by Jon Lackman | 15 January 2008 | Conferences
From The Age:
The fact that Melbourne is hosting the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art [Jan 13-18, 2008] is no small feat. Held every four years, and considered the “Olympics” of art history, the congress has never been staged south of the equator.
The conference, Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence, [brings] together more than 600 art historians from 47 countries, including leading museum directors such as Neil McGregor, from the British Museum, the Australian-born Michael Brand, from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and Ronald de Leeuw, from Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.
Other articles here, here and here.
Events at the “Art History Olympics” will include “wrestling with indexicality,” “100-meter-long-CV writing,” “thin-historical-ice skating,” “synchronized Lacan quoting,” “uneven dissertation bars,” the “high dive into irrelevance,” “pomo,” and “water pomo.”
