Presentations

Presentations by the Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms team include: 

Workshops and Conferences

  1. Modernismes Enchevêtrés: Artistes, Mobilités et nouvelle historiographie de l’art à Paris, 28-29 April, 2025, Institut nationale de l’histoire de l’art (INHA), École Nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (ENSBA), and Institut Giacometti, co-organized by Hugo Daniel (Institut Giacometti), Laura Karp Lugo (École nationale supérieure des beaux arts/Université de Lorraine), Déborah Laks (cnrs), Devika Singh (Courtauld Institute of Art), François-René Martin (École nationale supérieure des beaux arts/ École du Louvre), France Nerlich (Musée d’Orsay), Alice Thomine-Barrada (École nationale supérieure des beaux arts), Ming Tiampo (Carleton University).
  2. London, Asia, Art, Worlds, 27 May-25 June, 2021, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art (online), co-organized by Hammad Nasar, Ming Tiampo, and Sarah Turner.
  3. Co-Convenor, Printmaking at the Slade and National College of Arts, Lahore, December 10 2020 and February 4, 2021, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art/ National College of Arts, Lahore (online), co-organized by Hammad Nasar and Ming Tiampo.
  4. Slade, London Asia workshop, November 14, 2019, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, co-organized by Hammad Nasar, Ming Tiampo, and Sarah Turner./li>

Keynotes and Annual Lectures

  1. Ming Tiampo, “Post-Imperial Scales of Global Art History,” Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture, University of British Columbia, 8 February, 2024.
  2. Ming Tiampo, “Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms,” Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Annual Lecture, University College London, 4 October, 2022.
  3. Ming Tiampo, “Contrapuntal modernisms between Imperialism and Decolonization: Critical Unlearning and the Slade School of Fine Art” Norma U. Lifton Annual Lecture in Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (online), 15 October, 2021.
  4. Ming Tiampo, “Slade, London, Asia: Intersections of Decolonial Modernism,” Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, London (online), 10 November 2020.
  5. Ming Tiampo, “Paris from the Outside In: Representation Under Siege,” ici Berlin, December 9, 2016.

Talks

  1. Ming Tiampo, “De-imperializing May ’68: The Art of Protest in London and Paris” Princeton University, 24 April, 2025.
  2. Ming Tiampo, Sujets mobiles” École nationale supérieure des beaux arts, Paris, December 12, 2024. [In French]
  3. Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja and Janneke Van Hoeve, "Structural Biases in Linked Open Data", Getty Institute Art History and Linked Open Data Working Group, 2024.
  4. Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja and Janneke Van Hoeve, "Mobile Subjects in Linked Open Data: Biases and Gaps in Identity and Representation", LD4 Conference, 2024.
  5. Ming Tiampo, “Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms,” New Directions in Modernist Studies, University of California, Berkeley, December 5, 2023.
  6. Ming Tiampo, “Trajectoires transnationales. Saisir les contrechamps," REGarts : Trajectoires plurielles : les élèves de l’École des beaux arts de Paris 1800-1968, Institut Nationale de l’histoire de l’art, Paris, November 24, 2023.
  7. Pansee Atta, Ming Tiampo, Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja, and Janneke Van Hoeve, “Artistic Representations of Data Uncertainty: Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms,” Venice International University/ Duke University Visualizing Cities Summer Institute, June 6, 2023.
  8. Pansee Atta, Ming Tiampo, Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja, and Janneke Van Hoeve, “Porous Borders: Ambiguities, Uncertainties, and Gaps in Urban History, Identities, and Data,” DH Benelux, June 1, 2023.
  9. Ming Tiampo, “Did you come by photograph or by train?” Hussein Shariffe, British Film Institute, January 7, 2023.
  10. Ming Tiampo, Co-presented with Pansee Atta, Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja, and Janneke Van Hoeve, “Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms,” Mass Data Methodologies, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, London, 9 December, 2022.
  11. Ming Tiampo, “Transcultural Modernisms,” Copenhagen University, 17 June, 2022.
  12. Ming Tiampo, “Transnational Histories,” Stonybrook University, 8 November, 2021.
  13. Ming Tiampo, “Complementary Studies and Decolonial un-learning at the Slade School of Fine Art” Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, February 10, 2020.
  14. Ming Tiampo, “The Undercommons of Art History: The Slade School of Fine Art and Decolonial Modernism,” Floating Constellations: Border-Crossing Exchanges Within and Beyond Asia, 8th Para-curatorial Symposium, Times Art Center Berlin, 28-29 September, 2019.
  15. Ming Tiampo, “Diasporic Subjects, Transnational Cities,” Crossing French Metropolises, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris, July 3-4, 2019.
  16. Ming Tiampo, “Modernism/(de)colonialism and the articulation of decolonial aestheSis in Postwar Paris,” Global Urban History Project, University of Leicester, July 11-12, 2019.
  17. Ming Tiampo, "Paris from the Outside In: Anti-colonial Worldmaking” Transnational and Transcultural Studies Symposium, Carleton University, April 6, 2018.
  18. Ming Tiampo, “Diasporic Cosmopolitanism, Making Worlds, Imagining Solidarity,” Displays of Internationalism, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 8, 2018.
  19. Ming Tiampo, "Transnational Paris,” India- France: Artistic Exchanges, MARG, Bombay, India, February 6, 2018.
  20. Ming Tiampo, “Worlding the Global: Transnational London,” Transnational Cities, Tate Modern, London, England, September 30, 2017.
  21. Ming Tiampo, “Errant Encounters: Decolonizing the European Archive,” Reconfiguring Cultural Inquiry: 10th Anniversary Conference, ici Berlin, June 29- July 1, 2017.
  22. Ming Tiampo, “Towards a New Ecology,” College Arts Association, New York, February 11-14, 2015.
  23. Ming Tiampo, “Decentering Global Modernisms: Critical World Art History between Museum and Academy.” RBC Lecture series, The Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences School for Interdisciplinary Studies, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, April 7, 2016.
  24. Ming Tiampo, “Towards a New Human Geography,” PoNJA (Postwar Japanese Art Association) Conference, Japan Society, New York, September 12-13, 2015
  25. Ming Tiampo, “Decentering Paris.” Art Between the Pacific and Atlantic, Haus der Kunst, Munich, May 21-24, 2014.
  26. Ming Tiampo, “Beyond Decentering” Rethinking Art History: Writing/Making Modern and Contemporary Asian Art and Architectural Histories, Houston Museum of Fine Arts/Rice University, April 13-14, 2014