28th September 2025
In 2008, the Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski published “On the Spatial Turn, or Horizontal Art History,” critiquing the marginalization of modern east-central Europe in art history. Since then, international scholarship on the art of, for example, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland... Read More...28th September 2025
The interrelationship between artistic production and the natural environment has been a subject of scholarly interest since the 18th century, with growing relevance as global challenges like climate change and pollution become increasingly urgent. Initially dominated by a Eurocentric lens,... Read More...28th September 2025
This panel aims to explore the relationships between women and visual culture in twentieth century South Asia, challenging the oppressive structures that inform postcolonial subjectivities and engaging with practices that inaugurate new visual grammars. Scholarship on visual cultures of South... Read More...28th September 2025
This panel invites contributions that seek to evaluate, critique and imagine feminist art history in the present moment, when noticeable gains in the representation of women artists – as well as other underrepresented constituencies – coincide with a growing tide... Read More...28th September 2025
This panel invites proposals that critically examine the radical interventions of Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, which was published in New York by the Heresies Collective between 1977 and 1993. This pioneering art magazine fundamentally challenged the... Read More...28th September 2025
Katy Deepwell (2006) argued that ‘who controls our institutions has feminist implications’. This panel will explore the impact of feminism on art institutions, including how work by women artists has been acquired and curated. While feminist politics have often been... Read More...26th September 2025
‘Spain’s modern painters are but mediocrities’ declared Richard Ford, the influential British Hispanist, in 1845. At the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris, critics proclaimed the death of Spanish art in similar terms: it lacked the ‘soul of Zurbarán and Velázquez’.... Read More...26th September 2025
This session will investigate the representation of pleasure in Early Modern art from the 15th to the 18th centuries. From the pleasure garden to the pronk still life, pleasures and indulgences were a central theme in Early Modern history of... Read More...26th September 2025
Original artworks may technically be commodities, but they are fundamentally distinct from the vast world of consumer goods that surround them—this, at least, is the widely shared sentiment of artists, critics, curators, and historians alike. And yet the art system... Read More...26th September 2025
A deep connection to specific localities continues to be a powerful source of identification and situated knowledge in our field. At the same time, the planetary scale of a globally interconnected ecosystem transcends the limit of the local and the... Read More...26th September 2025
2026 marks the seventieth anniversary of This is Tomorrow, the seminal exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery in August 1956, and widely cited by scholarship as a definitive moment in the development of Pop Art. The ‘Pop’ on show in... Read More...26th September 2025
Analyses of modern and contemporary art that foreground trans approaches have burgeoned in recent years, but to date scholars working on earlier periods have been much less visible in the discussion. As such, this session invites proposals on pre-modern visual... Read More...26th September 2025
Charting the role of women in early modern printmaking is made difficult by the widespread erasure of women’s voices within the records of this time. In Europe, the contribution of women to visual culture was generally hidden behind a male... Read More...26th September 2025
This panel seeks to survey artistic responses in contemporary art to the increasing emergence of wildfires. While a range of visual motifs can signify climate change and environmental upheaval, wildfires are ‘burning bigger, hotter, faster and more often’ writes the... Read More...26th September 2025
This session seeks to provoke new questions about postwar photographic history by foregrounding the overlooked and decentralised spaces where photography was taught, made, theorised, and exhibited globally. What happens when we shift our gaze away from familiar narratives centred on... Read More...26th September 2025
Famed for the technique, material, process of making and the symbolism they evoke, textiles from South Asia have amassed a significant connoisseurship owing to their value, collectability, and desirability. Textiles from the region are often couched within circuits of trade... Read More...26th September 2025
The nineteenth century saw profound transformations in how being and embodiment were figured across British culture. Art and science were at the forefront of these changes. As new forms of subjectivity were being formulated, the relationship between the self and... Read More...26th September 2025
Between 1811 and 1947, two opposing yet simultaneous forces reshaped the global political landscape. On the one hand, centrifugal movements of imperial fragmentation unfolded in Latin America and Asia; on the other, centripetal movements of national unification emerged in Belgium,... Read More...26th September 2025
Session in the morning followed by visit to David Parr house in the afternoon. A neglected figure, the Victorian ‘art-workman’ worked largely in a trade context, often as part of a firm supplying skills to leading designers. Hidden within the... Read More...26th September 2025
This session investigates how contemporary art engages with the visual regimes of medical imaging to question dominant narratives of bodily transparency, objectivity, and control. From X-rays and MRIs to 3D scans and AI-generated diagnostics, the medical image has come to... Read More...Copyright 2026. All Rights Reserved