History of Art Early Career Research Forum

Michaelmas Term:

Thursday 5 November 

17:00 in Lecture Room 1

Kelsey Yuen, PhD Candidate in History of Art, University of Cambridge  

Title TBC

Thursday, 19 November

17:00 in Lecture Room 1

Alexander Collins, Curator of Decorative Arts, The Wallace Collection

Sir Richard Wallace and the Asante Gold

 

Convenors: Dr Teresa Soley and Dr Rachel Coombes

The History of Art Early Career Research Forum offers ECRs an opportunity to share their work and receive valuable feedback from their peers. We welcome presentations related to visual and material culture from scholars of all disciplines within 5 years of the receipt of their PhD, as well as doctoral students in the final year of thesis research. 

In addition to research talks of 20-40 minutes, presenters may propose sessions in a variety of formats including (but not limited to) book/project proposals, practice conference papers, or mock job talks. 

All sessions will be followed by refreshments and discussion. No registration is required, and students, researchers, and faculty of any level are warmly welcome to attend.

Please feel free to contact Teresa or Rachel with any questions, or to sign up to present. 

 

Previous Speakers

2025-2026

  • Daniel Sobrino Ralston, CEEH Associate Curator of Spanish Paintings, National Gallery - Late Zurbarán: Sacred Paintings and Secular Patrons
  • Elisabetta Garletti, Bye-Fellow in History of Art at Murray Edwards College - Crafting the Body: The Politics of the Handmade in Jamie Crewe's Pastoral Drama
  • David Birkin, Visiting Fellow, Cambridge Visual Culture - An Archaeology of Images: Linearity, Verticality, and Scopic Hegemony 
  • Kimberly Glassman, Research Associate, Botanical Collections, Fitzwilliam Museum - When Plants Aren't Pretty: An Investigation into the Botanical Art of Diseased Roses
  • Ane Cornelia Pade, PhD Candidate in History of Art, University of Cambridge - From the Hôtel Bondy to Frascati: Aspiration and Transformation in Revolutionary Paris
  • Samet Mor, Henry Moore Fellow Foundation Postdoctoral Researcher - The Role of Peripheral Actors and Grey Literature in Art Historical Inquiry: A Case Study of Henry Moore

 

2024-2025

  • Noah Margulis, PhD Candidate in Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU - Stop the Presses: Interruption and Repetition in Roman Printmaking, c.1510-1530
  • Kareem Estefan, Assistant Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Cambridge - Portals to Palestine: A Book Proposal in Progress
  • Freya Field-Donovan, Rosalind Lady Carlisle Research Fellow in Art History, Girton College, University of Cambridge - Stay the flood: biography as record in the work of Jay Leyda
  • Aline Guillermet, Course Director in HoA, Cambridge Institute for Continuing Education, and Affiliated Lecturer, Cambridge Digital Humanities - A Schizophrenic Attitude to Technology: Assessing Generative Al Art in the Light of Historical "Generative Art"?
  • Lara Pitteloud, PhD Candidate, University of Neuchâtel - Unveiling the social life of a collection of paintings from Paris to St. Petersburg in the 1780s
  • Olenka Syaivo Dymtryk, Methods Fellow, Cambridge Digital Humanities - What if: art and sexual dissent in 21st-century Ukraine
  • Christina Faraday, Junior Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge - Lurking, Feigning, Shining, Declaring: The Life of Gold in the Early Modern English Imagination