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2015-2016

2015 Autumn Term

DateSpeakerTitle
Thursday 8 October

Professor Margaret Iversen

University of Essex

Vision in Slow Motion
Thursday 22 OctoberDr Natasha Ruiz-Gomez

Shaking the Tyranny of the Cadaver: Doctor Paul Richer and the Living Écorché

Thursday 19 November

Dr Hans Christian Hönes

(Research project 'Bilderfahrzeuge' at the Warburg Institute)

Gottfried Kinkel at UCL: The Beginnings of Academic Art History

 

Thursday 10 December

Dr Lora Angelova

University College London

What the Gel is Going on? Exploring Gel-based Surface Cleaning for Works of Art

Followed by Object launch

2016 Spring Term

DateSpeakerTitle
Thursday 21 January

Professor Mignon Nixon

University College London

War Inside: Carolee Schneemann's Viet Flakes

Thursday 11 February

Professor Jennifer Tucker

Wesleyan University and Birkbeck Institute for Humanities Visiting Fellow

Facing Facts: The Significance of the Tichborne Trial (1867-1874) in Victorian Photography, Law and Visual Imagination

Thursday 25 FebruaryProfessor Wu Hung
University of Chicago

The Inscribed Studio Portrait as Self-image: Photographing a New Self in Early Twentieth-Century China

Thursday 3 March

Professor Katie Hornstein

Dartmouth College

Beasts Within: Leonine Encounters in Post-Revolutionary France

Thursday 17 March

Professor Ting Chang

University of Nottingham

French Sinology and Gustave Caillebotte's Portrait of Henri Cordier, 1883