Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
SYMPOSIA OF RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE
INTEREST
2010 looks to be a banner year for Renaissance conferences. Participate! Also: be sure to take a look at other sites
here that offer conferences where your topic might be accomodated, such as Italy;
Symposia in North America and Symposia everywhere else.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR NETHERLANDIC STUDIES
?? June 2010. University of California, Los Angeles. Check the Web site for details on due dates, etc.
ARIZONA CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES
11-13 February 2010. in Tempe, Arizona. Annual--held usually in February. Proposals due 9 p.m., October 16,
2009 (MST). For more information on this or future conferences, check the Web site. [Folks--why not announce this
on some of the many related list-servs in time to alert others who might be interested?]
ART, AGENCY, AND LIVING PRESENCE IN THE EARLY MODERN
WORLD
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "In the early modern period
people often responded to paintings, sculptures and buildings as if they were alive: the artworks seemed to be moving,
speaking or looking at the beholder. In this session, we welcome papers that are dealing with this type of response in terms
of agency: that is, by considering works of art not as signs or codes referring to something outside themselves, but as agents
acting upon the viewer...We are welcoming case studies as well as contributions that are more methodologically or theoretically
oriented...Abstracts were due 15 April 2009 to Minou Schraven (m.schraven@hum.leidenuniv.nl)
and to Elsje van Kessel (e.van.kessel@hum.leidenuniv.nl).
ARTISTIC EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE NETHERLANDS AND ITALY
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "Cultural historians
have explored the lively interaction between the Netherlands and Italy, but much remains to be discovered about specific
links and their significance. We are seeking papers for a session or series of sessions on relations between Dutch and
Flemish artists, patrons, dealers, agents, critics and their Italian counterparts in the period ca. 1450-1700. Topics
may include social interaction and its impact on the arts, the marketing of Northern art in Italy, the impact of Northern
prints and other prototypes on Italian art and artists, the connoisseurship and collecting of Northern art by Italians,
and/or vice versa to all of the above. This session is sponsored by the Historians of Netherlandish Art (see:
www.hnanews.org). In reviewing proposals, priority will be given to HNA members. Proposals were due MAY 1st to the
session co-chairs:
Stephanie Dickey
Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art
Queen's University
dickeys@queensu.ca
Amy Golahny
Professor of Art History
Lycoming College
golahny@lycoming.edu
ARTISTS AND THEIR
COMMUNITIES IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "This panel will
explore the various forms of association that defined artistic communities as well as forms of art production and
consumption...Please send a 150 word abstract of your paper (preferably in Microsoft Word), along with contact
information and affiliation to the organizers, due April 25th 2009. (reply to: karine.tsoumis@utoronto.ca and
alex.hoare@utoronto.ca)." See Web site for more information.
AT HOME IN EARLY MODERN BOLOGNA
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "In recent scholarship
on the early modern domestic interior, the rich social history and material culture of the Bolognese home c. 1400-1700
tends to be overlooked. This session aims to bring together historians and art historians working on early modern
Bologna to focus on the dynamics of family life 'at home'. Ideally, the session will combine papers on the social history
of the family in Bologna, including case studies of individual families, with papers on the material culture of the
Bolognese domestic interior, including studies of furniture, ceramics, table-ware, jewelery, textiles, paintings, and
prints. Papers on the architecture of the home and the nature of domestic space are also welcome. Abstracts were due May
11, to Erin Campbell, Dept. of History in Art, University of Victoria (erinjc@finearts.uvic.ca).
