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From ArtHist.net and YCBA:

J. M. W. Turner: State of the Field
Online, 22–23 September 2023

J.M.W. Turner, Staffa, Fingal’s Cave, 1831–32, oil on canvas, 91 × 121 cm (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection).

This symposium will consider the state and meaning of scholarship on J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), one of Britain’s most celebrated artists. Thinking through the extensive Turner historiography, this symposium will explore some of the key ideas, underlying assumptions, and future directions of research. Panelists will consider the place of their research within the broader field of British studies.

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All times Eastern Standard Time

9.00  Welcome by Courtney J. Martin (Yale Center for British Art)

9.10  Introduction: Turner in 2025 at the Yale Center for British Art — Lucinda Lax (Yale Center for British Art)

9.25  Keynote Conversation
• Amy Concannon (Tate Britain) in conversation with Richard Johns (University of York), moderated by Tim Barringer (Yale University)

10.25  Break

10.35  Panel 1 | Works on Paper and in the Environment
• Turner’s Pencil: Graphite Landscapes and Extractive Industry — Tobah Aukland-Peck (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
• ‘To Be Broken Up’: Turner, English Landscape, and the Anthropo(s)cenic — Frédéric Ogée (Université Paris Cité)
• A Historiographical Lacuna: Turner’s Prints — Gillian Forrester (independent scholar)

11.55  Break

12.05  Panel 2 | Sharing Turner
• Technical Studies for Turner: How Well Do We Share Knowledge? — Joyce Townsend (Tate Britain)
• The J. M. W. Turner Database: New Approaches to Documenting Turner for the 21st Century — Ian Warrell (independent scholar) and David Hill (University of Leeds)
• Cataloging Turner’s Sketchbooks, Drawings, and Watercolours — Turner Cataloging staff (Tate Britain)

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9.00  Panel 3 | Early Turner
• Whither Early Turner? — Leo Costello (Rice University)
• Turner and the Landed Estate — John Bonehill (University of Glasgow)

10.05  Break

10.15  Panel 4 | Curating Turner
• Turner at Petworth: Past Approaches and Future Directions — Emily Knight (National Trust)
• The Young Turner: Ambitions in Architecture and the Art of Perspective — Helen Cobby (Bath Spa University)

11.15  Break

11.25  Panel 5 | Varied Approaches: Language, Economy, and Ecology
• The Ecological Turn(er) — Sarah Gould (Université Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne)
• ‘The Sun is God’: Turner, Angerstein, and Insurance — Matthew Hunter (McGill University)
• Translating Turner: The French Edition of the Correspondence — Aurélie Petiot (Université Paris Nanterre)