The Irish Association of Art Historians sponsors an annual study day which highlights new and in-progress research currently being undertaken throughout the country in art & architectural history, design history, material and visual culture studies.
The 2012 IAAH/Artefact Study Day will take place on Saturday, 14 April.
We are issuing a Call for Papers. Interested in presenting your research at the 2012 Study Day? Speakers will be allocated 20 minutes for their papers.
Please provide an abstract of your proposed paper in no more than 500 words to Artefact editorial board:
By email artefactjournal@gmail.com
OR
By post Chair, IAAH, c/o School of Art History and Cultural Policy, Newman Building, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4
Closing date for paper proposals: 24 February 2012.
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2011 Study Day Participants:
- Louis Weyhe Funder – Modern Danish Furniture and Finn Juhl
- Siobhán Enright – Gendering the Car: Automobile Advertising in Twentieth Century Ireland
- Jennifer Fitzgibbon – Cultures in Transit: Artistic mobility between Britain and Ireland since 1970
- Jessica Fahy - Engaging the Female Viewer in Sacred Spaces: Botticelli’s altarpiece The Holy Trinity with Saints (1491-94) for the nuns of Sant’Elisabetta dell Convertile
- Niamh A. O’Sullivan – Space and women art students in the early years of the Slade School of Art: an examination of Dorothy Tennant’s relationship with physical and emotional space in the Slade, 1873-1877 -
- Valerie Alexander – Anne Yeats (1919-2001)
- Karen Ralph – All Aboard: Iconographical Interpretation Problems in the Book of Ballymote Miniature
- Silvia Guglielmini – Designing Irish Identity on Posters: The Politics of Tourism Representations in An Tostal
- Kathryn Milligan – Dear Dirty Dublin: Harry Kernoff and the Modern City
- Jessica Cunningham – National Identity and the Visual Language of the Home Rule Movement
- Fiona Fullam – Art/Writing
2010 Study Day Participants:
- Rose Mary Cullen, Stitched with Devotion: The Agnus Dei and the Piety Case as Devotional Objects
- Ruth Musielak, Madame da Cunha prefers her own ‘Dunghill’ to a Palace: city lodging and country visiting in early eighteenth-century London
- Bláithín Hurley, The Display of Magnificence and Splendore as described by Giovanni Pontano in his I trattati delle Virtù sociali
- Caroline McGee, ‘A Lady Painting in a Glade’: reassessing the work of Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1941)
- Amanda Holloway, Insert Experience Here: Reframing the Self in Northern Ireland between Memory, Testimony and Belonging
- Rachel Warriner, A Hellish History: 1950s culture and massmedia in Rauschenberg’s XXXIV Drawings for Dante’s Inferno
- John P Hartnett, Derrida by Default: WolfgangWeingart & the Accidental Deconstruction of Swiss Typography
- Gemma Carroll, Encountering Merz: Face to Face
- Wendy Williams, If you are an Irishman… Recruiting posters, 1914 – c.1935
2009 Study Day Participants:
- Orla Fitzpatrick Victorian gallery: Louisa Tenison’s photographic and mixed media album, 1864-1874
- Mary Healy Women Orientalist Artist-Explorers of 19th Century France: uncovering the life narrative, artistic career and oeuvre of Marie Elisabeth Aimée Lucas Robiquet (1858-1959)
- Niamh NicGhabhann Reconstructions of the Gothic Past – Cultures of Conservation
- Muireann Charleton Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: a cocktail for consumer craving in a rural Irish department store, 1878-1930
- Anna Kadzik-Bartoszewska Uniforms of the earthly calling: studies of the Egyptian archaeological garments from the collection of the National Museum of Ireland
- Hannah Olivia Malone Private and public memory: the Staglieno Cemetery at Genoa
- Valerie Moffat Material Culture and Motherhood in late Eighteenth-Century Dublin: the case of Mrs. Meliora Adlercron
- Louise Kelly The Representation of Barrack Room Scenes (Kortegaardjes) by Pieter Codde in 17th Century Dutch Art
- Hilary Sexton Music or Sound as an Integral Element of Irish Contemporary Art Practice: A Focus on Vivienne Roche; Her Formal and Conceptual Use of Musical Instruments
- Kathleen Hamel Claudel translates Ovid
- Michael Waldron Much (and perhaps the best) of my writing is verbal painting: the Modernist Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen
2008 Study Day Participants:
- Jane Humphries From subversion to celebration: the emergence of a domestic avant-garde in contemporary Irish art
- Reidin McSweeney RE: PERFORMANCE – the role of the audience in the documentation of Marina Abramovic’s performances
- Simon Knowles Two-way traffic: the sister arts tradition and urban representations in nineteenth-century England
- Lucy Dawe-Lane Staring into space: an examination of two of Goya’s portraits as reflections upon artistic identity and process
- Fiona Loughnane Colin Middleton, Dalí and the originality of Irish art
- Liam Lenihan James Barry and Henry Fuseli: a partial view of fragment and fantasy
- Audrey Nicholls The representation of beauty and luxury in the Venetian narrative theme of Christ and the adulteress
