Details:
Symposium Title:
'Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the
Apocalypse'
Convened by:
Dr Jenny Spinks (University of Melbourne)
Professor Charles Zika (University of
Melbourne)
Venue:
Graduate House
220 Leicester Street
The University of Melbourne
Dates:
Commencing at 8.30am on Saturday 1 September 2012
Concluding at 5.45pm on Sunday 2nd September 2012.
The symposium is supported by an Australian Research Council
Discovery Project grant and by the Australian Research Council
Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
Download Symposium Booklet
Symposium contacts:
For general enquiries -
Jenny
Spinks
Charles
Zika
For registration enquiries -
Jessie
Scott
Image details:
Stefano della Bella, Death on a Battlefield, c. 1646-48. Baillieu
Library
Print Collection, The University of Melbourne, Gift of Dr. Orde
Poynton,
1959.
Exhibition
The symposium will coincide with the exhibition 'The Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death and Disaster'
at the National Gallery of Victoria (31st August 2012 -
31st January 2013), curated by Petra Kayser, Cathy Leahy, Jenny
Spinks and Charles Zika.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 96-page catalogue, edited by
Cathy Leahy, Jenny Spinks and Charles Zika, and including essays by
Dagmar Eichberger, Larry Silver, Jenny Spinks and Charles Zika. The
NGV will hold a public event on Friday 31 August 2-5 pm, with
lectures by visiting art historians Dagmar Eichberger and Jeffrey
Chipps Smith, followed by a visit to the exhibition. For more
details see:
Further exhibition details
