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Academic Activities 2017-2018
4 July 2017 Artists’ Moving Image Workshop
T. J. Demos, “Scales of Incommensurability from the Postcolonial to the Posthuman: Historicizing Moving Image Practice in Britain and Beyond”
Melissa Gronlund, “You and Me and the Bottle Makes Three: Doubled Identity in the Video Work of the Young British Artists”
Rizvana Bradley, “Black British Experimental Video: Explorations in Diasporic Time”
Dan Kidner, “Curating Moving Images: Exhibitions, Institutions and Audiences in the 1990s”
Jonathan Walley, “Re-Creating Expanded Cinema in the UK”
Shanay Jhaveri, “A Sense of Contingency: Sonia Khurana, Huma Mulji and Abhishek Hazra”
James Boaden, “Queer Archives in Artists’ Moving Image: Patrick Staff’s The Foundation and Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston”
Maeve Connolly, “The Artist as Director: Features, Film Workers and the Cooperative Economy”
Johanna Gosse, “Broken English: Allegories of Media in Contemporary British Artists’ Film”
6 July 2017
Places of the Mind: British Watercolour Landscapes, 1850–1950
Paul Mellon Centre and the British Museum
Frances Fowle, “The View from North Britain: Landscape and Scottish Identity”
Samuel Shaw, “Form, Identity and Locality in Charles Holmes's Sketchbooks”
Greg Smith, “Brilliant Modern to Old Master: Thomas Girtin’s White House and the English School of Watercolour, 1850–1950”
Barbara Pezzini, “Selling Places of the Mind: Agnew's as Dealers of Watercolour Landscapes, 1850–1880”
Scott Wilcox, “Giving Watercolors a History”
Caroline Grigson, “Geoffrey Grigson’s ‘Places of the Mind’ – A Personal Retrospective”
Frances Spalding, “The Modernist Turn”
Simon Martin, “A Longing to be Away: John Minton’s Images of Imaginative Escapism”
Rebecca Salter, Artist’s response
William Tillyer, Artist’s response
Closing discussion (chaired by Kim Sloan and Jessica Feather)
7 July 2017
Book Launch
Ben Highmore, The Art of Brutalism: Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain
21 September 2017
Stubbs Workshop
Workshop in collaboration with the MK Gallery ahead of the solo exhibition of George Stubbs, due to take place in the Autumn of 2019
26 September 2017
Collecting and Display at Petworth House
Study day sponsored by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art as part of the research project, Art in the British Country House: Collecting and Display
Martin Postle, Andrew Loukes and Jessica Feather, Introduction
Andrew Loukes and Tabitha Barber, “Collecting and Patronage in the Time of the 6th Duke of Somerset” [Marble Hall, Beauty Room and Grand Staircase]
Andrew Loukes and Esther Chadwick, “Introduction to Petworth House Archive and the ‘Print Room’” [Old Library and Print Room]
Andrew Loukes, Greg Sullivan and Jessica Feather, “From the 3rd Earl of Egremont to Anthony Blunt and Beyond” [Carved Room, Red Room and North Gallery]
Concluding discussion (chaired by Mark Hallett)
Autumn Research Seminar Series 2017
4 October: Kobena Mercer, “Aubrey Williams: Abstraction in Diaspora”
18 October: Martina Droth, “Ceramics in the Expanded Field: Curating the Ceramic Object Today”
25 October: Anna Gruetzner Robins, “The Valists”
8 November: Gregory Smith, “Thomas Girtin (1775–1802): An Online Catalogue, Archive and Introduction to the Artist”
Autumn Research Lunches 2017
13 October: Melanie Veasey, “Forming a Community: Siegfried Charoux’s Maquette for The Neighbours (1957–59)”
17 November: Lucy Myers, Donato Esposito, Paul Goldman and Liz Prettejohn, “Frederick Walker and the Idyllists – Unsung Masters of Victorian Art”
24 November: Helen Whiting, “‘Your Beautiful and Hopeful Family’: Dynasty, Duff House and the House of Duff”
8 December: Emily Knight, “‘The Last Sad Testimony of Affection’: Portraiture as Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
5 October 2017
Attingham Trust meeting
6 October 2017
Kobena Mercer Workshop
Kobena Mercer, Opening paper
Guilia Smith, Magda Cordell, No. 12 (1960), mixed media on canvas
Elena Crippa, F. N. Souza, Head of a Man (1965), oil paint on canvas
Hammad Nasar, Anwar Shemza, Roots series
Mel Gooding, Aubrey Williams, Shostakovich series
Alice Correia, Veronica Ryan, Relics in the Pillow of Dream (1985)
