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 in Latin America (pt 1)
- The Past, Present and Future of Medieval Art in the British Isles (pt 1)
- Art in the street: public performances across time and place
- Day Jobs, Second Careers, and Side Hustles: Considering Black Artists’ Creative Self-Support
- Energy Consumption in Art History: State of the Interdisciplinary Field
- New Ways of Knowing in Feminist Art Histories
- Subjective Approaches to Sense-Making in Art and Visual Culture
Afternoon
13.30-15.30
Sessions
- Beyond the AAH: Groups, Organisations, and Collectives since the 1970s (pt 2)
- Curating ‘Women Artists’ (pt 2)
- ‘Queer Photography’ Now (pt 2)
- Shifting Grounds: Landscape and Cultural Practice in Latin America (pt 2)
- The Past, Present and Future of Medieval Art in the British Isles (pt 2)
- Anthropocene Mobilities
- Exploring gender-based violence in feminist art
- Poised in performance: the visual culture of dance through time and its connection with early dance practice
- Reproduction! Networks of Distribution in Archives and Collections of Publishing
- Writing Joyishly
16.00-17.30
- Visit to Holburne Museum, Bath
- Walking tour: Decolonising Bristol, back and forth and the routes of racism
- Workshop: Transforming Assessment in Art History
17.45-19.15
Welcome and Keynote speeches:
Re-thinking Black Art: Curatorial Models
– Paul Goodwin, University of the Arts London
19.30-20.30
Drinks Reception: The Orangery, Goldney House, University of Bristol
Thursday 4th April
All Day
09.00-17.30 Registration
09.00-17.30 BookFair
Morning
10.30-12.30
Sessions
- An Era of Walls: Art at the Boundaries of the New Enclosures (pt 1)
- Art, History, Exhibitions: Re-thinking Relationships (pt 1)
- Keeping up with Fast-Changing Times: Creative Approaches to the Art History Classroom (pt 1)
- Uses and Misuses of Premodernity: the afterlives of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Art (pt 1)
- What can feminism do for Digital Humanities, what can Digital Humanities do for feminism? (pt 1)
- ‘A Day With(out) Art History’: AIDS and Art History
- Contemporary Art and Rural Places
- Nature and Gender in Pre-Modern Art
- Radical Imprints: Visual Tactics of Anti-colonial Struggle
- Women’s Work: re-examining the material practice of European women sculptors before 1900
Afternoon
13.30-15.30
Sessions
- An Era of Walls: Art at the Boundaries of the New Enclosures (pt 2)
- Art, History, Exhibitions: Re-thinking Relationships (pt 2)
- Keeping up with Fast-Changing Times: Creative Approaches to the Art History Classroom (pt 2)
- Uses and Misuses of Premodernity: the afterlives of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Art (pt 2)
- What can feminism do for Digital Humanities, what can Digital Humanities do for feminism? (pt 2)
- Art History and Contemporary Technical and Medical Images
- Beyond Hilma af Klint: Rediscovering Swedish Women Modernists
- Healing and the Museum
- Para-zomias: Prefigurative Urban Transformations in Asia
16.00-17.30
- Visit to Spike Island, Bristol
- Walking tour: The Seven Saints of St Paul’s
- Film: Art on the Streets
- Workshop: Threats and Promises: AI and Academic Integrity for (Art) Historians
17.45-19.15
Welcome and Keynote speeches:
History Through Art: The Challenges and Opportunities of an Unreliable Witness
– Ben Highmore, University of Sussex
19.30-20.30
Drinks Reception: Royal West of England Academy (RWA)
Friday 5th April
09.00-17.00 Registration
09.00-14.30 BookFair
Morning
10.30-12.30
Sessions
- AI, Automation, and Abstraction (pt 1)
- Carceral Causes: Representing Political Prisoners (pt 1)
- Ecologies of Visual Culture in the Global Middle Ages (pt 1)
- Others Within and Without: Art, India, and Britain’s ‘Internal Colonies’ (pt 1)
- Selling Out?: The Neoliberalism of the Art World and Academia (pt 1)
- Embodied Experience in the Early Modern World
- Approaches to Public Art History in Museums and Academia
- Tempos of Making in the Pre-Modern World, 1200-1800
- The museum is me!” Early women curators and the making of institutional collections (1880s-1960s)
12.45-13.45
Welcome and Keynote Speech:
The AAH at 50: Art History and the Association
– AAH Chair, Christopher Breward, Director of National Museums Scotland joins former AAH Chairs Christine Riding, The National Gallery, London, Evelyn Welch, University of Bristol and Nigel Llewellyn, Independent, for a conversation with our CEO Gregory Perry
Afternoon
14.30-16.30
Sessions
- AI, Automation, and Abstraction (pt 2)
- Carceral Causes: Representing Political Prisoners (pt 2)
- Ecologies of Visual Culture in the Global Middle Ages (pt 2)
- Others Within and Without: Art, India, and Britain’s ‘Internal Colonies’ (pt 2)
- Selling Out?: The Neoliberalism of the Art World and Academia (pt 2)
- Mechanisms of Art History
- Architecture Theory and History in Contemporary Art
- Interpretations of Longinian Ideas in the Visual Imagery from the Early Modern Period to the Present
- Pedagogy and Practice: The Role and Influence of Immigrant Artist Teachers as Agents and Conduits of Cross-cultural Exchange: 1923-1973-2023