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Activities | Public Lectures

Lectures 2010

Wednesdays, 1.10 pm · Lecture Theatre

Admission is free, but these events are extremely popular and places are limited, so please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

8 September Art in Brontë Country Ann Sumner
6 October

Alfred Sisley: The ‘British’ Impressionist
(This lecture celebrates the new loan to the gallery of the Alfred Sisley Landscape Edge of the Forest – July Morning.)

Ann Sumner
13 October From Homer's Odyssey to A. Edwards’s One Thousand Miles up the Nile: Travels in Ancient Egypt Eurydice Georganteli
20 October The Lure of the East in the 19th Century: European Images of Egypt from Baron Gros to Holman Hunt Paul Spencer-Longhurst, The Paul Mellon Centre
27 October Sand and Sound: Reactions to Egypt in Western Classical Music Colin Timms, Peyton & Barber Professor of Music
3 November ‘O’er vales and hills’: An Introduction to ‘A Rage for the Lakes’ Robert Wenley
8 December Jan de Beer's Nativity: A Biblical Perspective Martin O'Kane, University of Wales, Lampeter
15 December Cosimo Rosselli's Adoration of the Child Jesus: The Birth of an Altarpiece Susan J. May and George T. Noszlopy, Birmingham City University