What is a portrait? The English word comes from the Latin word protrahere, "to draw forth," "to drag forward," "to bring to light," "to produce for inspection," while the main component trahere comes from an Indo-European root -tragh- that is cognate with our words tract, traction, trawl, drag, track, trace. What does a portrait draw or drag forth? -- a human being, a self? -- and what are those? In books we can see how writers like Chaucer or Montaigne "portray" individual people with words that can capture a distinctive interiority -- but how can paint or a photographic image do that? Does a portrait have to have eyes, or even a face? -- indeed, are there any portraits without human figures? In this panel discussion, three tutors (Alison Chapman, David Carl, and Krishnan Venkatesh) will attempt to approach these questions by talking us through a small selection of pictures.