History of Art Research Seminar Series (2024)

A weekly series of hour-long seminars from guest speakers and colleagues, with Q&A and drinks. Free and open to all.

Each semester, the School of History of Art welcomes a series of guest speakers and colleagues to present an hour-long seminar on their research.

The events are a fantastic opportunity to hear from art historians, critics, curators and artistsfrom the UK, Europe and beyond about their work. The seminars arefree and everyone is welcome.

Session Convenor and Enquiries Contact:

Yolanda De Iuliis - Yolanda.Deiuliis@ed.ac.uk

2023/24

Semester Two

18 January 2024 |Dr Seren Nolan |Agency ‘thro’ the ancients’: Women, classicism and Rome in the eighteenth century |17:15 - 19:30 GMT

25 January 2024 |Professor J.P. Park |Art Historical Fiction or Fictional Art History? |17:15 - 19:30 GMT

1 February 2024 |Dr Cynthia Thickpenny |The Transmutation of Patterns and the Role of Women in Insular Art |17:15 - 19:30 GMT

8 February 2024 |Sommer Hallquist |Curated Revelation: The Role of Textile Curtains in Medieval Manuscripts |17:15 - 19:30 GMT

12 February 2024 |Professor Nina Rowe |Dancing and Dalliance in the Late Middle Ages: tannczen, helsen, kussen, vnd rawmen |17:15 - 19:30 GMT

15 February 2024 |Professor Susannah Thompson |Edmonia Lewis’s Bust of Christ: identity, patronage and display |17:15 - 19:30 GMT

29 February 2024 |Patricia Hayes |Gesture and silence: photographs and the transfer of sovereignty in northern Namibia, 1917 |17:15 - 19:30 GMT

7 March 2024 | ProfessorNatalie Adamson |Imprisoned by Time: Abstract Painting and Temporality in the Work of Pierre Soulages |17:15 - 19:30 GMT | View event >

14 March 2024 |Dr George Emeka Agbo |Deconstructing Political Structure in Nigeria: Images, Social Media and the Obidient Movement |17:15 - 19:30 GMT | View event >

21 March 2024 |Daniel Ralston |Visions of Mexico: José María Velasco and the Art of Landscape |17:15 - 19:30 GMT | View event >

28 March 2024 |Professor Marsha Meskimmons |Yoko Ono: Peace, Planet and the Politics of Attention |17:15 - 19:30 GMT | View event >

4 April 2024 |Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi |A Woman’s Space: Architecture of the Mughal Harem |17:15 - 19:30 BST | View event >

Semester One

21 September 2023 |Professor Pey-chwen Lin| Revelation and Notification of Pey-Chwen Lin’s New Media Art “Eve Clone Series”|17:15 – 19:30 GMT

3 October 2023 |Dr Tessel Bauduin| Art and heritage artefacts in surrealist assemblages, display and collections: provenance questions and the case of Roland Penrose|17:15 – 19:30 GMT

5 October 2023 |Dr Angeliki Roussou| Labour in Displacement Aesthetics|17:15 – 19:30 GMT

12 October 2023 |Dr Larne Abse Gogarty| Criticism, Commitment, Conspiracy|17:15 – 19:30 GMT

19 October 2023 |Eddie Chambers| The Personal Dimensions of African Diaspora art history|17:15 – 19:30 GMT

26 October 2023 |Christopher Baker| The Challenges of Jean-Étienne Liotard|17:15 – 19:30 GMT

9 November 2023 |Lizzie Swarbrick| 'Avise la Fin': An Embodied Experience of Bishop Kennedy's Fifteenth-Century Tomb in St Andrews|17:15 – 19:30 GMT

16 November 2023 |Dr Sarah Laurenson| Crafting colour worlds: the making of Scottish jewellery in the long nineteenth century|17:15 – 19:30 GMT

23 November 2023 |Linda Safran| An Exceptional Sixth-Century Byzantine Censer|17:15 – 19:30 GMT

30 November 2023 |Frances Fowle and Michael Clarke| NGS French catalogue launch|17:15 – 19:30 GMT

2022/23

Semester Two

19 January 2023 |Michael Clarke | Collecting Impressionists and Musicians - The Maitlands in Edinburgh|17:00 – 19:00 GMT

27 January 2023 |Richard Thomson | Pride, Insurrection and Hope - Divergent Images of France's Future after 'The Terrible Year'|17:00 – 19:00 GMT

