spike Bucklow, Research Associate, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

‘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.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Manet: Sex and/or beer

Paul Joannides, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Cambridge.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 07 October 2015, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

An introduction to the Kettle’s Yard display Beauty and Balance

Dr Jennifer Powell, Senior Curator, Kettle’s Yard.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 30 September 2015, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Fantastical pottery creatures by Andrew Hull

Kathy Niblett, Author.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 27 August 2014, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

La Grande Guerre: A WWI Centenary exhibition of French prints

Elenor Ling, Exhibition Curator and Researcher (Paintings, Drawings and Prints), The Fitzwilliam Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 06 August 2014, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Recreating ancient everyday life within the Museum

Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Outreach Officer Greece and Rome, The Fitzwilliam Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 23 July 2014, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Fish and flowers: Roman mosaic glass plaques

Dr Lucilla Burn, Keeper of Antiquities, The Fitzwilliam Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 09 July 2014, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints

Dr Joshua Nall, Assistant Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

The age of the collector: History of the Woodwardian and Sedgwick Museums

Ken McNamara, Director of the Sedgwick (and Woodwardian) Museums.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Hidden music: The mystery of early Chinese bronze vessels with bells

Kirie Stromberg, MPhil student, Cambridge University.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

The night of longing: Love and the sex trade in Japanese prints

Craig Hartley, Senior Assistant Keeper, Paintings, Drawings and Prints.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 18 December 2013, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

On white: Porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam

Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 11 December 2013, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

University Challenge : Conservators versus Collections

Richard Farleigh, Newton Paper Conservator, Paintings, Drawings and Prints..

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

A call to arms: Redisplaying the Armoury

Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Looking at Japanese erotica

Dr. Ellis Tinios, Honorary Lecturer in History, University of Leeds.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Models of collaboration: Artistic interventions in a fifteenth-century Book of Hours

Dr Deirdre Jackson, Research Associate, Manuscripts and Printed Books.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

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.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Thursday 24 October 2013, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Healthy, humours and paintings

Spike Bucklow, Research Scientist, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 15:00-15:45

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Healthy, humours and paintings

Spike Bucklow, Research Scientist, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

The use of wigs and extensions in Afro hairdressing

June Forbes, Freelance Hairdresser and Afro Hair Consultant..

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Saturday 12 October 2013, 14:00-16:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Picturing Prometheus

Speaker to be confirmed.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 09 October 2013, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Ancient tears and laughter: Some visual clues

Dr Nigel Spivey, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge..

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 02 October 2013, 13:15-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Stories behind the Stitches: Schoolgirl samplers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Leena Rana, Fitzwilliam Museum Applied Arts Intern.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 18 September 2013, 13:10-14:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

An introduction to the Fitzwilliam Museum’s sampler collection

Carol Humphreys, Honorary Keeper, Applied Arts.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 11 September 2013, 13:15-14:00

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The puzzle of Byzantine ceramic plates

FREE but space limited. Admission by token, available from 12.45 on day of talk.

Professor Robin Cormack, University of Cambridge.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 18 July 2012, 13:15-14:00

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Scrutinising sgraffito: conservation of Medieval Cypriot glazed bowls

FREE but space limited. Admission by token, available from 12.45 on day of talk.

Penny Bendall, Independent Ceramics Conservator; Alexandra Zappa, Department of Antiquities (Conservation), Fitzwilliam Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 04 July 2012, 13:15-14:00

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Rituals and recipes: food, religion and politics in ancient China

FREE but space limited. Admission by token, available from 12.45 on day of talk.

Professor Roel Sterckx, Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science and Civilisation, University of Cambridge.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 27 June 2012, 13:15-14:00

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Monsieur Desprez’s monster

FREE but space limited. Admission by token, available from 12.45 on day of talk.

Elenor Ling, Research Assistant for Paintings, Drawings & Prints, Fitzwilliam Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 13:15-14:00

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Reversing the slump: reshaping a rare Egyptian mummy case

FREE but space limited. Admission by token, available from 12.45 on day of talk.

