[can-events] FYI: SLV lecture moved to new venue

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE

Openings
by
Professor Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University, USA

Time: 7-8pm
Date: Thursday 29 May 2008
Venue: Storey Hall, RMIT, 342 Swanston Street, Melbourne (please note new 
venue)

In an age of mechanical (and now virtual) reproduction, we have lost sight 
of the basic visual unit that structures our experience of the medieval 
book - the opening. In contrast to the scrolls used in antiquity, the 
confrontation of the verso and recto provided the visual field within 
which scribes and illuminators had to operate, also making possible the 
visible elaboration of the word with figurated initials, frames and 
full-page miniatures. Professor Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University, 
USA) will explore the complex semantics and literally revelatory 
possibilities of this new medium as it developed over the medieval 
millennium.

Jeffrey Hamburger is Kuno Francke Professor of Art History and Culture at 
the Sackler Museum, Harvard University, USA. His teaching and research 
focus is on the art of the high and later Middle Ages. Among his areas of 
special interest are medieval manuscript illumination; text-image issues; 
the history of attitudes towards imagery and more broadly, visual 
experience; and German vernacular religious writing in the Middle Ages,e 
specially in the context of mysticism. 

This free public lecture is the opening keynote address of the conference 
Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe, at the State Library 
of Victoria (29-31 May 2008) [please note the conference is now fully 
subscribed]. 

The lecture and conference coincide with the spectacular exhibition The 
Medieval Imagination: Illuminated manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia 
and New Zealand appearing exclusively at the State Library of Victoria (28 
March - 15 June 2008). 

For further information about the lecture, conference and exhibition 
please visit the exhibition website at:
http://www,slv.vic.gov.au/goto/medieval

Bookings: 03 8664 7016 or bookings at slv.vic.gov.au 
Admission: Free





Ergo is a new SLV website for secondary students. 
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ergo

Mirror of the World online exhibition
http://www.mirroroftheworld.com.au

The Medieval Imagination
Illuminated manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand
Free exhibition at the State Library of Victoria
28 March - 15 June 2008
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/goto/medieval

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