London Seminar for Early Modern Visual Culture, Autumn 2006

Monday 30 October 2006 @ 6.00pm

J.-L. David's Death of Socrates (1787): homosexual desire in an enlightenment fiction of philosophy‚
Dr Satish Padiyar (Courtauld Institute of Art)

Tuesday 7 November 2006 @ 6.30pm (PLEASE NOTE TIME & DATE)

Nocturnal rêveries and visual conundrums: Adam Elsheimer and the 1600 epistemological crisis‚
(coinciding with the Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition, Adam Elsheimer 1578-1610: Devil in the Detail)
Itay Sapir (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, and the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris)

Monday 27 November 2006 @ 6.00pm

Shaftesbury, moment, and sense‚
Dr Richard Checketts (Courtauld Institute of Art)

Monday 4 December 2006 @ 6.00pm
Reading Group: What is Early Modern? (texts to be announced on websites below)

All events will be held in:
Research Forum
Mezzanine Floor
Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 0RN