2008-2009

2009 Summer Term

Date
 Speaker
 Title
7 May Sanjukta Sunderason
UCL 		Framing Ruptures, Portraying People:  Visual Reportage and the Communist Party of India, 1941-48
18 May Richard J. Powell
Duke University and Editor of Art Bulletin

Cutting a Figure:  Fashioning Black Portraiture

Christopher Ingold Ramsay Lecture Theatre, Gordon Street
21 May Jacqueline Lichtenstein
Université Paris IV-Sorbonne 		The Philosopher and the Art Historian:  An Impossible Dialogue

This is in coordination with the Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture.
Darwin Lecture Theatre
28 May Denise Frimer
UCL 		Pedagogical Paradigms:  Documenta's Reinvention

2009 Spring Term

Date
 Speaker
Title
15 January Patricia Rubin
Courtauld Institute of art 		'Not what I would fain offer, but what I am able to present:' Vasari's Victorian Voice
22 January Gabriel Koureas
Birkbeck, University of London 		Remembering War in the Museum Space
5 February Claire Bishop
The Graduate Center, City University of New York

The Social Turn in Contemporary Art
(Lecture 1)

Tomás Harris Lectures

Darwin Lecture Theatre
9 February Claire Bishop
The Graduate Center, City University of New York 		Exhibiting the Social
(Seminar for MA and PhD students from UCL and the Slade School of Fine Ar
12 February Claire Bishop
The Graduate Center, City University of New York

The Social Turn in Contemporary Art
(Lecture 2)

Tomás Harris Lectures

Darwin Lecture Theatre
26 February Ariella Azoulay
Bar Ilan University 		Looking at Images from Gaza through the Civil Contract of Photography
5 March Wen-Hsuan Kao
University College London 		Indecency for Amusement: Debucourt's (1755-1832) Colour Print Pendants
19 March Melissa Hyde
University of Florida

Notes on a Scandal: The Critical Fortunes & Misfortunes of Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller

This lecture will be followed by a party to celebrate the publication of the new issue of OBJECT the UCL Graduate Student journal
Wednesday 25 March Wenny Teo
University College London 		Signalling through Flames:  Cai Guo-Qiang's Language Acts
26 March Dean Kenning
Kingston University 		The Presence of Absence: The Role of the Individual in Post-Autonomous Art

2008 Autumn Term

Date
 Speaker
 Title
9 October Chin-tao Wu
Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei 		Art and the Spectacular:  Biennials sans frontières
23 October Kate Retford
Birkbeck, University of London 		'Small portraits,' 'fancyes,' and 'historyes':  The Conversation Piece in Eighteenth-Century Britain
6 November Joanne Crawford
University of Leeds 		Wols, Sartre and the Construction of the Apathetic Artist
20 November
 Abigail Solomon-Godeau
University of California, Santa Barbara 		If the Shoe Fits:  Fetishism, Femininity and the Art of Birgit Jürgenssen
27 November Alina Payne
Harvard University 		Title to be confirmed
4 December Bryony Bery
University College London 		Ephe-materiality:  Precariousness and Finish in 1960s Art
11 December Paolo Magagnoli
University College London 		Critical Nostalgia in the Art of Tacita Dean, Matthew Buckingham and Joachim Koester

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