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2024 Annual Conference programme

This programme is your digital, interactive and downloadable guide to our 50th Annual Conference, which will take place in-person at the University of Bristol on 3-5 April. #ForArtHistory2024 is a wonderful opportunity to keep up to date with the latest... Read More...

2024 Programme At A Glance

Wednesday 3rd April All Day 09.00-17.30         Registration 09.00-17.30         BookFair Morning 10.30-12.30 Sessions Beyond the AAH: Groups, Organisations, and Collectives since the 1970s (pt 1) Curating 'Women Artists' (pt 1) 'Queer Photography' Now (pt 1) Shifting Grounds:  Landscape and Cultural Practice... Read More...

2024 Annual Conference

3-5 April 2024 University of Bristol Booking now open!   2024 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Association for Art History. We are delighted to announce that our 50th annual conference will be held in collaboration with the History of... Read More...

2023 Annual Conference brochure

This brochure is your digital, interactive and downloadable guide to our 49th Annual Conference, which will take place in-person at University College London on 12-14 April. #ForArtHistory2023 is a wonderful opportunity to keep up to date with the latest research,... Read More...

2023 Programme At A Glance

Wednesday 12th April All Day 09.00-17.00         Registration 09.00-17.30         BookFair Morning 10.30-12.30 Sessions Art, Empire & Nation (pt 1) Queer Medievalisms in British Art (pt 1) Matter Matters:  The Aesthetics and Politics of Soil (pt 1) Mongol Bling: From Xanadu to... Read More...

2023 Annual Conference

12-14 APRIL 2023 University College London Welcome! We are delighted to welcome you to our 49th Annual Conference taking place in-person over three engaging days at University College London. #ForArtHistory2023 is an opportunity to keep up to date with new... Read More...

2022 Annual Conference

6 – 8 April 2022 Digital The Association for Art History’s 48th Annual Conference brings together international research and critical debate about art, art history and visual cultures. This key annual event for art history is an opportunity to keep... Read More...

2021 Annual Conference

Online Event 14 - 17 April 2021 Thanks to everyone who participated in and attended #forarthistory2021 our first online Annual Conference. You will find recordings of 2021 keynotes and Fringe over in Latest News. The 2021 Annual Conference will take... Read More...

2020 Annual Conference

1 - 3 April 2020 Newcastle University & Northumbria University Keynote Speakers: Lynda Nead, Pevsner Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London Read and watch online Bert Hardy: Exercises with Photography and Film. A recent project by Lynda Nead... Read More...

Vitalist Modernism

Session Convenors Fae Brauer, University of East London Centre for Cultural Studies Research Serena Keshavjee, University of Winnipeg Cultural Studies Program Session Abstract Faced with ‘a queasy sickening feeling that all was not right’, by the fin-de-siècle many Modernists in... Read More...

Visual Solidarities: Crossing borders in aesthetic practices

Session Convenors Mary Ikoniadou, Manchester Metropolitan University Zeina Maasri, University of Brighton Session Abstract This session examines the often side-lined, post-1945 histories, trajectories and methodologies of visual production and circulation that express and constitute relations of solidarity. It builds on... Read More...

Urban Dislocations and the Architecture of Diasporas (1900 – present)

Session Convenors Ralph Ghoche, Barnard College, Columbia University Ignacio G. Galán, Barnard College, Columbia University Session Abstract Cities tend to be chronicled by the achievements of the dominant cultures that were responsible for their rise. Often lost in these narratives,... Read More...

Uneasy Queer Art Histories

Session Convenor Greg Salter, University of Birmingham Session Abstract In the UK in 2017, the fiftieth anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales was marked with celebratory media coverage, academic publications, and high-profile exhibitions (including Tate’s... Read More...

The Non-Medium Specificity of ‘Graphicality’

Session Convenor Nathan J Timpano, University of Miami Session Abstract Writing in the 1840s, the celebrated American Gothic author Edgar Allan Poe coined the term ‘graphicality’ to describe the manner in which his short stories could ‘paint’ striking, or even... Read More...

The Artist Interview: An interdisciplinary approach to its history, process and dissemination

Session Convenors Lucia Farinati, Kingston University, London Jennifer Thatcher, University of Edinburgh Session Abstract There is no history of the artist interview as a critical genre in its own right. Rather, it has been underplayed as a journalistic tool, or... Read More...

Survey Style: Landscape photography across the globe

Session Convenors Erin Hyde Nolan, Maine College of Art Sophie Junge, University of Zurich Session Abstract In the second half of the 19th century, photographic processes and the popularity of landscape representations evolved simultaneously. It is, therefore, not surprising that... Read More...

Stranger Things: Locating design in science fiction and fantasy films

Session Convenors Sally-Anne Huxtable National Museums Scotland Robyne Calvert The Glasgow School of Art Session Abstract Inspired by the repeated deployment of designers and architects such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Carlo Bugatti in in science fiction... Read More...

Slowness and Suffering: Critical approaches to temporalities of violence

Session Convenors Suzannah Victoria  Beatrice Henty, University of Melbourne Maria Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences, Paris Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani, University of York Session Abstract The accelerated pace of life, along with rapid technological transformations, are often experienced as... Read More...

Sexuality in the Field of Encounter: The aesthetic topographies of eros

Session Convenor Edward Bacal, University of Toronto Session Abstract The experience of sexuality – including erotic sensation, desire, fantasy, and companionship – is traditionally understood as something interior. Conventional knowledge locates sexuality inside the subject’s phenomenological horizon, the body’s physical... Read More...

Rereading Photography Theory of the Eighties

Session Convenors Jean Baird Nottingham Trent School of Art & Design Jonathan P Watts Independent Scholar Session Abstract Three years ago, in an article titled ‘The World’s Most Amazing 100% Awesome Photography Theory’, published in the journal Photographies, the academic... Read More...
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