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. Please note that these conferences are sorted by location of the conference.

Note on Location: The conferences on this page are being held in British Isles, ANZAC, Europe, and Everywhere Else. Hope this re-organization makes things a little clearer!

All Other Topics: British Isles, ANZAC, Europe, and Everywhere Else

ART AND AUTHENTICITY

1st November 2008 AAH New Voices Postgraduate Symposium, University of Cambridge, Newnham College. "New Voices postgraduate symposium, now in its sixth year, is organised by the Student Members' Committee of the Association of Art Historians (AAH). This one-day conference offers an opportunity for postgraduate students to present their research in an informal, supportive and stimulating atmosphere. We seek proposals for papers that examine the notion of authenticity in all historical periods and critical perspectives, across all mediums...We welcome proposals of 250 words for 20 minute papers from postgraduate students of all levels. Please send abstracts, including the full title of the paper, your name, institutional affiliation and contact details to Olga Smith (os243@cam.ac.uk) and Louise Hughes (lh1873@bristol.ac.uk) by 1st September 2008.

ART AND COMMERCE IN GREAT BRITAIN XVIII TO XXI CENTURIES

23-24 April 2009 Rennes 2 University, France. HUGE posting & no Web site (sigh). Write them and ask. "Abstracts should be sent along with a short biographical note both to Sophie Mesplede sophie.mesplede@uhb.fr and to Charlotte Gould c.gould@wanadoo.fr before July 15th, 2008.

ART AND PSYCHOLOGY

28 July-2 August, 2008 11th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, to be held in Helsinki, Finland. "Perhaps no realm of scientific inquiry experienced such rapid conception and development, or provoked such a wide range of cultural and popular responses, as did the emerging field of psychology during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From Christian Wolff's Psychologia empirica and Psychologia rationalis (1732-1734) to Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), works by early modern European scientists formed the foundation for exploration of mental and behavioral processes. Inspired by ideas about personality, emotion, perception, cognition, and relationships, countless visual artists absorbed the notions of this fledgling science. Some artists read and understood the work of specific psychologists; some adopted broad notions of interiority; others used their artistic media to explore their own personalities or those of their acquaintances. From Henry Fuseli to Felicien Rops, such artists explored the unconscious workings of the human mind, from self-expression to the revelation of universal truths. Abstracts were due 15 December to session co-chairs Michelle Facos (mfacos@indiana.edu) and Janet Rauscher (jsrausch@indiana.edu). Participants will be notified by 15 January.

ART HISTORY AND ITS GLOBAL PROVINCES

2-4 Apr 2009 Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. "This is a CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for a day-long panel to be held as part of 'Intersections', the Association of Art Historians (AAH) 35th Annual Conference 2009. Deadline for proposals: 10th November. Please limit your proposal to around 250 words, and be sure to include your name and institutional affiliation. To be selected and chaired by: Adele Tan, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (Wei.tan@courtauld.ac.uk( and Leon Wainwright, Lecturer in History of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University (L.Wainwright@mmu.ac.uk)." Ploease see the Web site for mor information.

ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS CONFERENCE [UK]

2 - 4 April 2009. University of Leeds. Go to the link to find the list of Calls for Papers. Always includes a Student Session. Deadline to apply was 14 April 2008. Check the Web site for details.

ARTIST'S WRITINGS 1750-PRESENT

6-7 June 2009. Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK. "This conference will ask what motivates artists to write, how they view the relation between their visual and textual practice, and how they use writing to manipulate or challenge the public reception and critical interpretation of their work. Challenging the myth of the visual artist as an intuitive anti-intellectual, it will demonstrate the extent and diversity of artistsÕ contributions to modern literature and criticism in various languages. It will also investigate how scholars interpret these texts: are they works of art in themselves or simply evidence about the artistÕs life and craft? Do they conceal as much as they reveal? How has the role and perception of artistsÕ writings changed over time?...Contributions are invited from art historians, literary scholars and artists. Please send proposals (max 300 words) for presentations of 20 minutes to Linda.Goddard@courtauld.ac.uk by 15 September 2008.

