Amor Mundi: Documentary, Contemporary Art, and the Descriptive Power of Lens-Based Capture

Part of the History of Art research seminar series

Reassessing Burne-Jones

A two-day conference seeking to achieve a fresh reassessment of Edward Burne-Jones as an artist both progressive and resisted by ‘modernist’ art history

Materials from the Margins: A Seljuq Horizon and Pre-Mongol 'Globalism'

Hosted by the Islamic Art Circle

The Poetics of Style Empire Eclecticism: Piranesi, Rome, and Alexandria.

Part of the History of Art research seminar series

Curating Waterhouse and Alma-Tadema: Peter Trippi and Liz Prettejohn in conversation

This event will introduce our new Honorary Fellow in History of Art, Peter Trippi, and will take the form of an informal discussion between Peter and Liz Prettejohn which will reflect on the two exhibitions they curated together.

Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf? And Why?

Part of the History of Art research seminar series

New Sculptors, Old Masters: The Victorian Renaissance of Italian Sculpture

This conference will highlight the productive sculptural response in the Victorian period to Italian Renaissance works in British collections.

Displaying the Bayeux Tapestry, now and then

Part of the History of Art research seminar series

Travelling East via Burlington House: Orientalist painting at the Royal Academy

Hosted by the Islamic Art Circle

Dialogues on 'A Dialogue on Love'

A one-day public event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's groundbreaking queer memoir A Dialogue on Love.

Angels in the Medieval World

Now in its 10th year, the Northern/Early Medieval Interdisciplinary Conference Series is delighted to present its 20th event!

York Summer Theory Institute: Art History and Phenomenology

2019 York Summer Theory Institute in Art History