Student Summer Symposium
The Student Summer Symposium is a two-day annual conference that combines student research papers with career-based workshops. The Symposium takes place at a different university each year in early Summer.
Bodies of Evidence - AAH Student Summer Symposium
21 & 22 June 2008
Oxford Brookes University and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Cost £26 (plus accommodation if required). Includes lunch, refreshments and drinks reception.
Accommodation available at Clive Booth Hall of Residence at a cost of £40 per person per night bed and breakfast. Rooms are available for Friday or Saturday nights or both. There is a facility for left luggage on the Sunday for those guests using the accommodation. Please include accommodation fee along with your booking fee.
Booking Deadline - 11 June 2008
Booking Forms and transport details are available here, a poster here Please click on the following link for a Summer Symposium Programme of events (word.doc).
Plenary Lecture: ‘Absent Bodies’, Dr Oliver Watson, Keeper of the Eastern Art Department, Ashmolean Museum.
Questions of the body, and of embodiment, permeate the theory and practice of art. The history of art, too, has been informed and affected by the discourse of the body. The AAH Student Summer Symposium thus aims to addresses a wide range of topics that relate to the body in art, as subject, object and spectator.
Themes for discussion will deal with historical perspectives, contemporary practice, or both. Subjects are likely to be drawn from the following themes:
• Body as canvas, brush, frame and platform
• The body in performance and performance art
• Bio-art and bio-aesthetics
• (Re)presentations of the body from antiquity to post-modernity
• Eroticism, sexuality and sensuality
• Affect and Affectivity
• The trajectory of the nude
• The body in self-portraiture
• Racial and gendered bodies
• The body beyond Western Art
• The body and the museum
• Ontologies, phenomenologies and corporealities of spectatorship
• Bodies and technologies
• Senses and sensations
• The canonical body
• The body in religious art
Previous Summer Symposiums:
Summer Symposium, University of St Andrews, July 2007
Summer Symposium, University of East Anglia, July 2006
Summer School, Glasgow School of Art, July 2005
Summer School, University of Plymouth, Exeter, July 2004
Summer School, University of Edinburgh, July 2003
Summer School, Essex, July 2002
Summer School, Birmingham, June 2001
Summer School, Reading, July 2000