The Courtauld Postgraduate Symposium 2016 Showcasing New Research is a platform for third year PhD students to present their research and to initiate critical discussion about their materials, media and approaches with a broad scholarly audience. The papers tabled cover artefacts and images as diverse as medieval bronze tombs and messages encrypted in digital images, and they deploy methodologies that are attentive to questions of authorship, materiality, performance, reception and interpretation. The Postgraduate Symposium aims to debate and disseminate the new research of its research students and to promote intellectual exchange at all levels of the degree programmes.
Programme
Thursday 10 March (DAY 1)
11.30 – 11.45 Welcome and Introductory Remarks
11.45 – 13.10 SESSION 1: Reconstruction and Restoration (Chair: Jonathan Vernon)
Maeve O’Donnell, The Case of the Missing Stairs: Fernando III’s royal chapel in Seville’s cathedral-mosque
Chiara Pasian, Performance of grouts with reduced water content
Matilde Grimaldi, Recreating the lost Romanesque cathedral of Tortosa (Spain): 1148-1703
13.10 – 14.00 BREAK FOR LUNCH (not provided)
14.00 – 14.55 SESSION 2: Artists’ Circles (Chair: Catherine Howe)
Will Atkin, The Alchemical Legend of the Surrealist Object, c.1929-1934
Judith Lee, The Chemical Characterisation of Water Sensitive Oil Paint
14.55 – 15.50 SESSION 3: Painting Places (Chair: Thomas Hughes)
Samuel Raybone, Gustave Caillebotte’s Philatelic Impressionism: Collecting Stamps and Painting Paris, c. 1876-1877
Camilla Pietrabissa, Painting for painters: the landscapes of Jean-Baptiste Forest (1636-1712) and artists’ collections in Paris
15.50 – 16.10 TEA/COFFEE BREAK (provided in the Lecture Theatre)
16.10 – 17.15 SESSION 4: Artists’ Travels (Chair: Albert Godycki)
Austeja Mackelaite, The Ancient Object in the Drawn Oeuvre of Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617)
Bryony Bartlett-Rawlings, ‘Giving Voice to Sculpture: Nicoletto da Modena’s Apollo and Mercury’
Friday 11 March (DAY 2)
12.30 – 13.25 SESSION 5: Places of Commemoration (Chair: Imogen Tedbury)
Ann Adams, Materiality and Allegiances: Four Copper-Alloy Tombs of Knights of the Golden Fleece
Emma Capron, New Evidence on Simone Martini’s Work & Network in Avignon
13.25 – 14.20 SESSION 6: Spaces of Performance (Chair: Julia Secklehner)
Lydia Hansell, Witnessing the Nativity: Commemoration of a Cardinal
Sarah Hegenbart, Via Intolleranza II: Can Luigi Nono’s notion of azione scenica safeguard Christoph Schlingensief’s Opera Village Africa against postcolonialist attack?
14.20 – 14.50 TEA/COFFEE BREAK (provided in the Lecture Theatre)
14.50 – 15.45 SESSION 7: Art Spaces and the State (Chair: Massoumeh Assemi)
Jenna Lundin Aral, Information as Spectacle: Exhibitions by the MoI
Jessie Robertson, Don’t Feed the Network: Encrypted Aesthetics in the Post-Snowden Age
15.45 – 16.05 Comfort break
16.05 – 17.00 SESSION 8: Negotiating Spaces (Chair: Theodore Gordon)
Svitlana Biedarieva, Moscow 1980: the City and the Void
Kristina Rapacki, ‘The skin of our teeth’: vandalism and civilisation in Asger Jorn’s Situationist production
17.00 – 18.00 KEYNOTE: Dr Mechthild Fend (UCL), Anatomical Still Lifes: The Reconfiguration of the Body in Bidloo’s and De Lairesse’s Anatomia Humani Corporis (1685)
18.00 RECEPTION (Front Hall)