14-15 October 2004
Entente Cordiale Colloquium
Cent Ans de Relations Culturelles Franco-Britanniques
Thursday: Maison française d’Oxford, 09.15 - 17.30
Friday: Courtauld Institute Of Art, 09.15 - 17.30
Organised by: Isabelle Bour & Diana Cooper-Richet - Centre d'histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines, l'université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Marie-Francoise Cachin - Institut CharlesV, l'université Paris VII
Michel Rapoport - Institut Jean-Baptiste Say, l'université Paris XII-Val de Marne
Dr Sarah Wilson – Courtauld Institute of Art
Further information: This two-day colloquium will be held on 14 and 15 October in Oxford and at the Courtauld Institute, respectively, to mark the centenary of the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France. Academics from British and French universities and research institutes will meet to examine and discuss the nature of Franco-British cultural exchanges over the past one hundred years.
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 This event has been organised as a collaboration of centres in the UK and in France: Middlesex University, Westminster University, and the Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum (UK), le Centre d'histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), le Centre Jean-Baptiste Say (université Paris XII-Val de Marne), and l'Institut Charles V (université Paris VII) (FRANCE).


29 January 2005
 Conference
Wyndham Lewis: One-man avant-garde?
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, 10.00-20.00
Speakers: Including Professor Paul Edwards, Michael Nath, Jacky Klein, Professor Tyrus Miller, Professor Laura Marcus, Richard Humphreys and Dr Alan Munton.
Organised by: Organised by Learning at Somerset House in collaboration with Tate Britain, and in association with Bath Spa University and the University of Plymouth Art History Department.
Further information: This symposium marks the exhibition ‘The Bone beneath the Pulp’: Drawings by Wyndham Lewis in the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery. 


5 February 2005
10th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Student Colloquium
Creation and Dissemination: Art and Architecture in the Middle Ages
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, 9.00 - 17.00
Speakers: include Renana Bartal, Anna Olszewska, Beatrice Keefe, Timothy Juckes, Hilary Hunt, Emily Howe, and Fernando Gutiérrez Baños; chaired by Jessica Richardson, Heather Gilderdale-Scott, and Agnieszka Sadraei; introduced by John Lowden.
Further information: This annual conference is organised by postgraduates at the Courtauld to enable students from various universities to present work in progress. This colloquium will explore notions of creation and dissemination in medieval art and architecture, discussing, among other ideas, the role of the artist in propagating ideas, images or motifs, as well as workshop practices, technical developments and the use of art to disseminate political, religious and social ideas.


11-12 February 2005
 Conference
European Trade in Painters’ Materials to 1700
Friday: The National Gallery, 9.00 - 17.00
Saturday: Courtauld Institute of Art, 9.00 - 17.00
Organised by: Organised by Jo Kirby, The National Gallery, London, and Dr Susie Nash and Caroline Villers, Courtauld Institute of Art
Further information: Where did painters buy their materials? Who prepared them? What did they cost? Where did they come from, and how? This conference brings together a very widely dispersed body of knowledge and aims to place it in a broad economic and historical context, bringing together the expertise of conservators, conservation scientists and historians.
The scope of the meeting includes European trade and trade routes, the retail distribution and wholesale trade in painters’ materials. It will encompass specific case histories as well as a more general view of the mechanisms and actuality of trading. Attention is concentrated on painters’ supplies, but attention is also given to associated crafts such as tapestry.
Following the conference, the proceedings will be published by Archetype Publications.

