Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
SYMPOSIA OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS
N.B.: This page includes symposia and conferences for graduate students and those not solely for graduate students that seem to be either of special interest or are especially welcoming to you. Also note that while a regrettable number of sites below have not updated their information many of the events listed below are annual events. Contact them if you have any questions.
Rationale: the gold star 
is used to
mark new postings accepting proposals until the date in bold type. After that
date has passed, the gold star is removed and the conference becomes "to attend." After the the
conference is over, I usually leave up a brief notice if it is an annual event.
Note on Location: The conferences on this page are being held in North America (U.S.A. and Canada), despite the actual location of the organization. (Example: The sometimes wandering RSA)
Architecture and Urban Design
Classics and Archeology
Italy
Medieval Topics
Renaissance and Baroque Topics
Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
Film, Movies, TV, and Media
Popular Culture
Women, Men, and Gender
All Other Topics: British Isles, ANZAC, Europe, and Everywhere Else
All Other Topics: U.S.A. and Canada
All Other Topics: U.S.A. and Canada
[ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM] Proposals are due July 1 2008. Proposals should include
a 2-page abstract, CV, 1-paragraph bio, and letter of intent. They should be sent to Beth E. Levinthal, Director, Hofstra
University Museum, (Beth.e.levinthal@hofstra.edu). For complete details on the conference and themes to be explored, see
(http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/Community/museum/museum_fine_callforpapers.pdf).
AMERICAN ART HISTORY SYMPOSIUM--YALE UNIV.
Held Saturday, April 12, 2008. "The Department of History of Art at Yale University announces its fifth annual
American Art History Symposium. The organizers seek proposals from graduate students whose work both exemplifies
creative modes of inquiry and breaks with established critical approaches to the study of American Art. We welcome
submissions addressing any medium or period. Abstracts were due Monday, 14 January. More information:
americanist.symposium@gmail.com
AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE
9-11 October 2008 "The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts presents its sixth biennial conference for
recent research in early American material culture and decorative arts [NO LOCATION LISTED]...The conference provides a
major forum for scholarly presentationand interaction on American material culture and decorative arts. Scholars and
graduate students in fields related to American and particularly southern material culture are invited to submit proposals
for presentation at the Gordon Seminar. Subjects with an interdisciplinary approach to the study of materIal culture are
highly encouraged. Proposals will be accepted for individual papers or for panel sessions. Paper proposals must include the
author's name, the paper title, a one-page abstract and the author's curriculum vitae. Session proposals must include a
chair, list of presenters, cover letter, one-page summary of the session theme, presenter curriculum vitae, and abstracts
for all papers.
- Deadline for proposals was May 16
- Notification of acceptance: June 13
- Accepted papers submitted in full: September 1
- Proposals for individual papers or panel sessions may be sent to
Sally Gant, MESDA Conference, P. O. Box 10310, Winston-Salem, NC
27108-0310 / sgant@oldsalem.org
- Electronic submission in Word format is preferred.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS
They have several conferences under slightly different names around the world every year. Check under "Conferences"
and "Calls for Papers" for details.
[AMERICAN STUDIES] McNEIL CENTER FOR EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES
They hold several conferences each year. Check the Web site for those of interest.
AMERICAN
STUDIES AND IMPERIAL DESIGNS: NEW SCHOLARSHIP AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE US IN THE WORLD
11-14 September 2008 Purdue University, IN. 2008 International Conference for American Studies."We seek papers, panel proposals and performances that demonstrate
bold new ways of thinking about the role and place of American Studies in challenging and describing current moments and
acts of imperialism. These can include but are not limited to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, global economic
restructuring, new forms of global culture, threats to academic freedom, censorship, forms of anti-globalization
activism, media, the arts and building cultures of resistance. The conference especially invites papers which articulate
new forms of social organizing and resistance to imperialist designs. That is, the conference seeks to bring together
scholars and activists committed to the theory and practice of social change, on one hand, and an intellectual project
rooted in transformative goals. Finally, the conference seeks to refresh understanding of the terms imperialism and
empire on one hand, resistance and revolution on the other. The conference seeks to create a dialectical moment and space
for the production of new work and ideas, and new networks of alliance that may move us past the 'imperial moment' into a just global future.
"Individual paper proposals with abstracts of up to 250 words; panel proposals no more than one page, with a complete
description of the panel and individual papers; roundtables and open hearings on crucial issues and ideas up to 250 words
in length; performances and/or readings on the conference theme up to 250 words are all acceptable. All proposals must
include mailing address, e-mail address and telephone number for all proposed participants. Proposals may only be sent
via e-mail to Bill Mullen, Director of American Studies, Purdue at bvmullen@purdue.edu or to Delayne Graham,
Program Assistant in American Studies at dkgraham@purdue.edu. Deadline for submission was December 15, 2007.
AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
16-19 OCTOBER 2008. Albuquerque, NM. "Call for Proposals: ASA Convention "Back Down to the Crossroads:
Integrative American Studies in Theory and Practice." The 2008 ASA Program Committee invites colleagues in American
Studies and all related disciplines to submit proposals for individual papers, entire sessions, presentations,
performances, films, round tables, workshops, conversations, or alternative formats described below on
any topic dealing with American cultures, including topics in disciplines that have been under-represented in American
Studies research and teaching. The ASA Annual Meeting is open to anyone having an interdisciplinary interest in the study
of American cultures. Proposals must be submitted through the the ASA's on line submission system, which can be found at
[the link above]. Deadline for submissions was January 25, 2008. For complete CFP and additional information, see:
(http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/page/annual_meeting_general_information/)
AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF
TEXAS
13-15 November 2008 Texas State University-San Marcos. "Conference Theme: 'From Region to the World: The
Importance of Place in American Studies.'Papers, abstracts, or panel information due by September 1, 2008.
Please submit hard copies to:
- Mark Busby
- Southwest Regional Humanities Center
- Texas State University
- 601 University Drive
- San Marcos, Texas 78666
- Or electronic copies to mb13@txstate.edu
[AMERICAN STUDIES] AMERICAN STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
2-3 October 2008 UTexas at Austin. "Theme: Mongrel America. "In order to complicate the term
"mongrel," we seek papers which look at ideas and aspects of America in the musical, literary, artistic, religious,
political, visual, psychological, natural, built,social, and transnational realms, including work which looks beyond the
political borders of the United States to the "Americas" and beyond. In addition to standard conference papers, we also
invite other presentation formats and creative works, such as short films and poetry/fiction/drama readings. Though our
conference program committee will primarily be assembling the panels out of individual submissions, we also will consider
pre-formed panels. Jointly-authored presentations are acceptable. We also invite any graduate students collaborating with
community partners on service, activist, educational, artistic, or other projects to present in conjunction with those
partners. To propose a presentation, please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words and a brief CV of no more than
one page to the American Studies Graduate Committee by e-mail at (utamst08@gmail.com) no later than 25 July 2008.
Submission text may be embedded in the e-mail or included in a Word attachment. If accepted, each graduate student
presenter will be asked to pay a $15 registration fee to help cover conference expenses.
ANTI-POPERY: THE TRANSALANTIC EXPERIENCE: 1530-1850
18-20 September 2008 "The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Omohundro Institute
of Early American History and Culture, in cooperation with the School of Arts and Sciences of The Catholic
University of America, will hold a conference on the uses of anti-popery in the early modern world. Antagonism
towards the pope and his co-religionists was nearly universal in the Protestant societies of Europe and colonial
America. In recent years historians on both sides of the Atlantic have begun to realize that anti-Catholic fears
represented more than blind prejudice or ignorance. Instead, anti-popery was a powerful set of ideas that early
modern Europeans used to understand their world and their place in history. This conference will explore the
diverse uses of anti-popery in the Protestant Atlantic - whether religious, social, legal, economic, or political
- from the time of the Reformation to the era of massive Catholic migration to America in the mid-nineteenth
century.
"We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of anti-popery in Europe or the Americas from approximately
1530-1850. Presenters will be expected to complete a 20-30 page essay by late-May 2008, for pre-conference
circulation among registered attendees. We welcome submissions from advanced graduate students as well as more
senior scholars. Proposals to Anti-Popery Conference, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355
Woodland Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4531, or e-mail to (mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu) were due September 15, 2007.
Other questions can be directed to the conference organizers: Evan Haefeli (eh2204@columbia.edu),
Brendan McConville (bmcconv@bu.edu), and Owen Stanwood (stanwood@cua.edu).
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Held 23 February 2007. University of Arizona, Tucson. Theme: Memorializing Conflict: A look at the Creation
and Social Impacts of Memorials to War, Conflict or Catastrophe. "The Art History Graduate Student Association (AHGSA) at the University
of Arizona invites you to their interdisciplinary symposium exploring the ways in which architects, artists, and
communities have responded to conflict or tragedy through the creation of memorials. The symposium seeks to explore
issues such as: the needs for individuals, communities, and nations to create visual statements about conflict;
the appearance and impact of "spontaneous" memorials at the sites of accidents and crimes; the significance of
chosen designs and their locations; controversies surrounding design, location, funding, and reception; and
long-term effects of memorials on their communities...We welcome papers from Master's and PhD students that address
this topic regardless of time period, scale, or geographic area. Proposals to tamato@email.arizona.edu were due
December 1, 2006.
ART AND ART HISTORY AFTER HEGEL
25-28 February 2009 Part of the conference of the College Art Association, Los Angeles, California. "Georg
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was arguably the founder of modern art history: he was the first to fold an account of
art's internal development into a larger cultural and intellectual history, while attempting to examine the entirety of
the world©ös artistic production and rigorously explore the differences between artistic mediums. We invite
papers that explore Hegel's importance both to art history as a discipline and to the history of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century art. We are especially interested in papers on specific artists and works that directly engage
Hegel's Aesthetics including its controversial claim that "art is and remains for us, on the side of its highest vocation,
a thing of the past." Proposals (mail a copy to each co-chair) should be sent by May 9, 2008, to:
- Lisa Florman, Dept. of History of Art, Ohio State University, 100
- Hayes Hall, 108 North Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1318 AND
- Cordula Grewe, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Columbia University,
Please see the CAA's "Call for Participation" (http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf)
for eligibility and submission guidelines.
