Stirling Maxwell Centre Spring 2021 Seminar Series

The Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures fosters an unrivalled tradition of scholarship in the field of text/image interaction, building primarily, but not uniquely, on theStirling Maxwell Collection, which with additions now numbers over 2000 volumes, by far the world’s largest. The Centre’s work draws also upon the University’s outstanding collection of early photography, the riches of the Hunterian collections, both in the Library and the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, that take us from Dürer to Picasso, and the modern emblem, namely the graphic novel, or French bande dessinée, for which our collection, in association with the Alliance Française, is potentially the strongest in a non-French speaking country.We offer postgraduate study on all aspects oftext/imagesandvisual cultures, with particular emphasis on the graphic novel and its historical antecedents, such as the emblem book. The University of Glasgow's collections are second to none and there is a lively environment of postgraduate and general scholarly activity, through seminars, publications and conferences.Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1818-1878), whose passions included Spanish painting and early photography, and upon whose land the Burrell Collection now stands, amassed the world’s most complete gathering of emblem books. Starting with Andrea Alciato’sEmblematum liberof 1531, these works interact text and image so as to make a point or tell a story. Sir William’s collection was bequeathed to the University of Glasgow in 1956.Following on from the Centre for Emblem Studies, founded some fifteen years ago, the Stirling Maxwell Centre fosters an unrivalled tradition of scholarship in the field of text/image interaction, building primarily, but not uniquely, on theStirling Maxwell Collection, which with additions now numbers over 2000 volumes, by far the world’s largest (the second being Princeton with c. 700 volumes).But we do not just do dusty picture books. The Centre’s work draws also upon the University’s outstanding collection of early photography, the riches of the Hunterian collections, both in the Library and the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, that take us from Dürer to Picasso, and the modern emblem, namely the graphic novel, or Frenchbande dessinée, for which our collection, in association with the Alliance Française, is potentially the strongest in a non-French speaking country.We offer postgraduate study on all aspects of text/images cultures, with particular emphasis on the graphic novel and its historical antecedents, such as the emblem book. The university of Glasgow's collections are second to none and there is a lively environment of postgraduate and general scholarly activity, through seminars, publications and conferences.

Stirling Maxwell Centre @ University of Glasgow

Spring 2021 Seminar Series of the Stirling Maxwell Centre, aimed at scholars and general public with an interest in Text/Image studies.

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<h2>Spring 2021 Seminar Series programme</h2>Linschoten and his Itinerario (1595-1597): a revisitation of the illustrations related to the Portuguese empireOnésimo T. Almeida (Brown University)Thursday, 11th February 2021, 5 p.m.Torpedo Boy vs. Guston: reading race in comics/artEmmy Waldman (Harvard University)Thursday, 25th February 2021, 5 p.m.We can remember it for you wholesale: newspaper comics, disposability, and preservation at the bleeding edge of new mediaMariella Villalobos (independent illustrator/designer)Thursday, 11th March 2021, 5 p.m.Emblem Underground – postgraduate editionA roundtable presentation of postgraduate emblem scholars (see separate CfP)Thursday, 25th March 2021, 4 p.m.

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