First up this week, is the Victoria & Albert Museum’s exhibition Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London, a fascinating exploration of the life, work and lasting impact of John Lockwood Kipling (1837 – 1911), an artist, writer, museum director, teacher, conservationist and influential figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. The exhibition includes a wide array of objects, including book plates, jewellery, furniture, photographs, and other forms of decorative art. The exhibition is complemented by the conference The Many Careers of John Lockwood Kipling (25 Feb), and runs until 2 April.
Secondly, I enjoyed Pat Thomson’s post, ‘What does a book proposal reviewer do?‘. Having recently acted as a reader for a press, while concurrently having my own book proposal under review at another, the ideas in this post are something I’ve been thinking about a lot.
I was interested to note two complementary conferences on issues of photography and materiality, the first Photo Archives VI: The Place of Photography (Oxford, 20-21 Apr 17), and the second, Photo-Objects. On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences (Florence, 15-17 Feb 16). As I continue my new research on photocollage, I’m becoming increasingly concerned with the idea of photograph-as-object, something that these conferences also look to explore.
As a keen advocate of academic blogging, I read Jeanne de Montbaston’s post Why do academic blogging? with interest. I find it particularly interesting that so much of de Montbaston’s teaching and research output starts life in the blog post form. I’m keen to experiment with blogging from the early stages of my research process for my new project on collage.
I’m eager to hear more about the newly-launched Eighteenth-century Arts Education Research Network (EAERN), which recently received funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The network ‘brings together an international community of researchers in music, art, literature, history, and dance to share approaches to investigate eighteenth-century arts educational materials‘.
The following conferences, seminars, and CFPs also caught my eye:
CFP: At Close Quarters: Experiencing the Domestic, c.1400-1600
CFP: Beyond Between Men: Homosociality Across Time
CFP: Imagined Forms: Models and Material Culture, UD-CMCS/Hagley; November 2017
Programme: Edinburgh’s Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars
CFP: Mapping Black Mobilities and Identities in the Long 19th Century
CFP: Harts & Minds, Vol.3, Issue 2 (2017) ‘Embodied Masculinities’
CFP: Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle (21 July 2017)
CFP: Beyond the Home: New Histories of Domestic Servants (Oxford, 8 September 2017)
CFP: Printmaking in America, 1800-1865 (Gloucester, 28 Oct 17)
CFP: Full Circle: The Medal in Art History (New York, 8-9 Sep 17)
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