V&A Early Modern Material Cultures

Summer 2011, Wednesdays 5.00 pm
Drawing on research that engages directly with material
culture by scholars from a range of disciplines and
approaches, seminars will alternate between papers at
the IHR and papers at the V&A which will involve direct
contact with objects.
PROGRAMME
4 May Mark Jones (Director, V&A)
Venue: V&A, Seminar Room A
‘AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’: MUSEUMS AND CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION
11 May Stephen McDowall (Warwick)
Venue: IHR, Low Countries Room
ARTISAN AND CONNOISSEUR IN THE CERAMICS MARKETS OF LATE-MING CHINA
18 May Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes)
Venue: V&A, Seminar Room A
MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE DUTCH REFORMATION
25 May Flora Dennis (Sussex)
Venue: IHR, Low Countries Room
DELIGHTING EARS AND PLEASING EYES: MUSIC, IMAGES AND OBJECTS IN
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY
1 June Alexander Marr (Southern California; Robert H. Smith
Renaissance Sculpture in Context Scholar in Residency, V&A)
Venue: V&A, Seminar Room A
CASTING FROM LIFE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Venue: Weeks 1, 3, 5: Seminar Room A,
Research Dept., V&A;
Weeks 2, 4: Low Countries Room, IHR.
Time: Wednesday 5.00 pm.