ATTENDING TO EARLY MODERN WOMEN: CONFLICT, CONCORD
5-7 November 2009. Somehere in Maryland, looks like. Call for Workshop Proposals Deadline was October 1,
2008. See the Web site for more information.
BETWEEN ACCADEMIA AND BOTTEGA: DRAWING IN THE LATE RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "At the end of the
sixteenth century the practice of drawing displayed various possibilities for approaching the visible. After being
theoretically discussed by Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccari as the essence of every artistic invention, the function
of drawing as a handcraft and a method to acquire knowledge of the visible world became more important. This panel aims
to analyze this process by focusing on treatises and on documents concerning the statutes of academic learning as well
as on the artistic habits in the workshop of drawing based on living models in Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands
around 1600. Papers that present new interpretations and points of view on workshop practice and the use of drawing in
the working process on the one hand, and the status of drawing as an autonomous artistic expression on the other hand,
would be welcome. Objectives may include topics on the use and reuse of models in both work of art and artistic education,
drawings as strategies of artistic perception of the real, drawing as laical practice, or the use of drawing for books
dealing with naturalistic phenomena and natural science. Abstracts were due May 15, 2009 to:
Dr. Claudia Steinhardt-Hirsch, Institut fuer Kunstgeschichte,
Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz, claudia.steinhardt-hirsch@uni-graz.at
CIRCA 1510 TO 2010: GIORGIONE - SEBASTIANO - TITIAN
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "The 500th anniversary
of Giorgione's death is an appropriate moment to reconsider the extraordinary innovations in Venetian painting that
culminated in the mature works of the master from Castelfranco and the early, still contested oeuvres of the "due
eccellenti suoi creati," Sebastiano and Titian. The 2006 Bellini*Giorgione*Titian exhibitions in Vienna and Washington,
as well as the 2008 Sebastiano retrospective in Rome and Berlin, have provided the opportunity to juxtapose many works
and re-evaluate these developments. This session welcomes papers that address the contributions of these masters, and
the dialogue among them, in seminal works painted between 1506-1514. Abstracts to Jonathan Unglaub:
(unglaub@brandeis.edu) were due May 7, 2009.
CONCEPT AND CONTEXT OF VERONESE'S DECORATION AT SAN SEBASTIANO
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "San Sebastiano in
Venice presents a unique general concept by Paolo Veronese around 1550. Covering almost each part of the inside, ceiling
and wall paintings as well as the extensive fresco program are unusual in their composition. Moreover, the ceiling
designs and the frescoes in the gallery reveal an innovation. Hence the interior of the church is related to the new
rooms of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, completed approximately at the same time. Therefore Veronese implanted for the
first time profane principles in the equipment of a church. The proposed panel...will work on the contexts of the inside
of San Sebastiano. It is important to ask if veronese biblical themes in their unusual presentation are related to
concepts of pre- or anti-reformationist concepts of art theory and image theology. The liturgical and ceremonial use of
the church is also not yet clarified. Finally it is to ask, how the side chapels (eg Cappella Grimani) are integrated to
the pictorial concept of the whole church. In this context the relationship between the artist and the donators is a
matter of interest. Papers may be proposed and given either in English or Italian. Abstracts were due to Kilian Heck
[heck@kunst.uni-frankfurt.de] and Philipp Zitzlsperger [philipp.zitzlsperger@culture.hu-berlin.de] May 22nd.
CONVERSOS AND MORISCOS IN SPAIN AND BEYOND
16-18 June 2010 Fifth International CONVERSO and MORISCO Studies Conference, University of Alcala. "Conference papers
will examine the Converso and Morisco experience in Spain and Portugal, in their empires, and in the diaspora communities
of the Mediterranean...As previously, the aims of the conference are to bring together an international and multi-disciplinary
group of scholars to examine not only Converso and Morisco topics but also the question of social identity...Send 250-word
abstracts in English or Spanish to: kingram3@slu.edu. Deadline for abstracts: Friday January 29, 2010.
