LOCATION: the Museum, the Academy and the Studio

34th AAH Annual Conference
Tate Britain and Tate Modern
2 - 4 April 2008

[Conference Booking deadline is 22 February 2008]

Location will focus on the shifts - historical, modern and contemporary -
in the location of the museum, the artist?s studio and the academy in
relation to the concepts, values and practices of art history. Location is
understood to embrace physical, geographical and virtual sites, social and
political ideologies; values and aesthetics, academic and practice-led
relationships.

With the ever-increasing changes that post-disciplinary practice and
studies, digital culture and globalisation are bringing to bear on the
roles and practices of the museum, the artist and the academy, what are
the issues and implications involved in the locating of value and meaning,
ownership and identity, concept and experience for each? Historically, the
academy has been set in opposition to the museum, but what is the nature
of this relationship today, in the light of the expanded ambitions of
major museums and the rise of curatorial and museum studies?

What has been and should be the relationship between curator, artist and
academic? How does art history engage with the museum and the artist and
vice versa, within the UK and abroad? The professionalisation of the
artist and the new research status awarded to both art and curatorial
practice moves the art college and museum nearer to the academy ? but what
consequences does this have for the discourses of history and practice?
What will be the impact of globalisation on all these spheres? Will art
history be invigorated by this closer relationship or diminished in status?

Provisional Conference Timetable
[http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/timetable.php]

Wednesday 2 April 2008

17.00 ? 19.00 Registration, Café Marquee, Manton Lawn,Tate Britain
19.00 ? 21.00 Reception and Private View of Tate Britain Exhibitions and
Displays

Thursday 3 April 2008

09.00 ? 17.30 Registration, Café Marquee, Manton Lawn,Tate Britain
09.00 ? 17.30 Bookfair, Bookfair Marquee, Tate Britain
10.00 ? 11.25 Academic Sessions (papers 1 and 2)
11.25 ? 11.50 Break
11.50 ? 13.10 Academic Sessions (papers 3 and 4)
13.10 ? 14.30 Lunch and AAH AGM
14.30 ? 15.55 Academic Sessions (papers 5 and 6)
15.55 ? 16.20 Break
16.20 ? 18.00 Academic Sessions (papers 7 and 8)
19.00 ? 22.00 Plenary Lecture, and Private View, Tate Modern
20.15 ? 22.00 Dinner at Tate Modern Restaurant* (optional)

Friday 4 April 2008

09.00 ? 17.30 Registration, Café Marquee, Manton Lawn,Tate Britain
09.00 ? 17.30 Bookfair, Bookfair Marquee, Tate Britain
10.00 ? 11.25 Academic Sessions (papers 1 and 2)
11.25 ? 11.50 Break
11.25 ? 11.50 Meet the Editors of Art History, at Blackwell Publishing
bookfair stand
11.50 ? 13.10 Academic Sessions (papers 3 and 4)
13.10 ? 14.30 Lunch and Special Interest Group Meetings
14.30 ? 15.55 Academic Sessions (papers 5 and 6)
15.55 ? 16.30 Break
16.30 ? 18.00 Academic Sessions (papers 7 and 8)
18.00 ? 22.00 Late at Tate Britain**

Academic Sessions:

1. The Museum Unbound: Works of Art and Film
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session01.php
2. Monuments and Memorials
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session02.php
3. Victorian Art since 1901
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session03.php
4. Locating the Renaissance: the Position and Meaning of Renaissance
Studies within Art-Historical Scholarship
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session04.php
5. The Teaching Studio
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session05.php
6. Self-Portraiture and Inscriptions of the Artist
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session07.php
7. Photography after Conceptual Art
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session08.php
8. Archival Impulse: Location and No-Place
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session09.php
9. Displaced Objects: Perspectives from the Museum and the Academy
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session10.php
10. Circuits of Exchange and Valuation: the London Art Market in an
International Network, 1850?1950
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session11.php
11. The Politics of the Provisional
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session12.php
12. Family values: Locating relatives in the Italian workshop
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session13.php
13. Student Session - Art, museums and the changing location of visual culture
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session14.php
14. Dis-Locations: Movements and Migrations
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session15.php
15. Art, Performance and Place, c.1200?1500
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session16.php
16. Incredible Inventions: On discoveries in Art and Science
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session17.php
17. Pluralisms and The Museum Effect
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session18.php
18. Relocations: Photography Within, Across, and Outside the Museum since
the 1970s
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session19.php
19. 2007: Historical Understanding, Difference and the Contemporary
Exhibition Effect
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session20.php
20. Museums, the Academy and the Studio
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session21.php
21. Situating Gallery Education
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session23.php
22. On Art History and Bullshit
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session24.php
23. Multiculturalism, Migration, and the Mega-Exhibition: Considering the
Impacts of Contemporary Festivals, Biennales, and Documentas
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/2008session25.php

Annual Conference
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conferences since 1997 are available on this website:
http://aah.org.uk/conference/
This conference offers online booking only, please check the delegate fees
and book online to attend.

Academic Session Timetable
A full and comprehensive guide to sessions, papers and speakers will
appear in the Conference Programme. Delegates will receive a conference
programme when they register at the conference. A preliminary session
timetable may be made available online in due course.

Booking
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/booking.php

For general conference enquiries please contact
admin@aah.org.uk or
contact aah2008@tate.org.uk
with academic session queries.