Dr Patricia Allmer
1. INC Group Co-ordinator
I am the co-ordinator and administrator of the Images, Narratives & Cultures (INC) research group. This interdisciplinary, collaborative research group has successfully established important links with different academic and non-academic organisations from which future collaborations, researchers and student provision will benefit. [More Details...]
2. 'Women Artists and Surrealism' Exhibition (Manchester Art Gallery)
I am currently organising and curating an exhibition for Manchester Art Gallery (http://www.manchestergalleries. [More Details...]
3. Edited Special Journal Issue
I have organised, together with Dr John Sears (MMUCheshire), the 2006 Association of Art Historians session, commemorating Walter Benjamin’s ‘Work of Art’ essay’s 70th anniversary, entitled ‘”A Tremendous Shattering of Tradition”: Reconsidering Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.’ The session included leading Benjamin scholars. [More Details...]
4a European Nightmares Conference Organisation
I have co-ordinated and co-organised, together with the INC research group and Cornerhouse, European Nightmares: An International Conference on European Horror Cinema, in June 2006. The conference was well-received and hosted over 70 delegates. [More Details...]
4b European Nightmares Online Resource
The conference papers were filmed by TMF and are now a unique online resource on European Horror Cinema for lecturers, students and everybody else interested in European horror cinema. European Nightmares Online – A Virtual International Conference on European Horror Cinema can be viewed at http://www. [More Details...]
4c Wallflower Press - Edited Collection on European Horror Cinema
I am currently preparing, together with my colleagues, Dr Emily Brick and Dr David Huxley, a book collection on European Horror Cinema. The book will be published by Wallflower Press in 2010. [More Details...]
5. The Exquisite Fold
I was invited by two Manchester-based artists, Jonathan Carson and Rosie Miller, to collaborate with them on an artists’ book project called The Exquisite Fold focusing on the Surrealist game of exquisite corpse. The book, including an essay co-authored by myself and Dr John Sears, will be published in September 2007. [More Details...]
6. Convening of the 2009 Association of Art Historians conference
I am the convenor of the 2009 AAH conference which will be hosted by MIRIAD.
The conference theme is 'Intersections' and further information on the conference can be found at:
http://aah. [More Details...]
7. Atrocity Exhibitions: RE/Reading RE/Search (2010 Association of Art Historians Conference session, Glasgow 15-17 April)
Co-organisor, together with Dr John Sears (MMUCheshire), of 2010 Association of Art Historians' conference session. For call for papers, please see:
http://aah. [More Details...]
8. Re/Reading RE/Search - European Journal of American Culture Special Issue
I am currently co-editing, together with Dr John Sears (MMUCheshire), a special journal issue of European Journal of American Culture (Intellect) on the American avant-garde publication RE/Search.. [More Details...]