ART AND THE MEMORY OF REVOLUTION 1789-1939
25-28 February 2009 Part of the conference of the College Art Association, Los Angeles, California. "This panel
explores the relation between art, popular imagery, and the global histories of political dissent. In particular, it sets
out to chronicle instances in which images were used to (re)write the histories of revolution, from painting to broadsheets
to early film. Contributions are welcome that: investigate the partisan relationships between image and event, not only as
tool of revolutionary activity, but especially as acts of the retroactive shaping of political terrain; question the status
and form of imagery during and after revolution; and/or offer provocative new approaches to the iconic aspects of political
and national memory. While no limitations are placed on geographical location or revolutionary event, artistic medium,
"popular" or "official" histories, an insistence on a timeframe stretching roughly from the French, Haitian and American
Revolutions to World War II is preferred in hope of foregrounding how the period's imagination transformed, and was
transformed by, extremes of political praxis. Please send proposals for 20-minute papers by MAY 9, 2008, to the
address below, or via e-mail:
Andre Dombrowski, Smith College, Department of Art, Hillyer Hall,
Northampton, MA 01063, adombrow@smith.edu
Detailed information on the sessions and application procedures can be
found at:
http://conference.collegeart.org/2009/
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf
ART, RITUAL, PUBLIC: INTERACTION AND MEANING
25-28 February 2009 College Art Association - Los Angeles, CA. "This session examines the construction of layers
of meaning resulting from the ritual interaction of art, architecture and the public. We invite papers on: ritual
phenomena, such as pilgrimage, or the performance of liturgical or political ceremonies; ritual contexts, in
which agents and / or the audience contribute actively to the definition of the meaning of art; ritual settings (buildings,
urban spaces, etc.) specifically created to define and control rituals, or that take on new functions and meanings once
utilized for this purpose. Contributions on these issues from historical, anthropological, and semiotic viewpoints, from
the medieval period to the Modern Age, are solicited. Papers on ritual contexts envisioning a polysemic conception of art,
rather than a univocal significance, are particularly welcome.
"Please submit an abstract, c.v., letter explaining speaker's interest, and CAA membership status, by Friday May 9,
2008, to:
Princeton University, Index of Christian Art,
- McCormick Hall, A9, Princeton NJ 08544
- E-mail: gfreni@princeton.edu, and
- John Beldon Scott
- University of Iowa, School of Art & Art History,
- Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- E-mail: jb-scott@uiowa.edu
- For submission guidelines, see: (http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf)
[ASIAN ART] EAST ASIAN ART HISTORY
17-20 July 2008 Institue of East Asian Art History, University of Heidelberg, Germany. "Graduate students
engaged in research for a PhD on East Asian art history are invited to present papers about their current work for the
colloquy. This colloquy provides a forum for young researchers to share ideas, exchange valuable experiences with other
graduate students and work towards international standards on field in East Asian art history. Please send your application
via e-mail to the organiser (oakg@sino.uni-heidelberg.de). Abstracts were due March 31st, 2008.
ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES
The annual conference sometimes has panels relating to art history.
ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN ART
Held Friday, March 21, 2008. See Web site for more information.
ASSOCIATION FOR TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP IN ART HISTORY
Always held as part of CAA and Renaissance Society of America (others as well). See the Web site for more
information.
ATLANTIC STUDIES WORKSHOP
Held 4-5 MAY 2007. Co-hosted by the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. "The Atlantic Studies
Workshop seeks papers from graduate students in multiple disciplines including, but not limited to: African and
African-American Studies, American Culture, Anthropology, Art and Art History, History, Law, Literature, Music,
Sociology, and WomenÍs Studies...The deadline for applications was March 1, 2007. Papers will be pre-circulated to
all participants. Applicants are therefore requested to submit a complete paper of approximately 15-25 pages for review
by the application deadline. Applicants should also submit a C.V. Final versions of each presenterÍs paper are due by
April 10, 2007. Please send application materials electronically to atlantic@msu.edu. Please also address inquiries to
atlantic@msu.edu."[SEE the Web site for more information.]
BOSTON COLLEGE ELEVENTH ANNUAL GRADUATE
CONFERENCE ON ROMANCE STUDIES
Held March 30/31, 2007. Annual. Please see the Web site for further information.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Held 28-29 March, 2008. ANNUAL. Abstracts were due December 1, 2007.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS
ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
Held 26 October 2007. "CO-Collaboration and Collectivity in Art is the 42nd Annual UCLA Art History Graduate
Student Symposium, the longest-running Art History student symposium in the United States..." Please see the rather
disorganized Web site for more information.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE : ANNUAL HUMANITIES
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
Annual, held usually in April. For more information, please see the Web site.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Held 11 April 2008. Theme: "Seeing Knowledge Work." "The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at UCSB
invites graduate students and emerging scholars to submit paper proposals for 'Seeing Knowledge Work,' a conference about
the ways in which we structure our understanding of the creation, purpose, and meaning of visual knowledge. The act of
making knowledge visible, and of seeing it at work and at play, makes it available as an object for comprehension and
critique. Abstracts were due February 1.
[CANADA] UNIVERSITIES ART ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
Held 1-3 November 2007.. Annual. See the Web site for more information.
[CARTOGRAPHY] CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF
CARTOGRAPHY
Held 8-13 July 2007. Berne, Switzerland. "The Conference is the major international scholarly conference
dedicated to advancing knowledge of the history of cartography, of maps and mapmaking, broadly defined...The first
aim of the conference is to foster discussion on the history of cartography in general, not necessarily the
history of single maps. The presentations should be focused on the history of cartography and only deal with
historical geography or the history of discoveries on the margins. Contributions on a topic from specialists
in disciplines such as geodesy, tourism studies, linguistics, history of science, art history, etc., are very
welcome. The conference themes will be:
- Mapping Relief
- Maps and Tourism
- Language and Maps
- Time as the Cartographic Fourth Dimension
- Any other aspect of the history of cartography
For more information, please contact:
- Christoph Graber (Conference Secretary)
- ICHC2007
- c/o swisstopo
- Postfach CH-3084 Wabern
- Switzerland
- Fax: ++41 31 963 24 59
- Email: ok@ichc2007.ch
Due date for proposals was 1 October 2006
"THE CLEVELAND SYMPOSIUM" : CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART and the
BAKER NORD CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AT CASE WESTERN RESERVE
UNIVERSITY
27-30 March 2008 Annual, usually held March or April. For more information, please see the Web site. Next:
"Cityscapes": "a conference exploring what arts and humanities contribute to analysis of cities. We seek papers
investigating the historic constitutive factors of cities, cities as crucibles of creative change, contemporary issues
of urbanism, and the role of cities in envisioning possible futures. Proposals must include a 200 word abstract, cover
letter, 3 page cv, and a self-addressed postcard or request for electronic confirmation. Due date for submission was 14
September 2007. Please see the Web site for more information.
[COMICS] SUPERHEROES AND COMIC BOOKS IN THE UNITED STATES
February 27 through March 1, 2008 Jacksonville, FL. 47th Annual Meeting Florida Conference of Historians.
"From the debut of Superman in 1938 through Marvel's Comics' Civil War storyline this year, superhero comic books have
made an indelible mark on American culture. The current popularity of stories and characters originating in comic books
has expanded interest in the medium and in the superhero genre which itself incorporates a variety of other genres.
Moreover, recent scholarship has striven to define the superheroÍs unique relationship to American culture. Submissions
that address the ways the comic book superhero represents, constructs, and distorts American culture are welcomed.
For consideration, please send the following information:
- Paper title and abstract/proposal (300-500 words)
- Brief vita or one-paragraph biography.
- Complete personal information: name, department, academic affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address.
- Bill Svitavsky, Electronic Resources Librarian
- Olin Library, Rollins College
- 1000 Holt Avenue - 2744
- Winter Park, FL 32789
- (407) 646-2679
- E-mail: bsvitavsky@rollins.edu
CONSTRUCTED LIGHT, CONSTRUCTED MEANINGS
11-13 APRIL, 2008 Contemporary Art Museum, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, and Saint Louis University Museum
of Art in St. Louis, Missouri. "The Department of American Studies at Saint Louis University invites papers
for its 2008 Visual Culture Graduate Student Conference. This year's conference theme, "Constructed Light, Constructed
Meanings," coincides with the "Dan Flavin: Constructed Light" exhibition at the Pulitzer Foundation
for the Arts, St. Louis. This interdisciplinary graduate student conference welcomes proposals from the humanities and
social sciences that explore the diverse uses, functions, and meanings of light ¨¢ in its natural, manufactured, and
manipulated forms ¨¢ in artistic expressions, cultural representations, and people's daily lives and experiences. Renowned visual
culture studies scholar Dr. Shawn Michelle Smith, Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago, will deliver the keynote address. Abstracts were due January 15, 2008 to visualcc@slu.edu.
For questions, please contact Emmett McKenna (visualcc@slu.edu). [SOMEDAY, THIS WILL BE THEIR CONFERENCE SITE:
(http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/amers/sitebody/graduate_conference)
COSTUME SOCIETY OF AMERICA
20-25 May 2008. New Orleans. See Web site for details. Deadline (originating in USA): Postmarked by October 1,
2007 Deadline (originating outside USA): wasSeptember 15, 2007. Explore it also for information on various symposia and other offerings.
CULTURAL CROSSROADS: THE MARK ROSKILL SYMPOSIUM
11 April 2008 University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "The Graduate students in the Department of Art History
cordially invite the submission of abstracts for papers investigating cultural crossroads. The symposium will explore the
various ways in which cultural concepts and preconceptions are conveyed by artists working in the visual arts from ancient
to modern times. The field of interest includes, but is not limited to, the
following topics:
o cultural ownership and cultural property
o globalization and its influence
o colonization and its influence
o exchanges between ancient and modern cultures
o revisionist history
o national identity and culture
o conflicting cultural identities
o generation of culture crossroads
o resilience of cultural meaning
o cultural convergence
Paper presentations should be between 15 and 20 minutes in length. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words
and a paragraph biography to Symposium Co-chairs Mary Elizabeth Williams and Jill Bierly at
(umassarthistsymposium@gmail.com) by February 25, 2008. Notifications will be sent by March 14, 2008.
CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.) ANNUAL MEETING
22-24 May 2008 New York University, New York City. Abstract Deadline was November 10, 2007. See the Website
for more information.
DAHESH MUSEUM OF ART GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Held 4 March 2006. "The Dahesh Museum of Art invites graduate students to submit 20-minute
papers for its third annual graduate symposium on recent developments in the history of nineteenth-century
art." No sign yet of another symposium. Note: "The Trustees of the Board of the Dahesh Museum of Art announced today
[No date given, but apparently 2007] that it will close its current location at 580 Madison Avenue. For the next two
years, the Museum will operate out of a Manhattan office space, which will serve as the nerve center for a number of
diverse projects while the Board looks to acquire a building."
[FASHION]FASHION & MATERIAL CULTURE
2-4 NOVEMBER 2007 MID-ATLANTIC POPULAR | AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION 2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE. Radisson
Plaza-Warwick Hotel Philadelphia.
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
ART HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
17-18 October 2008. Annual. Deadline for abstracts is September 2. Very detailed Web site
should answer your questions. Please check there for updates and the call for papers or contact:
- Prof. Karen A. Bearor, Symposium Coordinator
- Department of Art History
- Florida State University
- Fine Arts Building
- P.O. Box 3061151
- Tallahassee, FL 32306-1151
- fax: 850-644-3259
- kbearor at fsu dot edu
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GRADUATE ART HISTORY
SYMPOSIUM
Held 3 February, 2007. Annual? Nothing on the Web site as of 25 March 2008.
THE FRICK COLLECTION AND THE INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK
UNIVERSITY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF ART
Usually held at the end of March/beg. of April. To participate you must be enrolled in one of the 14 member
institutions and be nominated by your department. Write: Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 E.
78th St., New York, NY 10021. Tel.: (212) 288-0700.
GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
2 - 5 October 2008. Thirty-second Annual Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota. "The Program Committee
cordially invites proposals on any aspect of German, Austrian, or Swiss Studies, including (but not limited to) history,
Germanistik, film, art history, political science, musicology, sociology, and cultural studies. Proposals for entire
sessions and for interdisciplinary presentations are strongly encouraged. Individual paper proposals and offers to serve
as session moderator or commentator are also welcome. Programs of past GSA Conferences may be viewed at the GSA web site
(ABOVE) Please see the GSA web site for information about the submission process, which opens on 5 January 2008 and note
that ALL proposals must be submitted online; paper forms are not used. The deadline for proposals was 15 February 2008.
For more information, visit the GSA web site or contact the Executive Director of the GSA, Prof. David E. Barclay, Department
of History, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy St., Kalamazoo, MI 49006-3295. FAX: 269-337-7251. (director@thegsa.org)
GRADUATE HISTORY FORUM UNC CHARLOTTE
Held 17-18 March 2006. Annual? Apparently there's going to be one in 2009 but no details yet!
[GRADUATE STUDENTS] NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE
AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS
15-18 November 2007 University of Texas-Austin. "The National Association of Graduate and Professional Students
is seeking panel and paper proposals on all aspects of graduate and professional student life, including teaching,
learning, research, professional development, and quality of life issues...We welcome proposals both for individual
papers and complete panels (with a maximum of four presenters...Deadline for proposals was September 15, 2007.
Submissions must be sent to conference@nagps.org as a .doc or .pdf file attachment."
HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTS AND HUMANITIES
11-14 January 2008. Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, and the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio, in Honolulu,
Hawaii. Submission Deadline was September 13th, 2007. Please see the Web site for more information.
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
5-8 June 2008. Theme :Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, & Nationalism in History. To be held at the Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD The deadline for proposals was January 31, 2007.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Held Saturday, 24 March 2007. Annual? Ever again?
INTERDISCIPLINES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
There is/was one in 2007. No other information on strangely obscure Web site. Supposedly Annual. Try:
(interdisciplines@fsu.edu)." Please see the Web site for more information, haha.
INTERNATIONAL COMIC ARTS FORUM
Held 18-20 OCTOBER 2007. Washington, D.C. Apparently annual.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY, AESTHETICS AND THE FINE ARTS
18-19 May 2007. Annual; always held at the Harvard Divinity School. Theme: The Artist's Account and
Philosopher's Interpretation. Abstracts were due March 15, 2007. Full Papers due April 15, 2007. Please see the
Web site for more information.
INTERNATIONAL VISUAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION
10-12 August 2007. New York University, New York City. Theme: Public Views of the Private; Private Views of the Public.
Please see the handsome if noisy Web site for full information. The deadline for submitting proposals was 15 March, 2007.
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Held 7-8 March 2008.
[ISLAMIC ART]HISTORIANS OF ISLAMIC ART
ASSOCIATION
16 -18 October 2008 Philadelphia, PA. The theme is "Spaces and Visions."
Here is the conference Web site. Proposal deadline was Feb. 1. 2008. Note that the main site offers a Newsletter
with many conference opportunities.
[ISLAMIC ART] ORIENTING ISTANBUL: CULTURAL CAPITAL OF
EUROPE?
26-27 September 2008 University of California Berkeley. "We are inviting abstract submissions for [this] interdisciplinary
conference. Taking as a point of departure the selection of Istanbul as one of Cultural Capitals of Europe in 2010, the
goal of this conference is to reflect on how cities and culture have become key to imagining communities
in a globalizing word. Please, send your abstract submissions to Deniz Gokturk, Ipek Tureli, and Levent Soysal
[dgokturk@berkeley.edu, ipek@berkeley.edu, levsoy@khas.edu.tr] by May 20, 2008. And please, check [the Web site]
for a full announcement and updates.
[ISLAMIC ART/ MIDDLE EAST]
QUESTS AND CONQUESTS: VISUAL AND PERFORMANCE ARTS AND THE PURSUIT OF IDENTITY IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
16-18 October 2008. First Annual Conference on the Middle East at California State University, Fresno. "This
conference explores the constructions and contextualizations of the modern Middle East through artistic, scholarly,
economic, political, sociological, historical, and philological works and texts. The conference subsequently examines
the politics that underlie their production and dissemination in academia...Please submit proposals of 300-400 words as
an e-mail attachment (doc or PDF files are ideal) to Dr. A. Sameh El kharbawy (aelkharbawy@csufresno.edu) by June 27, 2008.
[JEWISH STUDIES]ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES ANNUAL CONFERENCE
16-18 December 2007. Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Please see the Web site for more information.
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Held 3-4 November 2006. Annual? Ever again?
LOUSIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING
19-21 March 2009 Monroe, Louisiana. "The LHA welcomes proposals for complete panels and individual papers, as
well as roundtable sessions, on Louisiana history broadly defined. Proposals in public history are especially welcome.
While the focus of the conference is Louisiana and southern history, in 2008 the LHA sponsored its first European and
World History panel and the 2009 Program Committee encourages panel proposals to continue this opportunity for area
non-Louisiana scholars. Proposals should include a 250-word abstract for each paper and a bried (one-page) curriculum
vitae for each presenter. Those interested in chairing a session or commenting also are invited to submit a brief
curriculum vitae to the Program Committee. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2008. All proposals should
be submitted via e-mail to the chair of the Program Committee, Dr. Mary Farmer-Kaiser, at (kaiser@louisiana.edu). The body
of your e-mail should include your name, affiliation, contact information (phone and email address), and proposal title.
Please send the supporting materials (abstracts and CVs) in a MS Word attachment.
UNIVERSITY
OF MAINE/UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
Held 28-30 September 2007. Annual. Please see the Web site for more information.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
Held 27 April 2007. "The Organization of Graduate Students in Art History (OGSAH) announces the
Seventh Annual Mark Roskill Memorial Symposium in the History of Art, to be held on the campus of
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [No sign of this on the Web site as of 11/2007]
MATERIAL CULTURE
SYMPOSIUM
Held 12 April 2008. Presented by the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware and
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, Delaware. Annual. Proposals were due Monday, November 12, 2007. For more
information, please see the Web site.
MEPHISTOS
Held 4-6 April 2008. University of Texas at Austin. 26th annual MEPHISTOS graduate student conference devoted to the
History, Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Annual??
MID-ATLANTIC POPULAR/AMERICAN CULTURE ANNUAL CONFERENCE
October 30 - November 2, 2008. Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. For more information, please see the Web site.
MIDDLE ATLANTIC SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF ART
Held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Student participants come from a selected group of colleges
and universities. There appears to be no Web site for this; and I haven't found the date for the next one. I guess
if you're in the know, you'll know.
MIDWEST ART HISTORY SOCIETY
Held 2-5 April 2008. Chicago, Illinois. "Founded in 1975, the organization is open to
all art historians living in the states that comprise the Midwestern United States (Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and
Wisconsin). Members of the organization work to foster close relationships between Museum and
academic art historians, and have devoted themselves to mentoring and encouraging the development of
young art historians who are just entering the profession. Participation on the part of graduate
students is eagerly encouraged, and we offer grants to offset the expenses incurred by graduate students
presenting papers at the annual conference." For more information, please see the Web site.
MIDWEST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
Held 12-14 October, 2007. Please go to the ornate, multi-part Web site for more information.
UNIVERSITY
OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA and THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS AT LAWRENCE
Annual, held every March. Please see the Web Site for more information.
MODERNIST STUDIES
ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
1-4 November, 2007. Long Beach, California. For more information, please see the Website.
[MORRIS] WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY IN THE U.S.
27-30 December 2008. San Francisco, CA. "Call for proposals for two sessions at the Modern Language Association
Convention. Aabstracts were due 20 March 2008 to Prof. Florence Boos, Dept. of English, University of Iowa via
e-mail: florence-boos@uiowa.edu
- Prof. Florence Boos
- Dept of English
- University of Iowa
- E-mail: florence-boos@uiowa.edu
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Held 3-14 April 2007. "The Museum of Modern Art, New York, announces its third annual
graduate symposium in modern and contemporary art. Annual?
NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST CIVILIZATION GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Held 1 March 2007. University of Toronto, Canada??? Please see the Web site for more information.
NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
26 April 2008. Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. Kindly submit a title, one paragraph description,
and short vita by January 15, 2008 to:
- Professor Ballard Campbell
- Northeastern University
- History Department
- 360 Huntington Avenue
- Boston, MA 02115
- E-mailto:b.campbell@neu.edu
-
Please see the Web site for more information.
[NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART]
ASSOCIATIONS OF HISTORIANS OF 19TH-CENTURY ART
25-28 February 209 College Art Association annual conference in Los Angeles. "Recent PhDs and advanced graduate
students are invited to submit a proposal on any aspect of the visual production of "the long 19th century" (late 18th to
early 20th century). Proposals should be no more than 500 words, should be accompanied by a current c.v., and
must be received by September 1, 2008. Send to the session chair: Andrei Molotiu
(mailto:amolotiu@indiana.edu>amolotiu@indiana.edu).
[NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART] GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART
Held 21 March 2008. Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY. Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York. The symposium is free
and open to all.
NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Held 3-5 April, 2008.
NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
Held 1-4 March, 2007. Annual. Baltimore, Maryland.
NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
26-26 October, 2007. Held at Worcester, Mass., at Clark University.
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT GRADUATE
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Held 29 April 2006. Annual?? [See the Web site for more details.]
ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING
15-19 October 2008 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel. "...the Program Committee
of the OHA welcomes proposals for presentations on a variety of topics. In keeping with this year's theme, "A Convergence
of Interests: Oral History in the Digital Age," the 2008 Annual Meeting will focus special attention on oral history and
digital technologies. Emerging digital technologies continue to expand options for the recording, preservation, and use
of oral history interviews and other historically significant sights and sounds, to expand audiences, and to draw together
once separate communities of practitioners. In doing so, they raise perplexing practical, legal, ethical, and theoretical
questions. For its 2008 meeting, the Oral History Association extends an invitation to teachers and students, archivists
and librarians, Luddites and media theorists, web and exhibit designers, documentary producers and media artists, ethnographers,
family and public historians, program officers and curators, scholars from a broad and growing range of disciplines,
social and political activists, and others interested in sharing their experiences, projects, concerns, ideas, and
questions about oral history...Proposals were due January 15, 2008, to: Madelyn Campbell Oral History
Association Dickinson College P. O. Box 1773 Carlisle , PA 17013 Telephone (717) 245-1036 Fax: (717) 245-1046 E-mail:
(oha@dickinson.edu)" [See the Web site for more details.]
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ART HISTORY ASSOCIATION GRADUATE
AND UNDERGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Held 20-21 April 2007 Annual. More?
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS
HELD 19-22 April, 2006. Theme: "Our America/Nuestra America." Location: Washington, D.C.
Call for Papers Deadline was 25 January 2005." For more information, check the Web site.
PHILADELPHIA SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF ART
Like the Frick talks and the Middle Atlantic Symposium on the History of Art (see above) this is open to students at a
selected group of colleges and universities in the area; presumably you know whether your school is included in this group.
PICTURE FRAMES: IMAGING AND IMAGINING AMERICA
11-14 October 2007 Held as part of the American Studies Association Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
"In keeping with the overarching theme of the 2007 convention ("Amërica AquÕ: Transhemispheric Visions and
Community Connections"), this panel explores photography's intersections with migration and immigration across the
United States' physical and metaphorical borders...Papers with historical, cultural, political and especially
transnational perspectives are welcome, as are papers from all levels of academia. Proposals (500 word
maximum) or inquiries along with a CV to E. Godbey (egodbey@iastate.edu) were due January 12, 2007.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
10-12 October 2008 Sponsored by students in the History of Art and Architecture Department and the Film Studies
departments, U. Pittsburgh. Theme: Storytelling: Playful Interactions and Spaces of Imagination in
Contemporary Visual Culture. "articipation to art projects as redemptive therapy; intersections between literature,
film, and art practices at the level of appropriations and adaptations; interweavings of classical myths and contemporary
myths; modes of inhabiting and subverting the white cube/black box; artists as trickster figures and mythmakers; participatory
responsibility and interactivity; relational aesthetics and relational antagonism.
"We invite paper submissions from graduate students at all stages of their studies, working in any discipline. We also
encourage MFA students to send in presentations of art projects related to these themes. Abstracts should be under 350
words. Final presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Abstracts and CVs to haasymposium2008@gmail.com were due
March 17th, 2008.
POLITICS OF PLAY: Art, Aesthetics, and the Ludic Saturday
Held 1 March 2008. 2008 Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. "Recent
scholarship on the ludic has begun to examine the role of play in cultural production and aesthetics, as in debates over
the participatory tendencies of many contemporary art practices, historical investigations of earlier modes of play in
social and aesthetic realms, and attempts to grapple with the overwhelming pressure of market forces and the
instrumentalization of the aesthetic...Abstracts were due to Emma Hurme and Megan Heuer at (gradsymp@princeton.edu) Friday,
November 30, 2007.
[PRINTS] CONTINUITIES AND INNOVATIONS: POPULAR PRINT
CULTURES, PAST AND PRESENT, LOCAL AND GLOBAL
26 to 31 August 2008 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. "Papers and presentations are invited
for any aspect of the conference theme. Proposals should be 200 to 300 words in length and clearly state the central
theme or argument, the kind of popular print or related media to be considered, and its social and cultural location in
time and place. Please indicate any equipment requirements (data projector; conference computer; overhead projector; video
or dvd player; audio player, etc). A brief resumë should accompany each proposal, stating the proposer's name, address,
contact information, and relevant academic, professional, or personal background and knowledge of form of popular print
culture discussed. Send proposals and resumes by e-mail as pasted-in documents or attachments in an up-to-date format
to: (popprint@ualberta.ca) Or mail hard copies to: Popprint, Kirsten MacLeod, Department of English and Film Studies,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E5. Questions to either address. Deadline for proposals was 30
May 2008.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN EUROPEAN SCHOLARS CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE
Held 19-20 October 2007. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona [are there Rocky Mountains in Arizona?] Held in a
different location each year; that for 2008 not revealed here.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY CONFERENCE
Held September 2007. "This academic conference provides a congenial atmosphere in which graduate students
may present papers, network with fellow students, gain experience in public speaking, and attend workshops
specifically tailored to graduate student interests. If you are working on an interesting project that deals with a
historical topic, this conference provides an excellent opportunity to share your work! Please submit a one-page
abstract of the paper and a current c.v. The abstract should clearly express an original argument rooted in
extensive primary source research. Ideally, the paper will fill a void in the historical record. Please email
your abstract and c.v. to: rmihc@colorado.edu, or send by mail to: RMIHC, University of Colorado, Dept. of History,
Hellems 204, UCB 234, Boulder, CO 80309-0234. For more information, please visit the website.
CSU SACRAMENTO ART HISTORY SYMPOSIUM
HELD 15 March 2008. Proposal deadline was January 7, 2008. "information: eobrien@csus.edu
or Elaine O'Brien, Art Department, California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6061.
SOUTHWEST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE XVIII
Held 18-20 October 2007. Taos, New Mexico. "Papers should 20-30 minutes in length and generally include visuals.
Topics should be relevant to the art and artists of the Southwest or the American West, and their place in the
broader framework of American art history. The Southwest Art History Conference is sponsored by the Southwest Art
History Council...Proposals were due April 15, 2006 to: Betsy Fahlman, School of Art, Arizona State
University, P.O. Box 871505, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1505; phone: 480-965-2610; fax: 480-965-8338; e- mail: Fahlman@asu.edu.
TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRINTED MEDIA IN ITALY BETWEEN 1870 AND 1914
16-17 October 2008 South Orange, NJ, Seton Hall University. "Cultural historians and literary critics have in
the last few decades highlighted the historically contingent nature of literary productions and discursive formations.
According to this approach, the book is viewed as a cultural object, that is, the cultural intersection of a
triangular relationship between author, publisher, and reader. The conference will explore this approach in
the context of late nineteenth-, early twentieth-century Italian literary texts, a period associated with an
unprecedented growth of the print industry and of the reading public. These changes transformed the way in which
literature, and more broadly culture, was understood, a transformation that resulted in a fundamental modernization of
the very processes of cultural production, along with a professionalization of the figure of the writer and a redefinition
of the dichotomy between popular and elite culture.
"Who were the writers and other intellectuals who were most closely associated with this process of transformation?
What ideas and debates accompanied this cultural transformation? What were the technological, social and political
developments that shaped the way culture was produced and consumed? How can we map out a more detailed geography of the
culture, understood in its most comprehensive sense,that marked this crucial time in the history of modern Italy?
These are among the questions that will be explored in this conference. Abstracts were due 15th
December 2007 to Ann Caesar (A.H.Caesar@warwick.ac.uk ) and Gabriella Romani (romaniga@shu.edu)."
[TEXTILES] TOWARDS AN ICONOLOGY OF THE TEXTILE
19-21 March 2009 UCLA & The Getty Museum, Malibu. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "The
fabrication of textiles is one of the oldest cultural technologies. Nevertheless, relatively little art historical
research is being done on textiles. The objective of the proposed RSA session is to investigate the historical
meanings and functions of the textile medium in early modern art and architecture. The exploration of this specific
medium is meant as to contribution to a historical theory or iconology of the textile. Scholars of any discipline
Abstracts and a short CV to Tristan Weddigen (weddigen@gmx.ch) were due 15 May 2008.
UNDERGROUND
6-7 November 2008 Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
"How do we perceive the underground? What lies beneath the surface? Wherein lies the significance of this metaphor?
In defining the ÒundergroundÓ we have an immediate understanding of the term in its political, artistic, spatial and
temporal dimensions: secret societies, the avant-garde, the unknown, the underworld. But what else constitutes the
underground? Since antiquity we have been fascinated by the possibility of a separate realm that does not abide by
the conventions of the known world. The underground also represents all that is hidden within the human psyche and
that resists our attempts to excavate it. This conference intends to explore manifestations of the underground across
all disciplines: literature, art, music, film, political science, sociology, psychology, art history, classics,
philosophy, etc...Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words to (cunyunderground@gmail.com) or to the address below.
Special consideration will be given to panel proposals. We will acknowledge the receipt of abstracts within 2-3 days.
The deadline for submissions is August 18, 2008. You will be notified if your proposal has been accepted no
later than September 17, 2008 and we would like to have confirmation from those whose submissions have been accepted
no later than October 1, 2008. There is no registration fee and the conference is free to attend. Please send all
questions to the above listed e-mail address.
