Art History Seminar Series at Melbourne University | Semester 1 Program

Art History Seminars at the School of Culture and Communication, Melbourne University

Semester 1, 2013

Wednesdays 1-2 pm

Venue: ‘The Linkway, John Medley Building, 4th Floor

All Welcome

6 March | Robert Gunn, George Chaloupka Fellow, Museums & Art Galleries of NT | The Jawoyn rock art project

13 March | Susan Russell | Former Assistant Director, British School at Rome | Herman van Swanevelt, Gaspard Dughet and Bad Weather

27 March | Kathleen Kiernan | University of Melbourne | Refashioning Dutch Art into the English Landscape: The Commercialisation of Landscape Prints in Eighteenth-Century London

17 April | Michael Varcoe-Cocks| Conservator, National Gallery of Victoria | Japonisme wilt: The history, analysis and treatment of John Peter Russell’s Almond tree in blossom  c1887

8 May | Hasan Niyazi & Felicity Harley-McGowan | in conversation New modes of art historical discourse: blogging & social media in research, some ‘pros and cons’

29 May | Antonino Nielfi | University of Melbourne | Made in Italy Futurism: the Magnificent Beauty of the Mechanised Velocity