Early Applied Arts: Mosaics
Part of the workshop series: The State of the Arts
Saturday 31st March 2012
Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King’s College London
Convenors: King’s College London, ASPRoM and the British Museum
Programme
09.30 - 10.00 Registration with Tea & coffee
Morning: ‘The state of the art: the study of mosaics in Britain’
10.00 - 10.30 Writing the history of mosaic in Britain: the 17th and 18th centuries (P. Witts)
10.30 - 11.00 Writing the history of mosaic in Britain: the 19th and 20th centuries (S. Cosh)
11.00 - 11.30 Studying mosaics in Britain: some futures (W. Wootton)
11.30 - 11.40 Short break
11.40 - 12.10 New directions: science and the study of mosaics in Britain (P. White)
12.10 - 12.40 New directions: social and cultural approaches to mosaics in Britain (S. Scott)
12.40 - 13.00 Discussion
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
Afternoon 1: ‘The state of the art: conservation in Britain’
14.00 - 14.30 Safeguarding mosaics in Britain: conservation and the conservator (J. Stewart)
Afternoon 2: ‘Hinton St. Mary, Dorset: the past, present and future’
14.30 - 15.00 Hinton in context: villas, churches and temples in Late Roman Britain (K. Dark)
15.00 - 15.30 Hinton’s conservation and display (K. Birkhoelzer)
15.30 - 16.00 Tea & Coffee break
16. 00 - 16.30 Mosaics and ‘provincial art’ in 4th-c. Britain (M. Squire)
16.30 - 17.00 Icons and iconography on the Hinton mosaic (R. Ling)
17.00 - 17.30 The mosaic and the British Museum (J. Williams)
17.30 - 18.00 Discussion (chaired by Katherine Dunbabin)
Tickets £15 including lunch. Booking is available via the
King's e-shop.