On Tuesday 15th March Art Historian Dr Janina Ramirez will be hosting a mini-conference for 120 students from schools in the South West of England at Poole Grammar School. Dr Ramirez is course director for the Undergraduate Certificate in History of Art at the University of Oxford and as a presenter, she has filmed a number of documentaries for BBC Television. In 2010 she presented her debut, ‘Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons’ which aired on BBC Four, before going over to BBC Two. In 2011, she presented The Viking Sagas, and Britain’s Most Fragile Treasure.

Dr Ramirez gained her degree in English literature and language (specializing in Old and Middle English) from St Anne’s College, Oxford. She then completed her post-graduate studies at the renowned Centre for Medieval Studies, York, where her love of medieval art flourished.

She will be presenting three 40 minute seminars, in the Cleeve Hall, on:

‘The Bar at the Folies Bergere’

‘Viking Art’

The Elizabethan ‘Faerie Queene’

Starting at 11.00 am