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Painting genres structure artistic practice, shape reception, and inform institutional frameworks. Yet within art history, the study of genre has often been overshadowed by iconographic and formalist approaches. This one-day conference brings together scholars whose papers place genre at the centre of the analysis of painting, foregrounding it not merely as a classificatory device, but as a critical category through which artistic production, reception, and historiography can be re-examined. Conference programme: 13.45 – Welcome and introduction by Sofya Dmitrieva 14.00-15.00 – Panel 1: Definitions * Emma Barker (The Open University), Defining genre painting * Miles Fletcher (University of Cambridge), Een Algemeen Schilder: Landscape, Technology, and the History of Depiction in England and the Low Countries, 1649–1702 15.00-16.00 – Panel 2: Institutions * Anastasia Skoybedo (University of Cambridge), Landscape Painting within the Soviet Hierarchy of Genres. The case of the Leningrad Landscape School * Alyse Muller (Columbia University), The Genealogy of the Marine Genre in France 16.00-17.00 – Coffee break 17.00-18.00 – Panel 3: Taste * Daniel Sobrino Ralston (National Gallery), The Rise and Fall of a Genre in Second Empire Paris * Vittoria Cervini (Royal Collection Trust), From Carlton House to Buckingham Palace. Seventeenth-century genre paintings in George IV's collection 18.00-19.00 – Panel 4: Reimaginings * Tom Zille (Mucha Foundation), Queering the Conversation Piece * Sarah Hegenbart (Heidelberg University), Towards Transcultural Pictorial Genres Attendance is free of charge, and no registration is required. A light lunch and refreshments will be provided.

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