University of Otago: Art History & Theory Programme Update
Judith Collard will shortly be taking over from Mark Stocker as Programme Co-ordinator for the duration of Mark’s study leave. Judith spent December and January examining manuscripts relating to her project ‘Matthew Paris and His Books’, and making discoveries. She is presenting a paper on ‘Matthew Paris as a Natural Philosopher’ at the Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium in July.
Mark Stocker is presenting a paper on Queen Victoria statuary and its Maori and Pakeha contexts in the ‘Making of a Monarchy for the Modern World’ conference at Kensington Palace, London, in June. He is attending the Attingham Summer School, studying English country houses and assisted by a scholarship in July.
Erika Wolf’s book Koretsky: The Soviet Photo Poster, 1930-1984 (New York: THe New Press, 2012) was published in January. In February she was a visiting scholar at the Kunstwissenschaftliches Kolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) at the University of Konstanz, Germany, and three exhibitions in which she served as a consultant opened at branches of the Fundación Juan March in the first half of this year.
Hilary Radner is an invited speaker at the 4th Annual NYIT_NUPT Student Film Festival and International Symposium “Longing and Inhibition in Film,” Nanjing, Cinema in April. She is presenting a paper on the Parisian apartment in François Truffaut’s La Peau Douce at the Research Colloquium, “Paris au cinéma: lieux, personnages, histoire: “Au-delà du flâneur,” at the Institut national de l’histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris in December. Her current projects include the co-edited A Blackwell Companion to Contemporary French and monographs on the Hollywood romantic melodrama after feminism and on the woman’s film in the New Zealand context.