The Courtauld Second Year Modern and Contemporary PhD Symposium provides a platform for the current research of second year PhD candidates, consisting of projects spanning the late nineteenth century to current artistic practice. In order to initiate critical discussion with a broad scholarly audience, six sessions will cover such diverse themes as the construction of gender and national symbols, issues of memory and migration in visual culture, exhibition practice and the shifting value of art from the beginnings of modernism to the present. They will explore an equally wide range of geographies and critical methodologies, along with a variety of media, from painting and magazines to film, photography and digital production. The Modern and Contemporary Symposium therefore aims to engage with and advance intellectual exchange by assessing the complexities of modern and contemporary culture through its interrogations in multiple spheres. Emphasising the interconnectedness of culture, society and politics, the symposium showcases the many ways in which emerging scholars approach modern and contemporary art history.
Programme
Friday 20 May
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Gavin Parkinson
10.15 – 11.15 SESSION 1 – Chaired by Jasmine Chohan
Nayun Jang: Art as Counter-Memory: Contemporary Lens-based Art in South Korea
Theo Gordon: ‘Delta’ closes on Broadway: Ann Meredith’s “Until that Last Breath” and the representation of women with AIDS
11.15 – 11.45 TEA/COFFEE BREAK (provided for all – Seminar room 1)
11.45 – 12.45 SESSION 2 – Chaired by Kristina Rapacski
Rachel Stratton: Lawrence Alloway and the ‘Philosophies of No’, 1950–55
Giovanni Casini: Gino Severini and Léonce Rosenberg: a commercial and intellectual exchange
12.45 – 13.45 BREAK FOR LUNCH (provided for the speakers and chairs only – Seminar room 1)
13.45 – 14.45 SESSION 3 – Chaired by Sofia Gurevich
Julia Secklehner: Fashioning a paper avant-garde: Trn and the politics of modern life
Jonathan Vernon: ‘From Eternity’: Brâncuşi and National Ideology in Romania, 1951–2016
14.45 – 15.45 SESSION 4 – Chaired by Samuel Raybone
Edwin Coomasaru: Uncontrollable Intimacies: Northern Irish Masculinities and the Erotics of Violence, 2008-13
Catherine Howe: Francis Bacon and Michel Leiris: Illusions of Manhood
15.45 – 16.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK (provided for all – Seminar room 1)
16.15 – 17.15 SESSION 5 – Chaired by Wiktor Komorowski
Claudia Zini: Maja Bajevic: Refugee ‘Women at Work’ in Sarajevo, 1997
Cathy Corbett: Ossip Zadkine and the reinvention of an émigré sculptor
17.15 – 18.15 SESSION 6 – Chaired by Denis Stolyarov
Boris Čučković: Indexicality of Source Materials: The Diagram and The Panorama in Yuri Patisson’s Outsourced Views, Visual Economies (2013-2014)
Thomas Hughes: ‘An intense consciousness of the present’: Ruskin, Pater and the “drawing” of modern life
18.15 RECEPTION