<strong>Antiquaries &amp; Archaists: Explorations of Cultural Memory</strong>

<em>Friday 26 October 2007, doors 10am.
Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, Piccadilly</em>

Tickets (available on the day, cash only) including refreshments:

£10 / £5 concessions

The Society of Antiquaries of London celebrates its tercentenary in the globalised world of 2007. This conference considers the way in which the past is mediated across and between cultures, engaging with the role of cultural memory in constructing and negotiating multiple pasts, through antiquities, art, monuments and architecture. Interdisciplinary in scope, the papers consider a broad range of visual and material culture, from Southern African rock art, the Court art of Benin and Japanese antiquities to British prehistoric monuments, Gothic architecture and Chinese printmaking. The conference will be of particular interest to art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, architectural historians and artists.

<em>Speakers include: Thomas Dowson (Independent scholar), Anne Farrer (Sotheby’s Institute of Art), David Haycock (London School of Economics), Simon Kaner (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures), Sarah Semple (University of Durham), Simon Watney (City &amp; Guilds of London School of Art)</em>

Download a <a href="http://www.sothebysinstitute.com/formsnpdf/antiquaries.doc" target="_blank">full programme</a>

Organisers: Dr Megan Aldrich, Sotheby’s Institute of Art &amp; Dr Robert J. Wallis, Richmond the American International University in London.