We are delighted to invite you to The Courtauld’s annual Postgraduate Symposium of 2021-2022.
The event will showcase the diverse and innovative research of Courtauld students in the final stages of their doctoral degrees. The symposium invariably 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. 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.
Keynote: Iconoclasm 101: Contested Objects, Resistance and Long History, Dr Stacy Boldrick
It is our pleasure this year to welcome Dr Stacy Boldrick from the University of Leicester as our keynote speaker. Dr Boldrick will share with us her research into the transhistorical problematics of iconoclasm in art, a timely and evermore important discussion.
Dr Stacy Boldrick is Associate Professor in Art Museum and Gallery Studies and Programme Director, MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies, University of Leicester
Organised by Alice David, Stephen Feeke, Lorenzo Gatta, and Harvey Shepherd.
Programme
09.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome and introductory remarks
10.05 Panel 1: Materiality and Display.
Chair: Jessica Gasson
Stephen Feeke
Cold Marble, Hot Bronze: A Change of Temperature and A Shift in Hepworth’s Sculptural Process
Helen Lewandowski
Insta-humanism: Instagram’s Book for Pope Francis
Q&A
11.15 Break with tea and coffee (Research Forum Seminar Room)
11.55 Panel 2: Space and Ritual
Chair: Sarah Hwang
Lorenzo Gatta
A Community of Equals: The Confessionals in the Jesuit Church of Mechelen (1683)
Alice David
Theorising the Cut-Out Stencil in Grupo Suma’s Urban Interventions (1976 – 1982)
Giosuè Fabiano
‘I will sing praise to thee in the presence of angels’: Sunlight, Frescoes and Chants in S. Angelo in Formis
Q&A
13.25 Lunch (Provided for speakers and chairs only)
14.25 Panel 3: Representation and Reception
Chair: Hattie Spires
Harvey Shepherd
A ‘Laboratory’ of Absolutism: Representation and Regional Identity During the French Annexation of Corsica, 1769
Samuel Dawson
A Family Affair? Contextualising Francesco Morone’s Cycle of Illustrious Benedictines in the Sacristy of Santa Maria in Organo in Verona
Francesca Wilmott
Mike Henderson: Taking the Bottom Out of the Basket, 1965–1975
Q&A
16.00 Break with tea and coffee (Research Forum Seminar Room)
16.35 Keynote: Iconoclasm 101: Contested Objects, Resistance and Long History
Dr Stacy Boldrick, Associate Professor, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
17.40 Closing remarks
Reception (Research Forum Seminar Room – all welcome!)
