Durham University, June 22nd and 23rd, 2023.
Venue: Birley Room, Hatfield College, North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RQ
On 22 and 23 June 2023, the Zurbarán Centre at Durham University will host its third student-led
symposium showcasing innovative doctoral and early career research in Iberian and Latin
American art and visual cultures.
20 speakers from 17 academic institutions explore the theme of movements and transformations in Iberian and Latin American art, architecture, and visual culture from the late middle ages to the present day. The topics are wide-ranging, from the physical movement of artists and artworks
across different regions to the transformative power of art and architecture in the forging of
identities.
The papers address important questions relating to the circulation of art, art theory, and
artefacts across time and space; changing constructs of identity (social, religious, political etc.);
appropriations of traditions across different media and societies; artistic agency and innovation;
and cultural translation. Opportunities for questions and answers will follow the presentations. The aims if to stimulate conversations and connections among emerging scholars engaged in the field of Iberian and Latin American art and visual culture.
The symposium begins with an opening address by José María Robles Fraga (Embassy of Spain)
and features a keynote by Prof. Claudia Hopkins (Director of the Zurbarán Centre).
Organised by Durham University doctoral students, the symposium is held as a hybrid event with
in-person attendance at Hatfield College at Durham University and virtual attendance via Zoom.
For those coming in person and able to spend more time in Durham, we will be arranging a visit to
the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland on Wednesday, 21st June. Details will be provided closer
to the event.
Booking is essential by 15 June 2023. Register to event here
Please see below for the programme of the Emerging Researchers Symposium 2023 or click here
SCHEDULE
Thursday 22 June 2023
09.30-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:25 Welcome by Richard Jacques (PhD candidate, Zurbarán Centre, Durham University).
Opening Remarks by José María Robles Fraga, Minister-Counsellor for Cultural
and Scientific Affairs, Embassy of Spain.
10:20-12:30 Panel One – Art in Motion: Moving Artworks and Artistic Practices
10.25-10.45 Nora Guggenbühler (University of Zurich, Switzerland), The Travels of the
Madonna di Trapani: Records of a Miraculous Image’s Journey through the
Iberian World (in person).
10.45-11.05 Stephanie Bernard (Durham University, UK), Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Adoration of the Magi. Between Tradition and Innovation (in person).
11.05-11.25 Q&A
11.25-11.45 Rafael Japón (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), Flemish Paintings by an
Italian Painter: The Decoration of the Cloister of the Monastery of San Agustín in
Lima (in person).
11.45-12.05 Annemarie Iker (Princeton University, USA), Secrecy in the Paris Paintings of
Santiago Rusiñol (1861-1931) and the Catalan Modernistes (in person).
12.05-12.30 Q&A
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-2:55 Panel Two – Art and the Transformation of Iberian Identities (Online)
1:30-1:50 Vega Torres Sastrús (Universitat de València, Spain), Transformations in and
through the Arts. Catholicism and Visual Culture in the Spanish Second Republic
(1931-1936) (online).
1:50-2:10 Paola Setaro (Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San
Paolo, Italy), From Painter of Friars to Painter of the Soul. The Gaze on Zurbarán in
Francoist Spain (online).
2:10-2:30 Andrea Garcés Galarreta (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), From Equipo
Realidad (1966) to Nueva Escuela Valenciana (circa 1980). De-sacralising Visual
Practices on the Post-Francoist Spanish Mediterranean Coast (online).
2:30-2:55 Q&A
2:55-3:15 Break
3:15-4:40 Panel Three – Jewish Identity in the Hispanic World (In person)
3:15-3:35 Laura Feigen (The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK), Exodus and Expulsion: the
Barcelona Haggadah as a Material Witness to Sephardi Migration 1391-1459 (In-
person).
3:35-3:55 Jorge Oliaga Vázquez (University Autónoma of Madrid, Spain), The Old Testament
in Seventeenth-Century Spanish and Novo-Hispanic Painting: Circulation of Models
and Ideas in the Modern Age (in person).
3:55-4.15 Drew Erin Becker Lash (University of California, USA), Jacob and Intertextuality: Old Testament Images in Seventeenth-Century Spain (in person).
4:15-4.40 Q&A
4:40-5:00 Break
5:00-5.50 Keynote : Professor Claudia Hopkins (Director of the Zurbarán Centre, Durham University,
UK), The Orient Within. Nostalgia for the Alhambra in Franco’s Spain around 1950 (in person).
Friday 23 June
10:00-12:10 Panel Four – Re-imagining the Artistic Cultures of the Past.
10.00-10.20 Montserrat Andrea Báez Hernández (University of Teramo, Italy) “Per metterlo in
venerazione nel lontano paese…” Translation, Reception and Devotion of Roman
Catacomb Martyrs in Latin America (1830-1880) (online).
10.20-10.40 Richard Jacques (Durham University, UK), Zurbarán’s Image of Saint Serapion and the Transformation of a Body in Pain (in person).
10.40-11.00 Q&A
11.00-11.20 Pablo Sánchez Izquierdo (Universitat de València, Spain), The Vernacular Moroccan Construction and the Spanish Modern Architecture Theories (online).
11.20-11.40 Élodie Baillot (Sorbonne Université, France), From One Century to Another: French
Historiography and the Fortune of « Hispano-mauresque » Art (in person).
11.40-12.00 Q&A
12.00-1.00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:25 Panel Five – Expressions of Power: Art and Politics in the Americas
1:00-1:20 Alexis Salas (University of Arkansas, USA), “¡Dále Gas! [Give It Gas!]: Art and Oil in The Petrochemical Americas (in person).
1:20-1:40 Francesca Romana Gregori (University of Padua, Italy), “Antimonumenta” Artistic Practice in Feminist Mexico (online).
1:40-2:00 Alessandra Simões Paiva (Federal University of Southern Bahia, Brazil), Revolution
from the Margins: The Decolonial Turn in the Brazilian Contemporary Art (in person).
2:00-2:25 Q&A
2:25-2:45 Break
2:45-4:05 Panel Six – Innovative Artforms and Artistic Agency
2:45-3:05 Ana Plaza Roig (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero AGENCIA
I+D+i/UNTREF, Argentina), A Saint Prince in Northwest Argentina: The Patronage of Juan José Fernández Campero de Herrera (online).
3:05-3:25 Julieta Pestarino (4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies,
Aesthetics, Berlin, Germany), Botanical Portraits: Anatole Saderman Native Plants Photographs, between Science and Art (online).
3:25-3:45 Lariana Olguín (University of Puerto Rico), The Female Figure in the Spanish and Puerto Rican Satirical Press from 1860-1900 (online).
3:45-4:05 Q&A
Closing Remarks (Stephanie Bernard, Daniela Castro-Ruiz, Richard Jacques).
To Register for this event either in-person or online, please click here
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