- Anick Boyd
- c/o CUNY Graduate Center
- Ph. D. Program in Comparative Literature
- 365 Fifth Avenue
- New York, NY 1001
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: Graduate History of Art Student Association
Held 19 January 2007. "this year's annual History of Art conference: "Assessing Boundaries: Approaching Art
from the Edge". Graduate students, both MA and PhD, are invited to submit abstracts of no more than one page for
twenty minute papers. Abstracts were due December 15, 2006 at the following address: karine.tsoumis@utoronto.ca.
VICTORIAN SECRETS
Held 9-11 November 2007. University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. "Victorians Institute annual conference on the subject of Victorian
Secrets. Papers will be welcome that address this topic from any of the specific disciplines represented in the
Victorians Institute„including, but not limited to, art, history, literature, music, political science, sociology,
and theology„as well as those that work across and outside of traditional disciplinary boundaries. Please send
proposals of no more than 500 words were due May 31, 2007 to Dr. Albert Pionke, Department of English, 103 Morgan
Hall, Box 870244, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244. Email: apionke@bama.ua.edu."
VISIBLE MEMORIES
2-4 October 2008 Syracuse University, New York. "The Visible Memories Conference invites papers for competitive
selection. The conference will explore the intersections between visual culture and memory studies with particular focus
on the ways in which memories are manifested and experienced in visible, material, or spatial form. Examples of especially
relevant and desirable research topics include: local sites of memory; memorials and archives; environmentalism and
representations of nature; regional, national, or global tourism; photography or cinema; digital media; and art
installations. We also welcome other research topics in similarly innovative areas...Conference Format: The conference will
feature an innovative combination of events designed to facilitate conversation not only between a variety of researchers
concerned with the study of visual culture and memory but also between academics and distinguished professionals in art
and design, film production, and institutional archiving.
"Submission Guidelines: Submit a paper abstract electronically (500 word maximum). Include a separate cover page with
paper title; author name and affiliation; and contact information. Submissions should be addressed to Dr. Anne T. Demo
(atdemo@syr.edu). Deadline for abstract submission was May 1, 2008. Acceptance notification will be sent by June 1, 2008.
VISUAL CULTURE/ART HISTORY CAUCUS OF THE AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
16-19 October 2008 American Studies Association, Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "is currently seeking
complete session proposals for the ASA's 2008 annual meeting. Sessions should explore historical, theoretical, and/or
methodological issues in American visual culture. They should also address the 2008 meeting theme, "Back Down to the Crossroads:
Integrative American Studies in Theory and Practice." The ASA is particularly interested in work that promotes "integrative"
American studies by advancing "multicultural, transnational, public and civic scholarship" or by exploring the relations,
tensions, and pathways among these and other critical concepts in the field (see http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/).
The meeting theme and location present an important opportunity to examine the visual dimensions of cultural interaction
within the American West and Southwest and across national borders; exchanges between different forms of visual culture,
such as the official and the vernacular; the relationship between the fields of art history and visual culture studies;
and many other rich topics. Proposals were due January 14, 2008 to Tanya Sheehan, Chair of the VC/AH Program Committee, at
94tsheehan@bluelink.andover.edu.
YORK ART HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION
Held Friday, March 7, 2008. York University, CANADA. "7th Annual Symposium, "Split Structures: Navigating the In-Between".
Abstracts were due MONDAY, JANUARY 7th, 2008 to:
- york_art_history@yahoo.ca
- Attn: Symposium Committee
OR
- Art History Graduate Student Association
- 256L Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts
- York University, 4700 Keele Street
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
- A WEB SITE WOULD BE NICE
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Held Saturday, April 12, 2008. "The Department of History of Art at Yale University announces its fifth annual American Art History Symposium. The organizers seek proposals from graduate students whose work both exemplifies creative modes of inquiry and breaks with established critical approaches to the study of American Art. We welcome submissions addressing any medium or period. Abstracts were due Monday, 14 January. More information: americanist.symposium@gmail.com
- Mark Busby
- Southwest Regional Humanities Center
- Texas State University
- 601 University Drive
- San Marcos, Texas 78666
- Or electronic copies to mb13@txstate.edu
- Lisa Florman, Dept. of History of Art, Ohio State University, 100
- Hayes Hall, 108 North Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1318 AND
- Cordula Grewe, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Columbia University,
-
Please see the CAA's "Call for Participation" (http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf)
for eligibility and submission guidelines.
- McCormick Hall, A9, Princeton NJ 08544
- E-mail: gfreni@princeton.edu, and
- John Beldon Scott
- University of Iowa, School of Art & Art History,
- Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- E-mail: jb-scott@uiowa.edu
- For submission guidelines, see: (http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf)
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS
They have several conferences under slightly different names around the world every year. Check under "Conferences" and "Calls for Papers" for details.
[AMERICAN STUDIES] McNEIL CENTER FOR EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES
They hold several conferences each year. Check the Web site for those of interest.
AMERICAN STUDIES AND IMPERIAL DESIGNS: NEW SCHOLARSHIP AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE US IN THE WORLD
11-14 September 2008 Purdue University, IN. 2008 International Conference for American Studies."We seek papers, panel proposals and performances that demonstrate bold new ways of thinking about the role and place of American Studies in challenging and describing current moments and acts of imperialism. These can include but are not limited to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, global economic restructuring, new forms of global culture, threats to academic freedom, censorship, forms of anti-globalization activism, media, the arts and building cultures of resistance. The conference especially invites papers which articulate new forms of social organizing and resistance to imperialist designs. That is, the conference seeks to bring together scholars and activists committed to the theory and practice of social change, on one hand, and an intellectual project rooted in transformative goals. Finally, the conference seeks to refresh understanding of the terms imperialism and empire on one hand, resistance and revolution on the other. The conference seeks to create a dialectical moment and space for the production of new work and ideas, and new networks of alliance that may move us past the 'imperial moment' into a just global future.
"Individual paper proposals with abstracts of up to 250 words; panel proposals no more than one page, with a complete description of the panel and individual papers; roundtables and open hearings on crucial issues and ideas up to 250 words in length; performances and/or readings on the conference theme up to 250 words are all acceptable. All proposals must include mailing address, e-mail address and telephone number for all proposed participants. Proposals may only be sent via e-mail to Bill Mullen, Director of American Studies, Purdue at bvmullen@purdue.edu or to Delayne Graham, Program Assistant in American Studies at dkgraham@purdue.edu. Deadline for submission was December 15, 2007.
AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
16-19 OCTOBER 2008. Albuquerque, NM. "Call for Proposals: ASA Convention "Back Down to the Crossroads: Integrative American Studies in Theory and Practice." The 2008 ASA Program Committee invites colleagues in American Studies and all related disciplines to submit proposals for individual papers, entire sessions, presentations, performances, films, round tables, workshops, conversations, or alternative formats described below on any topic dealing with American cultures, including topics in disciplines that have been under-represented in American Studies research and teaching. The ASA Annual Meeting is open to anyone having an interdisciplinary interest in the study of American cultures. Proposals must be submitted through the the ASA's on line submission system, which can be found at [the link above]. Deadline for submissions was January 25, 2008. For complete CFP and additional information, see: (http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/page/annual_meeting_general_information/)
AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF
TEXAS
13-15 November 2008 Texas State University-San Marcos. "Conference Theme: 'From Region to the World: The Importance of Place in American Studies.'Papers, abstracts, or panel information due by September 1, 2008. Please submit hard copies to:
2-3 October 2008 UTexas at Austin. "Theme: Mongrel America. "In order to complicate the term "mongrel," we seek papers which look at ideas and aspects of America in the musical, literary, artistic, religious, political, visual, psychological, natural, built,social, and transnational realms, including work which looks beyond the political borders of the United States to the "Americas" and beyond. In addition to standard conference papers, we also invite other presentation formats and creative works, such as short films and poetry/fiction/drama readings. Though our conference program committee will primarily be assembling the panels out of individual submissions, we also will consider pre-formed panels. Jointly-authored presentations are acceptable. We also invite any graduate students collaborating with community partners on service, activist, educational, artistic, or other projects to present in conjunction with those partners. To propose a presentation, please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words and a brief CV of no more than one page to the American Studies Graduate Committee by e-mail at (utamst08@gmail.com) no later than 25 July 2008. Submission text may be embedded in the e-mail or included in a Word attachment. If accepted, each graduate student presenter will be asked to pay a $15 registration fee to help cover conference expenses.
ANTI-POPERY: THE TRANSALANTIC EXPERIENCE: 1530-1850
18-20 September 2008 "The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, in cooperation with the School of Arts and Sciences of The Catholic University of America, will hold a conference on the uses of anti-popery in the early modern world. Antagonism towards the pope and his co-religionists was nearly universal in the Protestant societies of Europe and colonial America. In recent years historians on both sides of the Atlantic have begun to realize that anti-Catholic fears represented more than blind prejudice or ignorance. Instead, anti-popery was a powerful set of ideas that early modern Europeans used to understand their world and their place in history. This conference will explore the diverse uses of anti-popery in the Protestant Atlantic - whether religious, social, legal, economic, or political - from the time of the Reformation to the era of massive Catholic migration to America in the mid-nineteenth century.
"We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of anti-popery in Europe or the Americas from approximately 1530-1850. Presenters will be expected to complete a 20-30 page essay by late-May 2008, for pre-conference circulation among registered attendees. We welcome submissions from advanced graduate students as well as more senior scholars. Proposals to Anti-Popery Conference, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4531, or e-mail to (mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu) were due September 15, 2007. Other questions can be directed to the conference organizers: Evan Haefeli (eh2204@columbia.edu), Brendan McConville (bmcconv@bu.edu), and Owen Stanwood (stanwood@cua.edu).
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Held 23 February 2007. University of Arizona, Tucson. Theme: Memorializing Conflict: A look at the Creation and Social Impacts of Memorials to War, Conflict or Catastrophe. "The Art History Graduate Student Association (AHGSA) at the University of Arizona invites you to their interdisciplinary symposium exploring the ways in which architects, artists, and communities have responded to conflict or tragedy through the creation of memorials. The symposium seeks to explore issues such as: the needs for individuals, communities, and nations to create visual statements about conflict; the appearance and impact of "spontaneous" memorials at the sites of accidents and crimes; the significance of chosen designs and their locations; controversies surrounding design, location, funding, and reception; and long-term effects of memorials on their communities...We welcome papers from Master's and PhD students that address this topic regardless of time period, scale, or geographic area. Proposals to tamato@email.arizona.edu were due December 1, 2006.
