Art History Seminars at Melbourne University | Semester 2

The program for art history seminars at the University of Melbourne for semester 2  is below.

All seminars are held in The Linkway, John Medley Building, 4th floor (running between the East and West Towers), between 1-2 pm.

All welcome.

August 7              Anthony White | University of Melbourne

Folk Machine: Fortunato Depero’s Cloth Pictures 1920-1925

 

August 21            Susanne Meurer | University of Western Australia

Johann Neudörffer’s “Nachrichten” (1547): calligraphy and historiography in early modern Nuremberg

 

September 11   Gerard Vaughan | Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne

Museum Culture Today: Possibilities and Inhibitions

 

September 25   Toshio Watanabe | The University of the Arts, London

Forgotten Japonisme: taste for Japanese art in Britain and North America 1910s – 1960s

 

October 9            Penelope Woods |  Centre for Emotions, University of Western Australia

The Intentionality of Spectatorship: Emotions in Art Galleries, Emotions in the Wild

 

October 23          Ben Thomas | Trinity College / Australian Institute of Art History

All the World’s a Stage: The curious collecting of John Twycross

Enquiries:  Dr Felicity Harley-McGowan, Gerry Higgins Lecturer in Medieval Art History, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010. Ph +61 3 8344 4285 Email fharley@unimelb.edu.au