2 February 2023 |Martin O’Brien |Deathly Durations: Performance and the Temporalities of Decay |17:00 – 19:00 GMT

8 February 2023 |Dr Susanna Harris | Event details TBC

20 February 2023 |Linda Hoaglund |What is Modern? |17:00 – 19:00 GMT

9 March 2023 | Dr Darin Stine | Raphael, Geometric Planning(?), and the Chigi Chapel|17:00 – 19:00 GMT

16 March 2023 | *CANCELLED*Linda Safran | Contacts between Sinai and Southern Italy|17:00 – 19:00 GMT

23 March 2023 |Adam Cohen|The Virgin and the Unicorn: Methodological Considerations of the Rothschild Pentateuch |17:00 – 19:00 GMT

30 March 2023|C.C. Mckee |Memories of Freedom, Fantasies of Bondage: Race, Gender, and Labor in Pissarro’s Caribbean |17:00 – 19:00 GMT

6 April 2023 |Stephanie Straine | ‘Exposure and Hiding: Conversations with the Collection’|17:00 – 19:00 BST

27 April 2023 |Catriona Seth |“I’ll top it with the best of them.” Recovering Katherine Read’s (net)works |17:00 – 19:00 BS

4 May 2023 |Iain Campbell |Experiments in Art and Technology, Experiments on the Self: Revisiting John Cage’s Variations VII |17:00 – 19:00 GMT

10 May 2023 |Yael Rice |Mastering a World by Consuming a Book: The Ni‘matnāma (Book of Delicacies), circa 1495–1505 |17:00 – 19:00 BST

18 May 2023 |Keava McMillan | Suffragettes, Saints, and Sprites: Reimagining Identities in Greengate Close |17:00 – 19:00 GMT

24 May 2023 |Alina Sinelnyk | Becoming Chinese-American in 1990s California: Migration and Cultural Adaptation through the Lens of Works by Zheng Chongbin |17:00 – 19:00 GMT

25 May 2023 | Zheng Chongbin |US San Francisco Bay Area Artist Zheng Chongbin on His Multimedia Art | 17:00 - 18:0

Semester One

21 September 2022 | Tehching Hsieh | Tehching Hsieh Lifeworks 1978 - 1999 |17:15 – 18:15 (UK time)

29 September 2022 |Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison (Edinburgh College of Art) |Typology, Responsibility, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Christian Art and Literature | 17:15 – 18:45 (UK time)

6 October 2022 |Dr Rafael Blanco (Universidad de Córdoba) |Audiovisual dissemination of heritage: the case of Cordoba (Spain) |17:15 – 18:45 (UK time)

13 October 2022 |Prof. Su-Hsing LIN (林素幸) |Imagination: The Wonderland of Picture Books in East Asia |17:15 – 18:45 (UK time)

20 October 2022 |Dr Danny Zborover (British Museum) |Possessing the Pacific: From Lord Eight Deer to Sir Francis Drake (and a bit after) |17:15 – 18:45 (UK time)

27 October 2022 |Dr Cole Collins (University of Edinburgh) |‘I am a man. Mit all seiner Weiblichkeit!’: Jürgen Baldiga’s Männerfotobuch and gender |17:15 – 18:45 (UK time)

3 November 2022 |Dr Michael Asbury (Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN)) |The crossroads: Modern and Contemporary Brazilian art through the Spectre of Coloniality |17:15 – 18:45 (UK time)

10 November 2022 |Aimé Iglesias-Lukin |This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York 1965–1975 |17:15 – 18:45 (UK time)

17 November 2022 |Prof. Christopher Baker |The Challenges of Fuseli |17:15 – 18:45 (UK time)

24 November 2022 |Prof. Elizabeth Cowling (University of Edinburgh) |Cubist collage and the “Woman question” | 17:15 – 18:45 (UK time)

2021/22

22 September 2021 | Prof. Claudia Brittenham(University of Chicago) | Making and Duration in the Unseen Art of Mesoamerica | 15:00-16:15 UK Time

29 September 2021 | Dr Amelia Hope, Teaching Fellow, Early Art (History of Art, University of Edinburgh) | Poor men and brother hermits: The Franciscans, the eremitic life, and a late thirteenth-century image of the desert