Kevin Ingram
Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus
28003 Madrid, Spain
Phone: 00 34 91 554 58 58
Fax: 00 34 91 554 62 02
E-mail: kingram3@slu.edu
DESIRE, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "Sexuality and desire
are notions that traditionally have provoked uneasiness to art historians. Even though many works are loaded with
obvious sexual connotations, art historical interpretations often continue to be vague and evasive. Despite the abundance
of records of sodomy, only relatively slowly works of art are being acknowledged to be homosexual in nature: either in
terms of the author's identity or the connotations of their style and content. The purpose of this call is twofold. It
invites the re-examination of Italian Renaissance art: specific works, artists, contexts, where sexuality has been overseen,
as well the attitude of modern art historians: the way they have approached artists, particular works, or the period as
whole. Methodological approaches, such as psychoanalysis and gender studies, are particularly welcome, as well as
contributions which will enable us to clarify the notion of gender identity, and thus sexuality/homosexuality, as working
tools for a more informed discussion of Renaissance art in Italy. Abstracts were due no later than May 18, 2009 to:
- Dr. Berthold Hub, ETH Zurich, berthold.hub@gta.arch.ethz.ch, and
- Dr. Angeliki Pollali, The American College of Greece, apollali@acgmail.gr
EYEWITNESSING THE EXTREME: Early Modern Martyrdom and the Status of the Image
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "This panel offers an
occasion for a wide-ranging exploration and analysis of the representation of martyrdom in the early modern world.
Post-tridentine reflections on martyrdom not only revolved around hagiographical questions but also the status of the
image and art theory in general. The panel seeks to analyse these interdependences with a focus on the early modern, but
not exclusively Christian world...We welcome proposals from different disciplines and interests. Please submit a 150-word
abstract for a 20-minute paper, plus a short CV. Include your current affiliation, email address and institutional
contact information and send the proposal to both organizers. Proposal deadline was May 3rd, 2009.
Organizers:
Carolin Behrmann, The Getty Research Institute, cbehrmann@getty.edu
Elisabeth Priedl, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, e.priedl@akbild.ac.at
HISTORIANS OF NETHERLANDISH ART
Information about all conferences they sponsor, plus links to other announcements.
IMAGES OF CORPORAL MORTIFICATION AND CORRUPTION, MARTYRDOM AND MERCY: 1250-1550
15-17 April 2010. Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland. "This
session will explore images which illustrate the mortification of the flesh, bodily corruption, disfigurement, disease,
decay, physical degradation and death. Such images have been used to convey messages of strength, the triumph of faith
over fear and pain, the incorruptibility of the spirit, salvation, celebration and optimism. Images of suffering
are often coupled with those of compassion and protection. Issues surrounding the role of gender within images of
martyrdom and mercy will be investigated. Papers are invited which engage with related imagery (e.g. depictions of
justice, punishment, vengeance, restraint and clemency) from both religious and secular contexts and which explore the
relationship between text and image. We encourage submissions illustrating examples from a wide range of media (panel
and wall painting, manuscript illumination, sculpture, architectural structures and contexts, decorated household,
religious and civic objects and textiles) and originating from a variety of geographical locations.
Session convenors: Emily Jane Anderson (University of Glasgow) and Robert Gibbs (University of Glasgow).
E.Anderson.1@research.gla.ac.uk
R.Gibbs@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk
Abstracts of 250 words (max.) are invited by 10 November 2009 for the above session. The abstract should also
include your name, the title of your paper, your academic affiliation and full contact details. Papers will be a
maximum of 30 minutes in length.
LANDSCAPE AS GENRE IN THE
SERENISSIMA FROM THE XIV TO THE XVII CENTURY: Iconography, Context and Taste
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "The purpose of this
panel is to examine the evolution of landscape painting, drawing and engraving from the Quattrocento to the end of the
Seicento in Venice and its territories. Abstracts were due before April 20 to:
Christophe Brouard (Christophe.Brouard@univ-paris1.fr) and
Laura de Fuccia (Laura.De-Fuccia@univ-paris1.fr).
[LAUGHTER] DEFINING COMMUNITY THROUGH LAUGHTER IN EARLY MODERN ART
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "At the theoretical
level, comic art may be divided into two forms: the socially inclusive--where we smile uncomfortably at ourselves--or
the socially rejective--where we "point the finger of scorn" censoriously at others. In practice, of course, these forms
may overlap or intersect. We propose a panel to examine the ways early modern artists have used humor
to galvanize communities, to ostracize people through ridicule, or even ambiguously promote both views simultaneously.
