Distinguished Lecture Series: Professor Craig Clunas
Key information
- Date
- Time
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6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
- Venue
- Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), SOAS, Russell Square
- Event type
- Lecture & Alumni reception
About this event
We are pleased to welcome you to the second Distinguished Lecture Series event for the SOAS-Alphawood Asian Art Programme's Global Alumni Network.
Speaker Professor Craig Clunas, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Trinity College, Oxford, will present: ‘Cold War Connections: Chinese Art/Art in China in the 1950s’, exploring how the knowledge of Chinese art, and art in China, crossed and recrossed seemingly impermeable barriers at the height of the Cold War.
The evening will conclude with a reception, offering the chance to connect with fellow alumni and staff from the SOAS-Alphawood Asian Art Programme.
Registration
Fee: £30 (incl. lecture and reception)
Meet the speaker
Craig Clunas is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford. A Fellow of the British Academy, he is the author of a number of books on the art and culture of China, most recently Sons of Heaven: Family and Dynasty in Ming China (2026)
