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Term-time Seminars
The Centre runs a regular seminar series during the Michaelmas (October-November) and Lent (January-March) terms. Seminars take place at 12:00 pm (GMT) on Fridays at The West Lodge (in the Music Room on Staircase E) at Downing College. Please be aware that the West Lodge is a first-floor room without level access.
Online attendees:
For those who are unable to attend in person, all of our seminars will be live-streamed via Zoom. Please use this link to attend virtually:
https://zoom.us/j/97830437943?pwd=aFlyaU1KRjBucWQvT1pIZXpNSTdtUT09
Seminar recordings:
Seminar recordings are left to the discretion of the speaker. Many of our lectures are uploaded to our YouTube channel, which can be accessed here: CSCA YouTube Channel
Series 6
Lent Term 2024
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26 January
‘The Art of Classic Planning: Building Beautiful and Enduring Communities’
Nir Buras, Classic Planning Institute
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2 February
‘Conservation in Practice at Blenheim Palace and Birmingham Cathedral’
Kathryn Harris, Nick Cox Architects
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9 February
‘Drawings of Antiquities and Architectural Practice in Rome at the end of the Cinquecento’
Anna Bortolozzi, Stockholm University
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16 February
‘Ottoman Viewers of Athenian Architecture before Stuart and Revett’
Elizabeth Key Fowden, University of Cambridge
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23 February
‘Copying, Conformity, and Classicism: Architecture after Vignola’
Michael J. Waters, Columbia University
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1 March
‘Architecture and Landscape in a Renaissance Map’
Anthony Gerbino, Manchester University
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8 March
‘”Speaking Emblems of Divinity”: French Architecture and Ancient Greek Literature during the Ancien Régime and Revolution’
Peter Fane-Saunders
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15 March
‘Notes & Queries’: A Symposium in Honour of Richard Hewlings
This seminar will be a full-day, registered event at Downing College. Further details can be found on events.