{"id":238,"date":"2023-07-05T12:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/?p=238"},"modified":"2023-07-05T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T00:03:29","slug":"research-seminar-cultures-histories-identities-in-visual-studies-research-network-july-19-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/research-seminar-cultures-histories-identities-in-visual-studies-research-network-july-19-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Seminar: Cultures, Histories, Identities in Visual Studies Research Network July 19 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #d104b6\"><strong>Research Seminar: Cultures, Histories, Identities in Visual Studies Research Network July 19, 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Room F209, F Block, Otago Polytechnic, Forth Street, Dunedin: 5 \u2013 7 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Visual diffusion and spiritualist practice: a research project on three spiritualists in Aotearoa New Zealand. Minnie Chapman (1856-1949) Sophia Garland Allan (1867-1959) Berta Sinclair Burns (1893-1972)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Joanna Osborne<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/research-seminar-cultures-histories-identities-in-visual-studies-research-network-july-19-2023\/picture1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-239\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/files\/2023\/07\/Picture1-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/files\/2023\/07\/Picture1-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/files\/2023\/07\/Picture1-414x300.jpg 414w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/files\/2023\/07\/Picture1.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Image credit: <em>New Zealand Truth<\/em>, 8 May 1930<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With an emphasis on the joys and pitfalls of primary research, Osborne shares some of her findings on the practice of \u2018spirit drawing\u2019 in early 20th Century Aotearoa New Zealand. Within a broader scope of new religious movements, histories of feminism and the arts, emerge questions that consider the international diffusion, material expression and interpretive complexities of this art as spiritual practice.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><strong>Joanna Osborne <\/strong>is an independent researcher in art history with interests in studies of religion and spirituality. She has a PhD from the University of Otago, was the Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2020 Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Curatorial Intern and has published on the work of Allie Eagle (1949-2022) and Joanna Margaret Paul (1945-2003). She currently works as an academic literacies tutor and quality assurance specialist for an international student support company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">\u00a0For further information email: \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:visual-studies@otago.ac.nz\">visual-studies@otago.ac.nz<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Seminar: Cultures, Histories, Identities in Visual Studies Research Network July 19, 2023 Room F209, F Block, Otago Polytechnic, Forth Street, Dunedin: 5 \u2013 7 pm &nbsp; Visual diffusion and spiritualist practice: a research project on three spiritualists in Aotearoa New Zealand. Minnie Chapman (1856-1949) Sophia Garland Allan (1867-1959) Berta Sinclair Burns (1893-1972) Joanna Osborne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}