ASSOCIATION OF THE HISTORY OF GLASS

Held 7-13 September, 2003. Not exactly annual, but apparently at least every now and then. Plus, a unique society. Check the Web site for more information. [Well. it looks like there are several conferences upcoming for 2008! Check the Web site.]

AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ANZASA)

July 4-7, 2008. "The association holds a biennial scholarly conference in even numbered years, usually in the AVCC common week break in April or July. Organized around a theme, the program includes keynote speakers from the United States. Postgraduate students are encouraged to participate, and a workshop for them is held on the day before the conference proper, led by senior scholars." Check the Web site.

CEILING PAINTING AROUND 1700: Public and Private Devotion in the Towns of Central Europe and North Italy

16-18 October 2008 Slovenia, Ljubljana [sic]. "The conference will discuss, on interdisciplinary level, the function, manifestations and context of sacred ceiling painting in towns and cities. Besides art historians, also researchers in other branches of the humanities are kindly invited to participate, particularly those from the fields of theology and ecclesiastical history...Abstracts were due 15th April 2008 to Barbara Murovec, France Stele Institute of Art History, Scientific Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Box 306, Novi trg 2, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia, e-mail: (BaMurovec@zrc-sazu.si)." See the Web site for more informatio.

CENTER FOR ICELANDIC ART

Just had to post this--lots of stuff going on, including the link to "Iceland's first and only online art magazine".

COUNCIL FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES : CONFERENCES

Links to conferences in all areas of European studies.

CENTRE FOR STUDIES OF SURREALISM PhD CONFERENCE

24 October 2008 Sixth Annual Postgraduate Symposium, Tate Modern, London, UK. "Theme: New Perspectives on Surrealism and its Legacies. The symposium, which is open to students and academic staff, is an opportunity for 2nd and 3rd year PhD students to present a research paper of twenty minutes on a topic relating to dada, surrealism and/or its legacies. Please send proposals of no more than 500 words to:

• Clare O'Dowd: clare.o'dowd@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
• Katie Croll-Knight: katiecrollknight@hotmail.com
• Peter Kwee: pkwee@essex.ac.uk

Deadline fr proposals: 24th September 2008

CONCEPTS OF CREATIVITY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

6-7 September 2008 School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK. "...The aim of this interdisciplinary symposium is to explore ways in which we can seek to understand what it meant to be creative in the early modern period...We welcome proposals for papers from an interdisciplinary field, including cultural historians, art historians, dance historians, theatre historians, musicologists and literary scholars. Details of the call for papers are given below, and on the University of Manchester's website [above--please see]. Proposals should be sent via e-mail to: (rebecca.herissone@manchester.ac.uk) AND ALSO POSTED OR FAXED to:

• Dr Rebecca Herissone
• Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
• University of Manchester
• Coupland Street
• Manchester M13 9PL
• fax: +44 (0)161 275 4994

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WORD AND IMAGE STUDIES: WORD, IMAGE AND CENSORSHIP

7-11 July 2008 Paris, France. "These panels seek papers that examine texts or images that have been accused, prosecuted or prohibited for moral or political reasons from the seventeenth century to the present. Papers may examine topics within a specific historical, religious or political context or analyze theories and shifting definitions of morality or propaganda. Papers might consider the following questions: How did artists and writers confront, subvert or negotiate legal restrictions that defined the illicit or transgressive? What was the interaction between censored material distributed in the popular domain and uncensored works considered literature and fine art? Papers might also address how texts and images challenged the efficacy of legal definitions, while the law, in turn, made more vivid the efficacy of the subversive and forbidden. Papers should address censorship in relation to word and image studies and the conference theme "Efficacy." Proposals in French and English will be considered.

Proposals (300 words maximum) to Lauren Weingarden lweingar@mailer.fsu.edu WERE DUE 15 October. For more information about IAWIS/AIERTI International Association of Word and Image Studies / Association Internationale pour l'Etude des Rapports entre Texte et Image and the 2008 conference, "Efficacy / Efficacit?" in Paris, France (July 7-11, 2008), go to the Web site [above].

