Session 1
Laura Slater, University of Cambridge
Maintaining or Reinventing Tradition? The Beresford Shroud Tomb
Rachel Boyd, Columbia University
From Futurism to the Trecento: Carlo Carrà and Giotto
Daniel Zamani, University of Cambridge
Resurrecting Camelot: Andre Breton's Chivalric Medievalism
Session 2
Sonia Coman, Columbia University
Painting as Bridge Between Literary Traditions: Tosa Mitsunobu and the Bamboo of the Four Seasons
Anna Blair, University of Cambridge
French Modernity and Cambodian Tradition: The Politics of Interwar Travel
Alexandra Helprin, Columbia University
Painting and the Lubok Tradition: Argunov's Portrait of Praskovia Sheremeteva
Session 3
Catherine Damman, Columbia University
A Postscript to Transgression: Carolee Scheemann and the “Primitive” 1960s
Nicholas Fitch, Columbia University
Allegories of the Plague in the Work of Clorindo Testa, 1975–1978
Session 4
Max Bryant, University of Cambridge
The Neoclassical Pediment: Re-contextualising the Antique in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Europe and America
Brigid von Preussen, Columbia University
The ancien régime in the New World: Henry Clay Frick's Fragonard Room and French Style in Gilded Age America
Bridget Hembree, University of Cambridge
Eschewing Tradition: Aesthetic Politics at Belmead Plantation
Richard Butler, University of Cambridge
Architecture and the “Triumph” of Catholic Ireland: A Case Study of Church Building in Rural Cork, 1953–55