David Dibosa, David Medalla, Cloud Canyons no. 3 (2004), mixed media
Laura Castagnini, Frank Bowling, More Land than Landscape (2017)
9-10 October 2017
Country House workshop
Martin Postle, Introduction
Rodolfo Rodriguez and Martin Postle, “Case Study 1: Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire”
Alice Martin, Oliver Cox and Edward Town, “Case Study 2: Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute”
Jessica Feather, Andrew Loukes, Tabitha Barber, Helen Wyld and Greg Sullivan, “Case Study 3: Petworth House, West Sussex”
Jonathan Law, “Filming the Country House”
Christopher Ridgway, Martin Myrone and James Legard, “Case Study 4: Castle Howard, Yorkshire”
Adriano Aymonino, Clare Hornsby and Peter Kerber, “Case Study 5: West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire”
Jonathan Yarker, “Case Study 6: Mells Manor, Somerset”
Emily Burns, Rodolfo Rodriguez and Martin Postle, “Case Study 7: Trewithen, Cornwall”
Martin Postle and Edward Town, “Case Study 8: Raynham Hall, Norfolk”
12 October 2017
Black Music: Its Circulation and Impact in Eighteenth-Century London
Joanna Marschner, Michael Veal and Amy Meyers, Introduction
Tunde Jegede, “African Classical Music: The Griot Tradition”
Eric Charry, “West African Music Cultures in the Eighteenth Century”
Mary Caton Lingold, “Circulating African Music in Sound and Text: The Literary Record”
Eric Charry, “Representing African Music in Hans Sloane’s Times”
Richard Rath, “Pidginization and Creolization in Hans Sloane’s Voyage to the Islands”
Mary Caton Lingold, “Musical Passage: Interpretations of Hans Sloane’s Voyage to the Islands”
Berta Joncus, “‘So Great was the Affection which he Bare to Music’: Hearing London’s Black Community”
Roundtable discussion (chaired by Michael Veal)
19-21 October 2017
Alma-Tadema: Antiquity at Home and On Screen
Conference held at the Paul Mellon Centre, Leighton House and Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image
Sarah Victoria Turner, Introduction
Christopher Reed, “Living in the Past; Or, What Do We Want from Artists’ Houses?”
Charlotte Gere, “An Alma-Tadema House”
Caroline Dakers, “Collecting Friends: Alma-Tadema’s London Circle”
Shelley Hales, “Re-staging the Roman Home”
Jan Baetens, “The (Time) Traveller’s House: The Hôtel Leys and the Casa Tadema”
Stephanie Moser, “Archaeology, Egyptology and a Passion for Domestic Things”
Nick Tromans, “From Studio-House to Museum: The Artist's Studio Museum Network”
Mary Roberts, “The Resistant Materiality of William De Morgan’s ‘Arab Hall’”
Peter Trippi, “From Galleries and Printsellers to Theatres and Cinemas: Transmitting Alma-Tadema, 1893–1913”
David Mayer, “Lawrence Alma-Tadema in the Theatre, 1881–1906”
Fiona Macintosh, “Dance, Decadence and Cosmopolitan Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century Britain”
Valentine Robert, “In Between the Frame, the Stage, and the Courtroom: Alma-Tadema’s Tableaux Vivants”
Céline Gailleurd, “From the Representation of Intimacy to that of the Orgy: The Underground Influence of Alma-Tadema through Italian Silent Films in the 1910s”
Maria Wyke, “Contra Tadema: Femininity, the Collective, and the Nation in Silent Cinema’s Pompeii”
Michael Williams, “‘To Live and Breathe with Light’: Star Bodies, Ancient Spaces and the Influence of Alma-Tadema”
Ivo Blom, “Art and Art Decoration: AlmaTadema and Set Design from Guazzoni to Ridley Scott”
Ian Christie, “After Tadema: Visions of Antiquity in British Cinema”
Maria Wyke and Ian Christie, Introduction to Ivo Blom and film screening
Roundtable discussion (chaired by Maria Wyke and Ian Christie and Elizabeth Prettejohn)
25 October 2017
Black Artists and Modernism
Workshop to inform the Black Artists & Modernism (BAM) related exhibition
29-31 October 2017
Enlightened Princesses: Britain and Europe, 1700-1820
An International Symposium held at Kensington Palace, Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London which brought together eminent academicians and museum scholars to investigate the role played by royal women-electresses, princesses, queens consort, reigning queens and empresses in the shaping of court culture and politics in Europe during the long eighteenth century.
