This Postgraduate Research Forum, co-organised by LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore, University of the Arts Singapore, and the University of Bristol, will feature presentations from students enrolled in MAs and PhDs in the History of Art department at the University of Bristol and recent graduates from the MA Asian Art Histories programme at LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore.
PROGRAMME
12.00pm - 1.00 pm Lunch in Exhibition Space
1.00pm - 1.10pm Welcome and Introduction
Dr Peter Dent (Head of Subject, History of Art, UoB)
Jeffrey Say (Programme Leader, MA Asian Art Histories, LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore)
Dr Zehra Jumabhoy (Lecturer, History of Art (HART), UoB)
1.10pm - 2.00pm Session 1: Hybridity and Identity
● Amrita Sher-Gil in Hungary: ‘My Name Now is “Dr. Egon Viktorné”
Valéria Fülöp-Pochon (PhD Candidate, HART, UoB)
● Countering Stereotypes of the Nyonya in Popular Culture: Photographs of Peranakan Women from the 1850s to the 1950s
Theresa Tan (MA Asian Art Histories, LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore)
Q & A with Moderator: Dr Elizabeth Robles (Lecturer, HART, UoB)
2.00pm – 2.50pm Session 2: All The World’s A Stage
● Excavating the Archives: The Process of Curating History on the
Stage
Flora Guildford and Rachel Campbell
(MA Students, HART, UoB)
● The Non-Performative Works of Tang Da Wu
Joanne Ngeow (MA Asian Art Histories, LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore)
Q & A with Moderator: Dr Ann Matchette (Senior Lecturer, HART, UoB)
3.10pm - 4.00pm Session 3: (Re)Visualising Power
● Charles R. Knight: Dinosaurs and Visual Culture
Vicky Coules (PhD Candidate, HART, UoB)
● (Re)Learning and (Re)presenting a History of Java - The Art of Timoteus Anggawan Kusno and Jompet Kuswidananto
Vanessa Yeo (MA Asian Art Histories, LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore)
Q & A with Moderator: Jeffrey Say (Programme Leader, MA Asian Art Histories, LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore)
4.00pm - 5.00pm Session 4: Pushing Boundaries
● Challenging the Canon: Re-evaluating the Significance of Women Wax Modellers (1660-1837) to the History of European Sculpture
Sophie Johnson (PhD Candidate, HART, UoB)
● Reading Trauma in Vandy Rattana's Trilogy of Films Through the Lens of Psychoanalysis, Theravada Buddhism and Animism
Dorit Ginat (MA Asian Art Histories, LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore)
Q & A with Moderators: Peter Dent & Zehra Jumabhoy (HART, UoB)
Round Up Q & A
5.00pm - 5.30pm Closing Remarks
● Jeffrey Say
● Zehra Jumabhoy
DRINKS RECEPTION