The Annual PhD Conference 2024: Contested Identities

Some of our current PhD students will be presenting their research to their peers:

9:20: Introduction and Welcome

Panel 1: Interior and Exterior

9:30-10:00 Natalia Polunina: Conceptualising Russian Architecture of the 19th Century

10:00-10:30 Alyson Lai: Kurt Schwitters and the Deferral of Solutions

10:30-11:00 Stephen Kerr: The Model Modernist Mass-Housing Interior

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

Panel 2: Geography and Place

11:30-12:00 Leah C Tharpe: "Birds of a Feather"

12:00-12:30 Jun Zhang: Fake Words in an Authentic Work: A Study on Xu Bing's "Book from the Sky"

12:30-13:00 Man Li: The RMB City Project, Popular Culture and National Identity

13:00-14:00 Lunch

Panel 3: Patronage and Matronage

14:00-14:30 Parshati Dutta: Za Nur Jahan Begam ain sara abad- Viewing inscription and reading architecture in the caravanserai of a Mughal Empress

14:30-15:00 Midori Kono: An Ambitious Portrait- A Collaborative Work of James McNeill Whistler and Théodore Duret 

15:00-15:30 Martin Brook: Essil Rutherston (1880-1952) Giving 'the art collector's wife' her own identity and place in British 20th-century art history

15:30-16:00 Amélie Castellanet: Dada Zurich Haptic Works and Displays

16:00-16:30 Round table with speakers

16:30 Drinks reception in the Department of History of Art lounge