Academic Sessions
37th AAH Annual Conference & Bookfair
University of Warwick,
31 March - 2 April 2011
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- ‘The Noblest Form Demands Strenuous Labour’: Women Sculptors, 1600–present.
Amy Mechowski (Victoria and Albert Museum), Fran Lloyd, (Kingston University) - Art Photography & its Markets
Juliet Hacking, (Sotheby’s Institute of Art) Joanne Lukitsh (Massachusetts College of Art and Design) - Poster Session
Janet Tyson, Rosalind Ormiston - Venice and the Mediterranean World: Art and Society in the Stato Da Mar and its Neighbours
Donal Cooper (University of Warwick) - The Session of Imaginary Artists
Maria Clara Bernal - Remapping New Positionality in Contemporary Korean Art
Soyang Park (Ontario College of Art and Design) - ‘In and Out of History’: Media and Politics in Latin America
Antigoni Memou (University of East London), Stephanie Schwartz (Courtauld Institute of Art) - Art Histories, Cultural Studies and the Cold War
Ben Thomas and Grant Pooke (University of Kent) - Round and Round Go Space and Time: The Afterlife of Lessing in Artistic Practice
Sarah Lippert (Louisiana State University Shreveport), Melissa Geiger (East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania) - Exhibition Practices During War and Conflict
Veronica Davies (Open University), Sue Malvern (University of Reading), Jutta Vinzent (University of Birmingham) - Same Difference: Material Cultures of Reproduction
Tara Kelly (University of Dublin), Lisa Godson (National College of Art and Design, Ireland) - The ‘Pure Art of Sculpture’: Giovanni Pisano and his Contemporaries
Peter Dent (University of Bristol), Jules Lubbock (University of Essex) - Re-Worlding: Do World Art and World Anthropologies Relate?
Daniel J. Rycroft (University of East Anglia), Wayne Modest, (Horniman Museum) - Medical Media: The Aesthetic Language of Medical ‘Evidence’
Tania Woloshyn (McGill University) - Ephemera: Art and Obsolescence
Katie Scott (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Richard Taws (McGill University) - Ugliness as a Challenge to Art History
Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC) - Representing the Past in the Nineteenth Century
Phillip Lindley and Matthew Potter (University of Leicester) - Writing Irish Art Histories
Caroline McGee and Niamh NicGhabhann, (University of Dublin) Lawrence Alloway ReconsideredSession withdrawn.
Courtney J. Martin (University of California), Jennifer Mundy (Tate)- Classical Art in Perspective
Elizabeth Moignard (University of Glasgow) - Reassessing the Symbolist Roots of Modernism
Michelle Facos (Indiana University), Thor Mednick (Independent) Pageantry and the Allegorical TraditionSession Withdrawn
Ariel Samuel Plotek (San Diego Museum)- Europe and the Middle East: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives before 1500
Christiane Esche-Ramshorn (University of Cambridge) - Colour: What Is It, and What Does It Mean?
Paul Smith (University of Warwick) - Representations of the Ocean as a Social Space
Tricia Cusack (University of Birmingham) - Art School Educated: Re-Thinking Art Education in the 21st Century
Beth Williamson and Hester Westley (Tate) The Next Generation: How Will We Teach and Learn?Session Withdrawn
Sue Cross, Andrea Fredericksen and Nick Grindle (UCL), Colin Mulberg(Victoria and Albert Museum)- Post-Socialist Prospects and Contemporary Communisms in Art History
Anthony Gardner (University of Melbourne), Klara Kemp-Welch (The Courtauld Institute of Art) - Craft, History, Theory
Janice Helland (Queen’s University,Kingston) - Theorizing Wax: on the Function and Meaning of a Disappearing Medium
Allison Goudie and Hanneke Grootenboer (University of Oxford) - Margins and Peripheries: Painting Outside the Cities of Eastern and Northern Europe
Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge) - Chinese Garden Research in the 21st Century Ways and Field of Research
Yuen-lai Winnie Chan (University of Oxford) Lei Gao (University of Sheffield),
Kai Gu (Zhejiang University),Sylvia Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Antonio Mezcua Lopez (Granada University) - Visualising Absence: Art and the ‘Ruin’ - AAH Student Session
Peter Stilton (University of Bristol), Antoinette McKane (University of Liverpool / Tate Liverpool) - Contemporary Art and its Audiences: New Interactive Practices
Kathryn Brown (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) - Between Documentary and Fiction in Artists’ Film and Video
Suzy Freake (University of Nottingham), Evgenia Gypaki (University of Edinburgh) - Telling Stories: making research accessible through display -
AAH Museums and Exhibitions Members’ Group Session
Marika Leino (Christie's Education), Marie-Therese Mayne (Laing Gallery, Tyne & Wear Museums) - “An inspriring day out”, “a lifestyle message”? Historic houses in the 21st century
Ulrike Weiss (University of St. Andrews)