INTERNATIONAL VISUAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION

6-8 August 2008 Buenos Aires, Argentina. Theme: SPACE, TIME and IMAGE. "Scholars, researchers and practitioners of the field wishing to submit a paper are invited to send an abstract of 200-300 words DIRECTLY to panel organizers. The organizers' e-mail addresses can be found on the detailed list of more than forty panels with specific topics and abstracts that are seeking submissions. Presentations may be made in any of the three conference languages: Portuguese, Spanish or English. Submission deadline WAS May 15, 2008." For more information, please see the Web site.

INTERSECTIONS

April 2nd - 4th 2009 Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. "The 35th AAH conference will...focus on the intersections (connections, linkages, overlaps) of art history with different disciplinary, methodological, political and historical spaces. Three areas of intersection might be identified: between areas of convention and innovation within the discipline; between art history and its adjacent fields of inquiry, display and production; and between the subjects and objects of interpretative and historical practice. In this light, intersections can be understood as the convergence, however temporary or in-process, of art history's divergent values and practices...Please send session proposals to (aah09@mmu.ac.uk.) Proposals should include a session title and abstract (maximum 250 words) and full contact details of the session convenor(s). Deadline for the submission of session proposals was 14th April 2008. [Please see the Web site for more information.]

[ISLAMIC ART] COLOR IN ISLAMIC ART

2-4 November 2009 This is the Third Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium in Islamic Art, to be held at the University of Cordoba (Spain). This conference "will address the theme of color in Islamic art and civilization. The organizers Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom invite prospective speakers to submit a CV and a 250-word abstract on any aspect of this theme, ranging from the symbolic use of color to its practical applications in painting, tilework, and the like. Applications must be received on the Symposium website (http://www.islamicartdoha.org/) by 1 August 2008. Approximately 12 papers will be selected, and successful applicants will be notified by 1 November 2008. Speakers will be expected to present an illustrated 40-minute talk and a publishable text of approximately 5000 words. The sponsors will cover all travel and lodging expenses between the speakers' home and Cordoba and will provide a generous honorarium (upon acceptance of their written text) as well as a copy of the published proceedings."

[ISLAMIC ART] ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT CONFERENCE

6-9 July, 2008. Cambridge, UK. "...The Islamic Manuscript Association would like to invite submissions for papers for its annual conference on topics related to the study of Islamic manuscripts...bstracts are accepted in English and Arabic. You must specify the title of your paper. The deadline submissions was March 28th, 2008. Late proposals will not be considered. The duration of each conference presentation is 30 minutes including ten minutes of questions and answers. Please send your abstract (maximum 500 words) along with your curriculum vitae to Natalia Viola by e-mail: (natalia@islamicmanuscript.org) or by post to the [address on the Web site]."

[ISLAMIC ART] REPRESENTING ISLAM: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

5-6 September 2008 University of Manchester, UK. "We invite single-paper and full-panel proposals for the conference organized jointly by the Universities of Manchester and Surrey and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Britain. We anticipate proposals on topics emanating from the fields of Political Communication, Communication Science, Media Studies, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Social Psychology, Translation Studies, Sociolinguistics, and Modern Languages. An edited volume based on selected conference papers will be published. Panel and paper proposals were due January 31, 2008 to these two e-mail addresses:

• Oxana.Poberejnaia@manchester.ac.uk and
• Shishir.Shahnawaz@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

[ISLAMIC ART] SYM0POSIUM ON COLOR IN ISLAMIC ART

2-4 November 2009 University of Cordoba (Spain). "The organizers Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom invite prospective speakers to submit a CV and a 250-word abstract on any aspect of this theme, ranging from the symbolic use of color to its practical applications in painting, tilework, and the like...Abstracts must be received by 1 August 2008. Approximately 12 papers will be selected, and successful applicants will be notified by 1 November 2008. Speakers will be expected to present an illustrated 40-minute talk and a publishable text of approximately 5000 words. The sponsors will cover all travel and lodging expenses between the speakers' home and Cordoba and will provide a generous honorarium (upon acceptance of their written text) as well as a copy of the published proceedings. Further information will be available on the Symposium website.

