Professor Lau specialises in the archaeology of the Central Andes; ancient peoples and arts of northern Peru; Recuay culture (AD100-800); Andean religions and material culture; World Art.
Ancient Greek and Roman art and archaeology; classical literature, culture and thought; visual-verbal relations; classical traditions and reception; theologies of art; cultural history of ornament; history of aesthetics
Music – Beethoven, the history of absolute music, music theory and analysis, exo-musicology, global musicology, and the intersection between music, philosophy and theology
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