22nd December 2017
Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Olga Nikolaeva (University of Gothenburg) Christine Sjöberg (University of Gothenburg) Johnny Wingstedt (Dalarna University) Session Abstract When the body ‘looks out’ it does not only see, but it also perceives the visual by means of... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Mey-Yen Moriuchi (La Salle University) Lesley Shipley (Randolph College) Session Abstract Borders have played a critical role in the development and distribution of culture, often acting as frameworks that help or hinder our ability to... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Friday 6 April Convenors: Felicity Henderson (University of Exeter) Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambridge) Alexander Marr (University of Cambridge) Sietske Fransen (CRASSH, University of Cambridge) Katherine Reinhart (CRASSH, University of Cambridge) Roundtable Discussion Abstract One of the disciplines that... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Kelly Freeman (University College London) Rebecca Whiteley (University College London) Session Abstract [J]ust as the head, foot, and indeed any member must correspond to each other and to all the rest of the body in... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Sam Rose (University of St Andrews) Emalee Beddoes (Museums Worcestershire and Division of Labour Gallery) Session Abstract Since Mieke Bal’s Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History (1999), art historians have increasingly self-consciously turned to contemporary... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Emily Pringle (Tate) Trevor Horsewood (Association for Art History) Session Abstract This session explores a range of connotations and theoretical positions associated with the term ‘critical’ and its relation to teaching and learning in art... Read More...22nd December 2017
Convenors Sarah Hegenbart (Technische Universität München) Mara-Johanna Kölmel (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) Session Abstract The era of post-truth politics poses a new challenge for contemporary art practice. If populist politicians persuade the masses by simplified conceptions of reality, how can art... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Royce Mahawatte (Central Saint Martins, London) Jacki Willson (University of Leeds) Session Abstract This panel explores the cultural intersection between bodies, fashion and transgression. Bodies are political players in culture. What role do fashioned bodies... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Jennifer Germann (Ithaca College) Melissa Percival (University of Exeter) Session Abstract Portraiture was a dynamic and, at times, disruptive artistic practice in the Early Modern period. Portraits could and did undermine, reconfigure, or otherwise step... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Dave Beech (Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg and Chelsea College of Art, London) Danielle Child (Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University) Session Abstract This panel proposes that in art deskilling did not happen. Labour... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Nicole Cochrane (University of Hull) Lizzie Rogers (University of Hull) Charlotte Johnson (Victoria and Albert Museum) Session Abstract Acts of acquiring, collecting, curating and reception of the object are generally understood as reciprocal relations between... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Alla Myzelev (State University of New York (SUNY) Geneseo) Shirley Siegal (Independent Artist) Session Abstract In essence, this session is about difficult, sometime impossible, conversations. Following the theme of the conference, ‘Look Out’, it hopes... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Lydia Hamlett (History of Art (University of Cambridge) Philip Hardie (Classics, University of Cambridge) Session Abstract This session – co-convened by a classicist and an art historian – explores the art-historical legacy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Jessica Schouela (University of York) Hannah Paveck (King’s College London) Session Abstract We experience architecture and film as media of duration that unfold in time. The encounter of an embodied spectator or inhabitant with a... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Thursday 5 APril Convenors Kimberly Cassibry (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) S Rebecca Martin (Boston University, Massachusetts) Session Abstract A transcultural history of art goes beyond the principle of additive extension and looks instead at the transformatory processes that constitute art... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Krzysztof Fijalkowski (Norwich University of the Arts) Matthew Gale (Tate) Jennifer Mundy (Tate) Gavin Parkinson (Courtauld Institute of Art) Session Abstract One of the most revolutionary and popular cultural movements of the 20th century, surrealism... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Jackson Davidow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Neil Macdonald (The University of Manchester) Session Abstract The past ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in histories of HIV/AIDS in the art world and academy, as seen... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Helen Draper (Institute of Historical Research, University of London) Carol Jacobi (Tate) Session Abstract The assumption that ‘influence’ is something that can be traced backwards (or even forwards, as Baxandall argued in Patterns of Intention) is... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Fiona Johnstone (Middlesex University) Natasha Ruiz-Gómez (University of Essex) Roundtable Discussion Visual culture (including art history, fine art, and museum studies) is currently a marginal discipline within the medical humanities. This may be changing, with... Read More...22nd December 2017
Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Elena Chestnova (Università della Svizzera Italiana) Andrea Korda (University of Albert) Session Abstract The popularity of object lessons in the 19th century attests to the fact that looking at things was not taken for granted... Read More...Copyright 2026. All Rights Reserved