25-28 February 2009 Part of the conference of the College Art Association, Los Angeles, California. "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was arguably the founder of modern art history: he was the first to fold an account of art's internal development into a larger cultural and intellectual history, while attempting to examine the entirety of the world©ös artistic production and rigorously explore the differences between artistic mediums. We invite papers that explore Hegel's importance both to art history as a discipline and to the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art. We are especially interested in papers on specific artists and works that directly engage Hegel's Aesthetics including its controversial claim that "art is and remains for us, on the side of its highest vocation, a thing of the past." Proposals (mail a copy to each co-chair) should be sent by May 9, 2008, to:
25-28 February 2009 Part of the conference of the College Art Association, Los Angeles, California. "This panel explores the relation between art, popular imagery, and the global histories of political dissent. In particular, it sets out to chronicle instances in which images were used to (re)write the histories of revolution, from painting to broadsheets to early film. Contributions are welcome that: investigate the partisan relationships between image and event, not only as tool of revolutionary activity, but especially as acts of the retroactive shaping of political terrain; question the status and form of imagery during and after revolution; and/or offer provocative new approaches to the iconic aspects of political and national memory. While no limitations are placed on geographical location or revolutionary event, artistic medium, "popular" or "official" histories, an insistence on a timeframe stretching roughly from the French, Haitian and American Revolutions to World War II is preferred in hope of foregrounding how the period's imagination transformed, and was transformed by, extremes of political praxis. Please send proposals for 20-minute papers by MAY 9, 2008, to the address below, or via e-mail:
Andre Dombrowski, Smith College, Department of Art, Hillyer Hall, Northampton, MA 01063, adombrow@smith.edu Detailed information on the sessions and application procedures can be found at: http://conference.collegeart.org/2009/ http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf
25-28 February 2009 College Art Association - Los Angeles, CA. "This session examines the construction of layers of meaning resulting from the ritual interaction of art, architecture and the public. We invite papers on: ritual phenomena, such as pilgrimage, or the performance of liturgical or political ceremonies; ritual contexts, in which agents and / or the audience contribute actively to the definition of the meaning of art; ritual settings (buildings, urban spaces, etc.) specifically created to define and control rituals, or that take on new functions and meanings once utilized for this purpose. Contributions on these issues from historical, anthropological, and semiotic viewpoints, from the medieval period to the Modern Age, are solicited. Papers on ritual contexts envisioning a polysemic conception of art, rather than a univocal significance, are particularly welcome.
"Please submit an abstract, c.v., letter explaining speaker's interest, and CAA membership status, by Friday May 9, 2008, to:
Princeton University, Index of Christian Art, [ASIAN ART] EAST ASIAN ART HISTORY
17-20 July 2008 Institue of East Asian Art History, University of Heidelberg, Germany. "Graduate students engaged in research for a PhD on East Asian art history are invited to present papers about their current work for the colloquy. This colloquy provides a forum for young researchers to share ideas, exchange valuable experiences with other graduate students and work towards international standards on field in East Asian art history. Please send your application via e-mail to the organiser (oakg@sino.uni-heidelberg.de). Abstracts were due March 31st, 2008.
ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES
The annual conference sometimes has panels relating to art history.
ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN ART
Held Friday, March 21, 2008. See Web site for more information.
ASSOCIATION FOR TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP IN ART HISTORY
Always held as part of CAA and Renaissance Society of America (others as well). See the Web site for more information.
ATLANTIC STUDIES WORKSHOP
Held 4-5 MAY 2007. Co-hosted by the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. "The Atlantic Studies Workshop seeks papers from graduate students in multiple disciplines including, but not limited to: African and African-American Studies, American Culture, Anthropology, Art and Art History, History, Law, Literature, Music, Sociology, and WomenÍs Studies...The deadline for applications was March 1, 2007. Papers will be pre-circulated to all participants. Applicants are therefore requested to submit a complete paper of approximately 15-25 pages for review by the application deadline. Applicants should also submit a C.V. Final versions of each presenterÍs paper are due by April 10, 2007. Please send application materials electronically to atlantic@msu.edu. Please also address inquiries to atlantic@msu.edu."[SEE the Web site for more information.]
BOSTON COLLEGE ELEVENTH ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE ON ROMANCE STUDIES
Held March 30/31, 2007. Annual. Please see the Web site for further information.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Held 28-29 March, 2008. ANNUAL. Abstracts were due December 1, 2007.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
Held 26 October 2007. "CO-Collaboration and Collectivity in Art is the 42nd Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium, the longest-running Art History student symposium in the United States..." Please see the rather disorganized Web site for more information.
Annual, held usually in April. For more information, please see the Web site.
Held 11 April 2008. Theme: "Seeing Knowledge Work." "The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at UCSB invites graduate students and emerging scholars to submit paper proposals for 'Seeing Knowledge Work,' a conference about the ways in which we structure our understanding of the creation, purpose, and meaning of visual knowledge. The act of making knowledge visible, and of seeing it at work and at play, makes it available as an object for comprehension and critique. Abstracts were due February 1.
Held 1-3 November 2007.. Annual. See the Web site for more information.
Held 8-13 July 2007. Berne, Switzerland. "The Conference is the major international scholarly conference dedicated to advancing knowledge of the history of cartography, of maps and mapmaking, broadly defined...The first aim of the conference is to foster discussion on the history of cartography in general, not necessarily the history of single maps. The presentations should be focused on the history of cartography and only deal with historical geography or the history of discoveries on the margins. Contributions on a topic from specialists in disciplines such as geodesy, tourism studies, linguistics, history of science, art history, etc., are very welcome. The conference themes will be:
- Mapping Relief
- Maps and Tourism
- Language and Maps
- Time as the Cartographic Fourth Dimension
- Any other aspect of the history of cartography
- Christoph Graber (Conference Secretary)
- ICHC2007
- c/o swisstopo
- Postfach CH-3084 Wabern
- Switzerland
- Fax: ++41 31 963 24 59
- Email: ok@ichc2007.ch
- Due date for proposals was 1 October 2006
27-30 March 2008 Annual, usually held March or April. For more information, please see the Web site. Next: "Cityscapes": "a conference exploring what arts and humanities contribute to analysis of cities. We seek papers investigating the historic constitutive factors of cities, cities as crucibles of creative change, contemporary issues of urbanism, and the role of cities in envisioning possible futures. Proposals must include a 200 word abstract, cover letter, 3 page cv, and a self-addressed postcard or request for electronic confirmation. Due date for submission was 14 September 2007. Please see the Web site for more information.
February 27 through March 1, 2008 Jacksonville, FL. 47th Annual Meeting Florida Conference of Historians. "From the debut of Superman in 1938 through Marvel's Comics' Civil War storyline this year, superhero comic books have made an indelible mark on American culture. The current popularity of stories and characters originating in comic books has expanded interest in the medium and in the superhero genre which itself incorporates a variety of other genres. Moreover, recent scholarship has striven to define the superheroÍs unique relationship to American culture. Submissions that address the ways the comic book superhero represents, constructs, and distorts American culture are welcomed. For consideration, please send the following information:
- Paper title and abstract/proposal (300-500 words)
- Brief vita or one-paragraph biography.
- Complete personal information: name, department, academic affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address.
- Bill Svitavsky, Electronic Resources Librarian
- Olin Library, Rollins College
- 1000 Holt Avenue - 2744
- Winter Park, FL 32789
- (407) 646-2679
- E-mail: bsvitavsky@rollins.edu
11-13 APRIL, 2008 Contemporary Art Museum, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, and Saint Louis University Museum of Art in St. Louis, Missouri. "The Department of American Studies at Saint Louis University invites papers for its 2008 Visual Culture Graduate Student Conference. This year's conference theme, "Constructed Light, Constructed Meanings," coincides with the "Dan Flavin: Constructed Light" exhibition at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis. This interdisciplinary graduate student conference welcomes proposals from the humanities and social sciences that explore the diverse uses, functions, and meanings of light ¨¢ in its natural, manufactured, and manipulated forms ¨¢ in artistic expressions, cultural representations, and people's daily lives and experiences. Renowned visual culture studies scholar Dr. Shawn Michelle Smith, Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will deliver the keynote address. Abstracts were due January 15, 2008 to visualcc@slu.edu. For questions, please contact Emmett McKenna (visualcc@slu.edu). [SOMEDAY, THIS WILL BE THEIR CONFERENCE SITE: (http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/amers/sitebody/graduate_conference)
20-25 May 2008. New Orleans. See Web site for details. Deadline (originating in USA): Postmarked by October 1, 2007 Deadline (originating outside USA): wasSeptember 15, 2007. Explore it also for information on various symposia and other offerings.
CULTURAL CROSSROADS: THE MARK ROSKILL SYMPOSIUM11 April 2008 University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "The Graduate students in the Department of Art History cordially invite the submission of abstracts for papers investigating cultural crossroads. The symposium will explore the various ways in which cultural concepts and preconceptions are conveyed by artists working in the visual arts from ancient to modern times. The field of interest includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
o cultural ownership and cultural property o globalization and its influence o colonization and its influence o exchanges between ancient and modern cultures o revisionist history o national identity and culture o conflicting cultural identities o generation of culture crossroads o resilience of cultural meaning o cultural convergencePaper presentations should be between 15 and 20 minutes in length. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and a paragraph biography to Symposium Co-chairs Mary Elizabeth Williams and Jill Bierly at (umassarthistsymposium@gmail.com) by February 25, 2008. Notifications will be sent by March 14, 2008.
22-24 May 2008 New York University, New York City. Abstract Deadline was November 10, 2007. See the Website for more information.
Held 4 March 2006. "The Dahesh Museum of Art invites graduate students to submit 20-minute papers for its third annual graduate symposium on recent developments in the history of nineteenth-century art." No sign yet of another symposium. Note: "The Trustees of the Board of the Dahesh Museum of Art announced today [No date given, but apparently 2007] that it will close its current location at 580 Madison Avenue. For the next two years, the Museum will operate out of a Manhattan office space, which will serve as the nerve center for a number of diverse projects while the Board looks to acquire a building."