MODERN INTERIORS RESEARCH CENTRE (MIRC)

Conference last held 15-16 May 2008. Hosted by the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC), Kingston University, London. Deadline for submissions was Wednesday 2 January 2008. See the Web site for more information.

PUBLIC DISORDER:POST-WW II EUROPEAN ART AND ITS PUBLICS

2-4 April 2009. Manchester, UK. Session at \"Intersections\", part of the 35th Annual Association of Art HIstorians Meeting. "This panel seeks to foster a multidisciplinary conversation on the problem of the post-WWII 'public disorder.' This necessitates crossing disciplinary boundaries in order to 1) assess the relevance of current theories of the public and counter-public spheres in relation to the art production of this period; 2) develop new models of mediation to elucidate the relationship between artistic practice and the socio-political sphere and to elaborate on the models of publicity that emerged within the specific conditions of individual countries; 3) identify intersections between post-WWII paradigms of the public and their contemporary reception and critique. It might also entail considerations of art works that deliberately disdain public aspirations to explore the realm of privacy as a potential locus of political engagement. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to the e-mail addresses by 10 November 2008: Noit Banai (Noit.Banai@Tufts.Edu); Department of Visual and Critical Studies, Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Hannah Feldman (H-feldman@northwestern.edu); Department of Art History, Northwestern University.

[SCULPTURE] TOOLS OF TRADES: ARTICULATING SCULPTURAL PRACTICE

2 - 4 April 2009 Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. "This session is part of the Association of Art Historians conference 2009. see (http://www.aah.org.uk) for full details. The huge publishing industry that has grown up around art, and the wealth of writing it has generated, often seems out of synch with the unarticulated realities of actual art making, and with what we might call the silence of the studio. This session, jointly convened by an artist and by an art historian, invites discussion of the non-verbal activities of studio practice - about the experience of different kinds of soft and hard materials, about scale, about heavy labour and repetitive craft, about acquired knowledge and experimentation. ...We welcome papers that focus on more experimental and conceptual approaches to sculpture, as well as on more traditional processes such as carving and modelling, and we encourage comparative analysis of the languages and metaphors used by different professional groups to communicate sculpture making. We also welcome collaborative as well as individual presentations. Contact: Jyrki Siukonen, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (Jyki.siukonen@kuva.fi) and Jon Wood, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (jonw@henry-moore.ac.uk). [No due date listed for abstracrs; posted 14 June 2008]

[PRINTING] SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN THE LANGUAGES AND COUNTRIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST

25-27 SEPTEMBER 2008 Leipzig, Germany. "This Symposium will cover the history of printing and publishing in all Middle Eastern languages and scripts: Arabic, Armenian, Berber, Coptic, Georgian, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Turkish, etc., anywhere in the world, as well printing in other languages in Middle Eastern countries...The working languages of the Symposium are English, French and German. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes. Proposals were due 31 January 2008, using the Registration Form for the UEAI Congress (of which this Symposium is part), available at [the Web site linked above]. As well as sending it to the Congress organisers, please copy it to the three Symposium conveners below:

• Ulrich Marzolph (Gättingen) umarzol@gwdg.de
• Geoffrey Roper (London) gjr2@cam.ac.uk
• Sara Yontan (Paris), sara.yontan@bnf.fr

[VENICE] RUSKIN, VENICE, AND 19TH CENTURY TRAVEL

25-28 September 2008 Venice : Scuola Grande di San Rocco/Venice International University. "This international conference is presented by The Ruskin Centre at Lancaster University, INCS: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, and The Department of European and Postcolonial Studies of University of Ca' Foscari Venice. It will open at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in the afternoon of 25th September 2008. On the 26th and 27th, all events will be held at the campus of the Venice International University.

