2025 Programme At A Glance

Wednesday 9th April

All Day

09.00-onwards: Registration

10.00-17.30: Bookfair

Morning Sessions:

10.30-12.30

After Turner (pt 1)
Architecture’s Unsung Institutions (pt 1)
Art Histories of the Urban (pt 1)
Attention in Pre-Modern Art and Visual Culture (pt 1)
Community and Activism in the Global South (pt 1)
Contextual Temporalities: Time and space in museums, galleries and archives (pt 1)
Expressing Divinity, Evoking Devotion: Interweaving Networks surrounding Chinese Buddhist Artifacts (pt 1)
Museum Exhibitions and the Political Economy of Exchange (pt 1)
Poles apart – reclaiming Polish lives and visual arts in British art history (pt 1)
The CAyC network revisited: Archives, methodologies, and critical perspectives on Argentina’s Centre for Art and Communication (pt 1)
The Politics of the Handmade: Textures, Feelings, and the Matter of Trans Art History (pt 1)
Burning Matters: The Limits of the Image in a “World on Fire”
The Infrastructural Turn? Alternative Infrastructural Imaginaries of/through art and curatorial practices

12.30-13.30: Lunch

Afternoon Sessions:

13.30-15.30

After Turner (pt 2)
Architecture’s Unsung Institutions (pt 2)
Art Histories of the Urban (pt 2)
Attention in Pre-Modern Art and Visual Culture (pt 2)
Community and Activism in the Global South (pt 2)
Contextual Temporalities: Time and space in museums, galleries and archives (pt 2)
Expressing Divinity, Evoking Devotion; Interweaving Networks surrounding Chinese Buddhist Artifacts and the Political Economy of Exchange (pt 2)
Museum Exhibitions and the Political Economy of Exchange (pt 2)
Poles apart – reclaiming Polish lives and visual arts in British art history (pt 2)
The CAyC network revisited: Archives, methodologies, and critical perspectives on Argentina’s Centre for Art and Communication (pt 2)
The Politics of the Handmade: Textures, Feelings, and the Matter of Trans Art History (pt 2)
Art, Esotericism and the Ecological Imagination
Being Present: Art, Work & Wellness
Resistance Through Absence: Strategies of deculturalization, separatism, refusal and withdrawal

16.00-17.30: Workshops, Tours and Events

17.45-19.15: Keynote Speeches

19.45-21.00: Drinks Reception

Thursday 10th April

All Day

09.00-onwards: Registration

10.00-17.30: Bookfair

Morning Sessions:

10.30-12.30

Art Histories of Experience (pt 1)
Disruption and Progress: Reflecting on Digital Art Practice (pt 1)
Elemental Thinking: New Approaches to Art and Landscape (pt 1)
How was it made? How interdisciplinary collaborations in Material Culture Studies and Art History can unlock new avenues of knowledge (pt 1)
Illuminating Shadows: The Contributions of Women in Chinese Art History (pt 1)
More Than Words: Text as Visual Form in Artistic Practices (pt 1)
Presencing absence: The media afterlife of lost objects (pt 1)
Social Science Frameworks for Looking at Art since 1960 (pt 1)
The impact of past and present conflict on Middle Eastern art and art history (pt 1)
The Work of Sculpture: Object Encounters within Art History and Everyday Life (pt 1)
Opulent Lives and the Trans Everyday (1880-1930)
Race was Elsewhere: The Politics of Whiteness in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
The Art of a Nation – British Culture on the Continent, 1625-1900
The Visual Display of Art Historical Information
Who makes fashion? Reframing the creative labour of fashion production

12.30-13.30: Lunch

Afternoon Sessions:

13.30-15.30

Art Histories of Experience (pt 2)
Disruption and Progress: Reflecting on Digital Art Practice (pt 2)
Elemental Thinking: New Approaches to Art and Landscape (pt 2)
How was it made? How interdisciplinary collaborations in Material Culture Studies and Art History can unlock new avenues of knowledge (pt 2)
Illuminating Shadows: The Contributions of Women in Chinese Art History (pt 2)
More Than Words: Text as Visual Form in Artistic Practices (pt 2)
Presencing absence: The media afterlife of lost objects (pt 2)
Social Science Frameworks for Looking at Art since 1960 (pt 2)
The impact of past and present conflict on Middle Eastern art and art history (pt 2)
The Work of Sculpture: Object Encounters within Art History and Everyday Life (pt 2)
Art and Rights
From Local to Global: Feminist Activism and Documentary Photography
Places and Spaces: The Architectures of Art and Design Education
Sensing, Perceiving, and Knowing in Modernism
To Show One’s Hand: Effort in Practice and Reception

16.00-17.30: Workshops, Tours and Events

17.45-19.15: Keynote Speeches

19.45-21.00: Drinks Reception

Friday 11th April

09.00-16.30: Registration

10.00-14.30: Bookfair

Morning Sessions:

10.00-12.00

For a history of artists’ models (pt 1)
Reading the work of Griselda Pollock (pt 1)
Pre-Raphaelite Networks (pt 1)
Queer Spaces in Art and Architecture (pt 1)
Reassessing Collage and Photo-collage: from Avant-gardes towards Artificial Intelligence (pt 1)
Regionalist and other decolonising perspectives: Honouring T.K. Sabapathy’s ideas and lifework (pt 1)
The Multimedial Early Modern Workshop (pt 1)
The Artist as Art Historian (pt 1)
Who Owns Antiquities? (pt 1)
Abstraction, Artisanal Knowledge and Craft Epistemologies
Images of Disability
Modernism’s Future Pasts: Abstraction and Identity in ‘East-Central Europe’, 1910–1930s
More-than-human worlds on the move: reframing and exploring migration from a multispecies perspective in art
Reading Letters in Paintings
What is Architectural Scenography?

12.00-13.30: Keynote Speeches

13.30-14.30: Lunch

Afternoon Sessions:

14.30-16.30

For a history of artists’ models (pt 2)
Reading the work of Griselda Pollock (pt 2)
Pre-Raphaelite Networks (pt 2)
Queer Spaces in Art and Architecture (pt 2)
Reassessing Collage and Photo-collage: from Avant-gardes towards Artificial Intelligence (pt 2)
Regionalist and other decolonising perspectives: Honouring T.K. Sabapathy’s ideas and lifework (pt 2)
The Multimedial Early Modern Workshop (pt 2)
The Artist as Art Historian (pt 2)
Who Owns Antiquities? (pt 2)
Accessible Buildings, Inaccessible Artworks: Reconsidering Disability in the Museum
Art and Politics in the Early Cold War: The Americas and Beyond
Images through words: the ethics of “reading”
The “Misunderstood Artist”: Artistic Explorations of a not yet Obsolete Trope
Visualising Human-Animal Relations: Animals in Visual and Material Culture 1750-1900

16.30: Conference ends