The MaCA Seminar meets every other week during full term at 5pm, hosting a range of speakers including scholars, artists and curators. For the academic year 2020/21 meetings will take place remotely. Please book to attend each session via our website.
Michaelmas Term
Monday 12 October 2020
Book Launch: The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde by Dr Alyce Mahon (History of Art, Cambridge)
With a conversation between Dr Mahon and Dr Sofia Gotti (History of Art, Cambridge)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cambridge-modern-contemporary-art-research-seminar-alyce-mahon-tickets-123998271167
Monday 9 November 2020
After the Dream of Alba: Naomi Mitchison and the Modern Arts of Africa
Dr Kate Cowcher (University of St Andrews)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-cambridge-modern-contemporary-art-research-seminar-kate-cowcher-tickets-124057163315
Monday 23 November 2020
BROOD
Marianna Simnett
Followed by a conversation with Elisabetta Garletti (History of Art, Cambridge)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-and-contemporary-art-research-seminar-marianna-simnett-tickets-124059484257
Lent Term
Monday 25 January 2021
Inert Universalism and Info-Optimism in Contemporary Art
Dr Larne Abse Gogarty (Slade, University College London)
Monday 8 February 2021
Montage Reassembled: Dada in the Postwar Archive
Professor Michael White (University of York)
Monday 22 February 2021
Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria
Dr Anneka Lenssen (University of California, Berkeley)
Monday 8 March 2021
Cecilia Fajordo-Hill in conversation with Dr Sofia Gotti and Dr Amy Tobin
Convenors of the Cambridge Modern and Contemporary Art Seminar Series 2020/21 are Dr Amy Tobin (ajt207@cam.ac.uk) and Dr Mary-Ann Middelkoop (maem2@cam.ac.uk).
