Research Events
Past Speakers (since 2020)
Emeritus Professor Michael Rosenthal presents paper at Tate Britain.
Professor Michael Rosenthal will speak on 'Augustus Earle: Seeing Straight' at the Tate Britain conference Artist and Empire: New Dynamics which begins this week.
Tate Britain’s major conference marks the opening of the exhibition Artist and Empire. Scholars, curators and artists from around Britain and the world consider art created under the conditions of the British Empire, its aftermath, and its future in museum and gallery displays.
Art History PhD graduate has an article in the latest edition of Exchanges.
Recent PhD graduate and WATE award winner Ann Haughton has an article in the latest edition of Exchanges: the Warwick Research Journal. The article, 'Myths of Male Same-Sex Love in the Art of the Italian Renaissance', can be read online in the Exchanges journal.
Reference: Exchanges: the Warwick Research Journal, [S.l.], v. 3, n. 1, p. 65-95, sep. 2015. ISSN 2053-9665.
Colloquium - Rethinking Allegory, 30th October 2015.
RETHINKING ALLEGORY
The Warburg Institute
30 October 2015
Over the past several decades allegory has emerged as a prominent subject across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Allegory is all that traditional scholarship has said it is: a rhetorical figure, a mode of literary and artistic representation, a religious as well as secular hermeneutic practice. It is, however, much more than that: a protean cultural force which has left a deep imprint on the Western tradition, and whose full impact is only beginning to come to light. Hosted by the Warburg Institute, one of the key sites for the study of the allegorical tradition, this colloquium aims to showcase some of the most exciting research in contemporary allegory studies and further the vibrant current debate on the subject.
Keynote: Brenda Machosky (University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu). Speakers: Andreas Beyer (University of Basel), Matthias Bruhn (Humboldt University, Berlin), Jason Crawford (Union University), Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary, University of London), Kristen Poole (University of Delaware), Michael Silk (King's College, University of London).
Organisers: Karen Lang (Warwick) and Vladimir Brljak (Cambridge).
Visit the conference web page for more information.
New PhD by Research Scholarship for Venetian Renaissance Painting.
Closing date: 1st May 2015.
For more information see:
- The project website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/arthistory/research/projects/nationalgallery
- The advertisement on jobs.ac.uk: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AKV966/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-studentship-with-the-national-gallery-navigating-the-canals-making-and-moving-venetian-renaissance-paintings/
Professor Paul Smith has been awarded a Clark Institute summer fellowship.
Professor Paul Smith has been awarded a summer fellowship at the Clark Institute in Williamstown to pursue research into pictorial syntax, or how we construct the immaterial, virtual image in a picture from the material marks on its surface.
Basil Spence - Coventry churches listed by English Heritage.
English Heritage has just added the churches of St John Willenhall and St Chad Wood End to its listed buildings register. With the recent listing of St Oswald Tile Hill (added to list in October 2014) this means that all of Basil Spence’s churches in Coventry are now protected.
They were nominated by Louise Campbell, supported by the Twentieth Century Society.
In assessing them, English Heritage’s inspector drew heavily on research done in 2004-8 by the Basil Spence project team based at Warwick http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/arthistory/research/projects/basil_spence
The Minister’s decision about whether to list Spence’s Hyde Park Cavalry Barracks in London is now pending – see
http://www.c20society.org.uk/news/concern-over-the-fate-of-hyde-park-barracks/
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.
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.