6 October 2021 | Artist Lee Mingwei | Six Stories

13 October 2021 | Prof. Nizan Shaked (California State University, Long Beach) | Museums andWealth: the Politics of Contemporary Art Collections

20 October 2021 | Prof. Yolaine Escande (École des hautes études en sciences sociales | EHESS) | The Garden Under the Influence of Painting:The Case of the Orchid Pavilion Garden

27 October 2021 | Hannah Halliwell, Teaching Fellow (History of Art, University of Edinburgh) | Dangers, Desires and Disease: The Morphine Addict in Late Nineteenth-Century French Visual Culture

10 November 2021 | Dr Marina Vishmidt (Goldsmith, London) | Structuring Feeling: On Some Modes of Writing About Contemporary Art

24 November 2021 | Dr Lauren Working (University of Oxford) | Forbidden Mixtures: Still Life Painting & the Colonial Gaze

25 November 2021 |ProfWhitney Davis (UC Berkeley) |Art History and the Tyranny of Humanism

1 December 2021 |Dr Martin O'Brien (Queens Mary London) |This event has been cancelled

12 January 2022 | Prof Kenneth McConkey (Emeritus Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Trust) | The Artist Traveller at the turn of the Twentieth Century

19 January 2022 | Prof. Lori Cole (New York University) |The Magazine as Museum: Surrealist Experiments in Chile

26 January 2022 | Prof. Fernando Domínguez Rubio (UC San Diego) | The Unnatural Ecologies of Modern Art

2 February 2022| Dr Allan Madden | A Dandy Lion in Paris: Surrealist flânerie and the collaged streetscape in Une semaine de bonté (1934)

9 February 2022| Prof.Zahid R. Chaudhary (Princeton) | The Reinvention of Tradition in Punjabi Diasporic Art

CANCELLED | 16 February 2022 | Dr Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani | United in Diversity: Commonwealth Abstraction in Postwar Britain

23 February 2022 | Prof. Ben Highmore (University of Sussex, Brighton UK) | Experiments in Free Play: From the outdoor gymnasium to the junk playground

2 March 2022 | Prof. Tamara Sears (Rutgers University) | On Stone, Storms, and Seismic Tremors: Architecture and Ecology in Medieval India

16 March 2022 | Dr Meekyung MacMurdie | Reigl's Pattern Book: Problems for a Material History of Style

23 March 2022| Dr Richard Taws (UCL), The Dilation of the Sky: Charles Meryon’s Speculations

30 March 2022 | Dr Edwin Coomasaru(IASH, University of Edinburgh) | Sri Lanka’s Queer Tropics: Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon (1950) and Basil Wright’s Song of Ceylon (1934)

Previous seminar series

2020/21

1 Oct 2020 | Dr Dave O’ Brien and Dr Orian Brooks (University of Edinburgh) | Culture Is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries

8 Oct 2020 | Dr Colin Brady (University of Edinburgh) | How Japanese art dealers transformed the Asian art market in America

15 Oct 2020 | Prof Kathryn Smith (New York University) |Scripture Transformed in Late Medieval England: The Religious, Artistic, and Social Worlds of the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris, BnF MS fr. 1)

22 Oct 2020 | Dr Will Rea (University of Leeds) |What art history might tell us about Pandemics: Yoruba logic and response to pandemics - the Lukuluku and measles cases in Ekiti Nigeria

5 Nov 2020 | Dr Anna Watz (Linköping University, Sweden) |Surrealism and écriture féminine

12 Nov 2020 | Dr Stephen Whiteman (The Courtauld Institute of Art) |The Emperor’s Eyes: Painting and the Production of Cosmopolitan Space in the Early Qing Court

19 Nov 2020 | Dr Megan McNamee (University of Edinburgh) |A Fourteenth-Century Almanac and the Affordances of Folding in the Later Middle Ages

3 Dec 2020 | Dr Rachel Boyd |Familiar visions: Glazed terracotta, serial production, and devotional experience in Renaissance Tuscany

13 Jan 2021 | Prof Dan Hicks (Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at Oxford and Curator at the Pitt Rivers) | The Brutish Museums

20 Jan 2021 |Dr Jamie Forde and Dr Jiemin Fang (University of Edinburgh) |Jade Across Oceans: The Power of Green Stone in Ancient China and Mesoamerica

