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BIRKBECK CONTINUING
EDUCATION HISTORY OF ART SOCIETY |
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Our lecturers
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NOTE: These biographies of past and present speakers were
believed accurate when posted, but may not be complete if the subject is
not a contributor to the current programme. |
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Marta Ajmar-Wollheim studied art history in
Pavia and Milan; her doctoral research at the Warburg Institute
concentrates on women, exemplarity and the domestic arts in Renaissance
Italy. She was appointed by the Victoria & Albert Museum to plan and set
up the Renaissance specialism within the V&A/RCA MA course in the
History of Design, and recently curated the Renaissance House exhibition
there. |
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Jeremy Ashbee
is Inspector of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings at English
Heritage and former Curator at the Tower of London |
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Dr John Bold BA, PhD, FSA is a
senior lecturer in the history of architecture at the University of
Westminster, specialising in the 17th and 18th architecture of
London. He is a consultant to the Old Royal Naval College,
Greenwich, and to the National Maritime Museum, and has been consultant
to the Cultural Heritage Division of the Council of Europe. |
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Dr Alixe Bovey lectures in Medieval History at the
University of Kent, where she specialises in the visual culture of the
later Middle Ages. Her main research focus is Gothic illuminated
manuscripts, and she recently presented the BBC4 series 'In Search of
Medieval Britain', part of the channel's Mediaeval Season. |
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Caroline Campbell is Curator
of Paintings at the Courtauld Institute. She was formerly Assistant
Curator of Renaissance Paintings at the National Gallery, and was
Co-Curator of the Bellini and the East exhibition there in 2006,
and at Boston in 2005. |
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Peter Cormack is a free-lance art
historian, writer and lecturer. He was Keeper of the William Morris
Gallery, London, where he curated many exhibitions of Morris and his
circle and on aspects of the Arts and Crafts Movement, in particular
stained glass. He is the Honorary Curator of Kelmscott Manor, William
Morris's Oxfordshire home. |
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Ken Dark is Director of the Research
Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, University of Reading,
where he is Chair of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies and
holds honorary professorships at several European and North American
universities. He is co-director of the Istanbul Rescue
Archaeological Survey which aims to record and rescue Byzantine
material at risk of destruction in the western part of the ancient
city walls.
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Lucy Donkin carried out her
doctoral work at the Courtauld Institute, focusing on the medieval
ecclesiastical pavement mosaics of northern Italy. She currently holds a
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College, Oxford,
where her research project explores attitudes to holy ground in the
Middle Ages. |
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Michael Douglas‑Scott
studied at the Courtauld Institute and obtained his doctorate from
Birkbeck College. He has lectured widely on 16th-century art and
architecture and has written articles for the Journal of the Warburg and
Courtauld Institutes, Arte Veneta and Burlington Magazine. |
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Peter Draper is well-known to students of
History of Art at Birkbeck, where he is now a Visiting Professor. He was
President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain,
2000-2004, and is currently a member of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission
for England. His book The Formation of English Gothic: Architecture
and Identity is to be published by Yale University Press and the
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in the Autumn of 2006. His
publications on medieval architecture have concentrated on English
cathedrals, with a particular interest in the inter-relationship between
architecture and liturgy, and he is now extending these interests to
include Islamic architecture. |
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Clare Ford-Wille is an
independent art historian, well known to members for her courses at
Birkbeck and Morley College as well as a lecturer at the National
Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum and NADFAS groups in Britain and
Europe. She has led many tours abroad. |
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Tamar Garb is
Durning-Lawrence Professor in the History of Art at
University College London. She is the author of many books on 19th
Century French Art including Sisters of the Brush; Women's Artistic
Culture in Late Nineteenth Century Paris (YUP, 1994) Bodies of
Modernity; Figure and Flesh in fin de Siècle France (T&H 1998) and
most recently, The Painted Face; Portraits of Women in France,
1814-1914. She has now started working on contemporary art produced
in her native South Africa and is curating an exhibition for Haunch of
Venison Gallery in May 2008 entitled Home Lands/Land Marks, which
focuses on landscape and language in the Post Apartheid Era. |
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Dr
Alexandra Gajewski lives in France, her main interest being
mediaeval architecture. She has published on the Cistercian Abbey of Le
Lys and on Cistercian architecture in Anjou and Cîteaux, inter alia.
She took a PhD in Gothic architecture in Northern Burgundy at the
Courtauld Institute and is currently leading tours with a number of
organisations. |
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Alexandra Gerstein is
Assistant Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Courtauld
Institute. She studied at the École du Louvre in Paris before completing
her PhD on the architecture of the Edwardian Baroque Revival at the
Courtauld. She teaches courses on Victorian sculpture and has worked on
display techniques and provenance research for many exhibitions and
displays |
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Dr John Goodall is a senior
properties historian at English Heritage and is writing a book on
English castle architecture, to be published by Yale |
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Christina Grande has lectured
on classical art and architecture for a number of institutions,
including Leicester University and the Open University, the British
Museum and Birkbeck Continuing Education. She has a particular interest
in the influence of classical art and architecture on later periods of
art, and in this lecture will explore the influence of earlier art of
that of classical antiquity |
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Mark Hallett is a Professor of
History of Art and a member of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies
at the University of York, on whose website a
detailed
biography and bibliography can be found. |
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Martin Henig is Hon. Professor at
the Institute of Archaeology (ICL) and a Fellow of Wolfson College,
Oxford. He has lectured on Roman art in Oxford University for many years
and has published many books and articles, among them Religion in
Roman Britain (1984), The Art of Roman Britain (1995) and
The Heirs of King Verica (2002) |
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Gijs van Hensbergen read
languages at Utrecht and art history at the Courtauld Institute,
followed by postgraduate studies in American art of the 1960s. He has
worked in England, the USA and Spain as exhibition organiser and TV
researcher, and has written on Spain and Spanish art, his most recent
book being Guernica (2005) |
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Charles Hind is Associate Director
(Development) and H J Heinz Curator of Drawings, British Architectural
Library Drawings and Archive Collections, Victoria & Albert Museum. He
has led study tours to St Petersburg for ACE. |
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Dr Mary Hunter, a
former student of Professor Tamar Garb,
completed her PhD dissertation on the relationship between art and
medicine in late nineteenth-century France at University College London.
