AGENDA
Recent and forthcoming events
2025 An extended version of Callen's The Spectacular Body: Science, Method and Meaning in the Work of Degas (1995) -- with new first and final chapters -- will be published on Yale University Press's digital A&Ae-portal
Callen will present at the 'Hard Bodies: Aesthetic, Materiality, and Mediality of Masculinity in American and European Art and Visual Culture, 1900-today' Conference, Goethe-University Frankfurt, January 2025
Callen is invited to speak on her research in Looking at Men at the Musée d'Orsay 'Gustave Caillebotte and Masculinities' professional Study Day, December 2024
Callen is presenting a paper on 'Ensor & French plienairism' at the James Ensor Colloquium at KMSKA in Antwerp, December 2024
Callen will talk about her book Looking at Men: Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body at the Clifton LitFest, Bristol, UK, in November 2024
Callen is invited to attend the professional Study Day on Van Gogh at the National Gallery, London, in September 2024
Callen was Senior Advisor to the Ateneum Art Museum Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, for the exhibition 'Colour and Light: The Legacy of Impressionism', October 2023 - January 2024
Callen's essay, ‘Degas and the Matter of Contagion: Dirt, Skin, Touch and the Cosmetic Arts’, appears in David Hopkins and Disa Persson (eds.), Contagion, Hygiene and the European Avant Garde, London and New York, Routledge Academic, July 2023, ch. 2.
Virtual Plenary entitled 'Disease, Disfiguration, Disguise: Cosmetics, masking and maquillage in Degas’s late pastels' given at the Australian National University, Canberra, HRC Complexions/ Reflections Conference, April 2023
March 2023: Callen joined the professional Colloquium on After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art at The National Gallery, London.
‘The Manly Water Arts: Hygiene, Vitality and Virility at the fin de siècle’, was published in Fae Brauer (ed.), Vitalist Modernism: Art, Science, Energy and Creative Evolution, London and New York, Routledge Academic, 2023, chapter 1
2022 Callen featured in BBC1 ‘Fake or Fortune?’ Series 10, on Alfred Sisley, September.
'Dressing the Part: Male bonding "on the motif" in nineteenth-century France', appears in Thijs Dekeukeleire, Henk de Smaele & Marjan Sterckx (eds.), Male Bonds in Nineteenth-Century Art, Leuven, University of Leuven Press, 2022, Part IV, chapter 10. ISBN 9789462702813
In April 2022 Callen's Looking at Men (2018) was published on Yale's digital A&Ae-portal
In Febuary 2022 Callen's The Art of Impressionism (2000) was published on Yale's digital A&Ae-portal
November 2021: Callen presented on 'Degas, Hygiene and dirt' at the University of Glasgow virtual Symposium on Hygiene, Contagion and Avant-garde Art
Callen gave an introductory Plenary lecture, 'Bathing Beaux: Hygiene, aquatics and desire c.1830-1910', at Freiburg University Masculinities (virtual) Workshop on 'The Masculine Dimension of the Heroic: Body, Ideal, Hegemony', June 2021
Callen has published 'Bloodlines' -- an extended essay on anatomical lithographs by Joseph Maclise and the circulation & networks of artistic & surgical views of the male body in nineteenth-century Ireland, Britain and France -- in a British Art Studies online "One Object" Special, curated & edited by Keren Hammerschlag, 2021
Callen's essay 'Degas: Digging the Dirt' was published in the exhibition catalogue, Adriano Pedrosa and Fernando Oliva (eds.), Degas: Dance, Politics, Society, São Paulo, Brazil : New York, NY, Museo de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2021, ISBN 978-65-5777-005-4
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Callen's essay 'Considérations techniques : le matériel des peintres de plein air au xixe siècle', was commissioned by Marina Ferretti Bocquillon (curator/ed.), for the exhibition catalogue, Plein air. De Corot à Monet, Musée des Impressionnistes Giverny, and Gallimard, 2020
V&A Museum professional workshop on 'Masculinities', May 2019 - brainstorming ideas for their exhibition Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear (April-Nov. 2022)
Wellcome/Paul Mellon Centre, London, scholarly Workshop on 'Joseph Maclise and nineteenth-century male medical anatomies', May 2019
Association for Art History Conference, Brighton, April 2019: Callen spoke on 'The Manly Arts: Water sports and virility at the fin de siècle', in the Vitalist Modernism Session, chaired by Professor Fae Brauer.