27 Jan 2021 |Dr Ilse Sturkenboom (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) |Writing on Colour and Gold: The Use and Meaning of Chinese Decorated Paper in Fifteenth-Century Persianate Manuscripts

3 Feb 2021 |Dr Mira Xenia Schwerda(University of Edinburgh) |A Postcard from the Revolution: Photography and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution

10 Feb 2021 |Dr Madeline Haddon(University of Edinburgh) |Loal Color: Race, Gender, and Spanishness in European Painting, 1855-1927

17 Feb 2021 | Gražina Subelytė (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice) |Okamoto Tarō and Kurt Seligmann: The Magical Myth of Tomorrow

24 Feb 2021 |Prof. Giovanna Zapperi (Université de Tours) |The end of the creative genius? Women artists in Italy, 1960s-1970s

3 Mar 2021 |Dr Aline Gillermet (University of Cambridge) |Thinking About the Medium: Digital Painting in the 2010s

10 Mar 2021 |Prof Amy Bryzgel (University of Aberdeen) | Teaching the Ephemeral: Performance Pedagogy Performance art in East-Central Europe

17 Mar 2021 |Dr Bryony Coombs(University of Edinburgh) |Immytateur de madame Nature,’ Jean Perréal and the humanists in early-sixteenth century France

CANCELLED25 Mar 2021 |Dr Marina Vishmidt (Goldsmiths, University of London) |Structuring Feeling: On Some Modes of Writing About Contemporary Art | 5.15pm

2019/20

19 Sep 2019 |Prof. Celeste-Marie Barnier (University of Edinburgh) |Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art (1965-2015) | Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

26 Sep 2019 |Prof. Ava Hsueh |Interbreeding: The Vitality of Taiwan Art Groups after 1990s| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

3 Oct 2019 |Dr Edward Payne (Durham University) |Seicento Naples: 'Fierce Reality'?| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

10 Oct 2019 |Dr Alexandra Makin|The Cuthbert Maniple Recreation Project: what can an experimental embroidery project tell us about this early medieval art form?| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

17 Oct 2019 |Dr Sally Foster (University of Stirling) |My Life as a Replica: understanding the values and meanings of the St John's Cross, Iona from creation to present | Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

24 Oct 2019 |Dr Cadence Kinsey (University College, London) |Fluid Dynamics| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

7 Nov 2019 | Prof. Vidya Dehejia (Columbia University) |To the Divine Through The Path of Beauty: An Exploration | West Court | 6pm

14 Nov 2019 |Bill Hare (University of Edinburgh) |Scottish Artists in an Age of Radical Change, 1945 to the 21st Century| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

POSTPONED (New date to be confirmed) | Dr Stefan Hanß (University of Manchester) |Material Cross-Referencing: Creativity and Craft Cultures at Early Modern Courts

21 Nov 2019 | TheWatson Gordon Lecture:Dr Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (Director of History, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC)| White House/White Cube: Portraits, Paintings, and the American Presidency | Scottish National Gallery, Hawthornden Lecture Theatre | 6pm

16 Jan 2020 |Prof. Abigail Harrison Moore (University of Leeds) |Women and Energy, Crafts and electrick decision making | Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

23 Jan 2020 |Dr Karen Dempsey (University of Dublin)|Tending the ‘Contested’ Castle Garden: sowing seeds of feminist thought| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

30 Jan 2020 |Dr Alexandra Loske (University of Sussex) |Squaring the colour circle: Pioneering women in colour literature and theory| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

6 Feb 2020 |Professor Jonathan Eburne (Pennsylvannia State University)|The Great Surrealist Bargain Basem*nt| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

13 Feb 2020 |Dr Tom Stammers (University of Durham) |Heritage and collecting in the Jewish Country House| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

04 Mar2020 |Dr Umberto Bongianino (University of Oxford) andDr Ben Tilghman (Washington College) | Art of the Global Middle Ages: Exchange and Ecology| 2.30pm

12 Mar 2020 |Gražina Subelytė |Kurt Seligmann and Taro Okamoto: Parallel Approaches to Myth and Magic

19 Mar 2020 |Prof. Kathryn Smith (New York University) |Transformed in Late Medieval England: The Religious, Artistic, and Social Worlds of the Welles-Ros Bible| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

