2007 Press Releases
UCC hosts Public Lecture on World Art & Contemporary Art History, 15 February
The writing of art history from a global perspective will be the
subject of a public lecture to be delivered at UCC on Thursday, 15
February. The lecture, titled "Macro and Micro: World Art Studies and
the case of Ni Haifeng," will be delivered by guest speaker Professor
Kitty Zijlmans, University of Leiden.
Professor Zijlmans will describe the opening up of the discourse in art
history at the University of Leiden to a global perception. This has
proved vital not only because of the many languages and culture studies
of the 'Non-Western' world which exist in the faculty at Leiden but
also because of the changing and rapidly globalizing art scene in
general. As an example, she will look at the work of the Chinese born,
Amsterdam based artist Ni Haifeng.
Kitty Zijlmans (1955) studied art history at the University of Leiden,
the Netherlands, and was awarded her PhD in 1989 for a theoretical
thesis about art history and systems theory (Kunst / Geschiedenis /
Kunstgeschiedenis. Methode en praktijk van een kunsthistorische aanpak
op systeemtheoretische basis, Leiden 1990).
In 2000, Professor Zijlmans was appointed Professor of Contemporary Art
History and Theory at the University of Leiden. From 2000-2004 she was
Chair of the Department of Art History, and from 2002-2004 also Chair
of Pallas, Research School of Art Historical and Literary Studies of
the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the University of Leiden.
She is member of the Steering Committee of the ESF (European Science
Foundation) Network 'Discourses of the Visible: National and
International Perspectives' (2003-2007). She is Founding Co-Editor of
the Series 'Arts, Sciences and Cultures of Memory' at Equinox
Publishing Ltd. Since January 2006, she is member of the Dutch Council
for Culture [the advisory board on cultural affairs for the Dutch
government], and since March 2006 adviser for the NIAS, Netherlands
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
This is the third lecture in the 2006/07 lecture series in theories of
Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts organised by UCC's
History of Art. The series brings national and international and
international scholars to UCC to reflect upon and present their
research in a series of events.
The lecture takes place on Thursday, 15 February at 6.15pm, in West
Wing 5, Main Campus, UCC. Members of the public are invited to
attend and admission is free.
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