The Courtauld’s Postgraduate Research Symposium is a platform for third-year doctoral candidates to present their research to their peers, the wider scholarly community and the public. The symposium showcases the breadth of research being undertaken at the Courtauld in both art history, and conservation and technology. This conference provides a place to consider how the cohort has been collectively addressing critical challenges and new directions for the History of Art.
Organised by Costanza Beltrami (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Yeonjoo Hahn (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Edwin Coomasaru (The Courtauld Institute of Art).
09:30–10:00
Registration
10:00–10:05
Opening statement
10:05–10:55
Session 1: Buildings and Images
Chair: Maggie Crosland
Yeonjoo Hahn: WALL PAINTINGS IN BUDDHIST TEMPLES OF SOUTH KOREA: A CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT
Costanza Beltrami: PERSUASIVE COLLABORATION: JUAN GUAS AND ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING IN FIFTEENTH–CENTURY CASTILE
Q&A
10:55–11:45
Session 2: Workshops and Artistic Methods
Chair: Éowyn Kerr-Di Carlo
Giulio Dalvit: HIDDEN SIGNATURES. AN EARLY, PSEUDO-GREEK EXAMPLE FROM SIENA
Patricia Smithen: THE ACRYLIC SITUATION
Q&A
11:45–12:15
Coffee Break (Research Forum Seminar Room)
12:15–13:05
Session 3: Friendships
Chair: Ambra D’Antone
Cathy Corbett: “OUTDOOR SCULPTURE IN ITS NATURAL SURROUNDINGS”. OSSIP ZADKINE, EDWARD WADSWORTH, AND ZADKINE’S FIGURES IN THE GARDEN
Adriana Concin: THE MEDICEAN PORTRAIT COLLECTION BEYOND FLORENCE: ITERATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF A FLORENTINE MODEL IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY AUSTRIA
Q&A
13:05–14:05
Lunch (Research Forum Seminar Room – provided for speakers and chairs)
14:05–14:55
Session 4: Art and Politics
Chair: Francesca Wilmott
Talitha Schepers: PERCEIVING PROCESSIONS: DIPLOMATIC RITUAL AT THE OTTOMAN COURT
Soo-Young Leam: LEE SEUNG-TAEK’S “PRIVATISED SITES” AND THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION
Q&A
14:55–15:25
Juice (Research Forum Seminar Room)
15:25–16:15
Session 5: Seeing the Invisible, Representing the Un-representable
Chair: Charlotte Wytema
Amarilli Rava: READHESION INTERVENTIONS ON WALL PAINTINGS: ASSESSMENT OF PENETRATION, DEPOSITION AND RESPONSE TO RELATIVE HUMIDITY
Teresa Lane: ‘O MAN, LISTEN TO THE POOR LITTLE FORM OF A WOMAN SPEAKING TO YOU’: MEDIEVAL FEMALE VISIONARIES REVEAL THE TRINITY
Q&A
16:15–17:05
Session 6: Making Meanings
Chair: Silvia Rita Amato
Oliver Mitchell: RETHINKING THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE IN MEDIEVAL ART
Lan Pu: CONNECTIONS IN THE MAKING AND MEANING OF THE ART OF BHUTAN AND TIBET IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES: A STUDY OF THE WALL PAINTINGS OF TANGO MONASTERY
Q&A
17:05–17:15
Closing statement: Professor Caroline Arscott
17:15
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