Abstract to both organizers, Sandra Cheng at schengnyc@gmail.com and Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard at
kac9b@mindspring.com were due April 29th.
THE MATERIALITY OF EARLY MODERN PRINTS
10-13 February 2010. College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL. "Ephemeral and cost-effective, early
modern prints (ca. 1450-1700) offered a greater diversity of subject matter and more uses than paintings or sculpture.
Printed pilgrimage souvenirs, scientific instruments and even erotica survive with signs of heavy use. Prints were
embellished, altered, inscribed, collected and displayed in numerous ways throughout the early modern period, a versatility
recently emphasized in major publications and exhibitions including David Landau and Peter Parshall's "The Renaissance
Print" and Susan Dackerman's "Painted Prints." This CAA session examines the contemporary treatment of prints as physical
objects, whether on paper, printed in books or pasted onto other supports (i.e. albums, cloth, wood, or walls). While
some talks may touch on the history of collections, presentations focusing on surviving prints with visible
signs of use, misuse, or alternate states will be particularly apt...Application deadline was May 8, 2009. Contact:
Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Prints and Drawings, 111 South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL,
60603, (skarrschmidt@artic.edu); and Lia Markey, Princeton University Art Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings,
Princeton, NJ 08544, (lmarkey@princeton.edu). Please feel free to send applications via e-mail, including a two-page,
double-spaced abstract, CV, and letter of interest. For more conference details, visit:
(http://conference.collegeart.org/2010/).
NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE
STUDIES
11-13 March 2010. Sarasota, Florida. Biennial. The deadline for abstracts was October 1, 2009.
[N. B.:An excellent conference! Highly recommended by the editor!] For more information see the
Website and contact:
- Nova Myhill
- Division of Humanities
- New College of Florida
- 5700 N. Tamiami Trail
- Sarasota FL 34243
NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE
Held 30-31, October 2009. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. "The focus of the Conference will be how
developing technologies - whether the printing press, navigation, scientific instruments, importation of new materials,
etc. - changed, challenged, and reinforced concepts of value and judgment in the Renaissance. Questions around
authority and trustworthiness emerge across disciplines as previous standards of taste and value no longer apply.
We also seek papers that draw a comparison between these Renaissance concerns and those in our contemporary age of
technological change. Underlying the entire conference will be a consideration of how the idea of "the Renaissance"
is itself a term affecting value and judgment. Abstracts were due August 1 2009 to [Jodi Cranston] cranston@bu.edu
with cc: to blues@bu.edu
NEWBERRY LIBRARY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
21-23 January, 2010.Annual. "Organized and run by graduate students,the conference is
interdisciplinary in scope; papers are invited in any area of medieval or Renaissance studies. It provides participants
the opportunity to present their work in a collegial scholarly forum, to meet students from other institutions and
disciplines who will be their future colleagues, and to become familiar with the Newberry Library and its resources."
Deadline: October 15, 2009. For more information, see the Web site.
ORNAMENT AND DEVOTION IN EARLY MODERN CHURCH ARCHITECTURE
8-10 April 2010. Venice, Italy. Renaissance Society of America Conference. "This session would like to examine
this issue further by inviting papers that deal with the continuities, ruptures and changes in the practices
and debates concerning ornament in religious architecture. We are particularly interested in the following questions: to
what extent were Early Modern discussions on ornament in religious architecture indebted to Early Christian or Medieval
ideas? Do the religious struggles of the 16th and 17th centuries introduce new concepts and uses of ornament? Are
views on ornament in religious architecture consistently related to devotion, piety and religiosity, or do they become
dissociated from religion? Which functions, meanings or agencies are ascribed to architectural ornament and splendour in
a religious context? Are religious views of ornament conceptualized, and if so, in which discourses? Or are they shaped
by devotional and other practices? Abstracts to both MaartenDelbeke (maarten.delbeke@ugent.be) and Anne-Franoise Morel
(annefrancoise.morel@ugent.be) were due 1st of May.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE
Held April 30-2 May 2009. See the Web site for more information.
