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Brown Bag Lunch: 'Ethiopia from the West' with Jacopo Gnisci
22 November 2023, 1:00 pm–2:30 pm
Brown Bag Lunch seminars are only open to UCL History of Art staff and are designed to be an opportunity for us to hear about each other’s work, give feedback and engage in discussion. In this seminar, Dr Jacopo Gnisci will be presenting his recent work to colleagues.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Jacopo Gnisci – History of Art
Location
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B0320 Gordon SquareGordon SquareLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
This talk will present some of the results and outputs of the AHRC-DFG project "Demarginalizing Medieval Africa" and a work-in progress chapter from Jacopo Gnisci's book on medieval Ethiopian art. The chapter examines Western representations of Ethiopia ca. 1450-1900.
Please note that this is an internal event that is open to UCL History of Art staff only.
About the Speaker
Jacopo Gnisci
Lecturer in History of Art at UCL History of Art
Jacopo is a Lecturer in the Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South at UCL, and a Visiting Scholar in Department of Africa, Oceania, and the America at the British Museum. He is currently the co-Principal Investigator the projects Demarginalizing medieval Africa: Images, texts, and identity in early Solomonic Ethiopia (1270-1527) (AHRC Grant Ref. no. AH/V002910/1; DFG Projektnummer 448410109). Formerly, he co-dicrected other projects including Material Migrations: Mamluk Metalwork across Afro-Eurasia (Gerda Henkel Stiftung). Jacopo sits on the editorial board of several journals for medieval and African studies including Gesta, Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies, and the Rassegna di Studi Etiopici and currently serves as an Associate of the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA). His research has also featured in the media, in newspapers such as the New York Times and the Evening Standard.
More about Jacopo Gnisci