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TVAD Talks
Our research seminars 
Join our research seminars and hear about current research in the School of Creative Arts. They explore the relationship between theory and practice and cover the following topics:
- art history
- design history
- art theory
- design theory.
You may be a researcher, an artist, designer or historian, or perhaps you would just like to come along and learn something new? We always aim to make our seminars interesting and inclusive. Everyone is welcome.
The TVAD approach to our regular talks is to support and disseminate the excellent research conducted by scholars at University of Hertfordshire. Across the School of Creative Arts we have numerous scholars with recently published books and articles. Plus our DFA, DDes and PhD candidates have cutting-edge research to share.
Our Programme of Talks 2021/22
Our talks take place on a Wednesday lunchtime 13:00 - 14:30. They are currently delivered online.
To sign up for a TVAD talk alert, please contact Alana Jelinek
20 October 2021: Dr Steven Adams
17 November 2021: Dr Alana Jelinek
12 January 2022: Sarah-Jane Harknett (DHeritage candidate)
9 February 2022: Dr Kim Walden
9 March 2022: Rob Godman
6 April 2022: Nicola Moody (DFA candidate)
Previous Talks 2019-21
18 Nov 2020 Prof Dr Grace Lees-Maffei, Getting a Handle on It: Embodied Research using Touch in Design History (online)
14 Oct 2020 Mikayla J Laird (UH PhD candidate) - Travelling Through Time in the Comic Book Medium (online)
1 Apr 2020 Dr Alana Jelinek - Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary Art
19 Feb 2020 Dr Silvio Carta - Larger, anonymous and machine-driven collectives: How algorithms transcend private into the public life of individuals
15 Jan 2020 Prof Dr Grace Lees-Maffei - Signifying Orientalism, Chinoiserie and Japonisme: Fashion Photography in UK Vogue
13 Nov 2019 Stephen Hunt (UH Designer and UH DEd candidate) - On Creativity
9 Oct 2019 Dr Steven Adams - Some Thoughts on Writing about the Past: Deleuze and Uncertainty
Watch TVAD talks on YouTube
Our talks are sometimes filmed and available through the University of Hertfordshire's YouTube channel, in the Creative Arts Research playlist. Some examples of our talks are below:
Speaker: Mikayla J Laird (Doctoral Candidate, University of Hertfordshire)...
Prof Ljubomir Jankovic (University of Hertfordshire)...
Alana Jelinek (University of Hertfordshire)...
TVAD International Symposium 2023
Theme and call for papers to be announced November 2022
TVAD - Our research in our communities
- We host an annual international symposium. Papers from previous symposia and conferences are available though our peer-reviewed journal
- We have a blog of past achievements including contributions from our collaborators