PATRISTIC, MEDIEVAL, AND
RENAISSANCE STUDIES CONFERENCE
16-18 October 2009. Villanova University. Please visit *the Web site* for further details.
PICTORIAL SPACE IN EARLY MODERN VENICE
8-10 April 2010. Venice, ITALY. "Since the Renaissance, the identity of early modern Venetian painting
is mostly defined by the terms of color and colorism. Instead of reinforcing the modernist idea that flat color is opposed to
a perspectival representation of space based on disegno, this panel intends to explore the possibilities and limits of a
coloristic or painterly construction of space and its supposed Venetian specificity. This session focuses not only on the
historical development of techniques for the construction pictorial space, but also deals with the interactions between
represented and real spaces...Abstracts were due before 1 May 2009. Please, consult the RSA website for practical
information
[above]. Organizers:
Stefan Neuner (neuner@khist.uzh.ch)
Tristan Weddigen (tristan.weddigen@khist.uzh.ch)
Institute of Art History
University of Zurich
http://www.khist.unizh.ch
PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE FORUM
16-17 April 2010. Annual. Please see the Web site for more information.
PRINTING GREEK MEDICINE IN
VENICE IN THE RENAISSANCE
8-10 April 2010 RSA conference, Venice, Italy. "This CFP focuses on the printing of Greek medicine in Venice,
specifically the search, production, circulation, and collection of books in the milieu of scholars and printers. Papers
should be devoted to the collections from which the manuscripts used by printers came, the networks through which they
were obtained, possibly also the commission from which they resulted or the programs of which they were a part, so as to
widen the perspective and to contribute to a reconstruction of the whole milieu at the origin of these editions: the
scholars, their collections, their contacts, the copyists working for them and sometimes with them, their programmes
and their attempts to compensate for the lacunas of the text availability, and any other element that contributed to
the printing of Greek medicine in Venice." Contact:
Alain TOUWAIDE
Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, and Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
Washington DC
Phone # 1-202-633-0967
Fax # 1-202-786-2563
Email: touwaida@si.edu
REAPPRAISING THE ROLE OF ILLUSIONISM IN EARLY MODERN PAINTING
8-10 April 2010 RSA conference, Venice, Italy. "In 1960 the late Ernst Gombrich stated that ...the true miracle of
the language of art is not that it enables the artist to create the illusion of reality. It is that under the hands of a great
master the image becomes translucent (Art and Illusion). The Albertian conception of a painting as a window looking onto a
studied version of the natural world meant that painting could be both truthful and deceptive in its imitation of nature. In
this session, we hope to address the ways in which artists question or confirm the role of sight in the verification of truth.
Papers might address artistic strategies (e.g., trompe loeil) that call attention to the functions or defects of viewers
perceptions, or depict themes of vision, sight, deception, or the image as representative of truth; given the
location of the conference, Venetian topics are particularly sought. Abstracts to both organizers were due Friday,
April 11.
Erin Benay & Kandice Rawlings
Rutgers University
ebenay@marlboro.edu & krawlings@gmail.com
REASSESSING MARSILIO FICINO'S LEGACY
8-10 April 2010 RSAA conference, Venice, Italy. "Recent editions, translation and critical investigations of
Marsilio Ficino's texts have profoundly changed our understanding of this scholar's thought, sources and legacy. First
hand knowledge of Ficino's Platonic Theology and his commentaries of Plato's dialogue, in addition, have contributed to
rethink the problem of Renaissance "Neoplatonism" as a whole. This recent scholarly work, however, has not sufficiently
adequately acknowledge Ficino's pivotal role in the transmission of Plato's thought to Early Modern Europe. This panel
invites scholars to reassess the problem of Ficino's Nachleben from a documentary and critical point of view. In
particular, scholars are invited to address issues such as how Ficino's texts circulated in XVI century Italy and Europe?
