Events
Research Seminar Series organised by the Zurbarán Centre with ARTES Iberian & Visual Culture Group
This live online seminar series provides an open forum for engaging with new and cutting-edge research on diverse topics in Iberian and Latin American art and visual culture.
The weekly sessions usually take place on Wednesdays, 6.00-7.00pm, except the fourth session scheduled for Tuesday, 2 February. The talks last ca. 40 minutes and are followed by Q&A.
The series is free and open to all with an interest in the visual arts. Booking is essential. Please email the Zurbarán Centre (Zurbaran.centre@durham.ac.uk) to register and to receive a zoom link. Please note registration closes 24 hours before the seminar.
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Juan de Pareja, Detail fom Velázquez’s Portrait of Juan de Pareja, 1650 (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Wikimedia (public domain).
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Wednesday 20 January 2021
- Akemi Herráez Vossbrink (Meadows Museum), The 'Zurbaranesque' Presence in Viceregal Latin American Painting 6:00pm to 7:00pm, via Zoom, Contact zurbaran.centre@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 27 January 2021
- Yarí Pérez Marín (Durham University) Illustrating medical treatment in colonial Latin America 6:00pm to 7:00pm, via Zoom, Contact zurbaran.centre@durham.ac.uk
Tuesday 2 February 2021
- Carmen Fracchia (Birkbeck University of London), Discussing the book project 'Black but Human'. 6:00pm to 7:00pm, via Zoom, Contact zurbaran.centre@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 10 February 2021
- Ed Payne (Aarhus University) Surface and Depth: Zurbarán's Saint Francis in Meditation 6:00pm to 7:00pm, via Zoom, Contact zurbaran.centre@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 17 February 2021
- Roberto Conduru (Southern Methodist University), Magic, crime and art in early 20th-century Afro-Brazilian religions 6:00pm to 7:00pm, via Zoom, Contact zurbaran.centre@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 24 February 2021
- Tom Nickson (Courtauld Institute) Cities and Surveillance in Spain and Beyond, 1200-1500 6:00pm to 7:00pm, via Zoom, Contact zurbaran.centre@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 3 March 2021
- Jonathan Ruffer (The Auckland Project) Juan Bautista Maíno – A Great Artist at the Spanish Gallery, Bishop Auckland 6:00pm to 7:00pm, via Zoom, Contact zurbaran.centre@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 10 March 2021
- Anna McSweeney (Trinity, Dublin), Suspended Sculptures: the carved wooden ceilings of al-Andalus and their legacies 6:00pm to 7:00pm, via Zoom, Contact zurbaran.centre@durham.ac.uk
Wednesday 17 March 2021
Wednesday 24 March 2021
- Madeleine Haddon (University of Edinburgh), The Cuban Maja: La Mulata in the Work of Victor Patricio Landaluze 6:00pm to 7:00pm, via Zoom, Contact zurbaran.centre@durham.ac.uk