All are welcome to attend the Art History Research Seminars at Newcastle University, on the theme of Art and Ecology.

Seminars begin at 17.15 and are followed by refreshments, at Seminar room, King Edward VII Building, Newcastle University. Email convenor for a zoom link to virtual seminars.

31 January
Dr. C.C. McKee (Bryn Mawr College)
‘Que les fleurs ont fané: Botany and Imperial Loss in Post-Revolutionary Haiti’

14 February
Prof. Ysanne Holt (Northumbria University)
‘Centering the Peripheries: Art, Environment and the Anglo-Scottish borders’

28 February
Prof. Emily Gephart (Tufts University)
‘Cultivating Ecologies: Plants, People, Art’ (virtual)

13 March
Dr. Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (UCL)
‘What Colour is the Anthropocene? Eco-Critical Histories of Modern Chromatism’

24 April
Dr. Nina Amstutz (University of Oregon)
‘Found Object: Multispecies Musings on Art and Evolution in Bowerbirds’ (virtual)

1 May
Dr. Siobhan Angus (Carleton University)
‘Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography’

Convenor:
Dr Olga Smith olga.smithncl.ac.uk