John Barnes and Amy Meyers, Welcome
Joanna Marschner, Keynote lecture: “Enlightened Princesses: Britain and Europe, 1700–1820”
Women as Political Agents (moderated by Lisa Ford)
Elise Demineur, “Queens Consort as Political Agents: A Tentative Research Framework through the Example of Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden (1720–1782)”
Heather Carroll, “‘Charlotte has the breeches’: The Shifting Political Perception of Queen Charlotte”
Allison Goudie, “‘A woman of great feminine beauty, but of a masculine understanding’: Queen Maria Carolina of Naples and Canova’s Statue of the King ‘as Minerva’”
Martin Eberle, “Luise Dorothea – Duchess of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg”
Royal Women: Networks and Conversations (moderated by Lucy Peltz)
Elizabeth Eger, “Elizabeth Montagu, ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’: Women and Literary Authority in the Age of Enlightenment”
Lisa Skogh de Zoete, “Queen Hedwig Eleanora – A Liebhaberin of the Arts: Political Culture and Sources of Knowledge as part of Northern German Court Culture”
Merit Laine, “Creative Conversations: Queen Louisa Ulrika and the Formulation of Swedish Court Culture in the Age of Liberty”
Sonja Fielitz, “‘A Silent but Impressive Language’: The Quietly Worked Female Empowerment of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz”
Discussion (moderated by Sebastian Edwards and Desmond Shawe-Taylor)
Musical programme (introduced by Berta Joncus)
Joanna Marschner and Amy Meyers, Welcome
Royal Women as Patrons of Art and Architecture (moderated by Aurélie Chatenet-Calyste and Desmond Shawe-Taylor)
Tara Zanardi, “Material Temptations: Isabel de Farnesio and the Politics of the Interior”
Veronica Biermann, “‘Let’s have a look’: G. L. Bernini’s mirror for Queen Christina and her Self-Image”
Christopher Johns, “Two Queens and a Villa: Enlightenment Sociability in Turin”
Christopher Baker, “Augusta, Princess of Wales and Jean Etienne Liotard”
Heidi Strobel, “Queen Charlotte as Patron of Female Artists”
Royal Women and the Crafting of the Image (moderated by Eve-Lena Karlsson)
Robin Kaye Goodman, “En Sultane: Marie-Anne de Bourbon Condi’s Enlightened Court Patronage”
Heather Belnap Jensen, “Dynastic Dressing: The Portraits of Caroline Bonaparte Murat, Queen of Naples and the Art of Costume”
Tessa Murdoch, “Measuring Time at the Hanoverian Court: Caroline, Augusta and Charlotte as Promoters of Clock and Watch-Making in London”
Emily Roy, “Catherine the Great’s Russian Mountain: The Imagery of the Thunder Stone”
Discussion (moderated by Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly)
2-4 November 2017
AA XX 100: AA Women and Architecture in Context, 1917–2017
International Conference held at the Paul Mellon Centre and the Architectural Association
Samantha Hardingham in conversation with Sadie Morgan, “Being First”
Harriet Harriss, RCA, “Education & Educators”
Stephanie Dadour, ENSA Grenoble “When Women Started Teaching Architectural Design (France 1968–Present)”
Julia Gatley, “100 Years of Architecture at the University of Auckland: What Has It Meant for Women?”
