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From the Mellon Centre and Eventbrite:

Expanding the Field: Rethinking Methodologies in British Art Research
Online and in-person, Paul Mellon Centre, London, 23 June 2023

This hybrid event has been programmed by the Early Career Researchers Network (ECRN) and Doctoral Researchers Network (DRN). All interested parties are welcome to attend. You can find out more about the networks here.

This annual symposium offers an opportunity for doctoral and early career researchers to share and discuss their research creative methods, varied approaches, ethics, and methodologies on topics related to British art and art history (broadly defined). By questioning ‘how we come to know what we know’, we aim to reflect on the current possibilities, dilemmas, and challenges in academic research, participatory engagement, or creative practice. Join us to hear from speakers presenting on a variety of topics that cover decolonial, postcolonial, feminist, or queer perspectives; address the impact of quantitative and data-driven methodologies; report on practice-based, curatorial, or collaborative research; or reflect on the role of different media, including digital, audio, and filmmaking.

Travel grants are available for DRN and ECRN members travelling to London from within the UK to join us for the day. Please contact us at doctoralresearchers@gmail.com to be considered for a travel grant.

P R O G R A M M E

10.00  Opening Remarks

10.15  Panel 1 | Transnational Identities
Chair: Lauren Houlton (University of Westminster)
• Rahila Haque (University of the Arts, London) — In Rehearsal: A Methodology for Diasporic Feminist Worlds
• Helena Cuss (Kingston University) — Transnational Art Markets, 1948–57
• Excellent Hansda (University of Liverpool) — Exploring Modern Identity in Twentieth-Century Residential Architecture in Mumbai through ‘Contrapuntal Reading’
• Lucy Shaw (University of Birmingham) — Travel, Sexuality, and Nation in John Minton’s Post-War Work

11.35  Break

11.50  Panel 2 | Perception, Practice, and Participation
Chair: Alex Gushurst-Moore (University of Cambridge)
• Layla Khoo (University of Leeds) — Exploring Practice-based Methodologies in Creating and Evaluating Participatory Contemporary Art within Heritage Sites and Collections
• Antonio Capelao (University College London) — Our Children Will Change the Built Environment
• Adam Benmakhlouf (University of Dundee, Dundee Contemporary Arts) —‘The Work before the Work’
• Alex Culshaw (Arts University Bournemouth) — Listening Lounge Q&A

1.10  Lunch

2.00  Panel 3 | Reconsidering Visual Culture (Virtual)
Chair: Claudia di Tosto (University of Warwick and The Paul Mellon Centre)
• Lea Stephenson (University of Delaware) — Egyptomania, Experiential Research, and the Senses
• Sonal Singh (University of Delhi) — Colonial Cities in British Art, Late Eighteenth to Mid-Nineteenth Century
• Jessica Johnson (University of Oregon) — Of the Wrong Class and Complexion: James Northcote’s Ira Aldridge as Othello, the Moor of Venice
• Tania Cleaves (University of Warwick) — The Ethics of Exclusion: On (Not) Representing Photographs of Child Nudists
• Nora Epstein, (Independent Scholar) — Carving New Lines of Investigation: Material and Digital Methods for Tracing the Use of Tudor Relief Blocks

3.35  Break

3.50  Panel 4 | Creation: Media, Technology, and Representation
Chair: Nick Mols (Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University)
• Dawn Kanter (The Open University) — A Digital Approach to the Portrait Sitting in Enhancing Knowledge and Understanding of British Portraiture, 1900–1960
• Clare Chun-yu Liu (Manchester Metropolitan University) — Reinterpreting English Chinoiserie from a Postcolonial Perspective through Fiction Filmmaking / Trailers for Clare Chun-yu Liu’s films: This is China of a Particular Sort, I Do Not Know (trailer) and Another Beautiful Dream (trailer)
• Richard Müller (University College London) — Depictions of the Para-City: Art and Practice as Methodology in Informal Taiwan

4.50  Closing Remarks

5.00  Reception at the Paul Mellon Centre