Updates, news and events from the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities
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May 2023
Welcome to the May 2023 edition of CAMC Curates, the newsletter for the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities. CAMC Curates provides monthly updates from our postgraduate and staff researchers about recent news, events and publications.
News
Coventry COVID-19 Network hosts 'Research and COVID-19: Entanglements in the Epoch' in April
Carolina Rito awarded Fulbright Visiting Fellowship in New York
Olivia Garro speaks on Textual Scholarship in Art History at the Renaissance Society of America's 2023 Conference
Alice Leonard awarded British Library Fellowship
Strong CAMC presence at the Classical Association Conference 2023 at the University of Cambridge
Daniel Anderson visits the Seminar für Klassische Philologie at the University of Heidelberg
Research and COVID-19: Entanglements in the Epoch
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Coventry COVID-19 Network hosted their first symposium at ICC on the 27th April, organised by CAMC PGR's: David Beauchamp, Hannah Honeywill and Stacey Moon-Tracy. The symposium brought together a range of COVID-19 related or affected research projects by staff and PGR's from across different research centres within the university. The hybrid event was dynamically opened by Dr Heather Sears of the Doctoral College; it then went onto feature presentations, dance workshops and a sharing of artwork before ending with a very thought-provoking keynote speech by Dr Kristopher Lovell about the #RecordCOVID19 Archive. The event both celebrated the COVID-19 related research being undertaken at Coventry University but also gave space to reflect on and share in the challenges and opportunities that the pandemic presented to us as academics and as people. Special thanks to CAMC for supporting and funding the event, to Charlie Ingram for running the tech and to the presenters and attendees.
Carolina Rito Awarded Fulbright Visiting Fellowship in New York
Curatorial Practice fellows studying in the library and lounge in the School of Visual Arts facility in New York
Fulbright Visiting Fellow Programme is the flagship international programme of the United States government to increase research opportunities between US American researchers and institutions, and international scholars.
From January to June 2024, Carolina Rito will be visiting scholar at the School of Visual Arts, New York, supported by Dr Steven Henry Madoff, internationally acclaimed researcher and writer in curatorial studies. Carolina brings to SVA her ongoing research project on the epistemic capacities of the curatorial with a focus on NYC-based case-studies – “How Does Curating Produce Knowledge? A Framework for Curatorial Research”. Carolina will develop a research framework for curatorial research; contribute to the MA in Curatorial Practices seminars, chaired by Steven Henry Madoff; promote networks and collaborative projects between SVA and Coventry University; and disseminate her work more widely.
For more information, please contact Carolina Rito at ad3992@coventry.ac.uk.
Olivia Garro at the Renaissance Society of America's 2023 Conference
Olivia Garro (centre) and other presenters at the Renaissance Society of America's 2023 conference
Olivia Garro (CAMC PhD student) has presented the paper "The De Lamiis et Pythonicis Mulieribus (1489) and the Compendium Maleficarum (1608)" at the Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History's panel 'Image and Word(s): A complex cultural and visual dialogue' at the Renaissance Society of America's 2023 conference. This will also be published as an article in the Association's journal, 'Paragone/Past and Present', later this year.
During the RSA 2023, Olivia has also taken part in the roundtable "How to be an Early Modern Scholar", organized by Hayley Cotter (University of Massachusetts). YangYou Fang, PhD candidate from Princeton, who has also presented at the roundtable, has circulated this link with more information and some pictures.
Alice Leonard Awarded British Library Fellowship
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Alice Leonard has been awarded a British Library Fellowship for her new project, 'The Wrong Way: Faulty Colonialism and Unreliable Maps'. She will be taking up the Fellowship at the Eccles Centre, dedicated to the study of the Americas, in the new year.
CAMC at the Classical Association Conference 2023
Speakers at the panel on ‘Rape or marriage? The language of sexual violence in Greek tragedy'
Coventry Staff and Students contributed their groundbreaking research to the Classical Association Conference held at the University of Cambridge, April 2023.
Kirsty Harrod and Georgina Homer spoke at the panel on 'Violence, Victims and Adjuncts in Greek Tragedy', chaired by Professor Nancy Rabinowitz (Hamilton College). Kirsty gave a talk on ‘Rape or marriage? The language of sexual violence in Greek tragedy'; Georgina spoke on ‘Plot-changers: the minor roles in Greek tragedy’. Daniel Anderson gave a talk on ‘Diversity and Identity in Comic Choruses’ at the Greek comedy panel.
Victoria Leonard organised panels on 'Gendered Violence in Early Christianity', featuring Blossom Stefaniw, Jennifer Barry, Ellen Muehlberger and Kathy L. Gaca; and on 'Teaching Classics with Wikipedia', featuring Ewan McAndrew, Juliana Bastos Marques, Victoria Austen, Chelsea Gardner, Nadege Forde, and Lucy Moore.
More info here.
Daniel Anderson at the Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Heidelberg University
Marstallhof, University of Heidelberg
Last week, Daniel Anderson was hosted by the Seminar für Klassische Philologie at the University of Heidelberg as part of his Research Excellence Development Fund project on Modularity in Ancient Greek Aesthetics. At the invitation of Professor Jonas Grethlein, he spoke at the weekly research seminar for philology about how ancient works of poetry and art were often conceptualised as objects that could and did change over time. In addition to meeting with students and staff in Grethlein's research group, Anderson also visited Heidelberg's papyrus collection, the second largest such collection in Germany, and discussed two papyri key to his project with Professor Andrea Jörgens. Anderson will speak about other aspects on this project in Barcelona in July and again in Groningen this coming September.
