AIRN Seminar #7
Afro-Portuguese Ivories since Bassani and Fagg 1988

William Hart (University of Ulster)

October 25, 2023 | 6 PM (GMT+1)

Online | Zoom: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/96816750302?pwd=YVlCYW90aTN6UnZmdUltY29OZ1RaUT09

Organisation | African Ivory Research Network & Centre for History of the University of Lisbon

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AIRN Seminar #7

Afro-Portuguese Ivories since Bassani and Fagg 1988

William Hart (University of Ulster)

Abstract: Since the publication of Bassani and Fagg’s 1988 Africa and the Renaissance: Art in Ivory a number of hitherto unrecorded Afro-Portuguese ivories have come to light and new information has amplified, or in some cases corrected, what we can say about those already known. The talk summarises these and other developments in the study of the Afro-Portuguese ivories and possible directions for future research.

William Hart

[b. 5 Jan 1944, Dumbarton, Scotland]

M.A. (Glasgow), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)

Bill taught philosophy in universities for forty years. His first teaching post was as Lecturer in Philosophy at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone 1969-72; then he taught at the University of Glasgow; and from 1977 until his retirement in 2009 at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. It was while at Fourah Bay College that he developed his life’s interest in the traditional art of Sierra Leone. Between 1980 and 1994 he spent a month of each year in research field trips in Sierra Leone, trekking across most parts of the country and documenting traditional arts and masquerades. He has published widely on the arts of Sierra Leone, is the author of Continuity and Discontinuity in the Art History of Sierra Leone (Quaderni Poro, 1995), and is a Consulting Editor of the journal African Arts. Between 1990 and 2018 he collaborated with the late Ezio Bassani on an update, as yet unpublished, of Bassani and Fagg’s 1988 catalogue raisonné of Afro-Portuguese ivories.

Online event  
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/96816750302?pwd=YVlCYW90aTN6UnZmdUltY29OZ1RaUT09

ID: 968 1675 0302

Password: airn2023

About the AIRN Seminar
The African Ivory Research Network (AIRN) runs a seminar at the Centre for History of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. This seminar addresses African ivory from any historical period and from a variety of historical perspectives, including economic history, cultural history, art history, environmental history and archaeology. In addition, it also intends to promote sessions related to heritage preservation, wildlife protection, ecology, law and illegal trade, among other issues relevant to this topic.

Contributors to this seminar include academics from around the world who have researched or are researching any topic related to African ivory and are willing to share their research with a wider community of researchers and experts, including sharing ongoing research. The main goal of this seminar is to promote an open discussion on any issue related with African ivory, profiting from the different theoretical frameworks and research interests followed by each speaker. 
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The seminar consists of monthly conferences to be held from January to May including a 50-60 minutes talk followed by a 20-30 minutes discussion. Sessions take place on Wednesdays starting at 6 PM (GMT) in online format, via Zoom.

AIRN is an offspring of a joint research project developed by the universities of Lisbon and Minas Gerais on the history of African ivories in the Atlantic world, which was carried out between 2016 and 2019 under the supervision of Peter Mark (https://africanivoriesul.wordpress.com/).