Next week, @CFAAA4 hosts Professor Toby Green (@toby00green) for a talk on 'Crispina Peres: The Life of a 17th Century West African Woman and the Language of the History of Africa.' Join in person or via zoom. Link to register to follow: https://t.co/xsjEzD4uxy... All Welcome!

📢New Resource!📢#Artkhade is now available onsite from the SRU Library! Artkhade provides a comprehensive archive of auction results for the arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. Ask at the Enquiry desk for more details!

Last week the SRU Library hosted students from ETH Zurich as part of a visit to the #SainsburyCentre. Here they are examining archival material relating to Norman Foster's design and vision for the building, comparing our collections with those held @NormanFosterFdn Archives🧐

Here are some fantastic photos from last week's Robert Sainsbury Lecture! Inspirational artist George Nuku's performed lecture was a powerful act of storytelling. George is also shown here greeting @SainsburyRUnit's Professor Steven Hooper at the reception with a hongi👏

SRU Staff, Students and Alumni gathered last week in Berlin at the Humboldt Forum on the occasion of this year’s Pacific Arts Association - Europe conference which focused on “Multiplicity of Voices in Exhibitions and in Collaborations”. Here are some highlights! #paaeurope #sru

The @SainsburyRUnit are thrilled to welcome two new fellows for this autumn term, Nick Brown and Léa Roth! #sru #universityofeastanglia #uea

Thank you to Alba Ferrándiz Gaudens (PhD student from @SainsburyRUnit) and @CreativeUEA_ for helping launch our ‘Research on Display’ area on Floor 0 of the Library. Alba gave a fascinating talk on her research on objects from the Mariana Islands in Spanish museums. @UEA_HUMGrad

Have you seen the new @SainsburyCentre exhibition 'Why do we take drugs?' Professor Steven Hooper and SRU PhDs Anahí Luna and Enzo Hamel all contributed to 'Power Plants: Intoxicants, Stimulants and Narcotics'. The exhibition will run to 2 Feb 2025 - don't miss it! 🌱

Join postgraduate #researcher Alba Ferrándiz Gaudens on 7 October, 4.30pm on floor 0 in the @UEALibrary to learn about her experiences of collaborating with weavers in #Guam RSVP: creative@uea.ac.uk @SainsburyRUnit @CreativeUEA_ #researchondisplay @HUM_ResearchUEA

Yesterday we gathered to welcome and celebrate the new SRU masters student cohort, and our new SRU fellows Dr. Nicholas Brown and Dr. Léa Roth. Welcome everyone, and wishing you a fantastic academic year! ✨📚🤓

We have a new research display in the Library! Take a look at our first exhibit from PhD Student Alba Ferrandiz Gaudens, focusing on research she conducted on weaving in the island of Guam, where she collaborated with local weavers to learn their techniques. @SainsburyRUnit

...cowry shells, beads, smoking pipes including a carved pipe with European figures, shackles, keys as well as exposed buried architectures claimed to have been constructed by Europeans. (3/3)

Eleven trenches have been excavated on the Nigerian coast in the old Apa settlement which was the first slave port in Nigeria and the first established settlement on the Badagry coast. The fieldwork has so far revealed evidence of entanglements through imported wears:... (2/3)

@SainsburyRUnit PhD candidate and @CfAAA4 member Abdulmalik A. Abdulmalik is currently conducting fieldwork in Nigeria exploring the nature of entanglements between the Europeans and West Africans during the Atlantic period... (1/3)

We are delighted to share news of a fantastic opportunity to work as Senior Research Associate on Abubakar Sule’s project on West African Communities and Museum Collections at the Sainsbury Research Unit, UEA. More details on the position here 👇:

Some great photos of current SRU PhD students @DeborahDainese and Benjamina Efua Dadzie @wawaaba_ presenting papers at the recent 19th ACASA Triennial Symposium of African Art (@ACASAonline) in Chicago! #africanarts #phdlife #artinstituteofchicago

The lecture follows the loan of Asante objects from @britishmuseum and the @V_and_A to Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, Ghana. Watch the lecture here: "Asante Culture and Heritage: Past and Present": https://t.co/V8en9NEiXO via @YouTube

A group of SRU students and staff were delighted to attend a lecture given by His Royal Majesty, the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, "Asante Culture and Heritage: Past and Present", @britishmuseum last Friday #sru #sainsburyresearchunit