ART HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINARS

Powerful Ideas: New Research in Art History at the University of Sydney is convened by Mary Roberts and Nick Croggon and presented by the discipline of Art History at the University of Sydney, with support from the Power Institute.

The seminar is a forum for the sharing of new ideas and research in art and visual culture. Seminars are free and open to all. Seminars take place in the Schaeffer Library Seminar Room 210, Mills Building (A26), This research seminar series is also accessible via Zoom.

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William Simpson, Summer in the Crimea, 1857.

Date	Speaker
Aug 6 (Week 1)	Maria Ngiam (University of Oslo) "“A Great Fire and Whirling Smoke”: Arboreal aesthetics and the transcultural agency of tree burls"
Aug 13  (Week 2)	Mary Roberts, Ekaterina Heath and Lucy Pittman (University of Sydney) "Making the Modern Middle East: The New Artist-Illustrators, 1842-1890"
Sep 3  (Week 5)	Mark de Vitis (University of Sydney) “Forgetting Achille Disi"
Sep 10  (Week 6)	Roger Benjamin (University of Sydney) "The forgotten Donald Brook: Sculptor of post-war Humanism"
Oct 29  (Week 10)	Maria Karageorge (University of Sydney)  "Material Marketing: How Canton Manufacturers Sold Embroidered Silk Shawls,  1800-1930"