Michaelmas 2011 Termcard

Michaelmas 2011

• 18th October 2011

Anna Ferrari (History of Art, University of Cambridge)

Guillaume Apollinaire’s and André Salmon’s art criticism: the idea of architectural sculpture in the 1910s.

Dan Zamani (History of Art, University of Cambridge)

Le triomphe du magicien: occultism and political resistance in Victor Brauner’s Le Surréaliste (1947).

• 1st November 2011

Victoria Richardson (University of Cambridge)

Cixous and the Visual

Daniel Thevenon (University of Oxford)

Declamation and deception in Rousseau’s Discourse on the Sciences and Arts.

• 15th November 2011

Jennifer Oliver  (University of Oxford)

Ships, statecraft and authorship in Ronsard and Montaigne.

Jonathan Patterson (University of Cambridge)

An ever-present trouble? The continuing yet changing presence of avarice in early modern France (c. 1550-1615)

• 29th November 2011

Alex Stuart (University of Cambridge)

‘No future for you’: astrology and sacrifice in twelfth-century science fiction.

Huw Grange (University of Cambridge)

From the sublime to the ridiculous: medieval martyrs and the ‘Tom and Jerry’ plot.