2-4 NOVEMBER 2007 MID-ATLANTIC POPULAR | AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION 2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE. Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel Philadelphia.
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
ART HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM17-18 October 2008. Annual. Deadline for abstracts is September 2. Very detailed Web site should answer your questions. Please check there for updates and the call for papers or contact:
- Prof. Karen A. Bearor, Symposium Coordinator
- Department of Art History
- Florida State University
- Fine Arts Building
- P.O. Box 3061151
- Tallahassee, FL 32306-1151
- fax: 850-644-3259
- kbearor at fsu dot edu
Held 3 February, 2007. Annual? Nothing on the Web site as of 25 March 2008.
Usually held at the end of March/beg. of April. To participate you must be enrolled in one of the 14 member institutions and be nominated by your department. Write: Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 E. 78th St., New York, NY 10021. Tel.: (212) 288-0700.
2 - 5 October 2008. Thirty-second Annual Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota. "The Program Committee cordially invites proposals on any aspect of German, Austrian, or Swiss Studies, including (but not limited to) history, Germanistik, film, art history, political science, musicology, sociology, and cultural studies. Proposals for entire sessions and for interdisciplinary presentations are strongly encouraged. Individual paper proposals and offers to serve as session moderator or commentator are also welcome. Programs of past GSA Conferences may be viewed at the GSA web site (ABOVE) Please see the GSA web site for information about the submission process, which opens on 5 January 2008 and note that ALL proposals must be submitted online; paper forms are not used. The deadline for proposals was 15 February 2008. For more information, visit the GSA web site or contact the Executive Director of the GSA, Prof. David E. Barclay, Department of History, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy St., Kalamazoo, MI 49006-3295. FAX: 269-337-7251. (director@thegsa.org)
Held 17-18 March 2006. Annual? Apparently there's going to be one in 2009 but no details yet!
15-18 November 2007 University of Texas-Austin. "The National Association of Graduate and Professional Students is seeking panel and paper proposals on all aspects of graduate and professional student life, including teaching, learning, research, professional development, and quality of life issues...We welcome proposals both for individual papers and complete panels (with a maximum of four presenters...Deadline for proposals was September 15, 2007. Submissions must be sent to conference@nagps.org as a .doc or .pdf file attachment."
11-14 January 2008. Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, and the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Submission Deadline was September 13th, 2007. Please see the Web site for more information.
5-8 June 2008. Theme :Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, & Nationalism in History. To be held at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD The deadline for proposals was January 31, 2007.
Held Saturday, 24 March 2007. Annual? Ever again?
There is/was one in 2007. No other information on strangely obscure Web site. Supposedly Annual. Try: (interdisciplines@fsu.edu)." Please see the Web site for more information, haha.
Held 18-20 OCTOBER 2007. Washington, D.C. Apparently annual.
18-19 May 2007. Annual; always held at the Harvard Divinity School. Theme: The Artist's Account and Philosopher's Interpretation. Abstracts were due March 15, 2007. Full Papers due April 15, 2007. Please see the Web site for more information.
10-12 August 2007. New York University, New York City. Theme: Public Views of the Private; Private Views of the Public. Please see the handsome if noisy Web site for full information. The deadline for submitting proposals was 15 March, 2007.
Held 7-8 March 2008.
16 -18 October 2008 Philadelphia, PA. The theme is "Spaces and Visions." Here is the conference Web site. Proposal deadline was Feb. 1. 2008. Note that the main site offers a Newsletter with many conference opportunities.
26-27 September 2008 University of California Berkeley. "We are inviting abstract submissions for [this] interdisciplinary conference. Taking as a point of departure the selection of Istanbul as one of Cultural Capitals of Europe in 2010, the goal of this conference is to reflect on how cities and culture have become key to imagining communities in a globalizing word. Please, send your abstract submissions to Deniz Gokturk, Ipek Tureli, and Levent Soysal [dgokturk@berkeley.edu, ipek@berkeley.edu, levsoy@khas.edu.tr] by May 20, 2008. And please, check [the Web site] for a full announcement and updates.
16-18 October 2008. First Annual Conference on the Middle East at California State University, Fresno. "This conference explores the constructions and contextualizations of the modern Middle East through artistic, scholarly, economic, political, sociological, historical, and philological works and texts. The conference subsequently examines the politics that underlie their production and dissemination in academia...Please submit proposals of 300-400 words as an e-mail attachment (doc or PDF files are ideal) to Dr. A. Sameh El kharbawy (aelkharbawy@csufresno.edu) by June 27, 2008.
16-18 December 2007. Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Please see the Web site for more information.
Held 3-4 November 2006. Annual? Ever again?
LOUSIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING19-21 March 2009 Monroe, Louisiana. "The LHA welcomes proposals for complete panels and individual papers, as well as roundtable sessions, on Louisiana history broadly defined. Proposals in public history are especially welcome. While the focus of the conference is Louisiana and southern history, in 2008 the LHA sponsored its first European and World History panel and the 2009 Program Committee encourages panel proposals to continue this opportunity for area non-Louisiana scholars. Proposals should include a 250-word abstract for each paper and a bried (one-page) curriculum vitae for each presenter. Those interested in chairing a session or commenting also are invited to submit a brief curriculum vitae to the Program Committee. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2008. All proposals should be submitted via e-mail to the chair of the Program Committee, Dr. Mary Farmer-Kaiser, at (kaiser@louisiana.edu). The body of your e-mail should include your name, affiliation, contact information (phone and email address), and proposal title. Please send the supporting materials (abstracts and CVs) in a MS Word attachment.
Held 28-30 September 2007. Annual. Please see the Web site for more information.
Held 27 April 2007. "The Organization of Graduate Students in Art History (OGSAH) announces the Seventh Annual Mark Roskill Memorial Symposium in the History of Art, to be held on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [No sign of this on the Web site as of 11/2007]
Held 12 April 2008. Presented by the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, Delaware. Annual. Proposals were due Monday, November 12, 2007. For more information, please see the Web site.
Held 4-6 April 2008. University of Texas at Austin. 26th annual MEPHISTOS graduate student conference devoted to the History, Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Annual??
October 30 - November 2, 2008. Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. For more information, please see the Web site.
Held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Student participants come from a selected group of colleges and universities. There appears to be no Web site for this; and I haven't found the date for the next one. I guess if you're in the know, you'll know.
Held 2-5 April 2008. Chicago, Illinois. "Founded in 1975, the organization is open to all art historians living in the states that comprise the Midwestern United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wisconsin). Members of the organization work to foster close relationships between Museum and academic art historians, and have devoted themselves to mentoring and encouraging the development of young art historians who are just entering the profession. Participation on the part of graduate students is eagerly encouraged, and we offer grants to offset the expenses incurred by graduate students presenting papers at the annual conference." For more information, please see the Web site.
Held 12-14 October, 2007. Please go to the ornate, multi-part Web site for more information.
Annual, held every March. Please see the Web Site for more information.
1-4 November, 2007. Long Beach, California. For more information, please see the Website.
[MORRIS] WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY IN THE U.S.27-30 December 2008. San Francisco, CA. "Call for proposals for two sessions at the Modern Language Association Convention. Aabstracts were due 20 March 2008 to Prof. Florence Boos, Dept. of English, University of Iowa via e-mail: florence-boos@uiowa.edu
- Prof. Florence Boos
- Dept of English
- University of Iowa
- E-mail: florence-boos@uiowa.edu
Held 3-14 April 2007. "The Museum of Modern Art, New York, announces its third annual graduate symposium in modern and contemporary art. Annual?
Held 1 March 2007. University of Toronto, Canada??? Please see the Web site for more information.
26 April 2008. Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. Kindly submit a title, one paragraph description, and short vita by January 15, 2008 to:
- Professor Ballard Campbell
- Northeastern University
- History Department
- 360 Huntington Avenue
- Boston, MA 02115
- E-mailto:b.campbell@neu.edu
[NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART]
ASSOCIATIONS OF HISTORIANS OF 19TH-CENTURY ART25-28 February 209 College Art Association annual conference in Los Angeles. "Recent PhDs and advanced graduate students are invited to submit a proposal on any aspect of the visual production of "the long 19th century" (late 18th to early 20th century). Proposals should be no more than 500 words, should be accompanied by a current c.v., and must be received by September 1, 2008. Send to the session chair: Andrei Molotiu (mailto:amolotiu@indiana.edu>amolotiu@indiana.edu).
Held 21 March 2008. Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY. Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York. The symposium is free and open to all.
Held 3-5 April, 2008.
Held 1-4 March, 2007. Annual. Baltimore, Maryland.
26-26 October, 2007. Held at Worcester, Mass., at Clark University.
Held 29 April 2006. Annual?? [See the Web site for more details.]
15-19 October 2008 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel. "...the Program Committee of the OHA welcomes proposals for presentations on a variety of topics. In keeping with this year's theme, "A Convergence of Interests: Oral History in the Digital Age," the 2008 Annual Meeting will focus special attention on oral history and digital technologies. Emerging digital technologies continue to expand options for the recording, preservation, and use of oral history interviews and other historically significant sights and sounds, to expand audiences, and to draw together once separate communities of practitioners. In doing so, they raise perplexing practical, legal, ethical, and theoretical questions. For its 2008 meeting, the Oral History Association extends an invitation to teachers and students, archivists and librarians, Luddites and media theorists, web and exhibit designers, documentary producers and media artists, ethnographers, family and public historians, program officers and curators, scholars from a broad and growing range of disciplines, social and political activists, and others interested in sharing their experiences, projects, concerns, ideas, and questions about oral history...Proposals were due January 15, 2008, to: Madelyn Campbell Oral History Association Dickinson College P. O. Box 1773 Carlisle , PA 17013 Telephone (717) 245-1036 Fax: (717) 245-1046 E-mail: (oha@dickinson.edu)" [See the Web site for more details.]
Held 20-21 April 2007 Annual. More?
HELD 19-22 April, 2006. Theme: "Our America/Nuestra America." Location: Washington, D.C. Call for Papers Deadline was 25 January 2005." For more information, check the Web site.
