SESSIONS BY DAY

Session Timetables available for downloading Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

 
Wednesday 14 April 2021

SESSIONS:

• Art History, Theory & Practice for an Ecological Emergency (Lucy Whelan & Andrew Patrizio)
• Changing Approaches to Histories of British Art, 1660-1735 (Claudine van Hensbergen & Lydia Hamlett)
• Craft and War (Jennifer Way)
• Material/Immaterial: The lives (and afterlives) of objects (Lynn Sommers)
• Matter (Im)materials and Materiality: On the life of digital artworks (Alexandra Moschovi & Beryl Graham)
• Museums for the Global Majority: Expanding the limits of museum practice (Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani & Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye)
• Political Appropriations (Lara Perry & Elke Krasny)
• Representing the Nation: The historic and continuing role of National Art Institutions (Neil Lebeter & Freya Spoor)
• 'The Book of the Future': Photobooks between disciplines (Fiona Allen, Simon Constantine & Daniel Hartley)
• The Real Price: Between art and the (art) market (Bill Balaskas)
• Theatre, Art and Visual Culture in the 19^th Century (Patricia Smyth, Jim Davies, Kate Newey & Kate Holmes)
• Toxic Masculinity (Classical to Contemporary) (Lucy Weir & Carol Richardson)
• Troubling Borders: Art worlds in the sites of conflict (Edwin Coomasaru, Sarah Keller & Rachel Warriner)

WORKSHOP

• Working Together to Expand the Pool of Art History Students (Hilary Robinson & Edward Wouk) (Workshop)

Thursday 15 April 2021

• Challenging Legacies in Post-Colonial and Post-Socialist Notions of Place (Karen von Veh & Landi Raubenheimer)
• Connectivity, Transcultural Entanglements, and the Power of Aesthetic Choices in Africa (Abidemi Babatunde Babalola & Vera-Simone Schulz)
• Contemporary Art, Health and Medicine (Imogen Wiltshire & Fiona Johnstone)
• Critical Digital Art History: Interface and data politics in exhibitions, museums, and collections (Anna Dahlgren & Amanda Wasielewski)
• Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period (1450-1750): Exhibiting practices and exhibition spaces (Pamela Bianchi)
• Exhibiting Craft: Histories, contexts, practices (Claire Jones & Inês Jorge)
• Female Art Dealers (Abi Shapiro and Sarah Victoria Turner)
• Global Art History and the Imbalance of Power (Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Stacey Kennedy & Azadeh Sarjoughian)
• Reanimating the Past: Embodied knowledge as art-historical method (Juliet Bellow & Meredith Martin)
• The Big Screen: Art History and British Cinema (Mark Hallett & Lynda Nead)
• The Social Life of Sculpture (Christian Berger & Heather Diack)
• The Virgin as Auctoritas. The Authority of the Virgin Mary and Female Moral-Doctrinal Authority in the Middle Ages (Francesca Dell'Acqua)
• Why Trompe l’oeil? The art of deception across the boundaries of time and space  (Chih-En & Stacey Pierson)
   

Friday 16 April 2021

 All day sessions 

• Pre-Modern Women as Artists, Patrons and Collectors (Jamie Edwards, Elizabeth L'Estrange & Edward Wouk)
• Video Art and Africa (Katarzyna Falęcka & Gabriella Nugent)

Morning sessions

• Challenging Orientalism: New questions of perception and reception (Emily Christensen & Erica Payet)

• Exiled and Female (Carmen Gaitán Salinas & Mari Paz Balibrea)
• Jewish Visual Culture in Modern Europe (Tom Stammers)

• Provincializing Impressionism (Samuel Raybone)

• ‘Queer’ ‘British’ ‘Art’ (Theo Gordon)

• Rewriting the Canon: New directions in art writing (Sophie Hatchwell & Sam Rose)

• Surrealism and Scotland (Patricia Allmer, Gráinne Rice & Susannah Thompson) 

• The Laws that Bind Us (Ashley Gallant & Estelle Derclaye)

• Visual Art and the Middlebrow (Michael Clegg & Rebecca Savage)

Afternoon sessions

• A Moving Experience: Exhibition infrastructures and the portability of art (Nushelle de Silva)
• Afrotropes as an Analytical Framework to Expand Art Historical Methologies of the Black Atlantic? (Sarah Hegenbart & Levi Prombaum) - cancelled
• From Canvas to Stage: The visual artist as opera scenographer (Hannah Chan-Hartley and Corrinne Chong)
• Graphically Graphic Art: The making of modern print erotica 1850-1950 (Abbey Rees-Hales & Camilla Smith)
• Jewish Visual Culture in Modern Europe (Tom Stammers)
• Smell and Stereotype (18^th and 19^th Centuries) (Ersy Contogouris & Érika Wicky)
• Surrealism in the 1960s and 1970s Latin America (Paulina Caro Troncoso) 
• The Big Data Archive: Digitising Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles (Nathaniel Deines & Zanna Gilbert)
• The Plantation Complex (Emilia Terracciano & Anna Arabindan-Kesson)
• The Space between Non-Arts and Fine Arts: Confronting gender and the decorative arts, 1500-1800 (Samantha Chang & Lauryn Smith)
• What’s love got to do with it? Queer-feminist desires in researching and writing art histories (Aleksandra Gajowy & James Bell)

Saturday 17 April 2021

• Art Disputes: Conflict and competition across the ages (Edward Payne & Bernadette Petti)
• Art into Pop (Redux) (Gavin Butt)
• Art, Obscurity, and the Politics of Rescue (Flora Dunster & Amy Tobin) 
• Climates of Colonialism (Gabrielle Moser & Julia Lum)
• Exploring Diversity in Public Sculpture (Klairi Angelou)
• Exploring the Plurality of Artists’ Practices: Artists as dealers and agents (Marie Tavinor & Ariana Turpin)
• From Keeper to Maker: British curatorial practices (Massimiliano Papini, Laia Anguix & Elisabetta Fabrizi)
• Hybrid Marines (Bryan Biggs & Gabriel Gee)
• Mysticism and the Visual Arts (Elliott D Wise & Ingrid Falque)
• Race and Representation in the French Colonial Empire (Suannah Blair & Stephanie O'Rourke)
• The Visual Politics of Independent Print Media in the 20^th Century (Louise Siddons & Victoria Bazin)
• Walking on Images (Michael Tymkiw)