Radboud University Nijmegen presents the online lecture series "Art Histories in Dialogue" organised by the Faculty of Arts and the Radboud Institute for Culture & History (RICH). This year’s theme is: “Bodies in Dialogue”, and will have four separate sessions. This (Zoom) lecture series aims to give a kaleidoscopic and transdisciplinary view of how art and visual culture are – or can be – studied today, and to offer a platform for fruitful exchange between periods, methodologies, and mediums. It does so by inviting scholars from different fields to present their research and to engage with the work of others.

The sessions have a 'tandem format'. Two speakers from different backgrounds will present their own research and then enter into a dialogue on a shared theme, to which the audience is invited to contribute. We would like to create a platform for genuine exchange of ideas and for thinking on the spot. In so doing, we aim to bring academics and students from different countries and traditions together and open new paths for future research.

For more information and registration (mandatory), see: http://www.ru.nl/rich/ahd

PROGRAMME:

SENSATIONAL MATERIALS (26 Oct 2022, 16-17h CET)
Prof. dr. Maria Loh (Hunter College, New York, NY): After Titian
Prof. dr. Alexander Marr (University of Cambridge): Eros to Amor: Rubens’s Het Pelsken Revisited

CURIOUS BODIES (16 Nov 2022, 16-17h CET)
Prof. dr. Touba Ghadessi (Wheaton College, Norton, MA): Ambiguous and Transgressive Bodies at the Valois Court
Prof. dr. Adrian Randolph (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL): A Curious Body in Fifteenth-Century Italy: Donatello’s Mary Magdalen

THE BODY AND THE SENSES (30 Nov 2022, 16-17h CET)
Dr. Alexander Wragge-Morley (Lancaster University): William Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty (1753) and Involuntary Motion
Dr. Jenni Lauwrens (University of Pretoria): Touching on Tactility in Willem Boshoff’s Blind Alphabet

THE COLONIAL DIFFERENCE IN THE MUSEUM (7 Dec 2022, 17-18h CET)
Prof. dr. Wayne Modest (Director of Content National Museum of WorldCultures Rotterdam; Vrije universiteit Amsterdam): World, Wording and the Question of Art History
Prof. dr. Jennifer Gonzalez (University of California, Santa Cruz, CA): TBA