Due to the great success of registration so far and multiple demands to extend the registration process, we have decided to extend it to May 6th at the very latest.
Please also find a map of St John’s College below, with directions to the School of Pythagoras, where the conference will take place.
The conference is now taking place at the ****School of Pythagoras***, St John’s College, May 12th 13th 2011
for more information, do not hesitate to contact us. Registration is open until April 30th.
Registrations are still open , do not hesitate to contact us for more details!
Programme
Thursday 12th May
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-9.45 Opening remarks
9.45-10.45 Keynote address: Charles Saumarez Smith
10.45-11.15 Tea and Coffee Break
11.15-12.15 Panel 1 Art and education by the book
Susanna Berger The Staging of Natural Philosophy in Early-Modern Classrooms
Andrew Amstutz Narrating the ‘Muslim Nation’ through Culture: Teaching Pre-Islamic Art in museums and textbooks
12.15-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-15.00 Panel 2 British art and education
Elaine Williams Birmingham school of art
Juliet Thorp From Darkness to Light: Post-War Painting at the Royal College of Art
15.00-15.30 Tea and Coffee Break
15.30-17.00 Panel 3 Postmodern art and education
Kate Kilpatrick Twenty Years at Edinburgh College of Art: Structure, Agency and Values in the Postmodern Art School
Elena Crippa Performance-Lecture: A Hybrid Form of Art and Education
Sabrina Carletti “Relational Spaces: Architecture, Image-Making and Subjectivity in the Reggio Emilia Model of Education”
Friday 13th May
9.30-9.45 Opening Remarks
9.45-10.45 Panel 4 Educational Alternatives in the Eighteenth Century
Sarah Salomon Adaption, competition, opposition: The artistic and socio-political relevance of non governmental art education in Ancien Régime France
Jocelyn Anderson Collections in country houses
10.45 -11.15 Tea and Coffee Break
11.15-12.45 Panel 5 Anglo-American Approaches to Aesthetics
Halona Norton-Westbrook Training the Art Museum Curators and Directors of the Early Twentieth Century: The foundation of Harvard’s “Museum Course” and the Courtauld Institute of Art
Colin Cavendish-Jones An Aesthete Apostle Abroad. Art, Aesthetics and Publicity in Oscar Wilde’s American Tour
Sam Rose Roger Fry and Aesthetic Education
12.45-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-15.00 Keynote address: Sir Christopher Frayling
15.00-16.30 Panel 6 Politics and Art in the Twentieth Century
Elizabeth Melanson Elisabeth Greffulhe and the Exhibition of Modernism as a tool of International Diplomacy, Propaganda, and Education in France and Abroad, 1900-1914
Lara Benjamin Between the Bauhaus and National Socialist art education
Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom Radical nation building: Josep Renau and Republican agit-prop during the Spanish Civil War
16.30 Closing Remarks
The University of Cambridge Graduate Student Conference in History of Art will be held on the 12th and 13th of May 2011. The conference will cover the relationships between art and education over a wide geographical and chronological spectrum.
Keynote Speakers: Charles Saumarez Smith, Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts and former director of the National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery. Sir Christopher Frayling, Former rector in charge of the Royal College of Art and chairman of the Arts Council England.
Graduate speakers:
Andrew Amstutz (Cornell University), ‘Narrating the ‘Muslim Nation’ through Culture: Teaching Pre-Islamic Art in museums and textbooks’
Jocelyn Anderson (Courtauld Institute), ‘Collections in country houses’
Lara Benjamin (University of Edinburgh), ‘Between the Bauhaus and National Socialist art education’
Susanna Berger (University of Cambridge), ‘The Staging of Natural Philosophy in Early-Modern Classrooms’
Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘Radical nation building: Josep Renau and Republican agit-prop during the Spanish Civil War’
Colin Cavendish-Jones (St. Andrews University), ‘An Aesthete Apostle Abroad. Art, Aesthetics and Publicity in Oscar Wilde’s American Tour’
Elena Crippa (Tate), ‘Performance-Lecture: A Hybrid Form of Art and Education’
Kate Kilpatrick (University of Edinburgh), ‘Twenty Years at Edinburgh College of Art: Structure, Agency and Values in the Postmodern Art School’
Chen Liu (Princeton University), ‘The Codex Coner: architectural textbook without text’
Elizabeth Melanson (University of Delaware), ‘Elisabeth Greffulhe and the Exhibition of Modernism as a tool of International Diplomacy, Propaganda, and Education in France and Abroad, 1900-1914’
Halona Norton-Westbrook (University of Manchester), ‘Training the Art Museum Curators and Directors of the Early Twentieth Century: The foundation of Harvard’s “Museum Course” and the Courtauld Institute of Art’
Sam Rose (Courtauld Institute), ‘Roger Fry and Aesthetic Education’
Sarah Salomon (Technical University of Berlin), ‘Adaption, competition, opposition: The artistic and socio-political relevance of non governmental art education in Ancien Régime France’
Juliet Thorp (Royal College of Art), ‘From Darkness to Light: Post-War Painting at the Royal College of Art’
Elaine Williams (University of Birmingham), ‘Birmingham school of art’ Registration for the conference opens on the 12th of April.
To register, please email hoa.graduate.conference2011@gmail.com with ‘Registration’ as the subject, as well as sending a cheque for £10, made payable to ‘University of Cambridge’, to Hannah Malone, St John’s College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP, UK. Enquiries regarding other forms of payment should be addressed to hoa.graduate.conference2011@gmail.
General
Art and Education from Antiquity to the Present:
‘In which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together’ (John Ruskin)
‘The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy… The idea of ‘pedagogical vision’ is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it is contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.’ (Christian Boltanski)
The University of Cambridge Graduate Student Conference in History of Art will be held on the 12th and 13th of May 2011.
Keynote Speakers:
Charles Saumarez Smith, Secretary and Chief Executive of the
Royal Academy of Arts and former director of the National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery.
Sir Christopher Frayling, Former rector in charge of the Royal College of Art and chairman of the Arts Council England.
The conference will cover the relationships between art and education over a wide geographical and chronological spectrum. The aim of the conference is to provide, and promote, an interdisciplinary forum for scholars dealing with issues that may include, but are not limited to:
Programme to come soon!
Art and Education Grad Conference Cambridge2011 