Cracking the Egyptian code: the revolutionary life of Jean-Francois Champollion |
27 Apr 12 |
The Art of Memory Day |
21 Apr 12 |
Anglo-Saxon art: tradition and transformation |
20 Apr 12 |
The Temple, the Holy Sepulchre, and the Noble Sanctuary: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Jerusalem |
20 Apr 12 |
Hajj curator's introduction |
14 Apr 12 |
Open University study day: From Enlightenment to Romanticism |
14 Apr 12 |
Open University study day: introducing religions |
31 Mar 12 |
Marilyn Monroe |
30 Mar 12 |
Pedro Paez and the first history of Ethiopia, 1620 |
29 Mar 12 |
One Thousand Roads to Mecca |
26 Mar 12 |
Hajj among pilgrimages |
23 Mar 12 |
The magnetism of Mecca: Hajj as artistic inspiration |
16 Mar 12 |
The archaeology and material culture of Hajj in sub-Saharan Africa |
2 Mar 12 |
Hajj and the future of Islam |
24 Feb 12 |
Pilgrim Pioneers: Britons on Hajj before 1940 |
10 Feb 12 |
Can we put back what we destroy? Restoring the South African Landscape |
16 Sep 10 |
Migration and the clinic |
25 Feb 10 |
Mexican traditions and popular culture in Posada’s time |
25 Feb 10 |
Introduction to the Statue of Ramses II |
25 Feb 10 |
Scalps, headhunting and sacrifice: war and warfare in |
21 Feb 10 |
Open University study day: Exploring the Classical World |
20 Feb 10 |
Museum Studies: Student Day |
18 Feb 10 |
The first gay kiss? Same-sex desire in Ancient Egypt |
18 Feb 10 |
Migration and Democracy |
11 Feb 10 |
The iconographies of identity:contemporary art and the mythologies of ‘Mexicanness’ |
11 Feb 10 |
Shakespeare and the Shudder |
8 Feb 10 |
Songs of life and hope: |
5 Feb 10 |
Art and Revolution in Mexico: 1910 - 1950 |
4 Feb 10 |
The Iraq National Library |
4 Feb 10 |
Objects of History:the purpose and politics of the British Museum |
1 Feb 10 |
The corpse of Emiliano Zapata: the story of a photograph |
28 Jan 10 |
Migration and Human Trafficking |
28 Jan 10 |
Introduction to the Olduvai handaxe |
22 Jan 10 |
The Spanish Conquest and its Aftermath |
21 Jan 10 |
The future of cities:hazards and environmental change |
14 Jan 10 |
Migration and Social Suffering |
14 Jan 10 |
The David Vases Revisited |
17 Dec 09 |
The Rhetoric of War and Intervention |
11 Dec 09 |
Curators’ introduction to Moctezuma |
4 Dec 09 |
The Annual Eva Lorant Memorial Lecture |
3 Dec 09 |
Curators’ introduction to Moctezuma |
27 Nov 09 |
In the Pit |
27 Nov 09 |
LUNCHTIME DOCUMENTARY, Double Bill: Indigenous Democracy and Tiempo de Vals |
26 Nov 09 |
LUNCHTIME DOCUMENTARY: Unknown tribes of Mexico |
26 Nov 09 |
Lunchtime Lecture: Soldaderas, modern girls and Catholic ladies: Mexican women from 1900-1950 |
20 Nov 09 |
The Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art |
16 Nov 09 |
The Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art |
13 Nov 09 |
Curators’ introduction to Moctezuma |
13 Nov 09 |
Y Tu Mama Tambien |
13 Nov 09 |
Travelling Heroes in the Epic Age of Homer |
12 Nov 09 |
Darwin and the Greeks |
6 Nov 09 |
Mexican Food Evening |
5 Nov 09 |
The Plot: : A biography of an English Acre |
5 Nov 09 |
Human - Thing Entanglement: Towards an Integrated Archaeological Perspective |
2 Nov 09 |
Cortés and Moctezuma: a continuing enigma |
31 Oct 09 |
Museums and Empire |
29 Oct 09 |
Fagg lecture -Moctezuma’s predecessors – in search of Mexica kings |
29 Oct 09 |
Curators’ introduction to Moctezuma |
24 Oct 09 |
The Body Beautiful: the human body in Greek art and society |
22 Oct 09 |
The conquest seen from different eyes |
16 Oct 09 |
The unexpected Orientalists: or how two Victorian ladies, rich and eccentric, made a priceless find |
15 Oct 09 |
Rembrandt in the British Museum |
15 Oct 09 |
Moctezuma and the rites of world renewal |
8 Oct 09 |
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India |
5 Oct 09 |
Safavids Revisted |
3 Oct 09 |
Curators’ introduction to Moctezuma |
3 Oct 09 |
Aztec imperial art before the Spanish invasion |
1 Oct 09 |
Moctezuma II – Mexica ruler |
25 Sep 09 |
Talk and draw |
24 Sep 09 |
The forest and its meaning in Indian culture |
24 Sep 09 |
Medals of Dishonour gallery talk |
22 Sep 09 |
Marianne North in India |
18 Sep 09 |
Discussion: contemporary art and social critique |
17 Sep 09 |
Steve Bell: the cartoon as political satire |
11 Sep 09 |
Cornelia Parker in conversation with Sadie Plant: bringing politicians to account |
10 Sep 09 |
The roots of Indian democracy |
10 Sep 09 |
Introduction to the India Landscape in Hindi and Urdu |
9 Sep 09 |
Elsa Peretti : The Open Heart and her Revolutionary Jewels for Tiffany & Co |
7 Sep 09 |
Grayson Perry in conversation with Richard Wentworth |
4 Sep 09 |
Medals of Dishonour gallery talk |
4 Sep 09 |
Indian plants and their meaning |
26 Aug 09 |
The secret life of trees |
19 Aug 09 |
Curator's Introduction |
13 Aug 09 |
Shiism: traditions, myths and rituals |
11 Jun 09 |
London Review of Books discussion |
4 Jun 09 |
The Persian garden: an image of Paradise |
21 May 09 |
British Museum/Guardian Public Forum |
19 May 09 |
Shah 'Abbas the Great: the 1000km walk to Mashhad |
7 May 09 |
The art of Isfahan through the ages |
25 Apr 09 |
The Sophy's Englishman: Robert Sherley and his Persian Odyssey |
23 Apr 09 |
Redisplaying the Tomb-chapel of Nebamun |
16 Apr 09 |
Fact versus fantasy in Safavid palaces |
2 Apr 09 |
Encounters with the Divine: Shi'i mysticism in contemporary Iran |
19 Mar 09 |
What you see is not what you got: changes to the appearance of objects |
6 Mar 09 |
Aphrodisias |
5 Mar 09 |
Takhti and the Zurkhaneh |
28 Feb 09 |
Writing Revolutionary Art |
29 Jan 09 |
From Antiquity to the Enlightenment: the origins of the British Museum |
28 Jan 09 |
BBC World Service: The Forum |
19 Jan 09 |
The Search for Quetzalcoatl: Aztec feathered serpent deity |
7 Jan 09 |
