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

18-21 March 2010. Albuquerque, NM. Annual, usually March. See the Web site (and tiresome pdf)or more information. Proposals were due 15 September 2008.

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES: Northeast Region

Held 5-8 November 2009. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Proposals were due 15 June 2009. Please see the Web site for more information.

BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

5-7 January 2010 St. Hugh's, Oxford. Theme: Time and Space. Deadline for submission was Saturday 26th September 2009. See the Web site for more information.

BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES: EVENTS

Many conferences all over the world.

CENTER FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY

12-14 May 2010. Annual. Prizes and fellowships, too. Proposals are due Friday, January 8, 2010. The topic for 2010 is "The Forms of Life." Please see the Web site for important application information.

EAST-CENTRAL AMERICAN SOCIETY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

8-11, 2009. Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Conference Theme: Sacred and the Secular in the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century. All proposals were due 15 March 2009. For more information, see the conference website.

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND ANNUAL CONFERENCE

25-26 June 2010. Somewhere in Eire..."Proposals are invited for papers (in Irish, English or French) on any aspect of eighteenth-century Ireland, including its history, literature, languages and culture. Proposals are particularly welcome on cultural transfers and the circulation of knowledge between Ireland, Britain and France in the age of Enlightenment. Themes on this subject may include: print, science, literature, philosophy, economy, religion and politics. (See the separate Call for Papers for further details) Postgraduate students are particularly encouraged to offer papers. Proposals for twenty-minute papers should be submitted (preferably by email) to the conference organiser before Friday, 29 March 2010. Proposals should include the title of the paper and a 250-word abstract. Prospective speakers will be notified of a decision by 30 April 2010.

• Dr David Fleming,
• Department of History,
• University of Limerick,
• Limerick, Ireland
• E-mail: david.fleming@ul.ie

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 Conference is long over but this painting is too fantastic to drop...]

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." There is also the Mary Vidal Memorial Fund for "for modest subventions...intended to defray costs associated with research travel, conferences in which the recipients are presenting, or publication permission fees." 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. What a pallid Web site.

NORTHEAST AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

Held 5-8 November 2009. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Proposals were due 15 June 2009. Please see the Web site for more information. Apparently, same as the AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES: Northeast Region (above).

SOUTH-CENTRAL SOCIETY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

25-27 2010. Salt Lake City, Utah. The deadline for panel proposals was August 1, 2009; for individual papers, November 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.