We are delighted to invite you to The Courtauld’s annual Postgraduate Symposium 2024/2025. Researchers in the final stages of their doctoral degrees will deliver papers emerging out of their research projects. In past years, the event has been a moment for faculty, students and the public to celebrate innovative research.
Organised by Hannah Healey and Michelle Zhu, PhD students, The Courtauld.
Schedule:
9.30 – 10.00: Registration opens
The Courtauld, Vernon Square Campus
10.00 – 10.10: Opening remarks, and introduction to the day
Professor Guido Rebecchini, Professor of Sixteenth-Century Southern European Art and Head of Research Degrees Programme, The Courtauld.
Hannah Healey and Xiaojue Michelle Zhu, PhD students and symposium organisers.
10:10 – 11:30 | Panel 1 – Political Imaginaries
‘Copyright Meets Reproductive Rights: Käthe Kollwitz and the Abortion Rights Movement in Weimar Germany’
Xiaojue Michelle Zhu
‘Victory Vietnam: The Second Iteration of Artists for Democracy’
Hannah Healey
‘Imagining the Past: Kirill Gluschenko’s production of Soviet Utopia’
Elena Konyushikhina
11.30 – 11.40: Refreshment Break
Tea and Coffee Provided
11:40 – 13:00 | Panel 2 – Marks and Materials
‘Measurement Relics, Exchequer Standards, and the “Promise of Sameness”’
Sophia Adams
‘On the Surface: Miniaturised Marks of Making and their Ontological Implications in 15th and 16th century Persian Painting’
Rachel Albans
‘Line, Flesh, and Page: The Literary Surfaces of Barbara Chase-Riboud’
Bella Kesoyan
13.00 – 14.00: Lunch break
Provided for participants and organisers
14:00 – 15:20 | Panel 3 – Cultural Exchange
‘“I put My Seal on This Paper” – The ‘Imago Impressa’ of Queen Helena’
Marija Shipley
‘From Isfahan to Moscow: The Significance of the Diamond Throne in the Russo-Iranian Transcultural Narrative’
Olga Gillen
‘The Man on the Fish: Water Deities of the Indus River from Khizr to Jhuley Lal’
Nada Raza
15.20 – 15.30: Refreshment Break
Tea and Coffee Provided
15:30 – 16:50 | Panel 4 – Spaces
‘“A brocade gown of hers and another garment of crimson satin”: Doña Juana de Mendoza’s donations to the Granada Venegas Chapel’
Natalia Muñoz-Rojas
‘“Know the World from End to End Is a Mirror”: Illuminating the Shrine of Imam Reza in Qajar Iran’
Reza Daftarian
‘The Looting of the Western Qing Tombs’
Ricarda Brosch
16.50 – 17.00: Closing Remarks
Professor Guido Rebecchini, Professor of Sixteenth-Century Southern European Art and Head of Research Degrees Programme, The Courtauld
17.00 – 18.00: Drinks Reception
Open to all