Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.

Feb
15
Sat
Conserving Photographs after Japan’s Tsunami
Feb 15 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Assistant curator Philip Grover discusses the background to the Pitt Rivers Museum’s current Long Gallery exhibition ‘Surviving Tsunami: Photographs in the Aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake’. His talk will examine the role of photography after the 2011 disaster, as well as look in detail at the work of the Rikuzentakata Disaster Document Digitalization Project, a volunteer-led initiative to salvage and conserve historic material from three institutions destroyed in the tsunami. A group of volunteers continues to work on the RD3 Project, drying, cleaning, digitising and documenting over 65,000 photographs, many of which record life in the Tohoku region over the last century.

Mar
4
Tue
Photography in and inspired by Guantanamo @ Mansfield College, Seminar Room East
Mar 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

As part of our ESRC funded seminar looking at connections between art and human rights, we will be hosting a talk by award winning photographer Edmund Clark entitled “if the light goes out” which will engage his work done in Guantanamo and inspired by his experiences of his time there, as well as his visits to some of the detainees’ homes and conversations with their families.

Sep
27
Sat
Towards @earth @ JHB Lecture Theatre
Sep 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Towards @earth @ JHB Lecture Theatre | Oxford | England | United Kingdom

Shocking, haunting and unsettling, Peter’s book @earth makes a powerful statement about the current eco-crisis, the arms race and the injustices dominating today’s world. Peter will discuss the content of this, his most recent book, which brings together over 40 years of images, from the Vietnam war in 1968 to the present day. @earth is as revolutionary in form as it is in content, telling a story through the universal language of photomontage – the long-favoured medium of radical artists.

Throughout his career, Peter has consistently challenged power structures and injustices, from his anti-nuclear works of the 1980s to the powerful images he created in response to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This lecture is being hosted at Oxford Brookes as part of Photography Oxford Festival ’14 – the first major new festival of its type in the UK for many years.

For further details, please see: http://www.photographyoxford.co.uk

About the speaker

Peter Kennard PhotoPeter Kennard was born in London in 1949. He is a senior tutor in photography at the Royal College of Art and his work is in many major collections, including Tate, the V&A and the Imperial War Museum.

His work has been published in numerous publications including The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, New Statesman and Time Magazine.

Oct
11
Sat
Egyptomania: The Allure of Ancient Egypt @ Ashmolean Museum
Oct 11 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Egyptomania: The Allure of Ancient Egypt @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom

Egyptomania: The Allure of Ancient Egypt
With Henrietta McCall, Department of the Middle East, British Museum

2pm Saturday, 11 October 2014 at Ashmolean Museum | Venue Information

Henrietta McCall talks about the enduring appeal of ancient Egypt in western culture. She assesses how it began with Napoleon in the early 19th century; how symbols and imagery from antiquity inspired architecture, gardens, furniture and fashion; and how in the 1920s that appeal reached its climax with the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Oct
14
Tue
‘Tutankhamun and Co. Ltd’: Arthur Weigall and the Discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb @ Ashmolean Museum
Oct 14 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
'Tutankhamun and Co. Ltd': Arthur Weigall and the Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom

‘Tutankhamun and Co. Ltd’: Arthur Weigall and the Discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb

With Julie Hankey, author of ‘A Passion for Egypt: Arthur Weigall, Tutankhamun and the Curse of the Pharaohs’

Ashmolean Lecture Theatre

Tue 14 Oct, 2.30‒3.30pm

From 1905 to 1912, Arthur Weigall was Howard Carter’s successor as Chief Inspector of Antiquities for Upper Egypt. He used his position to conduct a campaign against government practice of allowing amateur collectors to excavate for private profit. With Tutankhamun’s discovery, Weigall came into open conflict with Carter’s patron, Lord Carnarvon, over his exclusive contract with The Times, and ‒ at a time of political unrest in Egypt ‒ over his assumption of rights to the contents of the tomb.

Oct
18
Sat
“Everywhere the Glint of Gold”: Colourising Tutankhamun’s Tomb @ Ashmolean Museum
Oct 18 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
"Everywhere the Glint of Gold": Colourising Tutankhamun's Tomb @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom

“Everywhere the Glint of Gold”: Colourising Tutankhamun’s Tomb
With Liam McNamara, Ashmolean Keeper for Ancient Egypt and Sudan and co-curator of ‘Discovering Tutankhamun’ exhibition

Ashmolean Lecture Theatre

Sat 18 Oct, 2‒3pm

Howard Carter’s evocative description of the ‘wonderful things’ he saw upon entering Tutankhamun’s tomb continues to capture the public’s imagination. The excavation of the tomb and its contents were documented in black and white photographs taken by Harry Burton. This talk explores the various methods by which the excavators – and their successors – sought to ‘colourise’ the contents of the king’s tomb, from 20th-century gouache paintings on ivory, to the latest in 21st-century digital imaging techniques.

Oct
28
Tue
Unwrapping Tutankhamun @ Ashmolean Museum
Oct 28 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Unwrapping Tutankhamun @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom

Unwrapping Tutankhamun
With Dr Christina Riggs, Senior Lecturer, School of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia

Ashmolean Lecture Theatre

Tue 28 Oct, 2.30‒3.30pm

After three years of work in the tomb, Howard Carter and his team were ready to reveal the body of Tutankhamun. Using photographs and diaries from the excavation, this illustrated lecture follows Carter’s work in stages as they worked through the layers of wrappings around Tutankhamun’s body, and considers what else we can learn from the unwrapping of other materials in the tomb.

Oct
29
Wed
Fit for a Pharaoh: Special Wine Reception, ‘Factum Arte’ Talk, and Discovering Tutankhamun exhibition tour @ Ashmolean Museum
Oct 29 @ 6:30 pm
Fit for a Pharaoh: Special Wine Reception, 'Factum Arte' Talk, and Discovering Tutankhamun exhibition tour  @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom

Fit for a Pharaoh: The Authorised Facsimile of Tutankhamun’s Tomb
With Adam Lowe, Director and Founder of Factum Arte
Gallery 21, Ashmolean Museum
Wed 29 Oct, from 6.30pm

The ticket price includes: a talk by Adam Lowe of Factum Arte; a tour of the Discovering Tutankhamun exhibition; and a drink at a special wine reception in the Ashmolean’s vaulted café.

Before Egypt’s recent political revolution, the tomb of Tutankhamun was viewed by up to 1,000 visitors per day. This had a dramatic effect on the tomb, which resulted in a deterioration of the structure of the walls. Using digital technology to record the tomb’s interior in unparalleled detail, Factum Arte produced a full-scale facsimile that can be visited at Luxor, thus relieving pressure on the actual tomb. Adam Lowe explains the process behind the production of the facsimile and explores current debates about the creation of replicas to preserve the world’s cultural heritage for future generations.

Oct
31
Fri
Egyptomania – Ashmolean LiveFriday (late night opening) @ Ashmolean Museum
Oct 31 @ 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Egyptomania - Ashmolean LiveFriday (late night opening) @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom

Dress up to party like it’s 1922 and discover the decade’s fascination with Ancient Egypt at an evening of Jazz Age performances, workshops and talks.

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FREE ENTRY
7 – 10.30pm
Halloween night: Friday 31 October 2014

The Rooftop Bar and Vaulted Café will be serving drinks until 10.30pm.

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https://www.facebook.com/events/1445682889032169/
or
http://www.ashmolean.org/livefriday