Events
Coventry Premoderns Spring Lecture 2023, Professor Mihoko Suzuki, 15 May, 3-4pm ICE Conference Suite G21
Creative Cultures Practice Research Event and Exhibition, 24 May, ICC
Carolina Rito’s AHRC Project Event and Publication at the University of the Arts London, 31 May, 6-7:30pm, online
Coventry Premoderns Spring Lecture 2023 Professor Mihoko Suzuki
Kanõ Naizen (1570-1616), Arrival of the Southern Barbarians (Nanban-jin) Screen
Coventry Premoderns are pleased to invite you to our Spring Lecture:
Professor Mihoko Suzuki
‘That’s Surprising! The Culture and Status of Early Modern Japanese Women, according to Luis Frois'
This lecture focuses on the accounts of early modern Japanese women by Luis Frois (1532–1597), a Portuguese Jesuit who lived for over thirty years in Japan, became fluent in Japanese, and recorded his observations in a treatise that contrasts European and Japanese culture and an extensive history of Japan, both of which remained in manuscript until the mid-twentieth century. In the treatise, Frois makes a number of striking observations which are not corroborated by Japanese sources. However, recent Japanese historians have come to accept Frois’s claims. Frois’ writings are especially valuable since his movements were unrestricted before the closing of Japanese borders to Europeans in the early seventeenth century, and he had access to different classes of Japanese society, from the elite ruling class to the most humble populace. Although Frois compared the relative independence of Japanese women unfavourably to the patriarchal subordination of European women, his extensive and detailed accounts provide a unique perspective on early modern women in Japan unavailable from other sources.
Mihoko Suzuki is Professor of English and Cooper Fellow in the Humanities, Emerita, University of Miami. She is the author, most recently, of Antigone’s Example: Women’s Political Writing in Times of Civil War from Christine de Pizan to Helen Maria Williams (2022). Her articles include “Early Modern European Encounters with Japan: Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer” in A Companion to the New Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Age of Expansion, 1500–1700, ed. Jyotsna Singh (2021); and “Women Warriors in Civil War Japan” in Women and War in the Early Modern World, ed. Lucia Gemmani and Paola Ugolini (forthcoming). She has served as coeditor of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2011–18) and currently serves as coeditor of Renaissance Quarterly and of the book series, New Transcuturalisms, 1400–1800, for Palgrave Macmillan.
To register, visit: https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2023/coventry-premoderns-spring-lecture-2023-professor-mihoko-suzuki/
For more information, visit https://wp.coventry.domains/coventrypremoderns/
Creative Cultures Practice Research Event and Exhibition at the ICC
Practice Research Exhibition, Creative Cultures Poster
The Research Institute for Creative Cultures is organising an event at the ICC building, on the 24th of May, to introduce colleagues from other Research Institutes to practice research methods in the arts and to show some of our practice research work. The Creative Cultures Practice Research event and exhibition are part of the initiatives organised by the ICC Practice Research Working Group established in 2022. The Creative Cultures Practice Research event aims to stimulate cross-disciplinary exchange and collaboration with other research fields at Coventry University. Also, it aims to introduce colleagues from other research Institutes and Centres across the University to practice research in the arts by sharing a number of diverse approaches ranging from virtual reality, participatory methods, socially engaged art, installation, music, and curatorial practices.
The exhibition features practice research projects by José Dias (CAMC), Ruth Gibson, Petra Johnson, Lily Hayward-Smith, Karen Wood, Louisa Petts, Vipavinee Artpradid (all from C-DARE), Mel Jordan (CPC), Anthony Luvera (CAMC), Teoma Naccarato (C-DARE), Carolina Rito (CAMC) and Kevin Walker (CPC).
For more information, please contact Carolina Rito at ad3992@coventry.ac.uk.
Carolina Rito’s AHRC Project Event and Publication at the University of the Arts London
Image of poster for Beverley Bennett’s Nation’s Finest, Putting Down Roots and Birthing
Book Launch and Roundtable
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
18:00-19:30 BST
Speakers: Paul Goodwin, Carolina Rito, Marlene Smith, Ian Sergeant, more TBC.
Organised by the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, University of the Arts London.
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-changing-same-roundtable-and-book-launch-tickets-634593475167
‘The Role of Visual Arts Organisations in the British Black Arts Movement in the Midlands’ is a research network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Co-led by Carolina Rito (Coventry University) and Paul Goodwin (University of the Arts London), this project explored the institutional and curatorial strategies of the movement in the 1980s, and the institutional support in promoting and showing Black curators and artists then and today. The network it created also aimed to understand how the 1980s movement’s motivations can provide models for the sector today.
Join us in reflecting on the project process through a roundtable with the project working group members, and in launching the project’s publication. The publication, titled The Changing Same? British Black Artists and Visual Arts Organisations in the Midlands, includes new insights about the process, and interviews with key researchers and practitioners in the field. It presents a series of recommendations and considerations for funders, cultural organisations and the HE sector, and feedback from the cultural partners.
For a year, the project involved a series of closed-door activities (workshops, meetings) with the partners organisations (New Art Exchange, Nottingham Contemporary (withdrew), Wolverhampton Gallery and the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery), and the working group (Marlene Smith, Ian Sergeant, Shaheen Merali and Sylvia Theuri).
Learn more about this project.
Free and open to all but booking is essential.
This event will take place on Zoom.
Image Credit: Nation’s Finest, Putting Down Roots & Birthing by Beverley Bennett, commissioned by the B2022 Commonwealth Games cultural festival and curated by Marlene Smith and Ian Sergeant for the Blk Art Group Research Project.
For any queries about the above items or if you wish to submit material for a future edition of the newsletter, please contact Daniel Anderson at ac8883@coventry.ac.uk.
