This cross-disciplinary conference will examine infringements of the physical integrity of representational objects in different historical periods and in different cultures, and how terminology shapes the field of study and interpretations of it. Speakers are:

• Simon Baker (University College London) Surrealism in the Bronze Age: ‘statuophobie’ and the efficacy of metaphorical iconoclasm
• Adrian A Bantjes (University of Wyoming) “Muerto el ídolo...”: Iconoclasm and Local Religion in Revolutionary Mexico, 1910-1940
• Alexandrina Buchanan (Lambeth Palace Library, London) Wyatt 'The Destroyer'. A Vandal at Salisbury Cathedral?
• Charles Ford (University College London) “door het woest onverstandt vernielt”; Karel van Mander, the beeldenstorm and the felix culpa
• Christian Fuhrmeister (Sprengel Museum, Hannover) How shall we call the Disappearance of Artifacts? Thinking about Destruction, Purification, Restoration and Renovation
• Tom Gretton (University College London) Clastic Icons: prints taken from broken or reassembled blocks in some ‘popular’ prints of the western tradition
• Hans Georg Hiller (Berlin) The Berlin "Entstuckung"
• Matthew Hunter (University of Chicago) Household Management According to Thomas Cromwell: Henrician Iconoclasm and its Lessons for Consumption
• Joe Kerr (Royal College of Art) Lenin’s Bust: The Transience of a Political Monument
• Joseph Koerner (University College London) Icon as Iconoclasm
• John Milner (University of Newcastle) Art in Destruction: Courbet and the Case of the Vendome Column
• Erika Naginski (Harvard University) Vandalisme avant la lettre
• Fabio Rambelli (Sapporo University) & Eric Reinders (Emory University) What does iconoclasm create? What does preservation destroy? Some observations from case studies of China and Japan
• Ramon Sarro (St Anne’s, Oxford) The ambivalence of the "Fetish"
• Aura Satz (Slade School of Art) Attacks On Automata.

Conference fees: £40 (full) / £20 (concessions).