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 research, hear leading keynotes, broaden networks and exchange ideas. Foregrounding critical debate about art, art history and visual cultures in a supportive and inclusive environment is a key remit of the event ensuring that panels and contributing papers represent diverse approaches to the discipline.
Our Annual Conference is open to all and will appeal to academics, curators, practitioners, PhD students, early career researchers and non-art historians engaged with art history research. Members of the Association get reduced conference rates, and concessionary tickets are also available.
Details on each session can be found below.
Conference tickets are now available and include access to all sessions, keynotes, exhibitors, visits, professional programme events and networking opportunities.
Further information about tickets can be found on the booking page. For other queries, please email: conference2023@forarthistory.org.uk
view our annual conference brochure
Keynotes
We are thrilled to announce our 2023 keynotes:
- susan pui san lok, artist, Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of the University of the Arts London Decolonising Arts Institute
- Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art, Yale University
- Debra Higgs Strickland, Professor of Medieval Art History, School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow
Speaker bios and keynote abstracts are available here.
view our programme at a glance
SESSIONS
Wednesday 12 April
- Against the Nation: Rethinking Canadian Art History in the World
- Art, Empire and Nation
- Matter Matters: The Aesthetics and Politics of Soil
- Mongol Bling: From Xanadu to Tabriz to Venice
- Photography and 21st Century Migration
- Picturing Infrastructure: or the infrastructure of Picturing
- Queer Medievalisms in British Art
- Rethinking Global Conceptualism
- Remaking Femininity: Women’s Portraiture in Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture
- Transcultural Asia: Movement of Art & Ideas across Borders
- Victorian Colour Revolution: the Nineteenth Century Chromatic Turn
- Visceral Journeys: Art and Anatomy in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture
Thursday 13 April
- A Common Ground? Exploring Class, Culture and Collections
- Art and Abortion
- Chance and Control Today
- Critical Histories of the Arts and Crafts Movement
- Design Pedagogy Beyond Utopia: Modernism, Social Change and Everyday Life
- Documenting and Preserving the Undescribed
- Heading Uptown: Art and Activism in the Bronx
- Intersections: Gender and Art in the Global South
- New Art and New Arts of Government: Artistic Form and Authoritarian Liberalisms in the 1970s
- Participatory Needlework as Tangible and Intangible Heritage
- Scales of Landscape, 1750-1900
- Toward a Media History of Art and Design Education
- Vizazi vingi: Tanzanian Modern & Contemporary Art in Regional & Globalising Art Worlds
- Watery Circulations in the Early Modern World
Friday 14 April
- Animal Drag
- Art and Populism
- Conflicts, Disputes and Protest in Pre-Modern Print and Visual Culture
- Deconstructing Russian Imperialist Aesthetics: Repression, Resistance, and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Digital Medievalism
- Feral Objects: A Proposition for a Speculative Animism
- Media and Militarism
- Last Works 1500 – 2000
- Picturing Wartime Sexual Violence Before Modernism
- Romantic Legacies in the Twentieth Century
- Uttering: Magical and Alternative Spiritual Practices in Art
- Visualising Addiction
- Written in the Margins: Interpreting Early Modern Artistic Literature
Image: IOE, Faculty of Education and Society, University College London.