26 Mar 2020 |Dr Laura Guy (Newcastle University)|Informed Consent: The public lives of queer objects| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

2 Apr 2020 |Dr Stephen Whiteman (Courtauld Institute) |The Emperor’s Eyes: Painting and the Production of Cosmopolitan Space in the Early Qing Court | Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre | 5.15pm

2018/19

27 Sep 2018 |Richard Williams |Art history futures - what next for the discipline?| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

4 Oct 2018 |Dr Halle O’Neal |Word Embodied: Entangled Icons in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Art|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

11 Oct 2018 |Patrick Elliott |Leonora Carrington’s Portrait of Max Ernst, c.1939: A New Acquisition for the National Galleries of Scotland| Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

18 Oct 2018 |Dr Felicity Gee |Object-fantasticality [gegenstandsfantastik] - or What is Magic Realism?|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

25 Oct 2018 |Dr Christian Weikop |Screening: Strategy: Get Arts (1970). In Conversation with the Artist Alexander Hamilton| ECA Main Buliding, West Court

8 Nov 2018 |Professor Cynthia Hahn |Heart’s Desire: From Christ, to Crown, to Eros| The Watson Gordon Lecture |National Gallery of Scotland, Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL

15 Nov 2018 |Dr Tamara Trodd |WELCOME! Elizabeth Price and the Life of Objects|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

22 Nov 2018 |Dr Matthew Potter |When England grew out of her saucy youth’: the Fin-de-Siècle German Reception of Gillray and Rowlandson, 1895 – 1908|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

29 Nov 2018 |Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn |The Case of M. Alphonse Legros|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

17Jan 2019 |Kate Cowcher |This is Lenin! Demystifying Revolution in Socialist Ethiopia|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

31 Jan 2019 |Dominic Johnson |Action Sculpture: The Body/Object Problem in the Performances of SkipArnold|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

7 Feb 2019 |Michelle Foot |TheCeltic Revival and Modern Spiritualism: fairies, witches and haunted landscapes|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

14 Feb 2019 |Andrea Phillips |Contemporary Art and the Production of Inequality|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

28 Feb 2019 |David Munro |Oceanography – bridging the gap between art and science|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

7 March 2019 |Cinta Krahe |Chinese porcelain in Habsburg Spain|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

14 March 2019 | Simon Shaw-Miller |The Orphic Tendency in Early Abstraction|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

21 March 2019 |Kamini Vellodi |On writing a dictionary: some philosophical problems|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

28 March 2019 |Stewart Martin |A brief history of the art strike|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

4 April 2019 |Mieke Bal |Thinking in Film: How Thought Moves|Hunter Building, Lecture Theatre

2017/2018

21Sep|Sir Mark Jones |Algernon Newton 1880-1968

28Sep|DrSabrina Rastelli (Università Ca'Foscari Venezia) |A New History of Chinese Art History

5Oct |Professor Andrew Ginger (University of Birmingham) |Visions of Similarity: Spanish-speaking Artists, the World, and the “Nineteenth Century”

12 Oct |Professor Timon Screech (SOAS) |The Essence of the Floating World in Early Modern Japanese Art

16 Oct (Lunchtime lecture, 12.30pm)|Professor Sherry D. Fowler (University of Kansas) |Counting on Buddhist Images of Six Kannon for Salvation in Japan

19 Oct |Sebastian Boyle |Real Artificial Cream: Sebastian Boyle discusses the work of Boyle Family

26 Oct |Professor Neil Cox (University of Edinburgh) |The Shape of Feeling

9 Nov |Watson Gordon Lecture at the Scottish National Gallery | Professor Joseph Masheck (Hofstra University, New York) |Classic Mondrian in Neo-Calvinist View |6pm

16Nov |Dr Jemma Field (Brunel University London) |Undressing Queen Anneof Denmark: Fictions, Realities, and the Power of Portraiture

23Nov|Professor Richard Williams (University of Edinburgh) |The City on the Highway, Revisited: Reading Reyner Banham's Los Angeles in the Age of Waymo

30Nov |Dr Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University) |Constructing RussianNuclear Heritage: The Organisation,Politics and Aesthetics of Revealing

18 Jan | Dr Tom Tolley (University of Edinburgh) |Wolfgang and ‘The Little Chimney Sweep’: Leopold Mozart’s Pictures of Working Children