Sophie Rowe, Department of Antiquities (Conservation), Fitzwilliam Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 13:15-14:00

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Gateways to paradise: twin towers in early Chinese art

FREE but space limited. Admission by token, available from 12.45 on day of talk.

Dr Li-kuei Chien, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 13:15-14:00

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Chinese mirrors (50 BCE) and their symbolism

FREE but space limited. Admission by token, available from 12.45 on day of talk.

Dr Michael Loewe, University of Cambridge.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 13:15-14:00

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Secrets of the scarab beetle

FREE but space limited. Admission by token, available from 12.45 on day of talk.

Dr Sally-Ann Ashton, Senior Assistant Keeper of Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 13:15-14:00

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The King of Nanyue and the barbarians

FREE but space limited. Admission by token, available from 12.45 on day of talk.

Dr Lukas Nickel, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 13:15-14:00

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People and Pots: Use and Collection of Islamic Ceramics

Rebecca Bridgman, Applied Arts Department.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 28 March 2012, 13:15-14:00

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A Roman ‘Swiss Army Knife’

Lucilla Burn, Keeper of Antiquities.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 13:15-14:00

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Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination

Dr Kathleen Doyle, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts, The British Library.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Thursday 16 February 2012, 13:15-14:00

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Projects in manuscript conservation

Kristine Rose, Conservator of Manuscripts and Printed Books.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 13:15-14:00

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Three New Acquisitions on Religious Themes

David Scrase, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings & Prints.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 13:15-14:00

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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.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Thursday 22 December 2011, 13:15-14:00

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“Whims and drolleries”: Silver in the 17th-century

Dr Kirstin Kennedy, Victoria & Albert Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Thursday 01 December 2011, 13:15-14:00

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French Impressions: The re-display of the 19th-century collections

Jane Munro, Department of Paintings, Drawings and Prints.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 13:15-14:00

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The Ripley Scroll unrolled: Alchemy and art in Renaissance Europe

Dr Jennifer Rampling, History & Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 13:15-14:00

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The rediscovery of Vermeer and the reception of genre painting

Dr Meredith Hale, History of Art Department, University of Cambridge.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Friday 18 November 2011, 13:15-14:00

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Imperial portraits of Yuan Emperors

Professor Shang Gang, Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Thursday 17 November 2011, 13:15-14:00

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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.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 13:15-14:00

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The art and craft of ivory carving in Baroque Europe

Dr Marjorie Trusted FSA, Victoria & Albert Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Thursday 10 November 2011, 13:15-14:00

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Turkish Delights: Exploring the Ottoman Ceramic Collection

Dr Rebecca Bridgman, Applied Arts Department.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 13:15-14:00

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Love for sale in the 17th-century: Secrets of the oldest profession

Colin Wiggins, The National Gallery.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Friday 28 October 2011, 13:15-14:00

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Artist’s Pigments: All there in black and white

Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 13:15-14:00

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Looking is Thinking: The visual analysis of paintings

Dr Nina Lübbren, Anglia Ruskin University.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Saturday 22 October 2011, 13:15-14:00

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Making Money: The art, science and entrepreneurship of Matthew Boulton (1728 – 1809)

Dr Chris Loughlan, Anglia Ruskin University.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Friday 21 October 2011, 13:15-14:00

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African headrests, hair combs and hair

Dr Sally-Ann Ashton, Antiquities Department.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 19 October 2011, 13:15-14:00

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Telling Secrets: Vermeer’s Women and their world

Dr Marjorie E. Wieseman, The National Gallery.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Friday 14 October 2011, 13:15-14:00

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“Rex Metallorum/King of Metals”: Golden treasures in princely collections in the 16th and 17th-centuries

Dr Heike Zech, Victoria & Albert Museum.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Thursday 13 October 2011, 13:15-14:00