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Writing Practices in the Art School: Conference panel (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Rintoul, J., Bell, R., Miles, R., Lockheart, J., & Lee, J. (2023, June). Writing Practices in the Art School: Conference panel. Presented at On Not Knowing: How Artists Teach, The Glasgow School of Art

Writing practices are no less complex or more ‘knowing’ than making practices, and yet they continue to be mythologised in the Art School as cerebral, formulaic and Other to making. Writing has been cultured into artist and artist-teacher training as... Read More about Writing Practices in the Art School: Conference panel.

Re-imagining the university through hope in pedagogy (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R., & Baeza Ruiz, A. (2022, July). Re-imagining the university through hope in pedagogy. Presented at 22nd Utopian Studies Society Conference 2022, University of Brighton

Co-authored conference paper exploring ideas of care, hope, nourishment and object-based teaching as part of a panel focused on 'Hope and the University'. With Dr Ana Baeza Ruiz (Loughborough University; Prado Madrid).

Presentation at Sotheby's institute resulting from Decorative Arts Society funded research trip to Hungary (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R. (2018, November). Presentation at Sotheby's institute resulting from Decorative Arts Society funded research trip to Hungary

In May 2018 I was awarded a bursary to join the Decorative Arts Society on their research trip to Hungary. After carrying out PhD research into applied arts, crafts and notions of national identity in Communist Czechoslovakia, I wished to expand my u... Read More about Presentation at Sotheby's institute resulting from Decorative Arts Society funded research trip to Hungary.

Design History Society: Imagining the international: repositioning peripheral narratives in global design histories [Panel Session Chairs] (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R., & Kerr, H. (2018, February). Design History Society: Imagining the international: repositioning peripheral narratives in global design histories [Panel Session Chairs]. Presented at CAA 106th Annual Conference 2018 - Imagining the International: Repositioning Peripheral Narratives in Global Design Histories (Panel Co-Chair) and continued Research Group., Los Angeles

Dr Hui-Ying Kerr and Rebecca Bell were awarded the role of co-chairs by the Design History Society to build a panel of speakers exploring so-called 'peripheral' narratives in global design history, re-examining methods by which post-war cultural prac... Read More about Design History Society: Imagining the international: repositioning peripheral narratives in global design histories [Panel Session Chairs].

Making enhanced pin-up symposium (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R., & Essen, T. V. (2017, January). Making enhanced pin-up symposium. Presented at Making enhanced pin-up symposium. In: Making Enhanced Pin-Up Symposium, Royal College of Art

On Saturday 21st January 2017, we at Making Enhanced hosted round table discussions at the Royal College of Art to inform the future of the collective. Building on the work in progress show from Collect Open 2015 (Saatchi Gallery), the four collabora... Read More about Making enhanced pin-up symposium.

Folk fever and the bureaucratic machine: Craft and design in early 1960s' Czechoslovakia (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R. (2016, November). Folk fever and the bureaucratic machine: Craft and design in early 1960s' Czechoslovakia. Paper presented at Theorising Visual Art and Design (TVAD) Research Seminar Series, University of Hertfordshire

Research paper delivered as part of the Theorising Visual Art and Design (TVAD) inter-disciplinary research group at Hertfordshire University. The paper presented my research on Czech New Wave cinema and ethnographic craft practices in early 1960s So... Read More about Folk fever and the bureaucratic machine: Craft and design in early 1960s' Czechoslovakia.

Not for glory! Not for gain! Commemorative glass figurines at the Czechoslovak Spartakiad 1955 (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R. (2014, September). Not for glory! Not for gain! Commemorative glass figurines at the Czechoslovak Spartakiad 1955. Paper presented at Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference, Rewley House

In this paper I discussed my research into a series of glass figurines created by artist Miloslav Klinger for the 1955 International Spartakiad in Prague. Mass gymnastics in Socialist Czechoslovakia were a key site for the visual representation of id... Read More about Not for glory! Not for gain! Commemorative glass figurines at the Czechoslovak Spartakiad 1955.

History in the Making: Experiment Invalidovna, Prague 1961 (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R. (2014, May). History in the Making: Experiment Invalidovna, Prague 1961. Paper presented at (De)constructing Utopia: Design in Eastern Europe from Thaw to Perestroika, University of Sheffield

In this paper I discussed my research on social housing project Experiment Invalidovna (Prague, 1961) and the role of state-commissioned glass, ceramic and furniture designers