"Papers and panels are welcomed from scholars working in any discipline broadly relating to John Ruskin, Venice or Cultural Travel in relation to the long nineteenth century. Suggested topics include: Cultural Tourism, Topographies, Empires & Commerce, Romantic Contexts, Architectures, Gendered Places, Religious Cultures, Paintings, Museums & Exhibitions, Restoration & Conservation, Photographies, Education & Access. Complete papers of 2,000 to 2,500 words in length will be available in advance at the password protected section of the conference website, currently under construction. Discussions following several 5 to 7 minute paper presentations will be in English. Abstracts WERE DUE 31st January 2008 to: Lauren Proctor, Ruskin Centre Administrator E-mail: l.s.proctor@lancaster.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1524 592450
Limited, preferential accommodation will be available at the Venice International University's campus on the Isola di San Servolo. Numbers will be strictly limited to 120 delegates, so early booking is recommended.

VISUAL CONFLICTS: ART HISTORY AND THE FORMATION OF POLITICAL MEMORY

7 March 2009 University College London, UK. "At a time when issues concerning memory formation and the visual mediation of conflict are attracting a great deal of attention, we wish to explore ways in which visual culture has engaged with armed conflict and politically-motivated acts of violence of all types. The conference aims to provide a platform for developing links between issues of memory formation, the politics of violence and visual representation. Working with the analytical framework of the discipline of art history, we nevertheless wish to consider the entire field of visual representation, to include, for instance, documentary film, reportage as well as images produced by individual agents but that were made public in one way or another.

"We wish to consider questions such as how pre-existing narratives of conflict condition the way in which we derive meaning from representations of politically motivated acts of violence and to explore the implications for art historical inquiry posed by shifts in imaging technologies and of the experience of war itself. While this call for papers is open to any suggestions that engage with this topic, we are particularly interested in receiving proposals that challenge received ways of thinking about the relationship between visual culture and the construction of narratives of conflict. Abstracts of no more than 250 words, for 20 minutes presentations, from academics and postgraduate students, should be submitted to both conference organisers by 1 November 2008:
Paul Fox (paul.fox@ucl.ac.uk)
Gil Pasternak (g.pasternak@ucl.ac.uk)

VISUAL, MATERIAL AND PRINT CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND

26-27 June 2008 University of Limerick, IRELAND. "Taking a broad view of the nineteenth century, panels are being constituted from, but not limited to, the following areas: history; art history; English literature; geography; architecture; politics; folklore; urban and rural development; photographic images; film; LitrÕocht na Gaeilge; Gaeltacht; cultural nationalism; poetry; the Irish novel; diaries; letters; newspapers; demography; diaspora; gender; childhood; landscape; maps; settlement; education; work; religion; travel writing; the stage Irishman; music. The conference organisers welcome proposals for panels and individual papers. Proposals for roundtable discussions and poster sessions are equally welcome. The deadline for submissions was 15 February 2008.

WRITINGS ON ART 2: DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK

20-21 June 2008 An international conference to be held at the Institut du Monde Anglophone, University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle. "We invite proposals for papers that examine the modes by which writing on art approaches the work of art (technical analysis, reference, allusion, the various tropes resorted to), and the pragmatic implications of such writing (the construction of a context for the interpretation, evaluation, and reception of works of art). What is at stake in writing on art? How are works of art to be described? To what ends, and for what readership? Focusing on the various modes of art writing and on its repercussions on the art work, we shall seek new ways of assessing the impact of literary and critical practice upon the production of art (in painting, photography, architecture, gardens, etc.) and upon taste in the English-speaking world.

Proposals in English or French should be sent to: Anne-Pascale Bruneau-Rumsey, University of Paris X-Nanterre (bruneau@u-paris10.fr) and Laurent Chatel, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne (laurent.chatel@wanadoo.fr) and were due November 1st 2007.

Black Moon Japanese art and culture.