We are delighted to share with you the Research Forum for German Visual Culture seminar programme for this term, which will take place online over Zoom (please find PDF version here):
Expressionism | November 3, 2022 | 4.30PM—6PM GMT
Joseph Henry (Graduate Center at City University of New York)
Machine-Made, Hand-Finished: The Expressionist Woodcut and the Third Applied Arts Exhibition
Tomasz Dziewicki (University of Warsaw)
Emil Nolde's Observations on Schmuck: Artist's Ideal "Köpfe" from New Guinea
Colton Ochsner (University of Missouri)
Cracking Expressionist Cinema's Alphanumeric Code
Gender & Sexuality | November 17, 2022 | 4.30PM—5.30PM GMT
Matthew Teti (Independent)
Wolfgang Tillmans and the HIV/AIDS Body
Paola Medina-Gonzalez (University of Warwick)
"Every soldier should provide himself with a camera": Masculinity, Photography and the Trenches
Cold War Germany | December 8, 2022 | 4.30PM—6PM GMT
Dennis Brzek (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
A Lonely Avantgarde: The "Socialist Art World" of West Germany in the 1970s
Natalie Cincotta (Independent)
twens gesucht! Photography, Youth Culture, and Selfhood in West German Popular Magazines
Colleen Anderson (Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum)
Undivided Heavens: Spaceflight Imagery in Cold War Germany
If you are interested in attending any of these seminars, please register your interest by completing this short google form here. We will be sending out the respective Zoom links to everyone who signed up on the day of the seminar.
Please email us at germanvisualculture@gmail.com if you have any questions. We look forward to hosting you (virtually)!
Very best wishes,
Anne Grasselli (History of Art, University of Edinburgh)
Alyson Lai (History of Art, University of York)
Anne Grasselli (Edinburgh) & Alyson Lai (York)
Co-covenors of the RFGVC Seminar Series