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.
Next New Voices Conference...
Art & Authenticity
1 November 2008, University of Cambridge, Newnham College
To book for this event click on the New Voices online booking form or download and return the printable booking form with your payment.
Online booking is available to members only. You must register before you book. To do this please click here. Once you are registered you will be directed to the online booking form.
Booking deadline: 17 October 2008
“The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity,” writes Walter Benjamin in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Questions of authenticity dominate art history, from verification of an artwork’s claims to legitimacy, to rethinking, in the wake of rapidly evolving information technologies, the very concept of authenticity. This conference offers a platform for the ways in which authenticity can serve to validate and verify, how it relates to historical truth, but also how faith in the power of authentication makes manipulation and falsification dangerously easy.
New Voices postgraduate symposium, now in its sixth year, is organised by the Student Members’ Committee of the Association of Art Historians (AAH). This one-day conference offers an opportunity for postgraduate students to present their research in an informal, supportive and stimulating atmosphere. We seek proposals for papers that examine the notion of authenticity in all historical periods and critical
perspectives, across all mediums. Topics for discussion may include, but are not limited to:
• Uniqueness and originality of artwork vs reproduction, multiples and copy
• Fakes and forgery: ethics and legality
• Connoisseurship, attribution, authentication and conservation
• Document and archive as evidence
• Photography’s power to document and authenticate
• Questions of authorship and authenticity
• Appropriation: borrowing and stealing?
• New possibilities offered by the technologies to authenticate but also to manipulate the image
For more information please contact the conference conveners, Louise
Hughes, lh1873@bristol.ac.uk and Olga Smith, os243@cam.ac.uk
Booking deadline: 17 October 2008
Previous Conferences
New Voices:
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