25 Jan | Dr Paula Barreiro López (University of Barcelona) |Comrades in Arms against Dictatorship: the Avant-garde, Art Criticism and the Franco Regime

1 Feb | Dr Christine Riding (Royal Museums Greenwich) |The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I: Making, Meaning and Afterlife

8 Feb | Dr Lucy Weir (University of Edinburgh) |Pina Bausch’s Theatre of Cruelty

15 Feb | Professor Eric Robertson (Royal Holloway) |Curating Arp’s Poetic Forms

1 Mar | Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of York) |The Case of M. Alphonse Legros

Postponed| Dr Cinta Krahe(Universidad de Alcalá andUniversidad Antonio de Nebrija)|Chinese porcelain in Habsburg Spain

22 Mar | Professor Charles Esche (Van Abbemuseum / University of the Arts London)|The Demodern as a Possibility for Western Europe

29 Mar | Dr Jill Burke (University of Edinburgh) |Leonardo da Vinci's 'Female Genitalia': Women's bodies and the limits of representation

5 Apr | Dr Gabriele Schor (Sammlung Verbund, Vienna) |The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s

10May (Rescheduled date)| Professor Kerstin Stakemeier (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nuremberg)|Against our Freedom: about an anti-social aesthetic practice

2016/2017

Dr Ruth Hemus (Royal Holloway, University of London)|Dada’s Women: Reflections in the Centenary Year

Dr Genevieve Warwick (University of Edinburgh)|Effigies

Dr Michael Bachmann (University of Glasgow)|Distributed Aesthetics, Contemporary Criticism and the Public Sphere

Michael Clarke (National Gallery of Scotland)|The Reluctant Matriarch: Madame Mére, the Painter Gérard and Dynastic Portraiture under Napoleon

Professor Catherine Asher (University of Minnesota)|The Taj Mahal: Mughal Architecture, Ideology and the Construction of Kingship

Professor Phillip Lindley (University of Leicester)|The Union Duke’s Marbles

Professor Hilary Robinson (Middlesex University)|Griselda Pollock and the making of UK feminist art history and criticism in the 1970s

Dr Helen Langdon (writer, scholar, and curator)|Watson Gordon Lecture: Caravaggio, the Caravaggisti and Cupid

Dr Richard McClary (University of Edinburgh)|Mina'i: Gilded Polychrome Ceramics of Kashan and the Birth of Persian Painting

Dr Amy Bryzgel (University of Aberdeen)|Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960

Dr Chia-ling Yang (University of Edinburgh)|Antiquity Revisited: New Modes for Scholarly Art in 19th-Century China

Dr Luca Palozzi (University of Edinburgh)|Drawing before the Disegno: Reflections on Trecento Art Theory and Practice

Carla van de Puttelaar (Utrecht University)|The Scougall Family, Portrait Painters in a Legal Community, Scottish Portraiture 1650-1714

Dr Carol Richardson (University of Edinburgh)|Art and Gynaecology at St Peter's in Rome

Professor David Hopkins (University of Glasgow)|Oz magazine and Surrealism's legacy: children, obscenity and the politics of counter culture

Professor Geoffrey Quilley (University of Sussex)|British art, empire and the Opium War; the view from Dent's veranda

Dr Anna McSweeney (Warburg Institute, SOAS, University of London)|Object Biographies: a carved and painted ceiling from the Alhambra Palace

Professor Herbert Kessler (Johns Hopkins University)|'Whoever Wishes to Know God, Look at the Glass'; Medieval Windows as Scripture

Dr Matt Lodder (University of Essex)|Cynicism and Contemporary Art: The Curious Case of Dan Wolgers

2015/2016

Professor Richard Thomson (University of Edinburgh)|Seurat'sParade de cirque: Interpreting a Painting, Organising an Exhibition

Dr Lucia Dolce (SOAS, University of London)|The Visual Practices of Buddhism: Ritual Iconography and the Resignification of Visual Forms in Mediaeval Japan

Professor Paul Gladston (University of Nottingham)|(Bad) Faith in Painting (?): Critically Re-evaluating the Significance of Yu Youhan’s Political Pop Series

Dr Lisa Skogh (Victoria and Albert Museum)|The Kunstkammer and the Early Modern Consort: Knowledge, Networks and Influence

Dr Jenny Terry (Durham University)|Afrofuturism, Sci-fi and the Scopic in the Art of Ellen Gallacher

