2021 seminars and events

Queer Spaces

Thursday 18 November 2021

This event springs from a new edited book for the Royal Institute of British Architects, Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories, edited by artist and designer Adam Nathaniel Furman and architectural historian Joshua Mardell

Representing Architecture in early Islam: The San'a' Qur'an Frontispieces

Wednesday 17 November 2021

Part of the History of Art research seminar series

Globalising Anglo-Saxon Art

Wednesday 3 November 2021

Part of the History of Art research seminar series

Glamour, Excess and Commodification: The Female Body in 1950s Britain

Wednesday 20 October 2021

Part of the History of Art research seminar series

Reading the Label: Periodisation, Style, and the Humanities

Friday 15 October 2021

An Interdisciplinary PGR/ECR Symposium

Concrete Stories

Wednesday 6 October 2021

Part of the History of Art research seminar series

The Material Origins of Technology

Friday 1 October 2021

The fourth webinar in the 'Earthlings- Anthropocene Art Talks 2021' series.

Humanities within Natural History

Friday 24 September 2021

The third webinar in the 'Earthlings- Anthropocene Art Talks 2021' series.

More Than Human: Exhibiting Water

Wednesday 15 September 2021

The second webinar in the 'Earthlings- Anthropocene Art Talks 2021' series.

Ecological Perception and Decentralised Human Body

Friday 10 September 2021

The first webinar in the 'Earthlings- Anthropocene Art Talks 2021' series.

Valuing Sculpture: Contemporary Perspectives on Art, Craft and Industry, 1660-1860

Tuesday 27 July 2021

Two-day conference with keynote speakers Dr Greg Sullivan and Dr Rebecca Wade. Part of the Henry Moore Institute Fabrication Research Season.

The Matter of Silver: Substance, Surface, Shimmer, Trauma

Monday 26 July 2021

How and why did silver, more widespread than gold, extracted by force from the Andes, marked by trauma, become par excellence marker of and substance of social, political and spiritual refinement in Europe?

Worlds of Faith: Sculpture and Faith at St Paul's Cathedral, c.1796-1916

Tuesday 6 July 2021

The Pantheons project's first conference, concerned with the intersections of sculpture and world religions at the cathedral c. 1796 - 1916

Defining a transnational colonial picturesque? - Ireland, Jamaica and Saint Domingue (Haiti)

Thursday 17 June 2021

This lecture is the Annual Stephen Copley Lecture hosted by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies.

Alhazen’s Optics and the European Medieval and Renaissance Perspectiva Traditions in Science and the Architectural Arts

Tuesday 8 June 2021

The philosophical and architectural entailments of the classical science of optics of the Arab polymath Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham)

Iconoclasms and 'the urgency of now'

Tuesday 8 June 2021

Richard will be arguing that thinking about public sculptures as signs involved in coding spaces can help us to explore how and why such objects become contested at different times and to differing degrees.

Garment Stories and Sustainability: Past, Present and Future

Friday 4 June 2021

An interdisciplinary symposium convened by Abigail Jubb and Dr Cordula Van Wyhe, with the assistance of Emily Yates, Rosalind Seabrook and Milly Ames and supported by York Art History Collaborations.

Rethinking Buddhist Image Worship in China

Wednesday 28 April 2021

Online event hosted by the Sculpture Studies Research Cluster

Book launch: Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Wednesday 17 March 2021

CECS Research Seminar with Chloe Wigston Smith (University of York) and Serena Dyer (De Montfort University, Leicester)

Ravenna, crucible of Europe

Tuesday 16 March 2021

The York Medieval Lecture with Professor Judith Herrin (emerita King's College London)

Fashion and Politics: national and transnational aspects

Wednesday 3 March 2021

Part of the History of Art research seminar series

St. Martin’s Lane: Art, Design, and the Cultural Geography of the Eighteenth-Century London Art World.

Tuesday 2 March 2021

Stacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts, Boston) presents this Research Seminar hosted by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies.

The Coefficient of Art, Arte Util and the Undoing of Modernity

Wednesday 17 February 2021

Part of the History of Art research seminar series

Nature as Culture: Historicizing of Antiquity and Translated Modernity

Wednesday 3 February 2021

Part of the History of Art research seminar series

The Prescient Prince: Salim’s Portrait in the St Petersburg Album

Wednesday 20 January 2021

Part of the History of Art research seminar series

Beyond the Happening: Performance Art and the Politics of Communication

Monday 18 January 2021

We are pleased to welcome Catherine Spencer (University of St Andrews) for the presentation of her new book Beyond the Happening: Performance Art and the Politics of Communication followed by a Q&A.