The Association of Art Historians / Wellcome Trust / Birkbeck School of Arts & Centre for Medical Humanities present:
A Picture of Health: Representations and Imaginings of Wellbeing and Illness
7 November 2014
Wellcome Trust, Euston Road, London
Organised by the Association of Art Historians, this conference seeks to address the relationship between art and health across different historical periods, with a particular emphasis on what the discipline of art history might bring to the study of visual objects and images in the emerging field of the medical humanities.
We welcome paper proposals from graduate students and early career scholars working with visual materials in a wide range of disciplines including but not limited to art history, fine arts, film and visual culture, art therapy, medicine and literary or cultural studies. Topics might address notions of art and health across all periods and contexts, at both ‘micro’ and ‘macro’ levels, from specific case studies about particular artists, works or medical collaborations, to broader historiographical investigations.
The conference will take place at the Wellcome Trust, London, on 7 Nov 2014, and will include keynotes from art historian Suzannah Biernoff (Birkbeck) and artist Christine Borland (BALTIC Professor, Northumbia).
Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Abstracts of 250 words and a brief biography indicating your institutional affiliation should be submitted as a single Word.doc by email. All speakers must be members of the AAH.
Paper Proposal deadline: 1 August 2014
For more information please visit our web site.