Durham University Centre for Visual Arts and Culture, School of Modern Languages & Cultures, Durham University, Elvet Riverside, Durham (2025)

The Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures (CVAC) brings together scholars from across and beyond Durham University in order to provide a vibrant and dynamic setting for wide-ranging interdisciplinary research and debates about visual culture. It provides a focus for cutting-edge research on visual arts and cultures and it aspires to train new generations of scholars through innovative postgraduate programmes, it fosters informed debate both nationally and internationally, and offers an engaging, open environment for researchers at all levels. CVAC takes a generous view of what constitutes visual culture and it is broad in both geographical and chronological scope, encouraging debate about the range of approaches, methods and theories that are most generative for research on visual phenomena. Durham’s current visual culture research includes the study of word and image, art and religion, medicine and visual representation, film, the history of photography, architecture, urban culture, heritage and philosophical aesthetics. Durham’s location itself provides a rich and inspiring environment for this field of research. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site that also includes Durham Cathedral; its acclaimed Oriental Museum is a significant asset which houses three Designated Collections, recognised by the Arts Council as nationally and internationally pre-eminent; alongside an outstanding collection of twentieth-century and contemporary art. CVAC has many established relationships with major national and international cultural organisations, and aims to develop further its links with museums, galleries and heritage sites

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Published 2018, 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗸, 𝗦𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗽𝗮𝘀: 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗸 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱 by Susan Whitfield is a vivid reimagining of the world’s most storied trade routes —told not through kings or conquerors, but through the lives of things.

From the shimmer of Byzantine silk wrapping holy relics in France, to a Hellenistic glass bowl buried in a Chinese tomb, to coins minted by Kushan rulers and hidden in an Ethiopian monastery, Whitfield follows ten extraordinary objects across Afro-Eurasia. Along the way, she reveals the hands that made them, the caravans that carried them, the rituals that enshrined them, and the collectors and curators who later preserved them.

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https://substack.com//note/p-173866310

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About the ResidencyThe Baltic|States Residency Exchange Programme supports emerging artists and curators from the UK, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia and enables artists and curators to research and professionally develop through a series of supported resid

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