Research Forum
Calendar: AUTUMN TErm 2010
October to December
All events are held at The Courtauld
Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
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Frank davis memorial lecture series
Resistance and Interpretation: Disciplinary Perspectives
Interpretation Through the Looking-Glass
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Illustration by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There), 1871
Speaker(s): Miguel Tamen (Professor, Director of Programme in Literary Theory, University of Lisbon; and Regular Visiting Professor, University of Chicago)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Francesco Lucchini
Professor Miguel Tamen has only one, very simple, idea about interpretation: interpretation should not be kept separate from other human activities. There are three main advantages to this, or so he will argue: the first is that we need not assume any difference in kind between interpreting and e.g. solving problems.....read more
Victor and Margarita Tupitsyn
title tbc
Thursday, 14 October 2010
13.00 - 15.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Victor and Margarita Tupitsyn
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Sarah Wilson
Socialeast seminar on networks and sociability in eastern european art
Saturday 23 October 2010
09.30 - 18.15, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 09.00)
A meeting of Czech, Slovak and Hungarian artists, Chapel Studio of György Galántai, Balatonboglár, 1972, photo György Galántai - courtesy artpool.hu
Speaker(s): include Zofia Kulik (Warsaw), Miško Šuvakovic (University of Belgrade), Dorota Monkiewicz (Contemporary Museum Wroclaw), Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Angelika Richter (Berlin), Ewa Borysiewicz and Maria Matuszkiewicz (Warsaw University)....
Ticket/entry details: £15 (£10 concessions and Courtauld staff and students), includes coffee, and reception....
The SocialEast Seminar on Networks and Sociability in East European Art provides a forum for the presentation of new research into practices of informal exchange and patterns of alternative communication between ..... read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Mascolinità in Italian Humanist Photography
Monday, 25 October 2010
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Martina Caruso (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Frank davis memorial lecture series
Resistance and Interpretation: Disciplinary Perspectives
Traditions of Resistance: The Case of History
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Peter Burke (Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Francesco Lucchini
Like art historians, general historians have paid too much attention to the victors, to innovation, to the vanguard. It is good news that this series of lectures will seek to compensate for that trend by emphasizing the ideas of the vanquished, the rearguard in the culture wars. This lecture is concerned with the discipline of history.....read more
Georgia's wall painting heritage: significance and preservation
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
18.00 - 19.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Detail of angel in the Dream of Joseph (late 11th century), Ateni Sioni Church, Georgia
Speaker(s): Professor David Park (Director of Wall Painting Department, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor David Park
From the wide expanses of the Gareja Desert in the south to the northern peaks of Svaneti in the High Caucasus, Georgia retains a vast amount of wall painting, with spectacular examples especially from the 11th to 14th centuries. Until now, these paintings.....read more
terra foundation for american art visiting professor
Submerged: On Sexuality and American Art
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Richard Meyer (Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor; and Associate Professor of Art History and Director, The Contemporary Project, University of Southern California)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Mignon Nixon
Richard Meyer is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Director of the Contemporary Project and the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (Oxford University.....read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
What was Contemporary Art?
Monday, 8 November 2010
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Richard Meyer (Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor; and Associate Professor of Art History and Director, The Contemporary Project, University of Southern California)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Frank davis memorial lecture series
Resistance and Interpretation: Disciplinary Perspectives
Art-Archaeology: The Materiality of Classical Art History
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Famous Greek sculptural fragments on the Acropolis, Athens, soon after excavation (detail, anonymous photograph, 1866?)
Speaker(s): Dr Peter Stewart (Reader in Classical Art and its Heritage, and Acting Dean, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Francesco Lucchini
All art history involves inherent tensions between the materiality of the works of art – their rootedness in time and space – and the mobility of the ideas and imagery that they embody. The tension is all the more striking in the study of ancient art. On the one hand, classical art history, with its traditional dependence on archaeology.....read more
antonio negri
Formare, deformare, inaugurare
Thursday, 11 November 2010
16.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Antonio Negri
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Jacopo Galimberti
In alcuni testi degli anni '50, il filosofo francese Maurice Merleau-Ponty assegna alla creazione artistica una valenza ontologica, e ne qualifica la potenza: si tratta di una deformazione coerente radicata all'interno di un'esperienza soggettiva, ma che non presuppone nessun "soggetto" stabile (chi crea viene a sua volta preso.....read more
london seminar for early modern visual culture
Canvas to Canvas: Companion Paintings in the 19th-century United States
Monday, 15 November 2010
18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Wendy Ikemoto (Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Rose Marie San Juan (r.sanjuan@ucl.ac.uk) and Joanna Woodall (joanna.woodall@courtauld.ac.uk)
This paper examines the 'why' and 'how' of companion paintings in the antebellum United States. Why did the paired form proliferate in 19th-century America, and what did it signify? The paper suggests that companion paintings sorted the world into.....read more
art+christianityenquiry lecture
title tbc
Friday, 19 November 2010
18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Dr Mia M. Mochizuki (Associate Professor of Art History and Religion, Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University, California)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
This lecture is jointly hosted with 
(ACE) and is being given by Dr Mia M Mochizuki who is the winner of the ACE / Mercers' International Book Award 2009/10. For further information about ACE see www.acetrust.org.
