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Dr Leah Clark receives Istanbul Research Institute travel grant for research in Istanbul
24th August 2020
Senior Lecturer, Dr Leah Clark is the recipient of an Istanbul Research Institute travel grant for research in Istanbul in 2021 for her project ‘Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects across Renaissance Courts’.
Remembering the Future: publishing in a time of plague
14th July 2020
Elizabeth Chappell is studying for a PhD with the OU. She was working on a co-edited special issue of Wasafiri: Japan – Literatures of Remembering, just as the pandemic hit. Here, she discusses its implications and the strategy she and her colleagues developed in response
Art History in the time of COVID-19
13th July 2020
Dr Leah Clark, Senior Lecturer in Art History at the OU, highlights the role Art History plays in helping us to make sense of the pandemic. Find out about the activities she and her colleagues have been involved with since lockdown started
Dr Renate Dohmen Has Won Prestigious Award for Project on Colonial Art in British India
5th May 2020
Lecturer in Art History, Dr Renate Dohmen has been awarded the prestigious Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 2020 for her project: Colonial Art in British India: Power, Gender and Race under the Raj.
Dr Clare Taylor Receives a Mid-Career Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre
9th April 2020
Senior Lecturer in Art History, Dr Clare Taylor, receives a Mid-Career Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for her project: Gilt Leather Rooms: Decorating with leather hangings in Britain, c.1600-c.1800.
New OU/BBC Series: Age of the Image
26th February 2020
On 2 March, a new four-part OU/BBC series ‘Age of the Image’ starts on BBC Four at 9pm.
Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou to Work on Icons Held at the Serbian Orthodox Church Museum in Belgrade
18th February 2020
Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Senior Lecturer in Art History, working together with Dr Miljana Matić, Curator of Icons at the Serbian Orthodox Church Museum in Belgrade, will officially start their research project examining the Greek and Italo-Cretan icons held at the Serbian Orthodox Church Museum in Belgrade.
Dr Amy Charlesworth Contributes to New Book on Art, Politics and Feminism(s), out March 2020
10th February 2020
Amy Charlesworth has co-written a chapter with activist and campaigner, Marissa Begonia (Voice of Domestic Workers) about their work together for Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (Valiz: Netherlands, 2020).
Dr Renate Dohmen to Carry Out Research in India Feb-March 2020
5th February 2020
Dr Renate Dohmen is invited to participate in a project on the photographs of Sawai Ram Singh, Maharaja of Jaipur (1835-1880) in the context of princely photography and amateur arts during the British Raj.
Dr. Clare Taylor's and Dr. Kim Woods's Monographs Shortlisted for Prestigious Award
5th February 2020
Clare Taylor's The Design, Production and Reception of Eighteenth-Century Wallpaper in Britain (London: Routledge) and Kim Woods's Cut in Alabaster: a Material of Sculpture and its European Traditions (Turnhout: Brepols) were both recognised for excellent scholarship by the 2020 Historians of British Art awards in their respective categories: Single-authored book with a subject 1600–1800 and Single-authored book with a subject before 1600.