CONF: Displaying the British Museum: past, present and future (BP Lecture Theatre, 20-21 FEB 2025)
This wide-ranging two-day conference explores the history of display at the British Museum, from Robert Smirke’s architectural vision to blockbuster exhibitions of the 20th century. Today, the British Museum is preparing for a…
CONF: Silk Roads: Contacts and exchanges across Afro-Eurasia, AD 500–1000 (5-6 December, 2024)
Since the early use of the term in the 19th century, the ‘Silk Roads’ have come to mean so much more than a route for trading silk from East to West. Coinciding with…
CONF: Owning Gothic Ivories: Buying, Giving, Circulating (British Museum / V&A London – 26/26 Oct 2024)
Over the last three decades, research on Gothic ivories has seen a significant shift from studies concerned with stylistic attribution and classification towards the investigation of their materiality, iconography, function, and – last…