Resources in Art History for Graduate Students

SYMPOSIA FOR DEVOTEES OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ART AND CULTURE

This site will include postings for conferences and societies working until about 1820.

Remember to check the Symposia page for more general conferences related to this area.

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

27-28 March 2008. Portland, OR. Annual, usually March. See the Web site for more information. Here's a CFP for a session on "The Artist as Collector in the Eighteenth Century. This session will advance the study of the history of collecting by probing issues associated with the under-explored role of artists as collectors, specifically the unique relationship between their artistic identities and their own art collections. Artists frequently amassed notable and multi-faceted collections, which have been historically overshadowed by more aristocratic collections as well as artists' own professional pursuits. Their collections functioned on both public and private levels as sources of artistic inspiration, symbols of status and taste, and pedagogic resources. Their collections asserted their aspirations, talents and predilections, and reflected the vicissitudes of the market. While the history of collecting is a well-researched (though still developing) field, the history of artist-collectors, with a few notable exceptions (e.g., Rubens), remains largely overlooked. This panel will address issues regarding complex and often contradictory roles played by artist-collectors in the eighteenth century. Topics may include: various functions of artists' collections; artists' collections in relation to others; composition and conscious fashioning of artists' collections; use of the collection as a tool for self-promotion; artists' tastes and how they informed their collecting; rivalry among artist-collectors; use of artists' provenance in building a history of quality and taste; the public's perception and interpretation of the collection; effects of art market supply and demand; artists' attributions of works in their collections; and the role of artists' collections in the development of museums. Art, politics, economics, and social issues are among the subjects bought together in this session, making it ideal for this interdisciplinary conference. This panel will represent artists of multiple nationalities and embrace a variety of methodologies and types of collections. Please send paper proposals by September 25, 2007, to Leslie Scattone, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, lscattone@mfah.org, and Kaylin Weber, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, kweber@mfah.org.

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES: Northeast Region

Please see the Web site for more information.

BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

3-5 January 2008 St. Hugh's, Oxford. See the Web site for more information.

CENTER FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

Held May, 2007. Annual. Prizes and fellowships, too. Please see the Web site.

EAST-CENTRAL AMERICAN SOCIETY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

Held 26-29 October 2006. Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Conference Theme: Civil Conflict in the Eighteenth Century. All proposals were due 10 June 2006. For more information, see the conference website [ABOVE] Or contact:

• Elizabeth R. Lambert
• 717-337-6763
• elambert@gettysburg.edu

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NOW: RECENT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Held 23-24 June 2006. Sponsored by the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York. "An international conference for postgraduates and academics in the early stages of their career...Proposals to Gary Day (gday@dmu.ac.uk) were due 31 March 2006. Please address any queries about the conference to Ildiko Csengei (ic223@soton.ac.uk).

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES CONFERENCES

This is a list of conferences for 18th-century studies and related areas from the Web site for American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.

FORTUNE & FATALITY: PERFORMING THE TRAGIC IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE (1553-1715)

Held 20 October 2006. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. "The Interdisciplinary Group for Seventeenth-Century French Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York invites paper proposals for its annual student conference...Papers should be 15-20 minutes in length. [Please see the Web site for more information.] ...The deadline for submissions was 14 July 2006. Please send proposals to Desmond Hosford (dhosford@gc.cuny.edu) and Charles Wrightington (chasgreg@msn.com)

HISTORIANS OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Conferences are held as part of CAA and annual meeting for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Also awards the Dora Wiebenson Graduate Student Prize for "the best graduate student paper presented during the previous calendar year at a scholarly conference or as a sponsored lecture. HECAA is sponsoring a session for new scholars at CAA 2008. Topic open -- any subject on the long eighteenth century welcome. Please encourage graduate students and recent PhD's to submit proposals!" Send abstract and title to Melissa Hyde, mhyde@ufl.edu by May 31. See the Web site for more information.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

The last congress was held in Montpellier in 2007. International congresses take place every 4 years.

NORTHEAST AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

25-28 October 2007 Dartmouth College,New Hampshire. Part of the NEASECS 2007 Annual Meeting. Topic: Myth vs. Reality: When Eighteenth Century French Idealists Encountered Eighteenth Century America. "Papers that address the experiences of French emigres, or travelers and writers who visited colonial, Revolutionary or early Republican America. Topics may come from a cultural, social or political perspective and may explore enthusiasm for, or disenchantment with, the French Enlightenment's myth of America." For more information, see the Web site or contact:

• Evelyn Spratt, Ph.D.
• The College of Notre Dame of Maryland
• 4701 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210
• E-mail: espratt@ndm.edu, or, moorea@calverthall.com

SOUTH-CENTRAL SOCIETY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

21-23 February 2008. The deadline for proposals is August 1. Check the Web site for more information.

Eighteenth-Century Resources A
list compiled and maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University, Newark.

A Guide to Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture Another source that, if
followed to its illogical conclusion, with take you to Baroque Rome and then back here.