Guest Lectures

14 Nov, 2019: Mining Architectures of the Ruhrgebiet, Peter H. Christensen, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Rochester

6 Jun, 2019: Art History vs Victorian Jamaica, Professor Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University

9 Apr, 2019: "A Homeland of His Imagination?” Romare Bearden’s Artistic Practice as Autobiography, Professor Glenda Gilmore, Peter V. and C. Van Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies, Yale University / Mary Ball Washington Chair in American History, UCD

5 Mar, 2019: Art and War in the Pacific World, Dr JoAnne Mancini, Department of History, Maynooth University

13 Nov, 2018: Displaying Cairo: salvage, sales and scholarship in Paris 1878, Dr Moya Carey, Curator of Islamic Collections, Chester Beatty Library

5 Sep, 2018: Architectural photography and History, Professor Angelo Maggi, Università Iuav di Venezia

25 Apr, 2018: Vanitas Imagery in Still Lifes with Musical Instruments: the Case of Evaristo Baschenis, Dr Corinna Ricasoli, Museum of the Bible, Washington DC

3 Apr, 2018: The Allure of the Antique: Pompeo Batoni and Antiquity in the Grand Tour Portrait, 1750-1775, Dr Maeve O'Dwyer, University of Lincoln

21 Sep, 2017: Jacopo Bassano, localism and the painting of rural life, Dr Tom Nichols, Reader in History of Art, School of Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow

22 Sep, 2016: Stick or Twist?: Writing a New History of Venetian Renaissance Art, Dr Tom Nichols, Reader in History of Art, School of Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow

26 Mar, 2015: Immigrants and citizens in imperial Rome, Prof. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Hon. Prof. of Roman Studies, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

27 May, 2014: Sacred & profane in Titian’s late mythologies, Dr Tom Nichols, University of Glasgow

22 Feb, 2013: The Art World is Dead, David Ross, School of Visual Arts in New York City, in conversation with Declan McGonagle, NCAD 

5 Apr, 2012: Associations promoting art in the public sphere: new exhibiting spaces in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, J. Pedro Lorente, University of Zaragoza

29 Mar, 2012: Outside the Canon of High Renaissance Art: Masterpieces by Leone and Pompeo Leoni in Spain, Dr Rosemaire Mulcahy, Adjunct Professor, UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy

1 Feb, 2011: Heroes and Kings of the Shahnama: The Iranian National Epic and the Chester Beatty Library, Dr Elaine Wright, Curator of Islamic Art, Chester Beatty Library

11 Nov, 2010: David Chipperfield: Public Works, Sir David Chipperfield [in association with the OPW and the NGI]

23 Sep, 2010: Patrons, Piety and Self-Promotion in Venetian Renaissance Painting, Prof. Peter Humfrey, University of St Andrews

8 Apr, 2010: From the Spanish Match to the Spanish Civil War: The British and Irish in Spain 1623-1939, Dr David Howarth, Reader in History of Art, Edinburgh University

25 Mar, 2010: Irish Farmhouse Interiors through Artists' Eyes: Genre Painting as evidence for 19th century Material Culture, Dr Claudia Kinmonth

25 Feb, 2010: The Royal Hospital & the Collins Barracks, Dr Edward McParland, Trinity College Dublin

26 Jan, 2010: ‘interludium’, Sean Shanahan [in connection with an installation in the stairhall of Newman House]

A collaboration between the School of Art History & Cultural Policy at UCD and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College, this series of lectures provided a significant contribution to expanding fields of academic enquiry in visual and material cultures, re-assessing the role decoration within historiography of early modern architecture and building culture.  Convened by Dr Chrisine Casey (TCD), Dr Conor Lucey (UCD) & Dr Lynda Mulvin (UCD), the series was supported by UCD Seed Funding Scheme & TRIARC.

16 Oct: The decorative architecture of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Dr Martin Krummholz, Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic 23 Oct: The Palacio de Castrelos, an Irish interior in a Spanish country house, Victor Borges, Senior Sculpture Conservator, V&A Museum, London 30 Oct: Shakespeare, Straford-upon-Avon and the visual culture of early modern England, Dr Tara Hamling, Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham 13 Nov: Renaissance ornament: conceptual and formal transformations, Dr Clare Guest, Muriel McCarthy Fellow, Marsh’s Library, Dublin 20 Nov: ‘The hand that flourished without rival’: drawing, movement, and form in eighteenth-century decorative plasterwork, Jenny Saunt, PhD candidate, Courtauld Institute, London

The Conversations on Art in Ireland lecture series (2008 & 2009) brought leading international scholars to speak on Irish topics and works of art in Irish collections in the School’s undergraduate & postgraduate lecture modules. These series of lectures were funded by a UCD Seed Funding Grant awarded to Dr Nicola Figgis.

Conversations on Art in Ireland 2009: In March and April the School welcomed Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor Wolfgang Sonne, Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Dortmund. 

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby who specializes in eighteenth through early twentieth-century French art and visual and material culture particularly in relation to colonial politics, addressed two paintings by eighteenth-century Irish artists in the National Gallery of Ireland. She discussed Charles Jervas’ Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu whose letters from Turkey are particularly celebrated and vivid observations of Eastern life, and in examining Thomas Hickey’s An Indian Lady and related works she questioned eighteenth-century colonial constructions of the Indian woman.

Wolfgang Sonne, author of Representing the State: Capital City Planning in the Early Twentieth Century, delivered two lectures exploring firstly the planning recommendations and designs for Dublin in the Abercrombie Report of 1922, and secondly more recent architectural and urban design plans for Dublin, in particular the work of Group 91 Architects, author of the Temple Bar architectural framework plan.

Conversations on Art in Ireland 2008: In April the School welcomed two visiting lecturers as part of the inaugural Conversation on Art in Ireland series, Darielle Mason, Stella Kramrisch Curator of South Asian Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Arindam Dutta, Associate Professor of Architectural History, MIT.

Darielle Mason delivered a pair of lectures on Rajput painting, drawing in particular on examples from the outstanding collection in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.

Arindam Dutta spoke on on the Hindu iconography in Harry Clarke's stained-glass window, The Eve of St Agnes, 1924, [Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane].