Academic Sessions: Leeds 2006

1. A Tremendous Shattering of Tradition: Reconsidering Walter Benjamin‘s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
2. Whither Feminist Art History?
3. Frames of Reference: The Everyday Photograph as Recorded Image
4. Art, Architecture and their Discontents: Adisciplinarity?
5. Other than the Visual
6. Seeking the Contemporary Art Historian
7. Representation and Ruination
8. Morbid Symptoms: Art and Art History after 9/11 and the War on Terror
9. Institutional Critique as Institution
10. Writing Histories of Contemporary Art
11. The Aesthetics of Art History: Continental Philosophy and the Problem of Art
12. Art History and the Aesthetic
13. Global and Local Mediations
14. Histories of Surrealism
15. Art and Psychoanalysis: Theorizing the Spaces of Practice
16. A Challenge to Ocularcentrism: Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery
17. Kulturwissenschaft in Contemporary Studies of Culture and Image
18. Taking Back Art History (But With a View to What?) – A Roundtable Discussion
19. Art History and the Art School – the Sensibilities of Labour
20. Art History and Others
21. Exchanges at the Interface between Art History and Philosophy
22. Does Art History Have a Future?
23. An Over–Sexed History of Art? Art History at the Intersection of Gender and Sexuality
24. History of Art beyond its National Boundaries
25. Disciplinary Ethics
26. The Artist Interview: Contents and Contentions in Oral History/Art History
27. Critical Distance: Epiphany and the Sense of Place
28. Student Session: Who Do We Think We Are?