We are delighted to invite you to the Courtauld’s annual Postgraduate Symposium 2022/2023. 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.
Spanning across two days, the symposium creates transnational and trans-geographic connections and reflects key concerns from across the discipline. Each panel, grouped through thematic and methodological concerns, engages with innovative approaches to art historical scholarship. The panels will explore affective and experiential approaches to historical study, reframe established narratives of imperial capital and power centres, and highlight personal, intellectual and digital networks across historical and geographical spaces.
Schedule:
Day 1: Thursday 18th May
Registration: 10:30
Welcome: 10:45
Dr. Guido Rebecchini, Reader in Sixteenth-Century Southern European Art and Head of Research Degree
Lily Evans-Hill and Giulia Morale
Panel 1 – 11:00-12:30 Experience, Engagement, Participation
Models for a feminist slide registry: West-East Bag and London
Lily Evans-Hill
Canons Moving, Moving Canons: Emotion, Rhetoric, and the Functional Context of the Amparo and Preciosa Portals in the Cloister of Pamplona’s Cathedral
Jamie Haskell
The Art Looks Back: Taryn Simon’s A Cold Hole, 2018-2019
Carla Kessler
Chair: Michelle Zhu
Lunch – 12:30-13:30 (Provided for speakers)
Panel 2 – 13:30-15:00 Environments
A concrete shroud and the (re)construction of Gibellina, Sicily (1968-1980s)
Giulia Morale
Rococo epistemology: Shell grottos and the aesthetics of deep time in Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon’s theory of the earth
Carole Nataf
Fragmented Histories: A Deccani Carpet in the Chehel Sotun
Margaret Squires
Chair: Nicole Gasparini Casari
Tea break – 15:00-15:30 – Research Forum Seminar Room
Panel 3 – 15:30-17:00 Centre/Periphery
The Patron is Present: Domenico della Rovere’s (1442-1501) Commissions in Rome and Turin
Matteo Chirumbolo
Folk Modernism: Ukrainian Embroideries as a Medium for Abstract Art
Katia Denysova
Endorsing the Spanish Empire: Polidoro da Caravaggio, Francesco Maurolico and Domenico Vanello’s collaboration in reshaping the urban fabric of Messina
Anna Chiara Giusa
Chair: Phoebe Day
Day 2: Friday 19th May
Panel 4 13:30-15:00 Questions for the Medium
From manuscript to tapestry: Unpicking the making and use of the Sens Three Coronation tapestry c.1476-88
Jessica Gasson
No More New Beginnings: Albert Pinkham Ryder and the Process of Updating
Choghakate Kazarian
Militainment, Public Secrecy, and Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: Revisiting Feng Mengbo’s Long March: Restart (2008)
Fred Shan
Chair: Hattie Spires
Tea break – 15:00-15:30 – Research Forum Seminar Room
Panel 5 -15:30-17:00 Networks
‘The Heroic Period’: Net.Art’s Self-Historicising Tactics (1994-1999)
Anya Smirnova
William H. Dorsey’s (1837-1923) Philadelphia Collection
Frances Varley
‘Per la gran furia di compratori’: Obtaining Flemish Tapestries in Sixteenth-century Italy, the case of the Van der Molen firm (1538-1544)
Julia Van Zandvoort
Chair: Wenjie Su
Closing Remarks – Dr. Lucy Bradnock, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art and Vice-Dean for Research
Drinks Reception from 17:30 – Research Forum Seminar Room