Who translated these texts into local vernaculars and in what kind of contexts? What were the purposes of these
translations and vulgarizations? Abstracts to
Dario Brancato (dbrancat@alcor.concordia.ca) were due May 15th.
RELIGION IN THE HISPANIC BAROQUE: THE FIRST ATLANTIC
CULTURE AND ITS LEGACY
12-14 May 2010 . The Foresight Centre, Liverpool, UK. Very long description--check the detailed Web
site. "Proposals were due 30th September 2009."
RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
6 February 2010. Annual, about the same time every year. See the Web site for full information.
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA
"Since 1954, the Renaissance Society of America has been the leading organization in the Americas for the
interdisciplinary study of the period 1300-1650 in Western history."
RETHINKING EARLY MODERN PRINT
CULTURE
15-17 October 2010 An international and interdisciplinary conference at The Centre for Reformation and
Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. "The view that early modernity
saw the transformation of European societies into cultures of print has been widely influential in literary, historical,
philosophical, and bibliographical studies of the period. We invite papers seeking to explore questions of production and reception that have always been
at the core of the historiography of print, developing a more refined sense of the complex roles played by various agents
and institutions. But we especially encourage submissions that probe the boundaries of our subject, both chronologically
and conceptually: did print culture have a clear beginning? How is the idea of a culture of print complicated by the
continued importance of manuscript circulation (as a private and commercial phenomenon)? How did print reshape or
reconfigure audiences? And what was the place of orality in a world supposedly dominated by print textuality? What new
forms of chirography and spoken, live performances did print enable, if any?...We invite proposals for conference papers
of 20 minutes and encourage group-proposals for panels of three papers. Alternative formats such as workshops and roundtables
will also be considered. Abstracts of 250 words can be submitted electronically on the conference website(linked above).
The deadline for submissions is 15 December 2009. All questions ought to be addressed to the conference organizers,
Gregoire Holtz (French, University of Toronto) and Holger Schott Syme (English, University of Toronto), at
(printconference@gmail.com).
SACRED AND PROFANE IN THE
EARLY MODERN HISPANIC WORLD
16-17 October 2009. Indianapolis Museum of Art and Indiana University, Bloomington. "We are seeking abstracts
for papers to be presented at this two-day interdisciplinary conference centered on religiosity in the Hispanic
world from 1492-1680. Submissions should represent the fields of literature, art, religion, politics and/or history. The
symposium will coincide with the opening of the Indianapolis Museum of Art's special exhibition, Sacred Spain: Art and
Belief in the Spanish World, which examines the religious visual culture of 17th-century Spain and its American colonies
through the lens of belief and its lived experience...Proposals were due May 15, 2009 to Prof. Steven Wagschal (swagscha@indiana.edu)
and Prof. Giles Knox (gknox@indiana.edu)." For more information, see the Web site.
SHIPS AND NAVAL IMAGERY IN RENAISSANCE ART
8-10 April 2010 RSAA conference, Venice, Italy. "Ships in all epochs since Antiquity have played important roles in
European art...One or two panels will explore what impact ships had on art produced in Early Modern Europe. Questions to be
considered include: How did nautical imagery mirror war or peaceful times? How and where did ships serve for the propagandistic
use of rulers and powerful persons? Was there a "renaissance" of antique ship types or do medieval images and
contemporary ship designs dominate Renaissance art production? In what ways is the ship a symbol of the "Age of Discovery",
economic power, struggle and war? Possible topics from architecture and sculpture as well as painting and the graphic arts
include: the "Ship of State" and shipwrecks, fountains with naval imagery and "ship monuments" in their relationship to
history and politics, economics, literature and philosophy. Abstracts were due April 30, 2009 to:
Dr. Nicole Hegener, Institut fuer Kunst- und Bildgeschichte,
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, nicole.hegener@culture.hu-berlin.de and
Dr. George Gorse, Art & Art History Department, Pomona College,
Claremont, CA, 91711 ggorse@pomona.edu
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SOCIETY CONFERENCE 2009
14-17 Oct 2010 Montreal, Canada. "The call for papers will be released in December 2009."
SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES (UK)
Held 16-19 April 2009. Biennial Conference. To be held at the Royal Holloway University of London. UK.
Proposals were due 31 October 2008. See the Web site for more information.
SOCIETY FOR REFORMATION RESEARCH
Held 28-30 May 2009. Annual? Who knows!!
SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE ART CONFERENCE
Held 6-8 March 2008. Kansas City, Missouri. The deadline for abstracts was December 1, 2007. This is the same as
the South-Central Renaissance Conference (see below). Except these guys don't update their Web site.
SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE STUDIES (UK)
16-18 July 2010 University of York, UK. Annual. Headquartered in London. Proposals (max. 400
words) are welcome from both established scholars and postgraduates and were dueFriday 25 September 2009
to the conference organizer:
Prof William Sherman
Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies
University of York
Heslington YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
E-mail: ws505@york.ac.uk
SOUTH CENTRAL RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE
18-20 March 2010. Annual. Corpus Christi, Texas. The deadline for abstracts was December 1, 2009.
Check the Web site for more information. Same as the SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE ART CONFERENCE, looks like. Note that
they offer travel fellowships for graduate students. Please see the Web site for more information.
TERRAFIRMA TIES: tracing the Venetian state
8-10 April 2010 RSA conference, Venice, Italy. "Did the Venetian terraferma mean anything beyond political
administration and financial obligations? The existing historiography has been swamped by attempts to define the early
modern Venetian state and to outline its drive towards efficient organisation. This interdisciplinary panel will present
new work on the personal, social and cultural ties within the territory. The focus will be on connections and networks
which encompassed Venice and towns or cities of the mainland...Abstracts to Gabriele Neher
(gabriele.neher@nottingham.ac.uk or Jane Stevens Crawshaw janecrawshaw@gmail.com) were due 1 May 2009.
TRAVEL IN THE RENAISSANCE
8-10 April 2010 RSA conference, Venice, Italy. "Papers are sought that address the discourse of travel, identity
and the individual in the Renaissance. We seek papers about travel, travelers, pilgrimages, cartography, etc.. We would like
to see papers from a wide range of theoretical and cultural perspectives...lease submit a 150-word abstract for a 20-minute
paper, plus a one-page CV. Submissions will only be accepted if pasted in the body of an e-mail message (regretfully, no
attachment will be opened). Proposals to the organizer Cristina Perissinotto, cperissi@uottawa.ca. with the subject line
"Venice RSA", were due May 3rd.
UNIVERSITY
OF TEXAS AT TYLER CONFERENCE ON CLASSICAL, MEDIEVAL, AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES
Held 22 March 2008. Annual? One of the worst Web sites ever--seldom updated in time for submissions;
you ask them why. For more information, please attempt to see the Web site.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLEGE AT WISE
MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE
24-26 September 2009. Wise, Virginia. For more information, please visit the website.
UTOPIA IN THE RENAISSANCE
8-10 April 2010 RSAA conference, Venice, Italy. "Papers are sought that address the topics of utopia, imaginary
cities, pre-planned cities and other imaginary places in the Renaissance. These spaces can be physical, mental, political,
cultural and spiritual...Please submit a 150-word abstract for a 20-minute paper, plus a one-page CV. Submissions will only
be accepted if pasted in the body of an e-mail message (regretfully, no attachment will be opened). Please include your e-mail
address and institutional contact information and send the proposal to the organizer Cristina Perissinotto,
(cperissi@uottawa.ca), with the subject line "Venice RSA", due May 3rd.
THE VISION OF ARCHITECTURE IN RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENTS: (15th-16th
Centuries): A Comparative Assessment
8-10 April 2010 Venice, Italy. Part of the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "This panel aims
to compare studies whose topic has been the relationship between architecture and religious reform in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries, prior to the Counter-Reformation, including the Observantist movements and the Devotio moderna.
