To Warwick this week for the AAH jamboree. Besides the big hitters there are 19 parallel sessions covering the cutting edge, as we say even in the rather dusty world of art history, and my paper is in the Colour stream. Originally it was a two hander covering neuroscience as well as psychoanalysis. Only the latter of the two legs is left standing. My paper is on the colour yellow how it has been used to badge Jewish people for a very long time
http://www.aah.org.uk/page/3234
Apart from being one of the big art history conferences it attracts a lot of up and coming art historians. I imagine there will be a lot of brownosing going on as well as the young, desperate for jobs realise that there are few of them around.
It is said that when Melanie Klein had finished preparing a conference paper she laid it aside and got on with the really important task of choosing a new hat. Thank you, Mrs Klein. Well, I begin my paper with a chunk of Klein's startling 1946 paper 'Notes on some schizoid mechanisms' which, when I first read it many decades ago, it was one of the moments when you know something is going on, difficult as it was to understand, it was important. So it has proved to be. I am taking the precaution of taking some copies with me of the text (and the references in my paper). Paul has made a beautiful to look at set of powerpoints to illustrate the talk.
If readers would like to have a copy of the paper and the ppts then do ask after next week please.
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