Professor Jim Aulich  

Responsibilities:
Postgraduate Research Degrees Coordinator
Visual Culture Research Centre Leader
Chair Faculty Research Degrees Sub-Committee
Chair Faculty Ethics Committee

Jim Aulich's research interests engage with the relationships between history, memory and representation, especially in the field of propaganda and publicity in the graphic arts. As leader of the Visual Culture Research Centre he is responsible for research development in the History of Art, Architecture and Design. He was director of the ARHC funded Resource Enhancement project 'Posters of Conflict: the visual culture of public information and counter information 1914-2005,' a collaboration with the Imperial War Museum. Other previous research projects on the Vietnam War, The Falklands Conflict, the 'change' in Central Europe in 1989, and communist rule in central and eastern Europe were collaborations with museums and art galleries with exhibitions and publications as research outcomes. He has been an invited delegate to the Brno Biennale, Czech Republic since 1991. Recently he has given papers at Vienna City Hall on the 'historian and the poster archive', and at Prague Central Library on the political poster. In 2005 he researched and curated 'Forced Laughter. An exhibition of 105 cartoons by Boris Efimov,' Galerie Nova sin, Prague in celebration of the Soviet cartoonist's 105th birthday. In 2008 he was curator of the major exhibition of war posters, Weapons of Mass Communication at the Imperial War Museum, London and was co-author of the book Seduction or Instruction, First World War Posters in Britain and Europe, published by Manchester University Press.