Dr Freya Gowrley (University of Edinburgh)|The Sister Arts: Needlework between Thread, Paint, and Print in Eighteenth-century Britain

Dr Sussan Babaie (Courtauld Institute of Art)|A Medieval Picture Book and its Judeo-Persian Lives: The Morgan Bible in 17th century Safavid Iran

Professor Lex Bosman (University of Amsterdam)|The Cathedral of Rome in the Fourth Century. New Ideas about the Architectural Ground-plan of the Basilica Constantiniana (S. Giovanni in Laterano)

Dr Eric Lefebvre (Musée Cernuschi)|Exhibiting and Collecting Chinese Contemporary Painting in the Modern Era: The Case of the French Museums (1920-1960)

Dr Martin Myrone (Tate)|1832: The Progress of Civilization in the Age of Reform

Dr Terri Geis (Pomona College, USA)|Archipelagos: International Women Surrealists and the Ocean

Ed Krčma (University of East Anglia)|Compression

Ayesha Hameed (Goldsmiths)|Black Atlantis

Emanuele Lugli (University of York)|The New Look of the 1340s: Fashion, Measurements and Other Disasters

Kate Sloan (University of Edinburgh)|The Analogue Game: Aircraft Control and Play in Roy Ascott's Pedagogy

Andrew Patrizio (University of Edinburgh)|The Year that Art History got a Hole in its Ozone Layer

Rachel King (National Museums Scotland)|"Asbestos Fingers and Flaming Lips”: Tea, Coffee and Silver Vessels in the 18th Century

Margit Kern (University of Hamburg)|Hieroglyphs of Faith: Missionaries as Actors in Transcultural Negotiation Processes and Image Theory in 16th Century New Spain

Xavier Guillaume (University of Edinburgh)|Paint it Black: Colours and the Social Meaning of the Battlefield

2014/2015

Professor Michael Yonan (University of Missouri) |Interlaced: Meaning and Materiality in an Eighteenth-Century Imperial Gown

Dr Charlie Miller (University of Manchester) |Cubism After Cubism

Dr Gavin Grindon (University of Essex)|Disobedient Objects: Art History, Curating and Social Movement Cultures

Dr Glyn Davis (University of Edinburgh)|Beckett, Warhol

Professor Geraldine Johnson (University of Oxford)|‘Photo-Sculpsit’: Sculpture, Photography and the History of Art

Dr Tom Nichols (University of Glasgow)|Surviving the ‘Father of Art’: Titian and his followers

Professor Joanna Cannon (Courtauld Institute of Art)|Religious Poverty, Visual Riches: Art in the Dominican Churches of Central Italy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Dr David Bomford (The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)|Watson Gordon Lecture, Unfinished Paintings: Narratives of the Non-Finito

Professor Viccy Coltman (University of Edinburgh)|Scots in Europe: Later Eighteenth-Century Portraiture and the Grand Tour

Dr Stacy Boldrick (University of Leicester)|Breaking and Remaking Images: Iconoclasm’s Cruel Practices

Film screening|In the Shadow of Forward Motion

Samuel Bibby (Art History)|The Magazine as Catalogue, or, The Assemblage of Specimens

Dr Lara Eggleton (University of York)|Research as folly, or, How to productively “ruin” your research

Professor Alex Danchev (University of St Andrews)|The Life and the Life-Writing

Professor Jonathan Mills (University of Edinburgh)|A Potted History of Festivals and Festival Making,Part of the Jonathan Mills Lectures series

Dr Patricia Allmer (University of Edinburgh)|Shadows of Herself: Lee Miller’s Collage

Film screening|Experimental Histories: Queer Lives on Film

Kirstie Meehan (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art)|Please Touch: Artists in the Archive

Professor Whitney Davis (University of California, Berkeley)|Composite Formation: Freud’s Rome and the Phantasy of “Self-Analysis.”

Professor Caroline Arscott (Courtauld Institute of Art)|Dyeing Bleaching, Printing: Morris and Abundance

Dr Heather Pulliam (University of Edinburgh)|Visions and Revisions: John Duncan’s Celtic Revival

Dr Colin Cruise (Aberystwyth University)|Rossetti on Paper

Dr Robert Mills (University College London) |Derek Jarman Gets Medieval