On the Move - Artists, Ideas, Objects - Professor Bénédicte Savoy

Aisha Bornø, Sophie Rhodes, Lea Viehweger

On the Move: Artists, Ideas, Objects - Professor Bénédicte Savoy

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Cambridge History of Art Graduate Seminar Series, Lent term 2022.Professor Bénédicte Savoy, Technische Universität Berlin and Collège de France: 'Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Post-Colonial Defeat'Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy was born in Paris in 1972. Since 2009 she is Professor of Modern Art History at the Institute of Art Studies and Historical Urban Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin. In 2016 she was awarded the Leibniz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Bénédicte Savoy is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as well as of the German Academy for Language and Literature. In 2016 she was made professor at the Collège de France in Paris.'On the Move: Artists, Ideas, Objects' explores the topic of transnationalism and cross-culturalism in the field of History of Art. The seminar series brings together speakers working across a range of different time periods, materials, and geographies, inviting an exploration of themes such as migration, networks of artist exchange, colonialism, trade and indigeneity. The series will run for seven weeks and will be held in-person in the Department of History of Art, with the exception of two talks (2nd February and 16th February) which will be held on Zoom. The in-person events will be followed by a drinks reception. There is an option for you to attend the in-person events online, please select the 'Online Attendance' ticket and a Zoom link will be sent to you on the day of the event. The schedule will be as follows: 2nd February: Dr Lianming Wang, Visiting Professor in Global Art History, University of Cambridge, ‘Transoceanic Trade Repictured: Coromandel Lacquer Screen and the Mobile Image in Global Exchange’ (via zoom)9th February: Dr Susan Foister, The National Gallery, ‘Exhibiting Travel: Dürer and his Journeys of a Lifetime’16th February: Dr Bart Pushaw, University of Copenhagen, ‘Indulgent Images: Inuit Artists and Colonial Consumption in the Global Arctic’ (via zoom)23rd February: Professor Bénédicte Savoy, title to be confirmed2nd March: Dr Scott Nethersole, Courtauld Institute of Art, ‘Fra Angelico’s The Miracle of the Black Leg: Skin Colour and the Perception of Ethiopians in Florence before 1450’9th March: Artist Talk: Sutapa Biswas ‘The Politics of Aesthetics: Painting with Light’, followed by a Q&A with Elizabeth Brown of Kettle’s Yard.16th March: Dr Tessa Murdoch, Former Rosalinde and Albert Gilbert Curator, Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, ‘A Springboard to the New World, the Huguenot Diaspora and the impact of Huguenot Material Culture in the Americas 1680-1830’This series is convened by Aisha Bornø (almb3@cam.ac.uk), Sophie Rhodes (sr872@cam.ac.uk) and Lea Viehweger (liv22@cam.ac.uk)

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