12-14 May 2005
 Conference
 The Year 1300 and the Creation of a New European Architecture
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speakers: Tim Ayers, Klara Benesovska, Robert Borg, Christoph Brachmann, Caroline Bruzelius, Thomas Coomans, Michael T. Davies, Christian Freigang, Yves Gallet, Alexandra Gajewski, Peter Kurmann, Richard Morris, Norbert Nussbaum, Zoe Opacic, Marc Schurr, Robert Suckale, Achim Timmermann, Marvin Trachtenberg, Tomasz Weclawowicz.
Organised by: Professor Paul Crossley, Dr Zoe Opacic and Dr Alexandra Gajewski.
Further information: The theme of this international conference is the origin of Late Gothic architecture in Europe around the year 1300. It was then that Gothic architecture graduated from a largely French into a wholly European phenomenon. The artistic dominance hitherto enjoyed by Paris gave way to new centres of art production (Avignon, Florence, Barcelona, Prague, Krakow). The traditional patrons of church architecture, the higher clergy, were now joined by newly-empowered institutions: kings, the higher nobility, towns and the friars. Profound changes in spiritual and devotional life altered the relations between architecture and liturgical use. Ritual was conducted between the extremes of devotional privacy and theatrical public display, some of it openly propagandist. In short, architecture around 1300 became at once more international and more heterogeneous.
This conference addresses these radical changes on their own terms - as an international phenomenon. By inviting specialists in art, architecture and liturgy from the USA and from many parts of Europe it aims to exchange their separate expertise, and to integrate each into a broader European perspective.
This interdisciplinary and integrative approach aims to establish new methodological models for the understanding of European Gothic architecture, based not on older notions of dominant centre and marginal reception, but on more historically realistic patterns of interaction.

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17 June 2005
 Conference
Friends and Foes: the art of Christian and Islamic Spain
 Speakers: Richard Hitchcock (University of Exeter), David Park (Courtauld Institute of Art), Francisco Prado-Vilar (Princeton University), Mariam Rosser-Owen (Victoria & Albert Museum), Rocío Sanchez Ameijeiras (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Deirdre Jackson (University of Oxford)
Organised by: Dr Rose Walker and Mariam Rosser-Owen
Further information: This one-day conference will explore the relationships between the Christian and Islamic kingdoms of Medieval Spain expressed through their art and architecture by challenging traditional views of reconquista and convivencia.
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30 June 2005
Conference
Issues in the Conservation and Display of Contemporary Paintings: Conservation & Interaction
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speakers: include Jim Coddington (MOMA), Tim Green (Tate Modern), Tom Hale and Nathalie Lazarus (White Cube Gallery), Carol Mancusi-Ungaro (Whitney Museum of American Art) and Frances Morris (Tate Modern)
Organised by: Dr Christina Young
Further information: Aimed at art historians, conservators and curators this workshop seeks to explore different approaches intended to address the question: “How can a gallery integrate the preventive conservation of contemporary paintings with the requirements of public accessibility and interaction”.
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1 July 2005
Symposium
From Expressionism to Exile: German-speaking women practitioners and the public sphere

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, 10.00-17.00
Speakers: Professor Reinhold Heller (University of Chicago), Dr Dot Rowe (University of Roehampton), Dr Anja Baumhoff (University of Loughborough) and Dr Duncan Forbes (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh)
Organised by: Dr Shulamith Behr
Further information: This symposium is timed to coincide with the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery exhibition Gabriele Münter: The Search for Expression 1906-1917. Papers will consider the career strategies of women painters, designers and photographers, exploring their formation of cultural and national identity and engagement in the public sphere. The symposium will include light refreshments (tea and coffee) and access to the exhibition.

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9-10 July 2005
Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscipts Conference
Illuminating Narrative: Visual Storytelling in Medieval Manuscripts

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, 9.00 - 17.00
Speakers: include Eva Frojmovic, Jeffrey Hamburger, Wolfgang Kemp, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Richard Leeson, John Lowden, Henrike Manuwald, Lynn Ransom, James A. Rushing, Jr., Anna Russakoff, Kathryn Smith, Alison Stones, Will Noel, and Alixe Bovey.
Organised by: Organised by the RCIMS
Further information: This Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts’ conference will explore pictorial narrative in Gothic illuminated manuscripts, approaching the subject from theoretical and practical perspectives. The creation of narrative cycles, relationships between word and image, the function of pictorial stories, and the connections between illumination and works in other media will be among the themes addressed. What can these pictorial stories reveal about their makers, patrons, and audiences? How do we negotiate the inevitable tensions between pictorial cycles and textual analogues? What functional distinctions can be made between images that tell stories and those that do not? How can images shape the interpretation of adjacent text? What can narrative images in books tell us about pictorial storytelling in other media, and vice versa?

