Prof. Timon ScreechTimon Screech has been at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) since graduation from Harvard (1991). He has published widely on many aspects of Edo period art and culture, and has written more than a dozen books in Japanese and English. He has also been visiting professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, and guest researcher at Gakushuin and Waseda Universities in Tokyo. Current Research: Timon Screech's is completing two major projects, one a history of the English East India Company and its first voyages to Japan, and secondly writing the Oxford History of Japanese Art. His new project is a history of the city planning of Edo (modern Tokyo). His major study of the arts of the early-modern period, Obtaining Images, Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan, was published in 2012 and paperbacked in 2017. |
Dr. Bernadette LynchDr Bernadette Lynch is an academic and museum professional with twenty-five years’ experience in senior management in the UK and Canadian museums. Formerly Deputy Director at the Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester, she developed an international reputation for leading ethical, innovative participatory practice.
She is Honorary Research Associate at University College London (UCL) where her ongoing research relates to power, decolonisation, democracy, dialogue, debate, engaging with conflict, contested collections and difficult subject matter and organisational change in the museum. |
Dr. Nicola StylianouNicola Stylianou was awarded a PhD in 2013 for her thesis ‘Producing and Collecting for Empire: African textiles at the V&A 1852-2002.’. An AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award between TrAIN at the University of the Arts London (UAL) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). She has worked at the University of Sussex as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate exploring African artefacts in the museums of Kent and Sussex. She is a member and consultant at the Fashioning Africa Collection Panel, Brighton Museum. |