second early modern symposium
Art and Presence
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (after Raffaello Sanzio).1630 (detail) .© The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Speaker(s): details to be advised by end September
Tickets/entry details: to be advised
Historically and culturally specific, the ‘work of art’ is contingent on a series of social relationships and mediations that seem to emerge when considering the relationship between representation and presence. This one-day symposium explores the relationship between viewers and art makers from .....read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Mirrors, Magic and Multiplication: Early Twentieth Century Fashion Shows
Monday, 22 November 2010
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Caroline Evans (Professor of Fashion History and Theory, Central St Martins)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Frank davis memorial lecture series
Resistance and Interpretation: Disciplinary Perspectives
Resisting Culture, Embracing Life: Anthropology Beyond Humanity
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Diagram 17 from Kandinsky's essay Point and Line to Plane, originally pubished in 1926 as Punkt und Linie zu Fläche (Source: Dover reprint of 1979)
Speaker(s): Timothy Ingold (Professor of Social Anthropology and Head of the School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Francesco Lucchini
The modern concept of humanity expresses the existential dilemma of a creature that can know itself, and the world of which it is a part, only by separating itself off from that world. This separation has long validated both the project of anthropology, as the comparative study of diverse forms of culture underwritten by the unity of human....read more
history of photography annual lecture
title tbc
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr Luke Gartlan (University of St Andrews)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Julian Stallabrass (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Alexandra Moschovi (University of Sunderland) and Graham Smith (Editor, History of Photography)
This event is a collaboration between The Courtauld’s History of Photography research seminar and the History of Photography journal published by Taylor and Francis.
The History of Photography research seminar series aims to be a discursive platform for the discussion and dissemination of current research on photography....read more
performing art history
Art History and TV
Thursday, 2 December 2010
18.00 - 20.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): to be advised
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Jack Hartnell
tudor and jacobean painting: production, influences and patronage
Thursday 2 – Saturday 4 December 2010
(11.00 - 18.00), 2 December 2010, National Portrait Gallery (registration from 10.00)
(10.00 - 18.00), 3 December 2010, National Portrait Gallery
(10.00 - 16.00 tbc), 4 December 2010, The Courtauld Institute of Art (registration from 09.30)
Speaker(s): include Aviva Burnstock (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Rachel Billinge (National Gallery), Victoria Button (V&A/ RCA), Tarnya Cooper (National Portrait Gallery)....
Ticket/entry details: £80 (£70 concessions) available from the National Portrait Gallery via their website www.npg.org.uk/whatson/event-root/matb-international-conference.php or ....
This three-day conference taking place at the National Portrait Gallery and The Courtauld Institute of Art is part of a collaborative research project between the National Portrait Gallery, The Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Sussex, called....read more
Frank davis memorial lecture series
Resistance and Interpretation: Disciplinary Perspectives
title tbc
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Christopher Wood (Professor, Department of History of Art, Yale University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Francesco Lucchini
This series proposes a range of ways of approaching the specific resistance found in objects of enquiry, calling attention to the ways in which contemporary scholarship attends to the conditions that set up resistances with respect to disciplinary investigation. Distinguished scholars from different disciplinary traditions are invited to....read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934) and the Logic of the Fold
Monday, 13 December 2010
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Katherine Faulkner (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Future conferences
Surrealism, Science fiction and comic books
Call For Papers Deadline:
Sunday, 1 August 2010
Conference to take place:
Saturday 22 January 2011
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
In his 1976 essay ‘Science Fiction and Allied Literature,’ David Ketterer wrote ‘it is rather surprising that the considerable affinity which exists between Surrealism and SF has not attracted more attention.’ This observation was repeated in 1997 by Roger Bozzetto and Arthur B. Evans, who lamented that the relations between.....call for papers
last orders? the art and architecture of religious orders in england, c1350-1540
Call For Papers Deadline:
1 November 2010
Evesham Abbey (detail). Photo: Courtesy of Laura Cleaver
Conference to take place:
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
In contrast to the arts of the so-called ‘golden age’ of English religious life during the High Middle Ages, the visual culture of subsequent generations of monks, nuns, and canons has received little attention. Recent scholarship, however, has challenged the long-held consensus that the Late Middle Ages was a period of decline.....call for papers
Intersections: Architecture and Poetry
Call For Papers Deadline:
31 January 2011
Mausoleum at Shah-i Zinda Necropolis, Samarqand, late 13th century. (Photograph: James Scott). Robert Adam with Antonio Zucchi, Detail of Music Room Ceiling, Home House, c.1777. (The Courtauld Institute of Art, Conway Library)
Conference to take place:
Friday 3 - Saturday 3 June, 2011
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Poetry and architecture, brought together by Gaston Bachelard in his seminal investigation of lived-in space, are art-forms that nevertheless continue critically to be considered broadly apart from one another. The one concrete and three-dimensional, the other abstract and metaphorical, these two creative forms invite further comparison. Philosophers and theorists have often used architectural metaphors in their writing – Freud, considering the canny (heimlich) as a cage that...... read more
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