Symposium Programme – 4th International Illustration Symposium

Science, Imagination & the Illustration of Knowledge

Sessions for the 4th International Illustration Symposium will take place in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUM) or the Seminar Room of the Pitt Rivers Museum (PRM)

Day 1: Thursday 7 November 2013

09.15 – Registration and coffee (OUM)
10.00 – Welcome to the Symposium (OUM) – Adrian Holme
00:00 – Introduction to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History – Paul Smith, Director

10.30 – Panel 1: Natural history – the representation of nature (OUM)
00:00 – Prof. Alisa Luxenberg – Science or art: Celedonia de Arce’s nature printing in
00:00 – 18th century Spain
00:00 – Evan D Williams – Laminaria digitata: Anna Atkins at the interstice of science
00:00 – and imagination
00:00 – Ellery Foutch – Imagining illustration in three dimensions: the Blaschka
00:00 – botanical models
11.30 – Discussion

12.00 – Lunch (standing buffet) (OUM)

13.00 – Key contributor (OUM)
00:00 – Paul Smith, Director OUM
00:00 – Maps, mountains and madness – Charles Lapworth and the illustration of the
00:00 – Highlands Controversy

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13.30 – Panel 2, Epistemologies (OUM)
00:00 – Sanjukta Ghosh – Improving the plough: illustrations of a scientific dialogue in
00:00 – colonial India, 1903-1920
00:00 – José Beltrán – Graphic reasons: the role of visual language in early-modern
00:00 – overseas natural history
00:00 – Ana Maria Costa et al; – Canons in European botanical and zoological
00:00 – scientific illustrations of the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century
14.30 – Discussion

13.30 – Panel 3. The Body (PRM)
00:00 – Martha Turland & Philippa Lyon – Growing, growing, growing, stop: selective
00:00 – emphasis in informal, clinical drawing encounters
00:00 – Kelly Freeman – Sculpting natural history: representing the body through the
00:00 – art of skeletopoeia
00:00 – Jeanette Ng – Science, Body, and Qi in Illustrations of Chinese Martial Arts
00:00 – Manuals (1850-1940)
14.30 – Discussion

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15.00 – Coffee / tea (OUM)
15.30 – Key contributors (OUM)
00:00 – Francis Wells – Consultant Cardiothoracic surgeon, Papworth Hospital,
00:00 – Associate Lecturer Cambridge Univ., writer on Leonardo
00:00 – Professor Martin Kemp – Rhetorics of the real. Naturalistic representation and
00:00 – trust, from Leonardo to now
16.30 – Discussion
17.00 – Break
18.00 – Exhibition opening & Journal of Illustration launch (PRM)
20.00 – Close
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Day 2: Friday 8 November 2013

9.00 – Coffee / tea (OUM)
9.30 – Key contributor (OUM)
00:00 – Dan Hicks – Curator, PRM – Ordnance and Survey: How Augustus Pitt-Rivers turned places into objects

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10.00 Panel 4: Imagined Futures (OUM)
00:00 – Emily Candela – Locked in Translation: The Festival Pattern Group’s Atomic
00:00 – Inscriptions
00:00 – Ian Horton – Look and Learn from a World of Wonder
00:00 – Liz Farrelly – Drawing the future
11.00 – Discussion

10.00 Panel 5: Cosmologies
00:00 – Arthur Hénaff – A story of wheels and boats: illustrated astronomical and
00:00 – alchemical knowledge in the late Middle Ages
00:00 – Lucile Roche – Representing the creation without a creator? The cosmogonic
00:00 – illustration and its visual limitations in the French XVIIIth century
00:00 – Natalie Kay-Thatcher – Terrestrial forms in astronomical aesthetics: nebulae
00:00 – representation from Herschel to the Hubble Space Telescope
11.00 – Discussion

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11.30 – Coffee / tea (OUM)
12.00 Key Note Speaker (OUM)
00:00 – Johnny Hardstaff, director, designer and modern storyteller
12.30 – Discussion

12.45 – Lunch (OUM)

13.30 – Poster Session (OUM)

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14.15 – Panel 6: Dimensionalities (OUM)
00:00 – Giovanni Aloi – Illustration: a natural history panopticon
00:00 – Matthew Jarron – A sketch of the universe – the visual influences of D’Arcy
00:00 – Thompson’s On Growth and Form
00:00 – Paloma López Grüninger – Defying the limits of the plane: two-dimensional
00:00 – space and its consequences in the search of the order of nature
15.15 – Discussion

14.15 – Panel 7: The Brain
00:00 – Zina Ward – The changing face of Penfield’s homunculus
00:00 – Flora Lysen – The brain monster of 1959: visual ‘thinking about thinking’ in
00:00 – the age of neuroscience
00:00 – Alicia Puglionesi – Drawings from the other side
15.15 – Discussion

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15.45 – Summing up – Adrian Holme (OUM)
16.00 – Close

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