New Voices Conferences
New Voices are annual, one-day student research conferences that take place at different universities throughout the UK.
New Voices Student Conferences
Organised by the AAH Student Members Committee, New Voices one-day postgraduate conferences provide a forum for students of art history and visual culture to present and discuss their current research in a stimulating, informal and supportive context.
New Voices 2011
"Madness and Revolt"
25 November 2011
Lecture Room 1, Minto House, 20 Chambers Street, Department of History of Art, University of Edinburgh (Map, Directions and Accommodation Info)
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Student member £10
Student non-member £15
Member £15
Non-member £20
Prices include lunch and refreshments. A conference dinner in Edinburgh will take place after the conference at delegates' own cost.
Programme
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Quite apart from stressing the perfectly inspired nature of the expressions of certain madmen, to the extent that we are able to appreciate them, we affirm the absolute legitimacy of their conception of reality, and of any action resulting from it.’
--Letter to the Head Doctors of Insane Asylums,
La Révolution surréaliste. No.3. April 1925
Keynote Speaker: Dr Sabine Wieber, University of Glasgow
9.30 - 9.50 REGISTRATION
9.50 - 10.00 Organisers’ Introduction Jenny Gypaki (University of Edinburgh)
Session I. Madness as Knowledge
Chair: Mary Jane Boland (University of Nottingham)
10.00 - 10.20 Katy Barrett (Ph.D Candidate, University of Cambridge and National Maritime Museum) ‘This Iridescent Bubble of Knowledge’: Hogarth’s Longitude Lunatic Between Madness and Revolt
10.20 - 10.40 Ben Zweig (Ph.D Candidate, Boston University) Madness and Knowledge: The Hermeneutics of Suicide in Medieval Art
10.40 - 11.00 Q&A
11.00 - 11.30 COFFEE
Session II. The Faces of Madness & Criminality
Chair: Jenny Gypaki (University of Edinburgh)
11.30 - 11.50 Hazel Murray (MA Student, National University of Ireland) ‘Through the Looking Glass: The work of Cesare Lombroso, considered through the wider lens of Italian psychiatry during the nineteenth century’
11.50 - 12.10 Agata Gomolka (MA Student, University of Warwick) The Faces of Madness: Disease and Revolt in Architectural Sculpture
12.10 - 12.30 Alexandra Tommasini (Ph.D Candidate, Courtauld Institute of Art) Morire di Classe: The Role of the Photobook in Changing Perceptions of Mental Illness
12.30 - 13.00 Q&A
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
Session III. Revisiting Surrealist Irrationalities
Chair: Catriona McAra (University of Huddersfield)
14.00 - 14.20 Lucy Form (MLitt Candidate, University of Glasgow) You Don’t Have to Be a Medium But it Helps: Mouvement Flou or Mouvement Fou?
14.20 - 14.40 Allison O’Sullivan (Ph.D Candidate, University of New South Wales) Les Belles Dames Sans Raison: Claude Cahun, Lise Deharme and ‘Hysterical’ Objects.
14.40 - 15.00 Q&A
15.00 - 15.30 COFFEE
Session IV. Body Politics in Revolt
Chair: Mary Jane Boland (University of Nottingham)
15.30 - 15.50 Amy Robson (MRes Candidate, Plymouth University), The Dog Days: Canine Class Contagions and Political Parodies in Victorian Visual Culture
15.50 - 16.10 Monika Winiarczyk (Ph.D Candidate, University of Glasgow), Jewish Melancholia: An Examination of the Interrelationship Between Medieval Notions of Melancholy and the Jewish Body
16.10 - 16.30 Q&A
16.30 - 17.30 Keynote Dr Sabine Wieber (University of Glasgow) Title tbc
17.30 - 18.55 DRINKS RECEPTION
19.00 DINNER (optional*)
*Optional conference dinner at Spoon Café Bistro (http://spooncafebistro.co.uk/contact-us.html) - payment for the dinner will be collected on the day from those wishing to attend.
Conference organisers:
Mary Jane Boland, University of Nottingham, maryjaneboland@gmail.com
Jenny Gypaki, University of Edinburgh, E.Gypaki@sms.ed.ac.uk
Catriona McAra, University of Glasgow, c.mcara.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Previous Conferences
New Voices:
Art & Tradition, 6 November 2010, University of Birmingham
Art & Desire, 7 November 2009, University of York. (Full timetable, Speaker's Abstracts, Speaker's Biographies)
Art & Authenticity, 1 November 2008, University of Cambridge, Newnham College ( programme)
Art & Memory, Courtauld Institute of Art, London - November 2007 - programme
Surface Effects, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds - June 2007
Careers Day, Tate Britain - Dec 2006
Picturing People: Image and Representation’, University of Birmingham - May 2006
University of Nottingham - November 2005
Birkbeck College - May 2005
University of Reading - November 2004
Henry Moore Institute - May 2004
Cambridge - November 2003
Loughborough - May 2003
AAH Student Conference
London - November 2001
Plymouth - May 2001
Edinburgh - February 2001
Birmingham - November 2000
Sussex - May 2000
London - November 1999
Liverpool - May 1999
Nottingham - February 1999
Oxford - May 1998
