History of Art Research Seminar Series: Professor Sarah E. James

Thu Dec 12 2024 at 05:15 pm to 06:30 pm

Hunter Lecture Theatre O.17 | Edinburgh

Edinburgh College of Art
Publisher/HostEdinburgh College of Art
History of Art Research Seminar Series: Professor  Sarah E. James
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Three Radioactive Fairytales from the Former East Germany: An Ultra-Violet Art History of Afterlives
About this Event

Join History of Art for the next in the Research Seminar Series chaired byDr Tamara Trodd.

This lecture will be hybrid. Please book your ticket for attendance in person or online. Further details on how to access the lecture will be sent to you following booking.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Higgitt Gallery.


During the Cold War, the GDR, influenced by the USSR, became a major uranium producer, supplying 220,000 tons exclusively to the Soviet Union. This talk explores how nuclear themes influenced countercultural art and literature in East Germany.

Dr Sarah Edith James has a BA in Social & Political Sciences and Art History from the University of Cambridge (2001) and an MA (2002) and PhD (2007) from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She is Professor of Visual Culture, Manchester School of Art, MMU.



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Hunter Lecture Theatre O.17, Hunter Building (Edinburgh College of Art), Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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