Art History & Visual Studies (The University of Manchester)

Art History & Visual Studies made an excellent showing in the RAE 2008 results.

It has been ranked fourth out of thirty Art History units nationally in terms of both quality of research and the benchmarking of research (Research Fortnight analysis)

Ford Madox Brown and the Victorian Imagination: A Study Session at Manchester Art Gallery

Friday 9 December, 12.30-15.00. Click here for the speakers and programme.

Joanna Pawlik, Teaching Fellow in AHVS for the past three years, has been awarded a two year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.

Carol Mavor was Northrop Frye Professor in Comparative Literature for 2010-11 at the University of Toronto.

Cordelia Warr & Ann Kirkham hosted an international interdisciplinary two-day workshop on medieval wounds at John Rylands Deansgate Library in July 2011.

Emma Loosley's research has been featured in the Independent.

David Lomas curated the exhibition 'Narcissus Reflected' this spring/summer at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. A substantial catalogue was distributed by Reaktion Press.

Colin Trodd's book Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World 1830-1930 (Liverpool University Press) is due to appear in November 2011.

16 November 2011

Professor Martin Kemp (University of Oxford)

‘Splashing Around: Structures and Intuitions in Art, Science and Technology from Leonardo to Modern Engineering’ (4pm, Samuel Alexander Theatre).

15 February 2012 (originally scheduled date of 30 November cancelled due to strike action)

Professor Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds)
‘Why Warburg Now? For and Against the Contemporary Turn in Art History’ (5pm, Mansfield Cooper G20)

The Visiting Pilkington Professors will speak again in Semester 2: Prof. Martin Kemp on 29 February and Prof. Pollock on 7 March (titles and location, TBA).

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