News & events
Upcoming Events
African Archaeology Research Day 2013
We are delighted to announce that the 10th African Archaeology Research Day (AARD) is being hosted by the Sainsbury Institute for Art on Friday 1st November and Saturday 2nd November, 2013.
The theme of the conference is ‘Africa’s material culture past and present’. The central theme will be, of course, African archaeology but we are keen to attract input from related disciplines such as art history, heritage management, history and museology.
See the conference web pages for more details and for how to register or submit a paper.
World Art Research Seminars
The seminar series has finished for this current year. A new timetable will be published for the Autumn semester.
For further information, please visit the School website.
ART/SRU Postgraduate Research Seminars
The seminar series has finished for this current year. A new timetable will be published for the Autumn semester.
News
Dr Karen Jacobs Awarded AHRC Networking Grant
Dr Karen Jacobs was recently awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Networking Grant to study missionary collections assembled from the Pacific and Africa. The project, entitled: Who Cares? The Material Heritage of British Missions in Africa and the Pacific and its Future is in collaboration with Dr Chris Wingfield, University of Cambridge, the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, and the Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG). More information on the project can be found on MEG’s website. The first in a series of three workshops was held in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh to coincide with the opening of the exhibition: David Livingstone, I presume?
The second of three Arts and Humanities Research Council funded workshops exploring the material legacy of missionary encounters took place in Cambridge on 22 and 23 of March 2013. A report was posted by Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp:
Making Connections through World Collections
Karen Jacobs would like to thank all the participants and particularly Chantal Knowles and Chris Wingfield for making the first workshop such a success. Julie Adams will write a blog on the first workshop which will appear on the MEG website.
Visiting Fellowships
Our next visiting fellow is Professor Denise Arnold who will join us in September 2013. Professor Arnold is Director of the Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara (ILCA). Whilst at the Sainsbury Research Unit, Denise will be adapting and translating into English a book written by herself and a weaver colleague, Elvira Espejo. The English title will be, 'The science of weaving in the Andes: structures and techniques of warp-faced cloth.' The book was a result of a 3 year research grant from the AHRC.
Ceremonial staff. Central and East Africa, Zaire: Luba-Hemba. Late 19th century. figure h. 24.1 cm. UEA 266