Tuesdays at 11

The Class is open to research students in the University of Oxford. It introduces them to the University’s resources for studying tangible cultural heritage – sites, monuments and objects. Senior members from Humanities, Social Sciences and Mathematics, Physical and Life Sciences, Museums and Collections give brief presentations to allow time for questions and discussions. The class has no written work and no examination. It does, however, have a social network community that was created specifically to enable students to share experiences and discuss research opportunities.

Classes take place in the University’s e-Research Centre (7 Keble Road) on Tuesdays at 11 in Weeks 1-7 of Michaelmas Term except the class on 21 October that takes place on Tuesday at 11 in the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art.

TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER Introduction

Professor Donna Kurtz (Humanities and e-Research): The Cultural Heritage Programme

Dr Oliver Cox (Humanities and History): University Knowledge-Exchange Programme, The Thames Valley Partnership

Professor Ed Herzig (Oriental Studies): cultural heritage research in Oriental Studies

Dr Paul Wordsworth (Oriental Studies): post-doctoral research opportunities

TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER Archaeological Science

This class will be held in the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and Art

Professor Mark Pollard and post-docs: archaeological science and cultural heritage

TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER Heritage Science

Professor Heather Viles (Geography) and post docs: heritage and the environment

TUESDAY 4 NOVEMBER Conservation of the University’s grounds, buildings and collections

Isobel Hughes (Director of Conservation, University Estates), Mark Norman and Daniel Bone (Ashmoleam Museum Conservation)

TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER Management of heritage resources

Dr Pegram Harrison (Saïd Business School) and MBAs

TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER Technology

Professor Donna Kurtz: Digital Cultural Heritage and Linked Open Data

Jessica Suess: Digital and the Visitor Experience (Oxord University Museums, Partnership Officer)

Aruna Bhaugeerutty: Eastern Art Online (Ashmolean Museum)

TUESDAY 25 November International collaboration

Dr Christopher Young (Formerly Head of International Advice, English Heritage): national and international heritage organizations

Dr Fiona Whitehouse (University Careers Office): Oxford University internship Programme, opportunities for students

Engaging with the Humanities,  lunchtime talks MT2014 in Said Business School

Wednesdays, 1:30 pm

Transcultural Objects: Exchanges of Ideas and Identity, c. 1000-1800

15 October - Professor Partha Mitter (Wolfson College)

An Exotic Encounter: the Gift of the first Hindu Sculpture to the Ashmolean
 
22 October - Dr Stephen Johnston (Museum of the History of Science)
Instruments between England and Morocco: Mathematical Exchange in 1600
 
29 October - Professor Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick)
Cotton Textiles as Luxuries in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Northern Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
 
5 November - Dr Linda Baez (Warburg Institute)
New Hispanic Folding Screens: Image Generating Artifacts as Forgers of Identity
 
12 November - Dr Marta Ajmar (V&A)
Seeing into Things: Understanding Materiality and longue durée cross-cultural Connections in Early Modern Objects
 
19 November - Professor Nigel Llewellyn (Tate)
The ‘Court, Country, City’ Research Project: Britain and the World
 
26 November - Professor Martin Kemp (Trinity College)
The Swastika: Violated Vision
 
3 December - Professor Anna Contadini (SOAS)
Questions of Identity: The Ambo of Henry II and Other Complex Objects
 

Conveners: 

Dr Matthew Landrus (Wolfson College and Faculty of History)

Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus (Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology)

Material Culture of South Asia Hilary Term 2015

Modern Asian Studies

Material and Visual Culture of South Asia

(class leader: Mallica Kumbera Landrus)

Patterns of patronage that developed under Mughal and European rule in South Asia had significant consequences for visual material and culture on the Indian subcontinent.
Aware of the potential of art and architecture as means of self-representation, political powers asserted their status in diverse ways. To express multiple identities, they drew ideas from regional and trans-regional cultures. Objects and architectural sites will be examined in light of their cultural, political and socio-economic context, as well as stylistic developments, and the emergence of new ideas produced under the political authority exercised by the different religious groups. Using the collections in the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, the classes will be held in an Eastern Art study room with opportunities for students to handle and view objects that represent the period and are relevant to the topic discussed each week.

Reading list

List of examination essay questions (to become available at 12.00 noon on Friday of Eighth Week of Hilary Term)

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Cultural Heritage Graduate Class, Hilary Term 2014

During Hilary Term the University Engagement Programme will offer a number of museum sessions for Students of the Cultural Heritage Programme.

In Hilary Term classes will be offered by 

Dr Senta German

Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus

The size of the Study Room in the Ashmolean limits the number of students to ten. Please meet in the Randolph Sculpture Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum (on your left as you enter the museum).