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 2009: ART AND DESIRE
University of York, Saturday November 7 2009
Desire is arguably the overriding consideration in the study of art, for desire acts as the principle motivation in the drive to create, look at, study, collect, covet and possess art objects. On the one hand desire itself is a formidable impetus for making art: depicting desirable bodies; representing sexual thought, instincts and experiences; expressions of love, lust and compulsion are all prominent and endlessly recurring themes throughout the history of art. How is desire represented, and what drives artists to represent in the first place? On the other hand, there is the desire to own: either through sight, knowledge or physical acquisition, and this desire is undoubtedly the driving force of the discipline of art history. How collections are formed, what
we pay attention to, and the compulsion to look are all indispensable considerations when asking how art history was, and still is being, formed.
The New Voices postgraduate conference, now in its seventh year, is organised by the Student Members’ Committee of the Association of Art Historians. This one-day conference offers an opportunity for postgraduate students to present their research in an informal, supportive and stimulating atmosphere. Papers will be presented examine the notion of desire in all historical periods and critical perspectives, across all mediums.
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The event is taking place in the Berrick Saul building on the Heslington West campus of the University of York. The building is right in the middle of the site next to the Central Hall and the 'Campus Central' car park.
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The University campus is located just outside the city centre to the south-east - (signposted from the A1079 if arriving by car). There are regular bus links from the centre and the railway station which take around 10-15 mins.
Previous Conferences
New Voices:
Art & Authenticity, 1 November 2008, University of Cambridge, Newnham College ( programme)
Student Careers Day, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester - May 2008
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