Fiona Tung, “ms/representation”
Difference, Diversity, Discrimination (chaired by Elsie Owusu, OBE)
Lori Brown, “Diversity & Difference: Writing Transnational Histories of Women and Architecture”
Rachel Lee, “Extreme Mobility, Local Practice”
Danna Walker, “Talent Unlimited”
Collaborations, Collectives and Couples (chaired by Jane Beckett)
Harry Charrington, “Invisible Partners”
Andrea Merrett, “Feminism in Action: The Open Design Office”
People & Projects (chaired by Sarah Victoria Turner)
Paul Makovsky, “Total Design: How Florence Knoll Revolutionised Design and the Modern Interior”
Fiona and Ewen McLachlan, “Karla Kowalski – Informal Formality: A Reappraisal”
Ellen Rowley, “Architectures of Childcare: Women Architects and Civic Improvement in 1940s and 50s Dublin”
Suzanne Ewing, “Voices of Experience: Women Making Modern Scotland”
Deborah Cherry, Emily Gee, Mary Pepchinski and Elke Krasny, “Commemoration/Reclamation/ Revision: A Discussion” (chaired by Elizabeth Darling)
Julia Dwyer, Jos Boys, Liza Fior, Katherine Clarke, Justine Clark and Karen Burns, “Problematising the Profession: MatrixMuf-Parlour” (chaired by Lynne Walker)
The Future of Gender (chaired by Mathilda Tham)
Maria Paez Gonzalez, “Gendered Typologies: The Possibility of a Feminist Approach to Architectural Type”
Lola Ruiz, “Little Architect: Erasing Preconceptions about Architecture from Inside the Education System”
Katarina Bonnevier and Thérèse Kristiansson, “Ambiguous Spaces of Vast Possibilities: An Exploration of the Promises of Architecture Beyond Gender Binaries”
Clementine Blakemore, Albane Duvillier, Stephanie Edwards and Marie-Louise Raue, “Looking to the Future” (chaired by Manijeh Verghese)
16 November 2017
David Mellor workshop
“That Old, Weird England”: Documenting and Imagining Late Victorian and Edwardian Culture
Sarah Victoria Turner and David Alan Mellor, Welcome and Introduction
Participants: Martin Barnes, Ian Jeffrey, David Trotter, Elizabeth Edwards, Deborah Sugg Ryan and David Alan Mellor
30 November-1 December 2017
Landscape Now
International Conference held at The Building Centre and the Paul Mellon Centre
Mark Hallett, Amy Meyers and Melinda McCurdy, Welcome and Introduction
Anna Reid, “The Nest of Wild Stones: Paul Nash’s Geological Realism”
Anna Falcini, “Re-illuminating the Landscape of the Hoo Peninsula through the Media of Film (the porousness of past & present)”
Julia Lum, “Fire-stick Picturesque: Colonial Landscape Art in Tasmania”
Rosie Ibbotson, “The Image in the Imperial Anthropocene: Landscape Aesthetics and Environmental Violence in Colonial Aotearoa New Zealand”
Stephen Daniels, “Liquid Landscape”
Kelly Presutti, “Strategic Seascapes: John Thomas Serres and the Royal Navy”
Gill Perry, “Landscaping Islands in Contemporary British Art: Floating Identities and Changing Climates”
David Matless, “The Anthroposcenic: Landscape Imagery in Erosion Time”
Mark A. Cheetham, “Outside In: Reflections of British Landscape in the Long Anthropocene”
Tim Barringer, Keynote lecture: “Thomas Cole and the White Atlantic”
Matthew Hunter, “Drawing by Numbers: Anglo-American Landscape and the Actuarial Imagination”
Julia Sienkewicz, “On Place and Displacement: Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Immigrant Landscape”
Val Williams and Corinne Silva, “The ReMaking of the English Landscape: In the Footsteps of W. G. Hoskins and F. L. Attenborough”
David Chalmers Alesworth, “The Garden of Ideas”
Gregory Smith, “The ‘connoisseur’s panorama’: Thomas Girtin’s Eidometroplis and a New Iconography for the City”
Nick Alfrey, “1973 and the Future of Landscape”
Panel: “Landscape Now?”
