Week 5 Seminar: Seal clinic

Matching seal impressions against a dated reference set, then a last check on the attribution note before it's due.

22 March 2027

Before the seminar#

Bring your attribution-note draft, even unfinished. This is the last seminar before it’s due.

In the seminar#

Idris runs the seal-matching exercise from lecture against a reference set of dated impressions, including at least one known forged or recut seal students have to catch without being told which one it is. The last half hour is a swap: exchange drafts with a partner and mark, on paper, the one claim in their note you’d push hardest on.

Afterwards#

The attribution note is due Friday, midday. It should already reflect whatever your partner pushed on — a note that ignores a specific, named objection raised in seminar reads as unfinished, not as confident.