Julia Alting on LinkedIn: OSK PhD Day: A Career in Art History (2024)

I had a really good time last week at the Association for Art History's Annual Conference, this year its 50th iteration, at the University of Bristol. Together with Mehmet Berkay Sülek I organized the panel 'Art, History, Exhibitions: Re-thinking Relationships', which focused on exhibition histories, the challenges of studying them, and the way they influence art historical narratives.A big thank you to all the speakers in our panel for their engaging talks: Oliver O’Donnell, Camila Maroja, Wei Sun, Angela M. Bartholomew, Bridget Hardiman and Analays Alvarez Hernandez. And of course also many thanks to the AAH, the conference organizers, and the other panel conveners and speakers. It was an inspiring week!

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The RUG Faculty of Arts has a new research fellowship programme for early career and senior scholars in the Humanities!

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Very cool that Soapbox Journal's collaborative publication with the Walking as Research Practice research group won Best Book Design from all over the World!It was a pleasure to contribute as editor to this issue.

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Last month I had the opportunity to interview film scholar Erika Balsom at the Beursschouwburg, Brussels on the occasion of the 'Cut the Line' program she curated there.We spoke about nonfiction feminist films, the problems of the wave model, and repeated structures of forgetting. Can we rethink notions of linear progress? How do feminist filmmakers redescribe reality? And what kind of conversations should we be having across generations? You can read the interview now on FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerpen's online magazine Trigger in English:https://lnkd.in/ehkEBSuu& op rekto:verso in het Nederlands:https://lnkd.in/emPEtmwGMany thanks to Erika for our stimulating conversation, and to Tom Viaene (Trigger), Arnout De Cleene (rekto:verso) and Sofia Dati (beursschouwburg) for the collaboration!

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The research school for art history (OSK) now has a PhD council! Very excited that together with Mariëlle Ekkelenkamp, Christien Schrover and Nicole Ganbold we will represent the interests of art history PhD candidates on a national level. Do not hesitate to reach out to us with your ideas and suggestions!You can join us next week for the OSK PhD day on 22 November in Den Haag and Leiden. We will visit the exhibition Loot - 10 stories at the Mauritshuis, whichshows stolen objects from three periods: art looted by French revolutionaries in 1795, art taken from Jewish owners by Nazis and colonial looted art. We will speak with junior curator Sheila Reda and exhibition employee Daphne Martens who worked on the exhibition; and with Oscar Ekkelboom, whose PhD research specializes in decolonial practices in Dutch museums.After the museum visit we will travel to Leiden University to attend the talk ‘The Future Museum: Digital Replicas, Virtual Reality and Storytelling for a New Audience’ by Kel O'Neill, the guest curator and artistic lead for the exhibition, with an introduction by Liselore Tissen MA. This will be followed by discussion and drinks.Hope to see you there!For more information about the PhD council: https://lnkd.in/eQVBgB8BMore information about the PhD day: https://lnkd.in/eYfAMcd7And about the Leiden University museum talk: https://lnkd.in/eWM4JTgU

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Together with Mehmet Berkay Sülek I am organizing a session at the Association for Art History Annual Conference (University of Bristol, April 2024) on the relationships between art history and exhibitions. We ask why some exhibitions gain notoriety while others are forgotten, and reflect on how art history is shaped by exhibitions in our current moment.We invite scholars of art, curators, museum professionals, and artists to speculate on the future directions of the discipline in its relationship to curatorial practices in past and present. Reflections on current historiographical challenges to the discipline from decolonial, feminist and queer angles and attention to heterogeneous curatorial experiments are expressly welcome.The deadline is this Friday, send us your abstracts (250 words) for a 20-minute paper, your name and institutional affiliation. More info: https://lnkd.in/eY52ggb8#ForArtHistory2024

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I feel really privileged to have been able to spend October in the United States, visiting the Fales Library & Special Collections at New York University for my current doctoral research.It felt like a throwback moment to find myself in Washington Square Park again, as I studied at NYU in the Fall of 2015. Now I was researching the international exhibitions at the end of the 1970s at A.I.R. Gallery (Artists-In-Residence Gallery), a feminist cooperatively-run gallery for women artists founded in 1972; I worked there as an intern 8 years ago.I was able to see so many great exhibitions – Lexington Davis’ Fitter, Happier, More Productive, the Judy Chicago retrospective at the New Museum (third photo), Tricia Hersey’s Rest is Power and María Magdalena Campos-Pons at the Brooklyn Museum (last photo) - and many more.I was very lucky to be able to speak to Kathleen Wentrack, Ph.D. and Roxana Fabius, who were both a great help for my research.Many, many thanks to the Jo Kolk Studiefonds of the VVAO, and to the University of Groningen - Faculty of Arts, for making this research trip possible.

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Very grateful to have experienced the Feminist Art History conference at American University in DC at the start of this month. I presented on the nonlinear dynamics of canonization of women artists, and the panel I participated in centered the re-thinking of historical time. Many thanks to the other speakers Jennifer Griffiths (Umbria Institute) and Rachel Warriner (Courtauld), moderator Eve Straussman-Pflanzer (National Gallery of Art), and Mary D Garrard (American University) for our engaging discussions about temporality, genealogies of women artists, dominant historical constructs about 1970s feminism, and some of the tensions around difference/solidarity.Further highlights of the conference included a tour by Andaleeb Banta of the exhibition Making Her Mark at the Baltimore Museum of Art on European women artists between 1400-1800; and Nikki Greene's moving and inspiring lecture on academia, Black feminism, and rest.A big thank you to co-chairs Tiffany Hunt and Nika Elder, the organizing committee, volunteers and everyone who attended!https://lnkd.in/ey-_ZwbN

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