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This academic year marks the 50th anniversary of the department of Art History at our University. In 1970, the University of Aberdeen appointed David G. Irwin to a lectureship in “Fine Art”. The following year, Aberdeen offered for the first time an ‘ordinary’ (first year) course in History of Art – thus inaugurating the subject at the University. Over the coming years, Irwin established a fully-fledged History of Art Department, and degree-level teaching in this subject, with the first students graduating with a degree in the subject in 1975/6.
We are celebrating this anniversary with a virtual roundtable discussion, bringing together former staff and students, to reflect on the department’s (and discipline’s) past, present and future on Wednesday 17 November 2021 from 4pm-6pm. The panellists are John Gash, Tessa Garton, Jane Geddes, and Neil Gregory, with Hans Hönes as chair and we hope that you will be able to join us.
To register for this event please email alumni@abdn.ac.uk.
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