The Daphne Mayo Visiting Professorship in Visual Culture
Lloyd Davis Memorial Visiting Professor in Shakespeare Studies
S. W. Brooks Visiting Fellow in English
George Watson Fellowship (Biennial)
2009 VISITING FELLOWS
Professor Ian McLean is the DAPHNE MAYO VISITING PROFESSOR IN VISUAL CULTURE
Ian McLean is Professor in Art History at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of two books -- White Aborigines (Cambridge UP, 1998) and The Art of Gordon Bennett (Craftsman House, 1996). His important edited documentary history collection How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art a documentary history 1980-2006 (Institute of Modern Art and Power Publications, Sydney, in press) will be published this year. He is on the Advisory Council of the postcolonial art journal Third Text.
Professor McLean visited UQ in September and presented the 2009 Daphne Mayo Public Lecture on 23rd September at the Art Museum. It was titled 'How Aborigines invented the idea of contemporary art and other stories from the artworld'. When the Australian artworld first noticed the Papunya Tula painting movement in the early 1980s, to many it seemed an historical aberration lacking any real legitimacy. Some critics worried that the paintings were 'meaningless decoration'. Another called them 'the Claytons of abstract art'. This is because the artists had seemingly arrived from the outside. They had not come through the ranks. To be accepted as contemporary art, Aboriginal artists had to first break into the artworld and bend its paradigms to their own advantage. This talk charts some key moments in the journey that the artworld made in its conceptual transformation of Aboriginal art from an anachronistic primitivism to treasured items of contemporary art.
This event was presented by the University of Queensland Art Museum, the School of English, Media Studies and Art History and the Alumni Association.
During his stay, Ian McLean also participated in a roundtable on his work at the Gallery of Modern Art and a masterclass at the Institute of Modern Art.
Professor Julie Sanders is the LLOYD DAVIS VISITING PROFESSOR IN SHAKESPEARE STUDIES
Professor Julie Sanders is Professor of English Literature & Drama at the University of Nottingham. She is a distinguished scholar with strong publications in the areas of Shakespeare studies, Shakespearean Adaptations/Appropriations and Jonson studies. Her work on Shakespeare includes two books Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings (Polity Press, 2007) and Novel Shakespeares: Twentieth-Century Women Novelists and Appropriation (2001). She has also written more broadly on adaptation including Adaptation and Appropriation (2006). She is the editor of a new Cambridge edition (2008) of one of Ben Jonson’s works—The New Inn – and the editor of a major contemporary reappraisal of Ben Johnson Ben Johnson in Context to be published in 2009.
During her stay (10-21st August 2009) our Lloyd Davis fellow :
- Delivered the introductory paper for an Advanced Study Option on Adaptation to be held on the 10th and 11th of August. Frances Bonner, Jason Jacobs, Jude Seaboyer, Gillian Whitlock, Bernadette Cochrane and Simone Murray (Monash) also contributed to this ASO, which was convened by Alison Scott.
Professor Sanders’s paper, entitled “Twisting and Turning Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Craft of Adaptation,” built on theories of adaptation and appropriation expounded in Sanders’s book on that subject which is part of the Routledge New Critical Idiom series (2006). She participated in other sessions during the two days and made herself available for student consultation.
- Gave a lecture “Sex in the City: Measure for Measure” in ENGL2060 (Introduction to Shakespeare) on the 17th August.
- Delivered the Lloyd Davis Memorial Public Lecture on the 18th August at 6pm, which was held at Duschene College.
The lecture was on “Making Space in Shakespeare and Jonson” and brought the recent explosion of interest in ideas of space and spatial theory in the arts and humanities to bear on Shakespeare’s ‘Falstaff’ plays and Ben Jonson’s Epicene, The Magnetic Lady, and The New Inn. Professor Sanders is especially interested in the spaces of inns, taverns, and alehouses in this lecture; and in the relationship between onstage representations of such spaces, and the ways in which Shakespeare and Jonson invited audiences to produce those spaces in their own minds, via the stimulation of a sense of an offstage world.
Professor Donald Sassoon is the S. W. BROOKS VISITING FELLOW in English.
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Donald Sassoon is Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary. He is an eminent social, political and cultural historian, whose visit will centre on his magisterial book The Culture of the Europeans: from 1800 to the Present (2006), which provides an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800. Professor Sassoon has also written on Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. His books Mona Lisa: The History of the Worlds’ Most Famous Painting (Harper Collins, 2001) and Leonardo and the Mona Lisa Story (Duckworth, 2006) have been widely translated. In 2007 he published Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism.
Professor Sassoon was visiting UQ from 2-21 September. His public engagements included:
- Panelist and Esteemed Guest at the WIP Conference, “Pockets of Change: Cultural Adaptation and Transition”, 6th September.
- Masterclass for Post-Graduate Students, “The Business of Culture: A Masterclass with Donald Sassoon”, 7th September.
- Annual S.W. Brooks Lecture, "The Provincialism of Dominant Literature: the British and the French in the 19th century," Thursday, 10th September. The lecture was on the contrast between the Franco-British literary hegemony in the 19th century and how little the British and, to a less extent, the French read works from other countries. The parallel in the 20th century is with the USA which exports a lot and imports very little. In association with the Brisbane Writers Festival 2009.
- Public lecture at UQ Art Museum, “Mona Lisa: The best-known girl in the whole wide world”, Public Lecture, Saturday the 12th September, 2-4pm, UQ Art Museum. A UQ Art Museum partnership with the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, in association with the Brisbane Writers Festival 2009.
- Brisbane Writer’s Festival Panellist with Tracy Chevalier, “The Mona Lisa meets the Girl with the Pearl Earring”, 13 September State Library of Queensland, Auditorium, 10am. This event was presented by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Queensland.
- Participant in final Culture of the Europeans Reading Group. TBA.
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Professor Bonnie Kime Scott is the GEORGE WATSON FELLOW
Professor Bonnie Kime Scott is Professor of Women's Studies at San Diego State University. She is one of the leading scholars in the area of Modernism, and has published books on Joyce, Woolf, West and, most recently, on transnational approaches to the study of Modernism. She is currently working on the neglect of nature in recent studies of modernism.
Professor Kime Scott visited UQ in May.
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