The Stephen Bann Effect - 20/21 June 2009

Objectives

Two-day academic conference to explore the significance and impact of one of the UK’s leading art historians and theorists, Professor Stephen Bann CBE, FBA, Emeritus Professor of History of Art and Institute for Advanced Studies Associate at the University of Bristol.

Fourteen scholars, all former research students of Stephen Bann, will interrogate the ways in which Stephen Bann’s ideas and methodologies have created a diaspora of scholarship around the world. The symposium will further reflect the fact that Bann’s scholarly influence has reached into numerous areas within art history, including history painting, printmaking, photography, and conceptual art, and into many other disciplines such as garden history, film studies and word & image studies, as well as critical theory and the study of reception.

Supported by BIRTHA (Bristol Institute for Research in the Arts and Humanities).

Speakers will include:

Tessa Adams (Goldsmiths), Steve Baker, (University of Central Lancashire), J.K. Birksted (University College, London), Michael Charlesworth (University of Texas, Austin), Allan Doig (Oxford University), Mark Durden (University of Wales), Gerhard Lang (Formerly Slade School), Martin Patrick (Massey University), Johanne Sloan (Concordia University), Monica Turci (University of Bologna), Nathan Uglow (Leeds Trinity and All Souls College), Anthony Wallersteiner (Stowe School), Patrick Wright (Nottingham Trent University), Xin Wu (Harvard University).

• Draft Programme (word, 36kB)
• Conference poster (pdf, 1.2 MB)

Saturday Evening Events:

• Opening reception & private view of 'The Substance of Shadows: Prints, Shadows and Memory'.
• Concert: The Nagata Quartet will perform Haydn's String Quartet Opus 64 No.1 in C major, and Schubert's String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, "Rosamunde".
  Tetsuumi Nagata - 1st violin; John Doig - 2nd violin; Arthur Bedouille - viola; Ella Rundle - cello.

Venue

Department of History of Art, University of Bristol, 43 Woodland Rd, Bristol, BS8 1UU; (0117) 954 6050

Fees & Registration

Full Conference Fee (including tea/coffee, lunches, conference dinner): £75
Day Rate (tea/coffee and lunch): £35 per day

• Enrolment Form (pdf, 32kB)
• Enrolment Form (word, 63 kB)

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