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INTERNATIONALISM
AND THE ARTS:
Anglo-European Cultural Exchange at the Fin de Siècle
A
three-day international conference,
Magdalene
College, Cambridge, 3 - 5 July 2006
2 - 3.30: panel 1 Artists and Art Markets [Chair: Mr Duncan Robinson]
Dr Anna Gruetzner Robins, Reader in the History of Art, University of Reading, UK
Walter Sickert: Art and Nation [abstract]
Dr Grischka Petri, Research Assistant, Department of History of Art, University of Glasgow, UK
'Whistler and the Internationalization of the Art Markets in the 1880s and 1890s' [abstract]Dr Pamela Fletcher, Assistant Professor of Art History, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, USA
'Cosmopolitan Connoisseurs: The Commercial Art Gallery and its Public' [abstract]
3.30 - 5: panel 2 Art Societies and Reception [Chair: Dr Anna Gruetzner Robins]
Professor Margaret MacDonald, Department of History of Art, University of Glasgow, UK
'The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, 1898-1901' [abstract]Dr Grace Brockington, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK
' "World Fellowships": women's art clubs and their international aspiration' [abstract]Rachel Sloane, doctoral candidate, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 'Lost in Translation: The French Rossetti' [abstract]
5.30 - 7: panel 3 Journals [Chair: Dr Santanu Das]
Dr Myriam Boussahba-Bravard, Lecturer in English Studies, University of Rouen, France
'The International: A Review of the World's Progress, Britain 1907-1909' [abstract]Dr Neil Stewart, Assistant Professor at the Slavic Department, University of Bonn, Germany
'Modern Views. The Czech Journal Modernì revue in the Context of Fin de Siècle Internationalism' [abstract]
7 - 8: informal drinks reception
9.30 - 11: panel 4 Architecture and Interior Design [Chair: Dr Lee Beard]
Dr Wolfgang Sonne, Lecturer in the History and Theory of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, UK
'Anderson and Hébrard's World Centre of Communication: Celebration of Internationalism and International Style' [abstract]Dr Stacey Loughrey Sloboda, Assistant Professor of Art History, Southern Illinois University, USA
'Grammars of Ornament: Internationalism and Modernity in British Design' [abstract]Dr Judy Neiswander, independent scholar, USA
' "Cosmopolitan design" and the British home, 1870-1914' [abstract]
11.30 - 1: panel 5 The Arts and Crafts [Chair: Dr Alan Powers]
Dr Andrzej Szczerski, Lecturer in the History of Art, Jagiellonian University of Krakòw, Poland
'The Arts and Crafts Movement and Central Europe - between "national" and "international"' [abstract]Alba Irollo, doctoral student, University of Naples, Italy
'Walter Crane's Bible, "an artistic compendium" of the Fin de Siècle' [abstract]Dr Rosalind P. Blakesley, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Cambridge, UK
'The Pre-Raphaelites in Russia' [abstract]
2 - 3.30: panel 6 Performance 1 [Chair: Prof Tore Rem]
Dr Drew Milne, Judith E. Wilson Lecturer in Drama and Poetry, University of Cambridge, UK
'Nijinsky's Faune and the international modernism of the Ballets Russes in Paris and London' [abstract]Dr Katherine Cockin, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull, UK
'Art Theatre, Englishness and International Exchange: Edith Craig, J. T. Grein and the Pioneer Players 1911-25' [abstract]
3.30 - 5: panel 7 Performance 2 [Chair: Dr Trudi Tate]
Professor Tore Rem, Associate Professor in British and American Studies, University of Oslo, Norway
'Ibsenism, insularity and internationalism' [abstract]James Mansell, Postgraduate Fellow, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK
'John Foulds: Manchester Modernist' [abstract]
5 - 5.30: tea
7.30: conference dinner
9.30 - 11: panel 8 Belgium [Chair: Dr Matthew Potter]
Daniel Laqua, doctoral candidate, University College, London, UK
'Small-Nations Internationalism' and the Totality of Knowledge: the Work of Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine [abstract]Dr Anne Leonard, Mellon Projects Curator, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago USA
'Internationalist in spite of themselves: Britain and Belgium at the fin-de-siècle' [abstract]Professor Marysa Demoor, Professor of English Literature, University of Ghent, Belgium
'The British-Belgian cultural connection at the turn of the century: Laurence Binyon as a middleman' [abstract]
11.30 - 1: panel 9 Germany 1 [Chair: Dina Gusejnova]
Hannes Schweiger, doctoral candidate, University of Vienna, Austria
'Between the Lines. George Bernard Shaw as cultural and political mediator' [abstract]Dr John Trygve Has-Ellison, adjunct professor in the department of Historical Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
'German Nobles and the Reception of Artistic Modernism' [abstract]
2 - 3.30: panel 10 Germany 2 [Dr John Trygve Has-Ellison]
Dr Petra Rau, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Portsmouth, UK
' "German Swords and English Backbone" - the Cosmopolitan Argument in Forster's Howards End' [abstract]Dr Matthew Potter, Lecturer in Art History, University of Plymouth, UK
'Art and Internationalism: Cambridge University and the intellectual bridge to Germany' [abstract]
3.30 - 5: final discussion [Chair: Dr Grace Brockington]
5 - 5. 30: tea