This year the Image and Object Workshop, convened by Dr John R. Blakinger, Terra Visiting Professor of American Art, will be bringing together research from across the University of Oxford on the theme of Collaborations and Confrontations in Art and Science. This experimental public workshop explores interdisciplinarity across the visual arts and the natural and social sciences. How do disciplines as disparate as neuroscience and anthropology study images and objects? What can the history of art learn from visual methods in other fields? Leading experts from Oxford will gather to discuss to the possibility, and pitfalls, of exchange.
Speakers:
Andrew Parker, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Christopher Morton, Head of Research and Curator of Photograph and Manuscript Collections, Pitt-Rivers Museum
Marcus Banks, Professor of Visual Anthropology, Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology
John Lidwell-Durnin, Departmental Lecturer in the History of Science, Faculty of History
Daniel Bone, Head of Conservation, Ashmolean Museum
Morwenna Blewett, Sackler Fellow in the History of Conservation, Ashmolean Museum
Places are limited, so please book in advance to secure a place. Please email admin@hoa.ox.ac.uk by 4pm, Friday 7 June.
Coffee and tea will be served and there will be a drinks reception to follow.
