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Read more at: The Department congratulates Charlotte Macey on being selected to compete in the women's lightweight Boat Race crew 2024

The Department congratulates Charlotte Macey on being selected to compete in the women's lightweight Boat Race crew 2024

19 March 2024

The lightweight Boat Race is held the day before the openweight boat races on the same course from Putney to Mortlake. The lightweight crew have trained alongside the openweights since August 2023. Charlotte Macey will be joined in the women's lightweight crew by Georgia Gollogly from the Department of Architecture. For...


Read more at: The Department congratulates MPhil student Kenneth Coplan on being selected for the Boat Race Cambridge Men’s Squad 2024

The Department congratulates MPhil student Kenneth Coplan on being selected for the Boat Race Cambridge Men’s Squad 2024

14 March 2024

Kenneth Coplan is joined in the squad by Sean Hayes, a PhD student from the Department of Architecture. The 169th Men's Race will take place on Saturday 30th March from 15:46 between Putney and Mortlake. For more information visit: https://www.theboatrace.org/squads/cambridge-mens-2024#


Read more at: The Department would like to congratulate Dr Georgios Markou on his appointment as Assistant Professor at the Department of Fine Arts at Cyprus University of Technology

The Department would like to congratulate Dr Georgios Markou on his appointment as Assistant Professor at the Department of Fine Arts at Cyprus University of Technology

8 December 2023

Dr Markou will take up his position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Fine Arts at Cyprus University of Technology on 2 January 2024 and we wish him well in his new role. Dr Markou read Archaeology and History of Art at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, before going to the University of Warwick...


Read more at: Professor Rosalind Polly Blakesley's book 'Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great' has been nominated for Apollo Magazine Book of the Year 2023

Professor Rosalind Polly Blakesley's book 'Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great' has been nominated for Apollo Magazine Book of the Year 2023

9 November 2023

Catherine the Great’s passion for the visual arts is well known, but this is the first study of the women artists who benefited from her patronage. Professor Blakesley brings together visual and documentary sources to deepen our understanding of what it meant to be a woman artist in the 18th century – and complicate our...


Read more at: Dr Krisztina Ilko will be giving an online talk, entitled ‘Chess and Skin Colour in the Global Middle Ages’ at the World History Seminar of the Chinese University of Hong Kong on Wednesday 8 November 2023

Dr Krisztina Ilko will be giving an online talk, entitled ‘Chess and Skin Colour in the Global Middle Ages’ at the World History Seminar of the Chinese University of Hong Kong on Wednesday 8 November 2023

31 October 2023

Chess and Skin Colour in the Global Middle Ages Speaker: Dr Krisztina Ilko Queens’ College, University of Cambridge Wednesday 8 November 2023, 9am-10.30am GMT 
 World History Seminar, Chinese University of Hong Kong 
 Online via Zoom 

 How could the game of chess facilitate cross-cultural interaction? To perambulate this...


Read more at: Congratulations to Professor Donal Cooper and Dr Georgios Markou who, with the Leverhulme Trust, welcomed scholars to their conference “Stato da Mar: The Venetian Mediterranean as a Cultural and Artistic Space”

Congratulations to Professor Donal Cooper and Dr Georgios Markou who, with the Leverhulme Trust, welcomed scholars to their conference “Stato da Mar: The Venetian Mediterranean as a Cultural and Artistic Space”

30 October 2023

1bdc41b2-6baf-790c-6bef-a4fc7778e0a0.jpeg The conference took place at Jesus College on October 14th 2023. Over the past quarter century, the study of the ‘Venetian Mediterranean’ – tracking the broader field of Early Modern Mediterranean Studies – has grown into a thriving interdisciplinary area of research. The older...


Read more at: Women Artists Together' by Dr Amy Tobin is included in the Yale University Press '50 Years in 50 books' and is currently featured on their blog

Women Artists Together' by Dr Amy Tobin is included in the Yale University Press '50 Years in 50 books' and is currently featured on their blog

20 October 2023

Read the full article here: https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2023/10/12/women-artists-together-by-amy-tobin/


Read more at: Professor Kavita Singh (5 November 1964—30 July 2023): The Department of History of Art, and our University of Cambridge community, mourns the loss of Professor Kavita Singh (5 November 1964—30 July 2023), the 2022-2023 Slade Professor in Fine Art

Professor Kavita Singh (5 November 1964—30 July 2023): The Department of History of Art, and our University of Cambridge community, mourns the loss of Professor Kavita Singh (5 November 1964—30 July 2023), the 2022-2023 Slade Professor in Fine Art

17 October 2023

Professor Singh was a leading scholar in the study of South Asia’s court painting and contemporary politics of collecting and museums. She served as the Dean at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, where she taught since 2001, and was distinguished for the energy she brought to her...


Read more at: The Department welcomes Professor Pascal Griener as our new Slade Professor of Fine Art for 2023-24. The lecture series is entitled 'The fate of Art in the Industrial Age: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), and the Gates of Hell (1880-1917) in context'.

The Department welcomes Professor Pascal Griener as our new Slade Professor of Fine Art for 2023-24. The lecture series is entitled 'The fate of Art in the Industrial Age: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), and the Gates of Hell (1880-1917) in context'.

12 October 2023

The 2023-2024 Professor of Fine Art is Professor Pascal Griener. This lecture series is entitled: 'The fate of Art in the Industrial Age: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), and the Gates of Hell (1880-1917) in context'. The history of the human race on earth now has a name: the Anthropocene . During the nineteenth century, the...


Read more at: Women Artists Together: Art in the Age of Women’s Liberation: a new book by Dr Amy Tobin has been published by Yale University Press and is featured in their 'Fifty Books for Fifty Years'

Women Artists Together: Art in the Age of Women’s Liberation: a new book by Dr Amy Tobin has been published by Yale University Press and is featured in their 'Fifty Books for Fifty Years'

11 October 2023

This book offers a fresh look at the history of feminist informed art making, focusing on the 1970s when the Women’s Liberation Movement was most active. Rather than tell this story through one artist, or one medium or one strand of feminism, I wanted to register the complex ways artists negotiated women’s liberation...