Every year we host a two-day conference for our Postgraduate Research and Taught students. This event is a wonderful opportunity for students to share ongoing research with their peers and academic staff in the department. Please see below for more information relating to each years' programme.
Conference Programme
- Art History Postgraduate Conference 2026
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
DAY ONE
09.30 Open
09:45 Welcome by Dr Joanne Anderson, Head of Art History
PHD RESEARCHERS
10.00 Bodies
Alexander Ryland: Amātor patriaē: Sex and sedition in Restoration visual culture, 1660–78
Haley Turner: Saint Catherine of Alexandria as the Embodiment of the Medieval Feminine Ideal
11.00 Coffee break
11:20 Constructing Knowledge
Michael Partington: “The New World”: John Ogilby’s America (1671), new audience, new thinking (online)
Madison Armon: Collecting Japan: Circulation, Networks, and the Making of Collections in Scotland, 1850–1950
Enxhi Mandija: James McBey: Art and Autobiography
12.45 Lunch for speakers and AH faculty, CB008 and/or garden if it’s sunny!
14:00 Imaginaries
Laura McCloskey: Insular Manuscript Decoration as a Catalyst for Biblical Exegesis in Medieval Ireland and Scotland (online)
Emily Metcalf-Corrison: Queering the Spatial and Ritual Disposition of Medieval Learned Magic
Yuchen Lu: 寒林Cold forest and Ruins: between and out of the relation of the nostalgia and sublime art
Llara Fuente Corripio: Landscape, Craftsmanship, and Heritage-Making: The Case of Wool
15.45 Coffee break
16.00-17.00: Keynote Speaker: Dr Karl Kinsella, The Latin Language of Architecture
17.00: Drinks reception in CB008 and/or garden if it’s sunny!
DAY TWO
09:45 Welcome
PHD and MLITT BY RESEARCH
10.00 Sense and Identities
Alison Clark: Nineteenth-Century Geology Caricatures: Public Reception of Geology in Society
Israel Gonzales-Maldono: This Smell has no Gender: Perfume and the Construction of Identity
Kristie Fraser: Frederick Ashton: A Subversive Dance Between the Lines of 20th Century Choreography
11:30 Coffee break
MLITT CHRISTIANITY AND THE VISUAL ARTS
11.50 Endings and Beginnings
Elton Onishi: Hopes and Fears: Early Visual Theology in Seventh-day Adventism (online)
Emily Wurm: Death, Disenchantment, and the Devil: Daniel Hopfer and the Moral Imagination in Early Reformation Print Culture (online)
12.45: Lunch for speakers and AH faculty, CB008 and/or garden if it’s sunny!
13.45 Devotional Space
Sophia Schisser: A Portable Enclosure: Space, Gender and Devotional Performance in Late-Medieval Prayer Nuts showcasing the Magdalene Prayer Nut from the Abegg Stiftung in Riggisberg Switzerland (online)
Debbie Macdonald: Caspar David Friedrich’s Borrowed Typologies: What was the function of historic religious iconographic conventions in Friedrich’s landscapes? (online)
Yuk Ting Chan: Christian Book Art as Systems of Visual Cognition: Pedagogy, Scriptural Interpretation, and Inclusive Reception from Medieval Manuscripts to Contemporary Visual Theology (online)
14:45 Coffee Break
15.00 Threads
Lesley Gannon: The theological roots of the geometric and interlaced designs in the Lichfield Gospels (online)
Conny Bogaard: Toward a Shared Devotional Culture and Practice: Integrating Text and Image in the Hours of Catherine of Cleves (in person)
Sandra Hopkins: The Woven Image: A Visual Theology of the Veronica Archetype (in person)
16.00 Finish