Postgraduate seminars 2009/10
All seminars will take place on Mondays, 4.10 p.m. (Lecture Theatre 1, 43 Woodland Road)
Spring Term
- 11 January: Professor Richard Read, University of Western Australia, `Reversed Paintings and the Conflict between Commercial and Academic Values in Fin-de-Siècle London and Paris`
- 25 January: Postgraduate Research Presentations: Medievalists (Gaie Burnet, Jon Cannon, Darrelyn Gunzburg)
- 1 February: Postgraduate Research Presentations: Early Modernists (Ann Haughton, Catherine Hunt, Theresa Vella)
- 15 February: Postgraduate Research Presentations: Nineteenth Century Specialists (Joanna Karlgaard, Laurence Shafe, Holly Williamson)
- 22 February: Dr Siobhán Shilton, `Visualising Diversity: Art and Diaspora in France`
- 1 March: Postgraduate Research Presentations: Classicists (Harriet Batten-Foster, Heather Crawley, Wendy Sijnesael)
- 8 March: Professor Emeritus Stephen Bann will speak on his exhibition, Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey, on view at the National Gallery, London, 24 February-23 May 2010
- 15 March: Postgraduate Research Presentations: Modernists (Theodora Clarke, Rachel Flynn, Louise Hughes, Peter Stilton)
Summer Term
- 19 April: Dr Kate Nichols (Henry Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow), `Mechanical Reproduction, Mass Audiences, and Beautiful Manufacture: Greek sculpture and Design Reform, 1830-1860)
- 26 April: no seminar; instead you are invited to attend the Inaugural Lecture by Derek Duncan, Professor of Italian Cultural Studies, at 5.30 p.m. in Lecture Theatre 3, Woodland Road
- 3 May: Bank Holiday; no seminar
- 10 May: short presentations by first-year postgraduates:
Emma Carey, title tba
Erica O’Brien, title tba
Wendy Sijnesael, `Constructing Time: Alma-Tadema in the Villa Borghese`)
Richard Wyatt, `From Bombs to Banksy: The Postwar Evolution of the Museum of Bristol with Special Reference to its Social Relevance`
- 17 May: Visiting Scholar Dr Luca Caddia: `Sub Rosa Aeternitatis: Alma-Tadema and the Collection of Identity`
- 24 May: preview presentations for `New Approaches to British Art, 1939-1969`:
Rachel Flynn, ` “Too Much of a Good Thing”?: Kenneth Clark and Graham Sutherland`
Jan Cox, `Keith Vaughan: The Dynamic Tension of Man versus Terrain`