Q&A with Evelyn Welch MBE
Wed, 02 Oct
|Seat Unique Stadium
Join us for this insightful session with Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Bristol, Evelyn Welch MBE.
Time & Location
02 Oct 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Seat Unique Stadium, Nevil Rd, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 9EJ, UK
About the event
Evelyn graduated from Harvard University, receiving her PhD from the Warburg Institute, University of London. She was previously Senior Vice-President for Service, People & Planning at King’s College London, and had been Vice-President (Arts and Sciences) and Provost (Arts and Sciences). She has taught at University of Essex, the Warburg Institute, and held leadership roles at University of Sussex (PVC Teaching and Learning) and Queen Mary, University of London (Dean, Arts and PVC Research and International). As Professor of Renaissance Studies, she has led major research programmes including ‘The Material Renaissance,’ and ‘Beyond Text: Performances, Sounds, Images’. She recently completed a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award for a project on ‘Renaissance Skin’ and has authored numerous books, including Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800 (OUP 2017), and Shopping in the Renaissance (Yale 2005), winning the Wolfson Prize for History.
Join us at 11am for our Q&A…