We cordially invite you to participate in a memorial conference dedicated to the work of Richard Woodfield (1944 - 2024), a distinguished scholar whose contributions have profoundly shaped the field of art history, including the founding of the discipline's first peer-reviewed digital open access journal in 2009.
This meeting will honour his memory and provide a platform to engage with the intellectual legacy of Ernst Gombrich and the Vienna School of Art History, themes central to Woodfield's academic pursuits.
11.00 – 11:30 Welcome
o Markus Ritter, Head of the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna
o Heidrun Rosenberg (Vienna)
Introduction: There is no such thing as art history. There are only art historians
11:30 – 13:30
o Leonie Gombrich, (London)
Gombrich and Woodfield
o Stefaniia Demchuk (Kyiv)
Richard Woodfield`s editorial activities: Uniting Western and East-Central historiographies
o Matthew Rampley (Brno)
Central European art histories and the meaning of the Vienna School of Art History
15:30 – 17:30
o Raphael Rosenberg (Vienna)
Art history and psychology. Gombrich's position in the long history of interactions
o Tomàš Murar (Prague)
Fabio Tononi (Lisbon)
Gombrich before and after Gombrich
o Yuka Kadoi (Vienna)
Ernst Gombrich and World Arts: Richard Woodfield´s Reflections on the Historiography of Non-European Arts (2009-2024)
18:00 Evening Keynote
o Yiqiang Cao (Hangzhou)
Geschichte als Exil: Gombrichs Kurze Weltgeschichte und The Story of Art
If you would like to participate online (zoom), please email:
heidrun.rosenberg@univie.ac.at or demchuk@phil.muni.cz
deadline: 12.10.24