Her teaching and current research explores constructions of reality,
sex, race and gender in visual culture from 1850 to the present. She is
currently teaching a third year special subject at UCL on Art and
Sexual Politics in Late Nineteenth Century France and is soon to
take up a full time Assistant Professorship at McGill University in
Montreal. |
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Ann Kodicek is a writer, lecturer
and curator specialising in Russian art. She lectures on the history of
Russian art and other topics at the Victoria & Albert Museum and similar
venues. In 1996 she curated the major exhibition – Diaghilev: Creator of
the Ballets Russes (Barbican Art Gallery) |
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Frederica Law-Turner is a
free-lance art historian, lecturer and writer. She holds an MA in
Islamic Studies from Oxford and completed her PhD at the Courtauld
Institute in 1999. She has lectured and written extensively on
medieval art, and is the author of The Ormesby Psalter
recently published by the Bodleian Library.
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John McNeill lectures on mediaeval
art and architecture for the Faculty of Continuing Education at Birkbeck
and Oxford University Department of Continuing Education. He has led ULEMHAS
tours for many years. He is the Honorary Secretary of the
British
Archaeological Association, and edited the Proceedings of its conference
at Anjou. He was recently elected a Fellow of the
Society of
Antiquaries. |
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John Mitchell of the School of
World Art and Museology at the University of East Anglia, is an art
historian often working with archaeologists. Research has focussed on
early medieval Italy, more recently in Albania in late Antiquity. His
interests range over N. Europe and those cultures ringing the
Mediterranean, including Byzantium and Islam. Publications include
studies of monastic arts in early medieval Italy and he is currently
writing on Italy and Europe in the early middle ages. |
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Professor Janet L. Nelson
– Professor of Medieval History at King’s College London and recently
President of the Royal Historical Society. Most of her work has been on
kingship, government and political ideas in the early Middle Ages, on
which she has published extensively as well as on heresy, religion and
ritual. She is currently writing a biography of Charlemagne. |
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Catherine Parry-Wingfield
has taught many courses on the fine and decorative arts including those
at Birkbeck's Faculty of Continuing Education, the Open University and
the Victoria & Albert Museum. She specialises in the visual arts of
eighteenth century Europe and Britain. |
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Richard Plant studied
architectural history at the Courtauld Institute, where he took his MA
and gained his PhD on English Romanesque and the Holy Roman Empire. He
has published on English and German Romanesque architecture. He has
taught at a number of institutions in London, and is currently a Course
Director at Christie’s Education |
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Dr Janet Robson is an Associate
Lecturer at Birkbeck, and a guest lecturer for the Courtauld Institute
and Christie’s Education. Janet specialises in Italian art c.1200-1450,
with particular interests in iconography and the art of the Franciscans.
She is currently writing a book on the Basilica of San Francesco in
Assisi |
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Mariam Rosser-Owen is a Curator in
the Middle Eastern Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum, looking
after the Middle Eastern collections which date before 1500. Her
research interests include the Islamic Mediterranean, and she is
currently preparing a book, Islamic Arts from Spain: 9th to 19th
centuries, to be published by the Museum in 2010. |
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Ashok Roy is Director of Scientific
Research at the National Gallery, where he has worked on the technical
study of Old Master paintings for over 30 years. His particular
interests are directed to the application of scientific methods to the
examination and analysis of paintings and the history of technology of
European painting practice. He was involved with the technical study of
Holbein’s Ambassadors during the course of its complex conservation
treatment in 1993-97. He is editor of the National Gallery Technical
Bulletin. |
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Lindsay Stainton was formerly
in charge of the British drawings and watercolours in the British
Museum, and is currently working on a catalogue raisonné of the works of
Gainsborough. She has published on Turner and on British artists in
Italy. |
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Joachim Strupp is an art
historian with a specialisation in Italian and German art of the
Renaissance and Baroque periods. After ten years as a lecturer at the
universities of St Andrews and Buckingham, he now lectures independently
for organisations such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, the
John Hall Pre-University
Course in Venice, Martin
Randall Travel and a number of Europe-based American academic
programmes. He has published articles on Italian Renaissance art and has
appeared on radio. (Biography from
Arts Pursuits) |
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Will Vaughan is President of
ULEMHAS; he has recently retired as Pevsner Professor of the History of
Art and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Birkbeck. He was Slade Professor
of Fine Art at Cambridge and has taught at Yale. He has published widely
on 18th and 19th century European and British painting, and is currently
preparing the Samuel Palmer exhibition for the British Museum in the
autumn. |
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Richard Williams gained his
doctorate at the Courtauld Institute and is an associate lecturer at
Birkbeck College. He lectures there and at the National Gallery. This
year he has been awarded a Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation to
write a book on the changing images of Christ during the European
Reformation. |
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