History of Art Dept. Thune Lecture: Alex Bremner

Join our colleagues in the History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania for the Thune Lecture "Of Moths and Men: Architectural Journeys through the Victorian Carbocene" presented by Alex Bremner, Professor of Architectural History; Director of Research, ESALA; Director, PhD Architectural History Programme; University of Edinburgh.

Alex Bremner joined Architecture at the University of Edinburgh in 2005. He read for his PhD at the University of Cambridge (Gonville & Caius College), where, as a Gates Scholar, he specialised in the history and theory of Victorian architecture. Between completing his doctorate and arriving at Edinburgh, Alex was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Yale University, London). He is a recipient of both the Hawksmoor Medal (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain) and the Founders’ Award (Society of Architectural Historians, USA) for outstanding scholarship in the field of architectural history.Learn More

To join us via livestream, please register for the Zoom webinar HERE.

This lecture series is sponsored by Richard M. Thune, C'69 and Lindsey Thune, Parents.

Image of peppered moths superimposed on earth section from William Buckland's, Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1836).