Research Events
PhD student Stefano Colombo wins a Royal Historical Society travel grant.
History of Art PhD student, Stefano Colombo, has been awarded a Royal Historical Society conference travel grant. The grant will allow him to deliver a presentation at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Berlin, 26-28 March 2015. The title of the presentation is “The Commemorative Monument of the Fini Family in San Moisè: Strategies of Self-Promotion and Social Affirmation in Seventeenth-Century Venice".
Karen Lang - 'Questioning Aesthetics' symposium at Pratt Institute.
Venice exhibition: Per il bene della Pace
Members of the Department of History of Art have assisted with captions for an exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice.
Desiree de Chair curates display at Henry Moore Institute.
The Henry Moore Institute Library in Leeds is currently showing the display Henry Hugh Armstead's Royal Academy: A Sculptor's Career in Late Victorian Britain which has been curated by Desiree de Chair, PhD candidate in the History of Art department. The display is on until 14 December 2014.
Karen Lang in BBC Radio discussion.
Dr Karen Lang took part in a live discussion on the BBC Radio 3 programme Free Thinking on 9th October.
'Tim Marlow, Karen Lang, and Daniel Johnson discuss reading history through the paintings of Kiefer and Polke ahead of next month's 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.'
Hear the Podcast on the BBC Radio Three web site.
PhD student participates in digital reconstruction of Palazzo Grimani
Kayoko Ichikawa formed part of a group at the Digital Humanities Fall School at Ca’ Foscari, our partner university in Venice.
Modern Coventry church listed by English Heritage.
Following a proposal by Professor Louise Campbell, the church of St Oswald, Tile Hill Coventry (designed by Basil Spence), which echoes in miniature and in modern materials the design of Coventry Cathedral, was added on 2 October to English Heritage's Register of Listed Buildings
Find out more about our AHRC project: The life and work of Sir Basil Spence 1907-76: architecture, tradition and modernity
See more images on the project page for this building.
'Sculpture Victorious' exhibition reviewed in the Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal has just published a review of Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901, an exhibition co-curated by Michael Hatt of the History of Art department.
Nora Gietz delivers special legacy lecture.
Department of History of Art former PhD student Nora Gietz will deliver a special legacy lecture in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo and the 50th anniversary of St.John's International School, Waterloo. She will speak about her doctoral thesis: The Effects of Napoleonic Rule on Venice's Artistic Patrimony.
Nora completed her PhD in summer 2013 and was examined in September 2013.
Thursday October 2 at 19:30, reception from 18:30, Theater of the Performing Arts Center, St. John's International School, Waterloo, Belgium.
Free admission, donations to the scholarship fund gratefully accepted.
'Sculpture Victorious' exhibition opens in the US.
A major exhibition co-curated by Michael Hatt of the Department of History of Art opened in the United States last week.
Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901 has been organised by the Yale Center for British Art, in partnership with Tate Britain, where the show will travel in the spring. Find out more.
History of Art: no one scores higher on satisfaction with teaching.
The Department of History of Art has achieved a top result in the Guardian University Guide 2015, with 96.5 % of students expressing satisfaction with teaching. The score in this category is based on the National Student Survey, and gives the percentage of final-year students satisfied with the teaching they received.
Work/study fellowships granted for History of Art students at Venice Biennale
Over the summer, three second year students will work at the British Pavilion and conduct independent research.