Stirling Maxwell Centre Autumn 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

Stirling Maxwell Centre
Autumn 2021 Seminar Series

<h2>Seeing Amazonia in times of environmental change</h2><h3>Marcos Colón (Florida State University and Winthrop-King Institute)</h3><p>Thursday, 11th November 2021, 5 p.m., online and Humanities Lecture Theatre.</p>

<h2>An illustrated anthology of Camões: a global poet for today</h2><h3>André Carrilho (independent artist), Hélder Macedo (King’s College, London), Thomas Earle (University of Oxford). Respondent: Filipa Medeiros Araújo (University of Coimbra)</h3><p>Thursday, 18th November 2021, 5 p.m., online roundtable.</p>

<h2>Graphic novels to engage international publics: the <em>Nyiragitwa </em>and <em>House without Windows</em> projects</h2><h3>Erin Jessee (University of Glasgow) and Marc Ellison (photojournalist)</h3><p>Thursday, 25th November 2021, 5 p.m., online and Humanities Lecture Theatre.</p>

<h2>Celebrating diversity: a St Andrew’s Day re-look at the Stirling Maxwell Collection</h2><h3>Peggy Brunache, Laurence Grove and Moira Rankin (University of Glasgow)</h3><p>Tuesday, 30th November 2021, 5 p.m., online but live from GUL Special Collections.</p>

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