Symposia & Workshops
The Sainsbury Research Unit facilitates scholarly research and dialogues by sponsoring periodic symposia on topical and regional themes in the study of the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas.
Past events include:
- Fabricating Fashion? Curating and Creating Pacific Fibre Arts and Adornments (1-2 October 2012)
- Andean Ethnohistory and Archaeology (24 November 2010)
- World Christianity and Socio-Cosmological Transformations in the Andes and Amazonia (11-12 November 2010)
- Appropriating the Exotic: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (8-9 October 2010)
- Andean and Amazonian Visual and Sensorial Worlds: (15-16 April 2010)
- Ancient and Modern: Exhibiting the Past in the Present. (18 March 2010)
- Image, Word, Music: an Art Debate on Religious Mediation (6-7 November 2009)
- The (dis)empowerment of things in Amazonian cosmopolitics (29-30 May 2009)
- Exhibiting Polynesia: Past, Present and Future ( Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (16 June – 14 September 2008)
- The emergence of Hausa identity: religion and history (10-12 July 2008). Anthropological, historical, art-historical, linguistic, archaeological and museological perspectives.
- Image as embodiment: cross disciplinary perspectives ( 9-10 Nov 2007)
- Light, Water and Colours in the Americas (20 Jun 2007)
- Society, Natural Resources & Development in Madagascar, Recent Contributions by the Research Community (30-31 Mar 2007)
Upcoming Symposia at the Sainsbury Research Unit
African Archaeology Research Day
Friday 1st - Saturday 2nd November, 2013
Hosted by Sainsbury Institute for Art (SIFA)
University of East Anglia
Standing figure. Peru. 10th-12th century. h. 24.5 cm. UEA 405