Mark Hallett, Tim Barringer, Sarah Monks, Alexandra Harris and Amy Concannon
6 December 2017
Yale Year Ahead Press Launch
6 December 2017
Paul Mellon Centre Book Night
Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson, A Day at Home in Early Modern England: Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500–1700
Ben Highmore, The Art of Brutalism: Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain
Lynda Nead, The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain
Kate Retford, The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain
15 December 2017
Book Launch
Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson, A Day at Home in Early Modern England: Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500–1700
18 December 2017
Book Launch
Penelope Curtis, Sculpture Vertical, Horizontal, Closed, Open
January 2018
The Look of Music with Jeremy Deller
A series of talks organised by Jeremy Deller with the Paul Mellon Centre
10 January: Jeremy Deller, “Last Night a Brass Band Saved My Life”
18 January: Jon Savage, “Bodies: Iggy Pop & Beyond”
24 January: Es Devlin, “Voice Space: Designing Space for Music and Lyrics”
31 January: Neil Tennant, Mark Farrow and Scott King, “Marriage: Imagery of Pet Shop Boys”
12 January 2018
London, Asia Virtual Exhibitions workshop
Hammad Nasar and Sarah Victoria Turner, Introduction
Chiara Zuanni, “What is a Virtual Exhibition? Setting the Scene”
Lucy Steeds and Dorian FraserMoore, “The Other Story and its Virtual Afterlives”
Tom Scutt and Mark Hallett, “Gaming Technology and Reconstructing an Eighteenth-Century Exhibition”
Cathy Courtney, “Oral History, ‘Speaking of the Kasmin’ and the ‘Voices of Art’ Project”
Shanay Jhaveri, “Lionel Wendt and the Camera Club”
Brinda Kumar, “The Other Burlington”
Sria Chatterjee, “The Festival of India”
Alice Correia, “South Asian British Women Artists in the 1980s”
16 January 2018
Exhibiting Blake, 1780–2020 workshop
A day organised in preparation for the Tate Britain exhibition (scheduled for 2019–20) to bring scholars and curators together to exchange thoughts on the ways in which William Blake has been presented through exhibitions over time.
Mark Hallett, Welcome and Introduction
David Worrall, “1808”
Susan Matthews, “1809”
Colin Trodd, “1876”
David Bindman, “1975”
Martin Butlin, “1978”
Michael Phillips, “2009” and “2014”
Spring Research Lunch Series 2018
19 January: Christina Faraday (Farley), “Re-assessing ‘Liveliness’ in PostReformation English Visual Culture”
2 February: Tessa Kilgarriff, “‘Nor is the figure a mere theatrical portrait’: Exhibiting and Reproducing Theatrical Portraits in London, 1830–1860”
16 February: Robert Sutton, “Public Art and its Publics in Post-War Britain”
2 March: Susannah Walker, “Cruikshank's Alcoholics and The Addict in Austerity”
25-26 January 2018
Crossing the Channel: French Refugee Artists in London (1870-1904)
International Conference held at Tate Britain and the Paul Mellon Centre
MaryAnne Stevens, Keynote lecture
Caroline Corbeau-Parsons and Sarah Victoria Turner, Introduction
Frances Fowle, “Sisley's Thames Series: Impressionism, Photography and the Picturesque”
Kathleen Adler, “‘The Silvery, Glittering Palace’: Camille Pissarro in South London”
Crossing Cultures: Materiality & Manufacture (chaired by Rebecca Wallis)
Anne Robbins, “Jean-Charles Cazin (1841–1901)”
Melissa Berry, “From Sèvres to Stoke: Solon's Translocal Impact on British Ceramics”
Donato Esposito, “Auguste Delâtre (1822–1907): The Master Printer in London, 1871–76”
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, In the Corner of My Studio, 1893, private collection. Used to advertise the Alma-Tadema: Antiquity at Home and on Screen conference at Leighton House in October 2017
Melissa Buron, “The Mediumistic Apparition: James Tissot and La Manière Anglais”