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Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism: Representation in Art and Science
22-23 June 2006
 09.00 - 19.30, Thursday 22 June, London School of Economics (with plenary lecture at Courtauld Institute of Art)
09.00 – 19.30, Friday 23 June, London School of Economics
Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism: Representation in Art and Science
Speaker(s): The following speakers will give plenary lectures: James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago/ University College Cork, Ireland), John Hyman (University of Oxford),
Catherine Elgin (Harvard University). Please see the conference website for the full list of speakers and venues: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/artAndScience/index.htm
Ticket/entry details: The conference is free of charge and open to everybody. If you plan to attend the conference, please send an email with your name, address and institutional affiliation to: ph-artandscience@lse.ac.uk, so that they have an idea about the number of people expected. Please do not send an email if you are not sure that you will attend, or if you only plan to attend for a lecture or two. Registration is not a necessary condition for participation and if you decide to just pop in every now and then you are welcome to do so
Organised by: Matthew Hunter (Courtauld Institute & University of Chicago), Roman Frigg (LSE), Institute of Philosopy at UCL
Further information: Representations play a critical role in both science and art. Perceived as different in kind, artistic and scientific representations have been studied as objects of distinct disciplinary and intellectual traditions. However, recent work in both the philosophy of science and studies of the visual arts suggests that these apparently different representational traditions may be related in challenging and provocative ways. “Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism,” a conference co-sponsored by the Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, the London School of Economics, and the Institute of Philosophy of the University of London, seeks to open conversations between and beyond these compartmentalized traditions of thinking about representation.

For the full programme and details about booking, please go to the conference website at:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/artAndScience/index.htm.

You can also contact : ph-artandscience@lse.ac.uk for more information



International Symposium
The Use-Value of DOCUMENTS: Bataille, Einstein, Leiris

Documents

 23-24 June 2006
 17.30 - 20.30, Friday 23 June (registration from 16.00), Hayward Gallery
10.00 - 18.30, Saturday 24 June (registration from 09.15), Courtauld Institute of Art, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Dawn Ades (University of Essex), Sophie Berrebi (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Neil Cox (University of Essex), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Christopher Green (Courtauld Institute of Art), Denis Hollier (New York University), Julia Kelly (University of Manchester), Rosalind Krauss (Columbia University), David Lomas (University of Manchester), Laurie Monahan (University of California, Santa Barbara), Michael Richardson (Waseda University, Tokyo), University of London), Sebastian Zeidler (University of California, Berkeley)
Ticket/entry details: £45 (£20 concessions) includes coffee, tea, lunch and drinks reception as well as entry to the exhibition Undercover Surrealism: Picasso, Miró, Masson and the Vision of Georges Bataille at the Hayward Gallery. Booking is essential via the Hayward Gallery Box Office 0870 169 1000.  When you book please ensure that you tell the Box Office the name of each person attending.
Further information:  Leading international scholars examine the work and legacies of Georges Bataille and other key contributors to the magazine Documents (1929-1930). This international symposium is a collaboration between the AHRC Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies, the Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, the Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture and the Hayward Gallery in connection with the exhibition Undercover Surrealism: Picasso, Miró, Masson and the Vision of Georges Bataille at the Hayward Gallery.  Funding has been provided by the British Academy. For further details contact: Dr Charles Miller (AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Surrealism and its Legacies) (email: cmiller@essex.ac.uk) or Cynthia de Souza (Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum) (email: researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk)
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