Callen's Looking at Men: Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body book launch held at The University of Warwick, UK, January 2019
The Australian launch of Looking at Men (Yale, 2018), at the Australian National University, Canberra, in November 2018
Callen features in the November 2018 Exhibition on Screen documentary: 'Degas: Passion for Perfection'
Link /link]
2018 Callen featured in BBC1's 'Fake or Fortune?' Series 7, on Toulouse-Lautrec's early sketchbooks, August
Callen appeared in the Exhibition film for The National Gallery of London's Monet & Architecture, April-July 2018
Callen lectured on 'Monet's Compositional Architecture' at the National Gallery, London, May 2018
Callen gave a Plenary lecture Male Bonding on the Motif at the Male Bonds Conference, Ghent, May 2018
Callen lectured on Degas at The National Gallery, London, December 2017
Callen lectured on The Venus Paradox at the exhibition of this title: A G Leventis Gallery, Nicosia, December 2017
Callen attended a professional symposium on Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party at the Phillips Collection, Washington DC, December 2017
Callen was Visiting Professor at the ANU School of Art and Design, September and October 2017
Callen will present at the 'Hard Bodies: Aesthetic, Materiality, and Mediality of Masculinity in American and European Art and Visual Culture, 1900-today' Conference, Goethe-University Frankfurt, January 2025
Callen is invited to speak on her research in Looking at Men at the Musée d'Orsay 'Gustave Caillebotte and Masculinities' professional Study Day, December 2024
Callen is presenting a paper on 'Ensor & French plienairism' at the James Ensor Colloquium at KMSKA in Antwerp, December 2024
Callen will talk about her book Looking at Men: Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body at the Clifton LitFest, Bristol, UK, in November 2024
Callen is invited to attend the professional Study Day on Van Gogh at the National Gallery, London, in September 2024
Callen was Senior Advisor to the Ateneum Art Museum Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, for the exhibition 'Colour and Light: The Legacy of Impressionism', October 2023 - January 2024
Callen's essay, ‘Degas and the Matter of Contagion: Dirt, Skin, Touch and the Cosmetic Arts’, appears in David Hopkins and Disa Persson (eds.), Contagion, Hygiene and the European Avant Garde, London and New York, Routledge Academic, July 2023, ch. 2.
Virtual Plenary entitled 'Disease, Disfiguration, Disguise: Cosmetics, masking and maquillage in Degas’s late pastels' given at the Australian National University, Canberra, HRC Complexions/ Reflections Conference, April 2023
March 2023: Callen joined the professional Colloquium on After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art at The National Gallery, London.
‘The Manly Water Arts: Hygiene, Vitality and Virility at the fin de siècle’, was published in Fae Brauer (ed.), Vitalist Modernism: Art, Science, Energy and Creative Evolution, London and New York, Routledge Academic, 2023, chapter 1
2022 Callen featured in BBC1 ‘Fake or Fortune?’ Series 10, on Alfred Sisley, September.
'Dressing the Part: Male bonding "on the motif" in nineteenth-century France', appears in Thijs Dekeukeleire, Henk de Smaele & Marjan Sterckx (eds.), Male Bonds in Nineteenth-Century Art, Leuven, University of Leuven Press, 2022, Part IV, chapter 10. ISBN 9789462702813
In April 2022 Callen's Looking at Men (2018) was published on Yale's digital A&Ae-portal
In Febuary 2022 Callen's The Art of Impressionism (2000) was published on Yale's digital A&Ae-portal
November 2021: Callen presented on 'Degas, Hygiene and dirt' at the University of Glasgow virtual Symposium on Hygiene, Contagion and Avant-garde Art
Callen gave an introductory Plenary lecture, 'Bathing Beaux: Hygiene, aquatics and desire c.1830-1910', at Freiburg University Masculinities (virtual) Workshop on 'The Masculine Dimension of the Heroic: Body, Ideal, Hegemony', June 2021
Callen has published 'Bloodlines' -- an extended essay on anatomical lithographs by Joseph Maclise and the circulation & networks of artistic & surgical views of the male body in nineteenth-century Ireland, Britain and France -- in a British Art Studies online "One Object" Special, curated & edited by Keren Hammerschlag, 2021
Callen's essay 'Degas: Digging the Dirt' was published in the exhibition catalogue, Adriano Pedrosa and Fernando Oliva (eds.), Degas: Dance, Politics, Society, São Paulo, Brazil : New York, NY, Museo de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), DelMonico Books/D.A.P., 2021, ISBN 978-65-5777-005-4
Link
Callen's essay 'Considérations techniques : le matériel des peintres de plein air au xixe siècle', was commissioned by Marina Ferretti Bocquillon (curator/ed.), for the exhibition catalogue, Plein air. De Corot à Monet, Musée des Impressionnistes Giverny, and Gallimard, 2020
V&A Museum professional workshop on 'Masculinities', May 2019 - brainstorming ideas for their exhibition Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear (April-Nov. 2022)
Wellcome/Paul Mellon Centre, London, scholarly Workshop on 'Joseph Maclise and nineteenth-century male medical anatomies', May 2019
Association for Art History Conference, Brighton, April 2019: Callen spoke on 'The Manly Arts: Water sports and virility at the fin de siècle', in the Vitalist Modernism Session, chaired by Professor Fae Brauer.
Callen's Looking at Men: Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body book launch held at The University of Warwick, UK, January 2019
The Australian launch of Looking at Men (Yale, 2018), at the Australian National University, Canberra, in November 2018
Callen features in the November 2018 Exhibition on Screen documentary: 'Degas: Passion for Perfection'
Link /link]
2018 Callen featured in BBC1's 'Fake or Fortune?' Series 7, on Toulouse-Lautrec's early sketchbooks, August
Callen appeared in the Exhibition film for The National Gallery of London's Monet & Architecture, April-July 2018
Callen lectured on 'Monet's Compositional Architecture' at the National Gallery, London, May 2018
Callen gave a Plenary lecture Male Bonding on the Motif at the Male Bonds Conference, Ghent, May 2018
Callen lectured on Degas at The National Gallery, London, December 2017
Callen lectured on The Venus Paradox at the exhibition of this title: A G Leventis Gallery, Nicosia, December 2017
Callen attended a professional symposium on Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party at the Phillips Collection, Washington DC, December 2017
Callen was Visiting Professor at the ANU School of Art and Design, September and October 2017