Cambridge History of Art Graduate Seminar Series, Lent term 2022.

Dr Tessa Murdoch, Former Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum, 'A Springboard to the New World, the Huguenot Diaspora and the impact of Huguenot Material Culture in the Americas 1680-1830'

Dr Tessa Murdoch FSA worked at the Museum of London 1981-1990 and at the V&A 1990-2021. Recent and forthcoming publications are Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture (V&A, 2021) and as consultant Great Irish Households: Inventories from the long eighteenth century (John Adamson, Spring 2022). For Bloomsbury, she is co-editing with Dr Heike Zech A Cultural History of Craft in the Age of Enlightenment for publication 2024

Tessa advises the National Trust and the National Heritage Memorial Fund, is a Board Member of the Idlewild Trust, and Chair of Trustees of the Huguenot Museum

'On the Move: Artists, Ideas, Objects' explores the topic of transnationalism and cross-culturalism in the field of History of Art. The seminar series brings together speakers working across a range of different time periods, materials, and geographies, inviting an exploration of themes such as migration, networks of artist exchange, colonialism, trade and indigeneity.

The series will run for seven weeks and will be held in-person in the Department of History of Art, with the exception of two talks (2nd February and 16th February) which will be held on Zoom. The in-person events will be followed by a drinks reception. There is an option for you to attend the in-person events online, please select the 'Online Attendance' ticket and a Zoom link will be sent to you on the day of the event.

The schedule will be as follows:

2nd February: Dr Lianming Wang, Visiting Professor in Global Art History, University of Cambridge, ‘Transoceanic Trade Repictured: Coromandel Lacquer Screen and the Mobile Image in Global Exchange’ (via zoom)

9th February: Dr Susan Foister, The National Gallery, ‘Exhibiting Travel: Dürer and his Journeys of a Lifetime’

16th February: Dr Bart Pushaw, University of Copenhagen, ‘Indulgent Images: Inuit Artists and Colonial Consumption in the Global Arctic’ (via zoom)

23rd February: Professor Bénédicte Savoy, title to be confirmed

2nd March: Dr Scott Nethersole, Courtauld Institute of Art, ‘Fra Angelico’s The Miracle of the Black Leg: Skin Colour and the Perception of Ethiopians in Florence before 1450’

9th March: Artist Talk: Sutapa Biswas ‘The Politics of Aesthetics: Painting with Light’, followed by a Q&A with Elizabeth Brown of Kettle’s Yard.

16th March: Dr Tessa Murdoch, Former Rosalinde and Albert Gilbert Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum, ‘A Springboard to the New World, the Huguenot Diaspora and the impact of Huguenot Material Culture in the Americas 1680-1830’

This series is convened by Aisha Bornø (almb3@cam.ac.uk), Sophie Rhodes (sr872@cam.ac.uk) and Lea Viehweger (liv22@cam.ac.uk)

On the Move - Artists, Ideas, Objects - Dr Tessa Murdoch