Like the Frick talks and the Middle Atlantic Symposium on the History of Art (see above) this is open to students at a selected group of colleges and universities in the area; presumably you know whether your school is included in this group.
11-14 October 2007 Held as part of the American Studies Association Conference in Philadelphia, PA. "In keeping with the overarching theme of the 2007 convention ("Amërica AquÕ: Transhemispheric Visions and Community Connections"), this panel explores photography's intersections with migration and immigration across the United States' physical and metaphorical borders...Papers with historical, cultural, political and especially transnational perspectives are welcome, as are papers from all levels of academia. Proposals (500 word maximum) or inquiries along with a CV to E. Godbey (egodbey@iastate.edu) were due January 12, 2007.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM10-12 October 2008 Sponsored by students in the History of Art and Architecture Department and the Film Studies departments, U. Pittsburgh. Theme: Storytelling: Playful Interactions and Spaces of Imagination in Contemporary Visual Culture. "articipation to art projects as redemptive therapy; intersections between literature, film, and art practices at the level of appropriations and adaptations; interweavings of classical myths and contemporary myths; modes of inhabiting and subverting the white cube/black box; artists as trickster figures and mythmakers; participatory responsibility and interactivity; relational aesthetics and relational antagonism.
"We invite paper submissions from graduate students at all stages of their studies, working in any discipline. We also encourage MFA students to send in presentations of art projects related to these themes. Abstracts should be under 350 words. Final presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Abstracts and CVs to haasymposium2008@gmail.com were due March 17th, 2008.
Held 1 March 2008. 2008 Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. "Recent scholarship on the ludic has begun to examine the role of play in cultural production and aesthetics, as in debates over the participatory tendencies of many contemporary art practices, historical investigations of earlier modes of play in social and aesthetic realms, and attempts to grapple with the overwhelming pressure of market forces and the instrumentalization of the aesthetic...Abstracts were due to Emma Hurme and Megan Heuer at (gradsymp@princeton.edu) Friday, November 30, 2007.
[PRINTS] CONTINUITIES AND INNOVATIONS: POPULAR PRINT
CULTURES, PAST AND PRESENT, LOCAL AND GLOBAL26 to 31 August 2008 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. "Papers and presentations are invited for any aspect of the conference theme. Proposals should be 200 to 300 words in length and clearly state the central theme or argument, the kind of popular print or related media to be considered, and its social and cultural location in time and place. Please indicate any equipment requirements (data projector; conference computer; overhead projector; video or dvd player; audio player, etc). A brief resumë should accompany each proposal, stating the proposer's name, address, contact information, and relevant academic, professional, or personal background and knowledge of form of popular print culture discussed. Send proposals and resumes by e-mail as pasted-in documents or attachments in an up-to-date format to: (popprint@ualberta.ca) Or mail hard copies to: Popprint, Kirsten MacLeod, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E5. Questions to either address. Deadline for proposals was 30 May 2008.
Held 19-20 October 2007. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona [are there Rocky Mountains in Arizona?] Held in a different location each year; that for 2008 not revealed here.
Held September 2007. "This academic conference provides a congenial atmosphere in which graduate students may present papers, network with fellow students, gain experience in public speaking, and attend workshops specifically tailored to graduate student interests. If you are working on an interesting project that deals with a historical topic, this conference provides an excellent opportunity to share your work! Please submit a one-page abstract of the paper and a current c.v. The abstract should clearly express an original argument rooted in extensive primary source research. Ideally, the paper will fill a void in the historical record. Please email your abstract and c.v. to: rmihc@colorado.edu, or send by mail to: RMIHC, University of Colorado, Dept. of History, Hellems 204, UCB 234, Boulder, CO 80309-0234. For more information, please visit the website.
HELD 15 March 2008. Proposal deadline was January 7, 2008. "information: eobrien@csus.edu or Elaine O'Brien, Art Department, California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6061.
Held 18-20 October 2007. Taos, New Mexico. "Papers should 20-30 minutes in length and generally include visuals. Topics should be relevant to the art and artists of the Southwest or the American West, and their place in the broader framework of American art history. The Southwest Art History Conference is sponsored by the Southwest Art History Council...Proposals were due April 15, 2006 to: Betsy Fahlman, School of Art, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871505, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1505; phone: 480-965-2610; fax: 480-965-8338; e- mail: Fahlman@asu.edu.
16-17 October 2008 South Orange, NJ, Seton Hall University. "Cultural historians and literary critics have in the last few decades highlighted the historically contingent nature of literary productions and discursive formations. According to this approach, the book is viewed as a cultural object, that is, the cultural intersection of a triangular relationship between author, publisher, and reader. The conference will explore this approach in the context of late nineteenth-, early twentieth-century Italian literary texts, a period associated with an unprecedented growth of the print industry and of the reading public. These changes transformed the way in which literature, and more broadly culture, was understood, a transformation that resulted in a fundamental modernization of the very processes of cultural production, along with a professionalization of the figure of the writer and a redefinition of the dichotomy between popular and elite culture.
"Who were the writers and other intellectuals who were most closely associated with this process of transformation? What ideas and debates accompanied this cultural transformation? What were the technological, social and political developments that shaped the way culture was produced and consumed? How can we map out a more detailed geography of the culture, understood in its most comprehensive sense,that marked this crucial time in the history of modern Italy? These are among the questions that will be explored in this conference. Abstracts were due 15th December 2007 to Ann Caesar (A.H.Caesar@warwick.ac.uk ) and Gabriella Romani (romaniga@shu.edu)."
19-21 March 2009 UCLA & The Getty Museum, Malibu. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "The fabrication of textiles is one of the oldest cultural technologies. Nevertheless, relatively little art historical research is being done on textiles. The objective of the proposed RSA session is to investigate the historical meanings and functions of the textile medium in early modern art and architecture. The exploration of this specific medium is meant as to contribution to a historical theory or iconology of the textile. Scholars of any discipline Abstracts and a short CV to Tristan Weddigen (weddigen@gmx.ch) were due 15 May 2008.
UNDERGROUND6-7 November 2008 Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate Center, City University of New York. "How do we perceive the underground? What lies beneath the surface? Wherein lies the significance of this metaphor? In defining the ÒundergroundÓ we have an immediate understanding of the term in its political, artistic, spatial and temporal dimensions: secret societies, the avant-garde, the unknown, the underworld. But what else constitutes the underground? Since antiquity we have been fascinated by the possibility of a separate realm that does not abide by the conventions of the known world. The underground also represents all that is hidden within the human psyche and that resists our attempts to excavate it. This conference intends to explore manifestations of the underground across all disciplines: literature, art, music, film, political science, sociology, psychology, art history, classics, philosophy, etc...Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words to (cunyunderground@gmail.com) or to the address below. Special consideration will be given to panel proposals. We will acknowledge the receipt of abstracts within 2-3 days. The deadline for submissions is August 18, 2008. You will be notified if your proposal has been accepted no later than September 17, 2008 and we would like to have confirmation from those whose submissions have been accepted no later than October 1, 2008. There is no registration fee and the conference is free to attend. Please send all questions to the above listed e-mail address.
- Anick Boyd
- c/o CUNY Graduate Center
- Ph. D. Program in Comparative Literature
- 365 Fifth Avenue
- New York, NY 1001
Held 19 January 2007. "this year's annual History of Art conference: "Assessing Boundaries: Approaching Art from the Edge". Graduate students, both MA and PhD, are invited to submit abstracts of no more than one page for twenty minute papers. Abstracts were due December 15, 2006 at the following address: karine.tsoumis@utoronto.ca.
Held 9-11 November 2007. University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. "Victorians Institute annual conference on the subject of Victorian Secrets. Papers will be welcome that address this topic from any of the specific disciplines represented in the Victorians Institute„including, but not limited to, art, history, literature, music, political science, sociology, and theology„as well as those that work across and outside of traditional disciplinary boundaries. Please send proposals of no more than 500 words were due May 31, 2007 to Dr. Albert Pionke, Department of English, 103 Morgan Hall, Box 870244, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244. Email: apionke@bama.ua.edu."
2-4 October 2008 Syracuse University, New York. "The Visible Memories Conference invites papers for competitive selection. The conference will explore the intersections between visual culture and memory studies with particular focus on the ways in which memories are manifested and experienced in visible, material, or spatial form. Examples of especially relevant and desirable research topics include: local sites of memory; memorials and archives; environmentalism and representations of nature; regional, national, or global tourism; photography or cinema; digital media; and art installations. We also welcome other research topics in similarly innovative areas...Conference Format: The conference will feature an innovative combination of events designed to facilitate conversation not only between a variety of researchers concerned with the study of visual culture and memory but also between academics and distinguished professionals in art and design, film production, and institutional archiving.
"Submission Guidelines: Submit a paper abstract electronically (500 word maximum). Include a separate cover page with paper title; author name and affiliation; and contact information. Submissions should be addressed to Dr. Anne T. Demo (atdemo@syr.edu). Deadline for abstract submission was May 1, 2008. Acceptance notification will be sent by June 1, 2008.
16-19 October 2008 American Studies Association, Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "is currently seeking complete session proposals for the ASA's 2008 annual meeting. Sessions should explore historical, theoretical, and/or methodological issues in American visual culture. They should also address the 2008 meeting theme, "Back Down to the Crossroads: Integrative American Studies in Theory and Practice." The ASA is particularly interested in work that promotes "integrative" American studies by advancing "multicultural, transnational, public and civic scholarship" or by exploring the relations, tensions, and pathways among these and other critical concepts in the field (see http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/). The meeting theme and location present an important opportunity to examine the visual dimensions of cultural interaction within the American West and Southwest and across national borders; exchanges between different forms of visual culture, such as the official and the vernacular; the relationship between the fields of art history and visual culture studies; and many other rich topics. Proposals were due January 14, 2008 to Tanya Sheehan, Chair of the VC/AH Program Committee, at 94tsheehan@bluelink.andover.edu.
Held Friday, March 7, 2008. York University, CANADA. "7th Annual Symposium, "Split Structures: Navigating the In-Between". Abstracts were due MONDAY, JANUARY 7th, 2008 to:
- york_art_history@yahoo.ca
- Attn: Symposium Committee
OR - Art History Graduate Student Association
- 256L Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts
- York University, 4700 Keele Street
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
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