Design History and Material Culture research group seminar series

Over the last few years this seminar series has developed as an interdisciplinary project which assumes a broad understanding of what constitutes a designed world.

IOTA is an acronym of image-object-text-analysis. It is an indication of the scope of the seminars, which encompass all categories of material culture: things, pictures, words. The study of material culture is usually divided up between academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, art history, design history and museum studies - the iota seminar series provides a meeting ground for these different disciplinary practices of interpretation.

iota seminar series 2010-11

Alternate Tuesdays from 11 October 2011 at 17.30
Location: M2, the Board Room, Mezzanine Floor, Grand Parade, University of Brighton

11 October

'Radical in the Domestic? The Use of Domestic Crafts for Influencing the Public Sphere'
Victoria Tedder, University of Kent

1 November

'California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way'
Wendy Kaplan, Department Head and Curator, Decorative Arts and Design, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

8 November

'The Royal Pavilion as an Indian Military Hospital: Myths, Media and Making a Gallery'
 Kevin Bacon, Digital Development Officer for the Royal Pavilion and Museums

22 November

'The War Artists' Advisory Committee and the Representation of Fighter Command'
Becca Searle, Research Fellow, University of Sussex

17 January

'Interpreting Latin American Material Culture: a Case of Cross-Cultural Consumption'
David Rodriguez, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Artes y Diseño-Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano

31 January

'Art, Luxury and Taste: the Design and Decoration of the Palace Hotel in London, 1890-1939'
Lyanne Holcombe, Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University
[Please note this seminar will take place in M57, Centre for Research and Development]

14 February

'Jess Franco's Gothic Desire: The Conservative Transgressions of the 'Cult' Film'
Glenn Ward, University of Brighton

28 February

'Memorialisation and Neoliberalism? Rethinking Contemporary Memorial Forms and Discourses'
Nicola Clewer, University of Brighton

13 March

'Landscape with Statues: Recording the Public Sculpture of Sussex'
Jill Seddon, University of Brighton

All are welcome.

For more information email: l.purbrick@bton.ac.uk.