Call for Papers | Conference: ‘Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits, 1700-1914’

Inspired by the outstanding collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, this interdisciplinary conference will be the largest gathering of international and Australian scholars to focus on portraits. It will provide a unique opportunity to explore both British and Australian portraits through a dynamic interchange between academics and curators.

September 8-11 2016, University of Melbourne and National Gallery of Victoria

Lecture | Barbara Bryant: ‘Australia’s Pre-Raphaelite Collections: the People behind the Portraits

John Everett Millais, ‘Cecil Webb’, 1887. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria. Gift of the David Blanche family and Michael Blanche family in memory of Arthur and Yvonne Blanche through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2009.

Barbara Bryant: ‘Australia’s Pre-Raphaelite Collections: the People behind the Portraits’.

Thursday 2 July, 6:30-7:30pm

NGV International, Ground Level, Clemenger Auditorium

Cost $16 M / $20 A / $18 C, Code P1549, Ph +61 3 8662 1555, 10am–5pm daily

Call for Papers: Portraiture Conference

Portraiture as Interaction: The Spaces and Interfaces of the British Portrait

The Huntington, San Marino, California, 11–12 December 2015
Proposals due by 7 November 2014

A symposium jointly organized by the Yale Center for British Art, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the Huntington

This symposium has been inspired by the important collections of British portraits at the Huntington Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, and by an upsurge of scholarly interest in the interactive nature of portraiture—both in its intrinsic character and as a curatorial construct.