Showcasing New Research 2013 - The Courtauld Institute of Art

The 2013 Courtauld Institute of Art
Postgraduate Symposium
Showcasing New Research 2013
10.00 – 18.15, Thursday 7 March
12.30 – 18.30, Friday 8 March
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House,
Strand, London WC2R 0RN
Drawing on the extraordinary range of research projects
carried out at the Courtauld, the 2013 symposium
provides a forum for third year PhD students to present
and discuss papers derived from their current work.
With an audience that includes other postgraduate
students, academic staff, and those outside the
Courtauld, the sessions will be organised thematically,
promoting new dialogues across the broad sweep of
periods and methodologies on display.
Portrait of a Sculptor (Allesandro Vittoria). 1650-
56, by the studio of David Teniers II, after
Giovanni Battista Moroni. (© The Samuel
Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London)
Open to all, free admission
Organised by the Research Forum Postgraduate Advisory Group and PhD students
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
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PROGRAMME
Thursday 7 March (DAY 1)
10.00 – 10.05 Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Maria Mileeva
10.05 – 11.30 SESSION 1: Networks and Exchange – Chair: Harriette Peel
Hui Kyung An: Rivalling Paris and Sao Paulo: Korean Artists in Southeast Asia in the
Early 1960s
Joanna Cheetham: Hans Feibusch and Civic Identity in Exile: The Newport Murals
Emma Rogers: Early Figurative Chessmen and Artistic Exchange in Southern Italy
11.30 – 12.30 SESSION 2: Text and Image: Sacred – Chair: Michaela Zoschg
Maria Grasso: Being There: The Depiction of Amand’s Soul in Valenciennes,
Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 500, as an Expression of Spiritual Power
Francesca Demarchi: Illustrations for an Early Medieval Prayerbook
12.30 – 14.00 BREAK FOR LUNCH (not provided)
14.00 – 15.00 SESSION 3: Text and Image: Secular – Chair: Laura Sanders
Rachel Hapoienu: Reassessing the Transmission of Images from Manuscripts by
Gerald of Wales
Carey Gibbons: Desire and Appetite in Illustrations by Arthur Hughes and Frederick
Sandys for Christina Rossetti
15.00 – 16.25 SESSION 4: Art and the State – Chair: Marie Collier
Evangelia Papoulia: Gregory XIII (1572-85): The Idea of Union
David Low: Ottoman Photography and State Identity: The Abdul Hamid II Albums,
1890-93
Natalia Murray: ‘Feast in a Time of Plague’ – First State-Sponsored Festivities in
Petrograd after the October 1917 Revolution
16.25 – 16.45 TEA/COFFEE BREAK (provided in the lecture theatre)
16.45 – 18.15 SESSION 5: Science and Experiment – Chair: Tim Satterthwaite
Vanja Malloy: Playing with Toys: Alexander Calder and Play Psychology
Sam Rose: Roger Fry and the Interwar ‘Science’ of Art Criticism
James Day: Experimental Writing in Art History
18.15 RECEPTION (Seminar Room 1)
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
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Friday 8 March (DAY 2)
12.30 – 14.00 SESSION 6: Politics and Ethics – Chair: Kristina Rapacki
Emily Mann: ‘Nothing but the Bare Ground’: Architectural Destruction in England’s
Early Atlantic Colonies
Henrietta Stanford: Scenes of Resistance: The Return of Ulrike Meinhof in Gerhard
Richter's October 18, 1977
Kaija Kaitavuori: A Man in a Pit and Other Humans as Objects: Ethics of Participation
14.00 – 15.30 SESSION 7: Centre and the Periphery – Chair: Irene Noy
Zehra Jumabhoy: It’s a Small World After All
Elizabeth Kim: Trending Art: Tracing the Fortunes of New York Artists of the 1980s
Natalia Budanova: WWI, Art and Women: Wartime Restrictions and Opportunities for
Russian Women Artists
15.30 – 16.00 TEA/COFFEE BREAK (provided in the lecture theatre)
16.00 – 17.00 SESSION 8: The Interior – Chair: Joost Joustra
Serena Martucci di Scarfizzi: Medieval Secular Wall Painting in Islamic Spain
Rodrigo Cañete: Diego Velazquez's Mars as the Spanish Exception To Rubens' Rule
At The King's Hunting Lodge
Wolf Burchard: Charles Le Brun and the Escalier des Ambassadeurs at Versailles
(1672-1679)
17.30 – 18.30 SESSION 9: Ephemerality – Chair: Julie Solovyeva
18.30 END
Yasmin Amaratunga: Invisible Ink: The Inherent Vice and Conservation of Ed Ruscha’s
Stains in the Modern Museum
Sylwia Serafinowicz: On the Depiction of Otherwise Ephemeral Matter
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