Amélie Simier, “Jules Dalou and his British Patrons”
Krystyna Matyjaszkiewicz, “Kaye Knowles: ‘A Patron of Art of Apparently Eccentric Taste’”
Anna Gruetzner Robins, Closing Remarks
1st February 2018
London, Asia Research Lunch
Sarena Abdullah, “The Commonwealth Institute: Contexts, Collaborations, Contestations”
Spring Research Seminar Series 2018
21 February: Peter Kerber, “Blasphemy, Irenicism and Collecting: The Improbable Friendship of Francis Dashwood and Antonio Niccolini”
28 February: Christopher Ridgway, “The Lives and After-lives of Picture Displays at Castle Howard”
7 March: Martin Postle, “Patrons and Painters: Portraits by Joshua Reynolds and James Northcote at Trewithen, Cornwall”
15-21 March 2018
Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) Meetings held at the PMC
21 March 2018
G.E. Street: Discussion Workshop Celebrating the Paul Joyce Archive and Library
Held at the Paul Mellon Centre, with a tour of the church of St James the Less
Peter Howell, “Paul Joyce”
Geoff Brandwood, “Using the Paul Joyce Archive”
Richard Peats, “The Hardest Working Man in Gothic? G. E. Street’s Work as a Restorer and Furnisher of Churches in the Oxford Diocese”
Alex Bremner, “G. E. Street’s Churches in Rome”
Michael Hall, “G. E. Street as Writer and Theorist”
Colin Kerr, Talk at St James the Less
21 March 2018
Elizabethan Club Lecture
Anders Wintroth, “An Actor’s Smile, a Mother’s Advice, and the Triumph over the Armada: Recent Acquisitions by the Elizabethan Club”
12 April 2018
Charles I: King and Collector Conference
Conference held at the Society of Antiquaries of London and co-organised by the Royal Academy of Arts and the Paul Mellon Centre
Per Rumberg and Desmond ShaweTaylor, Welcome and Introduction
Andrea Bacciolo, “‘Piaccia a Sua Maestà che ogni giorno vengano maggiori creazioni di mandare regali a questa volta’: Paintings and Drawings from the Papal Curia of the Barberini”
Justin Davies, “Charles I, Van Dyck & the Spanish Match: Connoisseurs and Collectors as Royal Diplomats, with New Findings on Four Famous Van Dyck Paintings”
Erin Griffey, “‘Her Majesty’s pictures’: Henrietta Maria’s Taste, Patronage and Display of Pictures at the Stuart Court”
Maria Cristina Terzaghi, “Rome seen from London: The ‘Subsidium Peregrinantibus’ by Balthazar Gerbier and the Allure of Italian Baroque Painting at the Caroline Court”
Peter Humfrey, “‘Not verie acceptable to the King’? Charles I and Paolo Veronese”
Karen Hearn, “‘The Late K. & Q. in Little’: The Small-Scale Full-Length Royal Portraits in the Collection of Charles I and Henrietta Maria”
Margaret Dalivalle, “Experiencing Leonardo: The Prince of Wales and Juan de Espina”
Emily Burns, “Leaving a Legacy: The Appropriation of the Collection of Charles I in London During the Interregnum”
Lucy Whitaker, “The Restoration and the Legacy of Charles I's Collection”
13 April 2018
Charles I: King and Collector Workshop Mark Hallett, Welcome and Introduction
Niko Munz, “Hanging Whitehall Palace: Results from Royal Collection Trust's Charles I Digital Project”
Simon Thurley, “The Geography of Charles I’s Art Collection”
Ed Town, “A False Dawn – Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex and the Copies of Raphael’s Cartoons at Knole”
Susan Bracken, “Copies of ‘Antient’ Masters in the Collection of Charles I”
Grant Lewis, “Prints and Drawings in Charles I’s Collection”
25 April 2018
39th Kurt Pantzer Memorial Lecture: The Turner Society
Held at the Paul Mellon Centre
Sam Smiles, “Beyond the Physical: Time in Turner’s Art”
27-29 April 2018
Virginia Woolf: Art and Ideas
Conference held at Tate St Ives in collaboration with the Paul Mellon Centre
EJ Major, Naomi Frears and Melanie Stidolph, In conversation
Frances Spalding, Keynote lecture
Sarah Victoria Turner and Laura Smith, Welcome
Tess Denman-Cleaver, “Time Passes”
