MA Symposium 2013

Hello All,

it's that time of year again, when our postgraduate students present their dissertation projects at our annual MA Symposium.  As usual, our MA Art Gallery & Museum Studies students are presenting their projects alongside our other MA students (MA Art History, MA Cultural Studies, MA Fine Art)....interdisciplinarity at work!
Here's the programme...if you're interested you can pop along of course!
Mark

University of Leeds

School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies

MA Symposium

Schedule

22-23 May 2013

Old Mining Building

Room G.19

Wednesday 22 May

10:00-10:15         Welcome

          Dr Eric Prenowitz

10:15-12:15         Experiences of Art

Chair: Dr Barbara Engh

-         Freya Jewitt: ‘The Voice is the Sun Touching Your Face’

-         Jasia Little: ‘Poetics of Space’: The Construction of Intimacy in Bourgeois, Salcedo and Halilaj

-         Marcus Rogers: How can a non-contemporary painting be a relational agent?

-         Leila Nassereldein: The Time of the Collector: Rereading Walter Benjamin

-         Alexandra Bowron: ‘Kool-Aid-Man in Second Life’: New Media Art and Johanna Drucker’s Concept of ‘Complicity’

12:15-1:00     LUNCH  (Rm. 1.04)

1:00-2:35    (R)uses of Technology

Chair: Dr Catherine Ferguson

-         Endang Suryana Priyatna: The Speakers of the Mosques: Voices and Noises in the Urban Soundscape of Indonesia

-         Jessica Gough: ‘We Live in Public’

-         Fiona Green: The Voice of Domestic Service: The Development and Representation of ‘Below Stairs’ in West Yorkshire Historic Houses

-         Anne Cresswell: Lee Bontecou: Ecology and the Speculative Imaginary

2:35-2:50       TEA BREAK (Rm. G.19)

2:50-4:50              The Dead, the Archive

Chair: Prof David Hill

-         Rosemary Eade: ‘An Issue of Life and Death’: A Discussion of Taxidermy

-         Emily Bryan-Kinns: Touching Objects: Exploring Public Responses to the Egyptian Artefact Handling Collection at the Manchester Museum

-         Rebecca Jenkins: ‘I Tweet Dead People’: An Analysis of a Modern Approach to Engaging Audiences in Classical Collections

-         Stephanie Tredan: The Repatriation of Australian Indigenous Human Remains from the Manchester Museum

-         Sally Colledge: Ephemeral Art: How and Why Do We Keep it Alive for Future Audiences?

Thursday 23 May

10:00-12:00         Ways of Seeing Things

Chair: Dr Abigail Harrison Moore

-         Acatia Finbow: The Artist is Present: The Spectacle of Marina Abramovic at MoMA

-         Stefanie Woodford: Collector or Hoarder? Notions of Collecting and Value at Mr Straw’s House

-         Nicola Joy Reynolds: Museums and Visually Impaired Visitors: The Rethinking of Heritage and Disability

-         Tina LeBlanc: Museums as Training Ground

12:00-1:00     LUNCH (Rm. 1.04)

1:00-2:35              Conflicting Modernities

Chair: Prof David Jackson

-         Kit Long Lam: Contemporary Chinese Art and its Socio-Intellectual Background in the 1990s

-         Holly Victoria Gilpin: Legacy and Culture in Post-Industrial Leeds

-         Yu-Ting Huang: David’s ‘Brutus’ and ‘Les Sabines’: Classical Roles Portraying the French Revolution

-         Tristan Marshall: The Art of the Sale

2:35-2:50       TEA BREAK (Rm. G.19)

2:50-4:50    Identity/Politics

Chair: Dr Eric Prenowitz

-         Yeon Jae Huh: Representation, Gender, Modernity: French Art in the 19^th and Early 20^th Centuries

-         Rachel Kelsey: Rewriting the Colonial Story: The Search for Identity and Selfhood in Abdellatif Kechiche’s Early Films

-         Ruei-Jen Wu: Contemporary Art Museum vs. National Identity Crisis

            Louisa Briggs: Strategies of Resistance: The Neo Avant-Garde in Eastern Europe in   the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s

MA Symposium 2010

Some of the MA Museum Studies Postgrads, relaxing in the University
Bar after the three -day Symposium...they bought me a drink
(well Natasha did anyway).....Cheers to you all!

Hello All,

the MA students delivered their dissertation topics at the MA Symposium at the University of Leeds this week. This three-day programme of papers is an annual event in the School and allows the postgraduates from all programmes (Art History, Cultural Studies, Fine Art Practice, and Museum Studies) to share perspectives - the much vaunted 'interdisciplinarity' that Leeds is famous for!
The Museum Studies MAs presented excellent papers (as usual)...and we very much look forward to reading their final dissertations.....here's a flavour of the very varied themes and approaches...WELL DONE ALL OF YOU!

