26th September 2025
Since its invention photography has undergone continual redefinition, reshaping what we understand the medium to be—technologically, materially, and conceptually. As photography evolves, artists and others frequently return to early photographic technologies and image practices. This session explores how 19th-century photography... Read More...26th September 2025
How do creative practices represent and interrogate both immediate and protracted forms of violence in the context of war and ecocide in different time periods, and different regions affected by conflict and environmental changes? What role do artistic interventions play... Read More...26th September 2025
This session invites presentations on contemporary visual art and recent art histories (post-1960) that revise and iterate upon proto-feminism. It asks: how might we extend and revise the term ‘proto-feminism’ beyond its conventional grounding in literary and art historical discourse... Read More...26th September 2025
Ecocriticism—that is, critical approaches to understanding the interconnection of terrestrial beings, elements, forces, and systems—has become a significant dynamic in art history over the past decades. This development has progressed in different ways within various areas of art history, and... Read More...26th September 2025
If the mission of Art History is to make sense of visual and material cultures, then what can be learned from objects that resist art historical study? This panel invites contributors to reflect on pre-modern artworks that they find compelling,... Read More...26th September 2025
Discourses of nature and culture were central to German society and formulations of national identity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This was fueled by the rise of the Lebensreform movement and the popularity of homeopathy, the embrace... Read More...26th September 2025
This panel offers a geographically and chronologically broad, interdisciplinary framework for re-evaluating human and so-called non-human interactions and their environmental implications in the creative process. Informed by recent work by scholars including Giovanni Aloi, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sugata Ray, and... Read More...26th September 2025
Chinatown represents a crucial space in the global circulation of Chinese culture. From Chinese cafés across Europe and the US to barrios chinos in Latin America and the Caribbean, these enclaves have long functioned as sites of both cultural adaptation... Read More...26th September 2025
This session explores how portable things, such as reliquaries, textiles, books, and tools, are objects of translation. A coconut shell from Ceylon, joined to a Fatimid rock-crystal ewer and refashioned as a Christian reliquary in thirteenth-century Münster, invites us to... Read More...26th September 2025
How did Britain visualise its Empire? Perhaps, through its picturesque depictions of landscape. 2025, marks the 250th birth anniversary of J.M.W. Turner, generating a host of exhibitions celebrating Turner’s picturesque navigations of British and Imperial terrain (think India and Wales). But,... Read More...26th September 2025
In recent decades, protests against corporate patronage have erupted in the galleries of Britain’s museums, making international headlines. Interventions by groups such as Art Not Oil, Liberate Tate, and Prescription Addiction Intervention Now have demanded that institutions confront the relationship... Read More...26th September 2025
From early illuminated manuscripts to the tradition of editorial design, words and images have long found in the book a locus for creative encounters. In the 20th century, however, a different kind of phenomenon emerged: the global boom of the... Read More...26th September 2025
In an era of ecological crisis, multispecies entanglements, and heightened awareness of planetary interdependencies, we invite critical inquiries at the intersection of art history, artistic practices, blue humanities and animal studies. We seek to create a forum for reflecting on... Read More...26th September 2025
In the widely declared Year of Pink, thanks to the release of Barbie (2023), Pope.L expanded his iterative performance Eating the Wall Street Journal into Hospital at South London Gallery, an installation of ruined interiors with broken wooden towers, fragments... Read More...26th September 2025
This panel will examine the pivotal role played by an unexpected figure in the lives of artists: the domestic servant. Most artists employed domestic help: they belonged to the higher classes or to the bourgeoisie, for whom having domestic servants... Read More...26th September 2025
This panel explores how transregional cultural exchanges between the Arab world and the former Eastern Bloc shaped artistic and creative practices during the Global Cold War. The transregional encounters of artists, architects, curators, and archaeologists ensured the transfer of ideas... Read More...26th September 2025
This session invites artists, curators, and researchers to reflect on the evolving role of art and activism in the contemporary post-Soviet space. Across much of the region, the legacies of Soviet control intersect with new forms of authoritarianism. Freedom of... Read More...26th September 2025
At a time when the discipline of art history is seeking ever greater diversity in both subject matter and practitioners, this same diversity has not penetrated to the level of art writing. As Brad Haylock and Megan Patty (2021), James... Read More...26th September 2025
For over a century, the “death of art” has been repeatedly anticipated. From the invention of photography in the late 19th century to the rise of mass printing, digital illustration, NFTs, and now artificial intelligence, each wave of technological innovation... Read More...26th September 2025
This panel explores a neglected tradition in art history: the strategic use of fictional elements in scholarly writing. We seek to examine the scope of this underexplored practice and consider the benefits, challenges and legacies of such creative strategies. The... Read More...Copyright 2026. All Rights Reserved