Research Events
Dr Sciampacone will present a paper at the Mediating Climate Change conference.
History of Art Department Research Fellow Amanda Sciampacone will be presenting a paper entitled 'Climatology, Medicine, and Scientific Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Britain' on 6 July 2017 at the Mediating Climate Change conference at the University of Leeds.
Enchanted Community - art project for Coventry & Leamington Spa.
Dr. Alice Eden has begun the Enchanted Community collaborative art project in Coventry and Leamington! The project kicked off with a well-received talk at Leamington Spa Art Gallery on Friday 12th May followed by a family workshop on Saturday 27th May. This series of public engagement workshops, outreach sessions and talks will culminate in an art exhibition in Coventry created by local residents, school children, local artist Holly Dawes and Alice Eden. Please see the project website for more details. This work is supported by Professor Michael Hatt, History of Art and the Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick.
Professor Louise Campbell: 'A background sympathetic to young and energetic minds'.
Emeritus Professor Louise Campbell will be giving a paper on Sussex University on 15 June at the Oxford Brookes conference 'Architecture Citizenship Space: British Architecture from the 1920s to the 1970s'. The paper is entiltled "'A background sympathetic to young and energetic minds': forming modern citizens at the University of Sussex".
Great News! History of Art is ranked 3rd in UK by Guardian University Guide.
We have been rated as one of the top three departments teaching History of Art in the country. The rankings are based on official data collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) and the National Student Survey (NSS). Find out more in the Guardian University Guide 2018.
Dr Lorenzo Pericolo - Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin.
During May, Lorenzo Pericolo has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin, working with the research group BildEvidenz. History and Aesthetics. The Fellowship ran from May 9th to May 16th 2017.
Dr Sciampacone is participating in Victorian Studies conference at Villa La Pietra, Florence.
On May 20th, Amanda Sciampacone will be presenting a paper on '"Injurious Impregnations of the Air": Medical Climatology in the Victorian Visual Imagination' at the NAVSA/AVSA conference to be held at Villa La Pietra in Florence.
Professionalization Workshop. 15th to 17th and 21st May.
Lutes at the National Gallery: PhD student presents lunchtime talk & performance.
On the 26th of April 2017, Art History PhD student and lutenist Adam Busiakiewicz presented a public talk on Ter Brugghen's Lute Player at the National Gallery in London.
The lute was used by painters to express various ideas in their works, apart from the obvious allusions to harmony and discord. The musical associations with Orpheus, the melter-of-hearts, would not have been lost on the contemporary audience of this painting. Various symbolic links to notions of youth, flippancy and the transience of life and worldly pleasures are also all associated with the mythology of the instrument and its music. Paintings such as Ter Brugghen’s Lutenist allow us to open up a world of understanding how music was appreciated and consumed in the past.
The talk was accompanied by several live performances of lute music relevant to the period and themes of the painting.
Professor Louise Campbell awarded Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship.
Louise Campbell has been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship for 2017-19 to prepare a book for publication called Studio lives: artists at home and at work in twentieth-century Britain.
Dr Rosie Dias participates in major British Library research project.
Rosie Dias has contributed to the British Library’s research project, Picturing Places, recently published as a web-based resource exploring the Library’s vast topographical collections. Her two articles, “Recording and Representing India: The East India Company’s Landscape Practices” and “A Map of Kolkata in 1785” draw upon her current research on the East India Company and visual culture, and focus upon works in the British Library’s India Office Collection and King’s Topographical Collection.
Dr. Sciampacone will be presenting a paper at interdisciplinary Victorian Studies seminar.
Amanda Sciampacone will be presenting a paper on '"Animalized Atmospheres": Climatology and Disease in Victorian Britain' tomorrow at the Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminar (MIVSS) on Victorians and the Environment to be held at Birmingham City University. The MIVSS is a group for scholars working on any aspect of nineteenth-century culture in the Midlands. MIVSS meets twice a year to have a day of themed discussion and to share research.
Staff Awards 2017 - Dr Ann Haughton nominated for Outstanding Contribution!
History of Art Associate Tutor, Dr. Ann Haughton, has been nominated for a University Staff Award for her 'Outstanding Contribution'. This award category celebrates individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to Warwick’s overall performance and reputation. The winners will be announced at an evening event in the Butterworth Hall on Friday 12 May.
Dr Jenny Alexander interviewed on local radio in Burgundy. Listen to France Bleu Auxerre!
Dr.Jenny Alexander (Warwick) and project partner Professor Terryl Kinder (Pontigny) have taken a break from their fieldwork at Pontigny Abbey church to give an interview to local radio station France Bleu Auxerre. The team are continuing their study of masons' marks at this Cistercian building, a project which is providing valuable information about the history of the building as well as exploring a significant new method of research.