'Eighteenth-Century Directions'

A conference of postgraduate research to be held at the
University of Birmingham, UK, on Saturday 10 June.

9.00 - 9.30: Registration

9.30 - 9.40: Opening remarks

9.40 - 10.20:
Keynote Speaker: Professor Shearer West (University of Birmingham)

10.20 - 10.50:
Sue Rasmussen (University of Birmingham)

George Morland and Ideas of Englishness

10.50 - 11.10: break

11.10 - 11.40:
Prasannajit de Silva (University of Sussex)

Home From Home? Early Depictions of British Hill Stations in India

11.40 - 12.10: Malini Roy (SOAS)

European Patronage and Connoisseurship in 18th Century Northern India

12.10 - 12.40:
Harald Klinke (State Academy of Design, Karlsruhe)

To and Fro the Atlantic: British Influx to America (and back)

12.40 - 2.10: lunch and exhibition

2.10 - 2.40:
David Pullins (Courtauld Institute)

Robert Adam's 'Silver Room': Neoclassicism and Chinoiserie

2.40 - 3.10:
Clare Taylor (Open University)

'Genteel paper hangings': Consuming Wallpaper in Eighteenth-Century Britain

3.10 - 3.40:
Jerry Rayner (University of Reading)

The Move to Newgate and the Power of Display

3.40 - 4.00: break

4.00 - 4.30:
Christine Schorfheide (Courtauld Institute)

A Zurich Mentorship Portrait: Intellectual and Physical Presence in Johann
Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein's Einer den andern gemahlt

4.30 - 5.00:
Alan Boulton (Staffordshire University)

The Heroic Paradox. The influence of the interplay of representation,
reality and the Passions on the construction of male middle class self
image c.1770 - 1800

5.00 - 5.30:
Ndubuisi Ezeluomba (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

The Innovation and Dynamics in Eighteenth Century Benin Art and Visual Culture

5.30 - 5.40: closing remarks

Tickets are £10 for students, £15 for non-students, and lunch and
refreshments are included.

For a booking form, please email Caroline Walker
(carolineglyncotts.freeserve.co.uk)