The Research Forum invites you to the Post-Graduate Symposium of 2020-21, a two-day student led online conference showcasing the diverse and innovative research of Courtauld students in the final stages of their doctoral degrees. Each year, this event proves a highlight of The Courtauld’s academic year — a coming together of faculty, students, and the general public to celebrate our rising academics and their research. This year, the papers explore a diverse selection of subject-matter, materials, and technologies; and deploy a wide range of methodologies which are attentive to questions of authorship, identity, materiality, reception, and interpretation. The papers are grouped into transhistorical and transregional themed panels, which seek to enrich discussion by encouraging connections and observations that move beyond traditional intradisciplinary boundaries. It is our pleasure this year to have, for the first time, two invited keynote speakers each from the fields of Art History and Conservation. Their respective contributions, reflective of the current research and teaching undertaken at The Courtauld, will stimulate further conversations and discussion amongst the Courtauld’s wider scholarly community.
Programme
Day One – Monday 21st June – 9.30am – 3.00pm
9:30 – Welcome and introductory remarks
9:40 – Panel 1: Urban Interventions, chair: Bethany Widick
Introduction to panel.
Harry Adams, Visions of a future London: George Dance the Younger’s proposals for the Port of London (1796-1802)
Sung Ji-Park, Running a Graphic War: The CID/CIB’s Hōdō shashin for Propaganda
Chelsea Pierce, Gorgona in Three Acts: Performing a Position on Anti-Painting
Ana Rodriguez, Impressions of Modern Life in the Unincorporated Territory: Puerto Rican graphic arts, 1950-1960
Q&A
11:35 – Break
11:55 – Panel 2: New Approaches, New Perspectives, chair: Amarilli Rava
Introduction to panel
Sree Menon, Technique of Early Wall Paintings from the 11th to 13th Centuries in Ladakh
Louis Shadwick, Myth and Mimicry: The Origins of Edward Hopper’s Early Oil Paintings
Saskia Rubin, Diana Glows as Apollo Shines Upon Her: The Art of Humble-Bragging in Cardinal Richelieu’s Circle
Silvia Amato, The Contribution of Spectral Imaging Techniques to the Study of Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe from the Courtauld Gallery
Q&A
13:50 – Break
14:00 – Keynote: Annette King, Modern and Contemporary Paintings Conservator at the Tate Modern
Seeing the Unseen: some examples of how technical examination has added to the understanding of paintings in the Tate Collection
15:00 End of Day One
Day Two – Tuesday 22nd June, 9.30am – 3.00pm
9:30 – Panel 3: Self, Surface, Identity, chair: Matteo Chirumbolo
Introduction to panel.
Nadya Wang, Dress Your Age: The Singapore Woman and Fashion Industry in Her World in the 1980s
Laura Jenkins, Magnificent Women: French Furniture and the Representation of American Luxury
Leo Stefani, Between Presentation and Representation – Furnishing Louis XV’s education at the Palais des Tuileries
Tilly Scantelbury, Everyone and Everything in Relation: Harry Dodge’s Sculptural and Textual Practice
Q&A
11:25 – Break
11:45 – Panel 4: Representation, Symbols, and Cultural Memory, chair: Bella Radenović
Introduction to panel.
Laura Melin, ‘Be Right of Eritage he Scholde it have’: Genealogical Diagrams of Henry VI and Edward IV
Lydia Ohl, Two Responses to Cultural Catastrophe: Cai Guo-Qiang’s Iconography as a Globalizing Language of Trauma
Laura Franchetti, ‘Suggesting the Sun Itself’: Thermodynamics, The Heat Death of the Sun, and Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June (1895)
Susannah Kingwill, ‘la donna ma dame a mondit seigneur au jour de l’an’: Philip the Bold’s Gold Cross in Esztergom Cathedral Treasury
Q&A
13:40 – Break
13:50 – Keynote: Dr Isobel Elstob, Assistant Professor in Art History at University of Nottingham
Visualizing the Past in Art: Us, Them, Now, Then
14:50 – Closing remarks
15:00 – End of Day Two