Program and conference venues
Conference venue Thursday December 4: Historisk museum, Fredriks gate 2, Oslo
Conference venue Friday December 5: Georg Morgenstiernes hus, Blindernveien 31, entrance from Moltke Moes vei
A discipline that has undergone numerous transformations
In 1875, Lorentz Dietrichson (1834-1917) was appointed Professor of Art History at the University of Oslo. With this professorship, art history was established as an academic subject in Norway.
This year, we celebrate 150 years of a discipline that has undergone numerous transformations. The development in Oslo follows international trends. Not only have the numbers of faculty and students drastically multiplied, but art history has also expanded its scope of interest to include visual studies and lived through the many theoretical “turns” in the humanities during the last fifty years.
Furthermore, there is now a clear ambition to adopt a global perspective in both teaching and research, radically opening up the horizon of the discipline. These and similar transformations have set new premises for our discipline in a world that is very different from Lorentz Dietrichson’s late 19th century. What are the implications for our understanding of the field, and for us as art historians – what is art history today?
The goals of this conference
While celebrating art history’s 150th anniversary at the University of Oslo, we also take the opportunity to reflect on questions like these, to take stock of our discipline, and look towards the future of art history and visual studies. This conference aims to share historiographical perspectives and make colleagues across the world reflect together on challenges and opportunities for research and teaching in art history and visual studies.
Keynote speakers
We are delighted to welcome our two prominent keynote speakers Mårten Snickare (Stockholm University) and De-nin Lee (Emerson College), as well as more than twenty other presenters to Oslo in December, and invite everyone interested to participate!
The conference is in-person only and there is no conference fee.
Participate
Please sign up for participation before 21 November.
Register for participation (nettskjema.no)
Organizing committee
Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland, Ragnhild M. Bø, Christina Pech, and Øystein Sjåstad.
For any questions, please email oystein.sjastad@hf.uio.no