Laura Smith, “Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings”
Bryony Gillard, “Disappearing into Land”
Jean Mills, “Speak so you can Speak Again: Renunciation as Identity in the Work of Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston and Mother Catherine Seals”
EJ Major, Artist’s talk
Veronica Ryan, Artist’s talk
Claudia Tobin, “Still Life and the World of Objects in Virginia Woolf’s Art and Life”
Maggie Humm, “Virginia Woolf’s Childhood in St Ives”
Anna Snaith, “Virginia Woolf and the Reverberating Room”
Hana Leaper, “The Experience of the Mass is Behind the Single Voice: Virginia Woolf’s Sense of her Self in Relation to Wider Networks of Creativity”
Francesca Wade, “Roger Fry and Sketch of the Past: Virginia Woolf’s Post-Impressionist Biography”
Daisy Lafarge, “To Stand in the Fog on a Dark Evening Selling Apples”
Summer Research Seminar Series 2018
2 May: Mark Hallett, Esther Chadwick and Amy Concannon, “Chronicling the Summer Exhibition: The Early Years”
16 May: Christopher Baker, “The Many Lives of Landseer’s Monarch”
13 June: Mark Hallett and Sarah Victoria Turner in conversation with Christopher Le Brun, “Chronicling the Contemporary Summer Exhibition”
Summer Research Lunches 2018
11 May: Giulia Smith, “AS in DS: The World of Alison Smithson”
18 May: David Hansen, “Art History from Below: The Demotic Portraits of a Journeyman Facemaker”
25 May: Louise Voll Box, “Perceiving Prints in Eighteenth-Century Print Rooms: Commerce, Play and Display”
8 June: Beth Richards, “Travellers and Translators: The Returning Indian Turban as East India Company Uniform, c.1760–1810”
22 June: Niko Munz, “The Lost Collection: Charles I and Whitehall Palace, a Digital Initiative”
30 May 2018
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769–2018 – Launch Event
31 May 2018
London History Day Celebrates Courage, Lecture
Mark Hallett, “The Suffering Soldier: Depictions of Courage in EighteenthCentury British Art”
5 June 2018
Fellow’s Lunch
Jacqueline Riding, “Basic Instincts –Exhibition and Publication”
15 June 2018
Book Launch
Jill Francis, Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales
18 June 2018
Ceramics Workshop: “Things of Beauty Growing”: British Studio Pottery
Held at the Fitzwilliam Museum; organised by the Paul Mellon Centre
Tanya Harrod, Keynote lecture: “Pandora's Box: Taste, Modernism and Ceramics in Britain”
Simon Olding, Martina Droth and Helen Ritchie, “Reflections on the Exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art and at the Fitzwilliam Museum”
Alison Britton and Halima Cassell, makers represented in the exhibition, in conversation with curator Glenn Adamson
Glenn Adamson, “Full Circle: The Future of Studio Ceramics”
20 June 2018
Paul Mellon Centre Book Night
John Holmes, The Pre-Raphaelites and Science
Jill Francis, Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales
MaryAnne Stevens, The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections, ed Robin Simon with MaryAnne Stevens
Martin Postle, “The Cast Collection” (chapter 15 of The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections)
26 June 2018
Colour Control: Chromatic Regulation in Modern Britain 1800-2000 workshop
Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, Introduction
Round-table: Sonia Ashmore, Emma West, Dominique Grisard, Sarah Street, Lynda Nead and Helen Wheatley
Alexandra Loske, Wrap-up session
26-27 June 2018
Bartram Exhibition Workshop
Mark Hallett, Welcome
Amy Meyers and Therese O’Malley, Welcome and Introduction
John Edmondson, “John Bartram’s Garden Plan”
Andrea Hart, “Bartram Drawings and MSS at the NHM”
Mark Carine, “The Bartram Botanical Specimens”
Leslie Overstreet, “A Mystery Explored – The Bartram Copy of Catesby’s ‘Natural History’”
Henrietta McBurney, “‘A Sort of Paper Creation’: Peter Collinson’s Natural History Drawings by Catesby, Bartram and their Circle”