Mark

'Interpreting Heritage' Session Chair, Professor Catherine Karkov
Louise Flower - The History of Theobald's Palace

'Museums and Politics: Global Perspectives Session Chair, Professor Catherine Karkov
Natasha Roberts - Crossing Cultures, Crossing Time
Katherine Ernest - Presenting History in National Military Museums
Sotiria Pizania - Politics and the Museum: the new Acropolis Museum
Rebecca Price - Promoting Culture in Qatar: the political role of the museum
Helen Fairhurst - Preserving National Identity: the Iraq War and the Conservation of Cultural Property

'Considering Curation' Session Chair, Professor Griselda Pollock
Katherine Vaughan - An examination of the documentation of the Curator's work using the Mercer Art Gallery as a case study
Elizabeth Kilburn - The 1938 Loan Exhibition of Pictures and Furniture at Temple Newsam House
Emma Fikkert - Anubis within the Egyptian Galleries at the British Museum
Christine Cant - Curating the Outsider: Surrealist Exhibitionism Then and Now
Hattie Heng Shing Lam - From Democratisation of Culture to Museumification of Objects in the form of Cultural Souvenirs

'Consuming Spaces' Session Chair, Professor Griselda Pollock
Nell Crook - Restaurants in the Contemporary Art Gallery: Spaces of inclusion or elitism?

'Participant Observation' Session Chair, Professor Vanalyne Green
Elizabeth Hardwick - Viewing versus Experience: an exploration of physical and visual art encounters
Ashley Hamilton - Neo-Baroque Aesthetic: Claudio Bravo and the Contemporary Art Market

'Musuems & Politics' Session Chair, Professor David Hill
Jemma Conway - 'Experience Barnsley': reflecting the notion of the community as collector
Elaine Narrie - The Lowry: what role does Culture play in Urban Regeneration?
Melanie Marsh - The National Trust and saving Tyntesfield. Why?

More next year!
mark

MA Student Symposium

Our MA Student Symposium, held over three days, (May 11th - 13th) was a great success, the attendance was very high, (as usual), and with a cohort of over 50 PG students this year, from across all the postgraduate programmes in the School, as well as lecturers and other interested parties, the seminar room was pretty packed out. The symposium is an annual event, and allows the PG students to tell us all what they have been working on for their dissertation projects and is also an opportunity for feedback and encouragment....each day is chaired by one of our Professors; Professor Griselda Pollock chaired our first day: Professor Roger Palmer our second, and Professor Vanalyne Green our final day....All of the papers were of a very high standard, (as usual), and the papers from the MA Art Gallery and Museums Studies Students clearly illustrated the range of work being undertaken and how the field of museum and gallery studies is going to be further enhanced by some new young (and not so young) scholars!

Here's a flavour of the students' MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies papers.....

Beth Taylor, 'Prisons and Museums, Museums as Prisons: the panotican model in historical museum spaces'.
Philip Manley, 'Curating Narratives in an art gallery context: a study of three Gerhard Richter exhibitions'.
Tara Jardine, 'Object Transformation', a case stuy of the Time Stacks at the Imperial War Museum North'.
Miriam Loxham, 'Remembering the Holocaust in Britain: cultural memory and the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition'.
Claire Hart, 'Voices from the Nazi Party Rally Grounds Information Centre, Nuremburg'.
Rebecca Wade, 'The Objects, Publics and Economic Logic of the Leeds Public Exhibition of Works of Art, Science, Natural History and Manufacturing Skill, 1839'.
Chan Chun Wa, 'From Absence to Presence: the representation of power in Meiji Imperial Museums'.
Eleanor Brooke, 'Chesters 'museum of a museum': representations of a 19th century collection for a 21st century audience'.
Georgina Gates, 'Displaying Contemporary Art in the Domestic Space: the Terrace Gallery and Watercolour Rooms at Harewood House'.
Ebony Andrews, 'The biographical afterlife of the Leeds Tiger, 1860-2009'.
Claire Murphy, 'Methods of Displaying Human Remains in English Museums'.
Joannie Cote Bouchard, 'History in the Leeds City Museum and the definition of Collective Identity'.
Helen Deevy, 'Artist-led Exhibition Spaces and Current Working Models of Urban Regeneration: Project Space Leeds'.
Kim Klug, 'Using Culture to Create Memory: MoMA's Alzheimer's Project'.
Shona Raffle, Belows Stairs: a nostalgic phemomenon?'
Dominique Gruhl-Begin, 'Exploring the motivations behind Corporate funding of the Arts: a comparative study between Nestle and Unilever'.
Allison Tara Sundaram, 'Digital Media and Youth Outreach: new pathways for museum learning?'
Miriam Dumbleton, 'Helen Chadwick's Archive: Ergo Geometria Sum and Feminism'.
Karen Mee, 'The formation and early history of Cawthorne Museum'.

Well done to all of the students! All of the papers were very well recieved, and there was a real critical buzz at the Symposium....

Mark