Summer 2021
Friday 23 April – Seminar, ‘Dürer’s Journeys: Making an Exhibition’
Friday 28 May – Welcome to 1st-year PhD Students (January starters)
Tuesday 8 June – Richard Clay, ‘Iconoclasms and the Urgency of Now’
Wednesday 23 June – Postgraduate Café – A Candid Careers Conversation
Spring 2021
Wednesday 13 January – Postgraduate Café – Public Monuments
Wednesday 27 January – Postgraduate Café – Guerrilla Girls: Art & Activism
Friday 5 February – Adam Sammut, ‘Apocalypse later: The Rhetoric of Rubens’ Wrath of Christ High Altarpiece for the Dominican Church in Antwerp’
‘Wednesday 10 February – Postgraduate Café – LGBTQ+ History Month: Queer British Art
Wednesday 24 February – Postgraduate Café – John Berger and Ways of Seeing
Friday 5 March – Uthra Rajgopal, ‘Unravelling: The Mysterious World of (Textile) Curating’
Wednesday10 March – Postgraduate Café – Digital Experiences of Art
Friday 19 March – Annual PhD Conference – Sensorial Fixations: Orality, Aurality, Opticality, and Hapticity
Autumn 2020
Friday 23 October – Welcome to 1st-year PhD students
Friday 27 November – Marte Stinis, ‘Imag(in)ing Listening in the Nineteenth Century: Moore, Whistler, Leighton’
Flemish School, ‘St Jerome in a Landscape’ (1500-1550), detail, oil on wood; York Museums Trust, YORAG: 743, http://www.artuk.org/artworks/st-jerome-in-a-landscape7852
Summer 2020
Friday 24 April – Miguel Gaete Caceres, ‘About Tropical Fantasies, the Garden of Eden, and Other Exoticisms: The Romantic Depiction of the South American Landscape in the Nineteenth Century’
Friday 29 May – Cristina Alfosin Barreiro, ‘The Vulliamys: From Clockmakers to Merchants of Luxury’
Spring 2020
Friday 31 January – Eduardo De Maio, ‘“Perfect arabesques” and “austere lyricism”: Aubrey Beardsley and Frank Brangwyn in Umberto Boccioni’s works (1907–1911)’
Friday 21 February – Simon Marginson, ‘Francis Picabia and the Pudica Pose: Spanish Night (1922) and the Legacies of Classicism.’
Autumn 2019
Tuesday 5 November – Presentations from 1st-year PhD students
Tuesday 26 November – Presenters: Christiane Matt and Gemma Shearwood
Bacchiacca, ‘Joseph pardons his Brothers’ (probably 1515), oil on wood; National Gallery, London, reproduced under CC Licence BY-NC-ND 4.0, https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/NG1219
Summer 2019
Thursday 2 May – Niko Munz
Monday 6 May – ‘Brown Bag Lunch’
Friday 31 May – Tessa Kilgarriff (Watts Art Gallery – Artists’ Village and Archive)
Monday 10 June – ‘Brown Bag Lunch’
Spring 2019
Friday 25 January – Dr M. Faye Prior (Castle Museum, York), ‘Doing a PhD and Getting into Garments: Pursuing Dress History as an Art Historian’
Friday 1 February – Presenters: Megan Henvey, Marte Stinis, Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani,
Friday 8 February – Miguel Gaete Caceres, ‘German Traveller Artists in Chile’