Abstracts, a short CV, and contact information to Andrea Guerra (guerra@iuav.it) and Paola Modesti (paolamodesti@gmail.com)
due May 20th.
WRITING IN EARLY MODERN
PORTRAITURE
1-4 April 2010 American Comparative Literature Association 2010, new Orleans. "The rise of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth
century sparked a pan-European conversation on the visual appearance of alphabetic letters. Concerning themselves with
fonts and calligraphy, authors of manuals recruited Renaissance developments in mathematics and the visual arts to
fashion their letterforms...This panel investigates the relationship between the painted word and the painted
image in early modern portraiture. Where do the two mix, and where are they at odds with each other within painted
human identities? ...Participants need not be registered members of the ACLA to submit a paper proposal. The deadline
is November 13, 2009. You will find directions for submission at: [the Web site linked above].
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER EVENTS OF INTEREST
2010 looks to be a banner year for Renaissance conferences. Participate! Also: be sure to take a look at other sites here that offer conferences where your topic might be accomodated, such as Italy; Symposia in North America and Symposia everywhere else.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR NETHERLANDIC STUDIES?? June 2010. University of California, Los Angeles. Check the Web site for details on due dates, etc.
11-13 February 2010. in Tempe, Arizona. Annual--held usually in February. Proposals due 9 p.m., October 16, 2009 (MST). For more information on this or future conferences, check the Web site. [Folks--why not announce this on some of the many related list-servs in time to alert others who might be interested?]
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "In the early modern period people often responded to paintings, sculptures and buildings as if they were alive: the artworks seemed to be moving, speaking or looking at the beholder. In this session, we welcome papers that are dealing with this type of response in terms of agency: that is, by considering works of art not as signs or codes referring to something outside themselves, but as agents acting upon the viewer...We are welcoming case studies as well as contributions that are more methodologically or theoretically oriented...Abstracts were due 15 April 2009 to Minou Schraven (m.schraven@hum.leidenuniv.nl) and to Elsje van Kessel (e.van.kessel@hum.leidenuniv.nl).
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "Cultural historians have explored the lively interaction between the Netherlands and Italy, but much remains to be discovered about specific links and their significance. We are seeking papers for a session or series of sessions on relations between Dutch and Flemish artists, patrons, dealers, agents, critics and their Italian counterparts in the period ca. 1450-1700. Topics may include social interaction and its impact on the arts, the marketing of Northern art in Italy, the impact of Northern prints and other prototypes on Italian art and artists, the connoisseurship and collecting of Northern art by Italians, and/or vice versa to all of the above. This session is sponsored by the Historians of Netherlandish Art (see: www.hnanews.org). In reviewing proposals, priority will be given to HNA members. Proposals were due MAY 1st to the session co-chairs:
Stephanie Dickey Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art Queen's University dickeys@queensu.ca Amy Golahny Professor of Art History Lycoming College golahny@lycoming.edu
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "This panel will explore the various forms of association that defined artistic communities as well as forms of art production and consumption...Please send a 150 word abstract of your paper (preferably in Microsoft Word), along with contact information and affiliation to the organizers, due April 25th 2009. (reply to: karine.tsoumis@utoronto.ca and alex.hoare@utoronto.ca)." See Web site for more information.
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "In recent scholarship on the early modern domestic interior, the rich social history and material culture of the Bolognese home c. 1400-1700 tends to be overlooked. This session aims to bring together historians and art historians working on early modern Bologna to focus on the dynamics of family life 'at home'. Ideally, the session will combine papers on the social history of the family in Bologna, including case studies of individual families, with papers on the material culture of the Bolognese domestic interior, including studies of furniture, ceramics, table-ware, jewelery, textiles, paintings, and prints. Papers on the architecture of the home and the nature of domestic space are also welcome. Abstracts were due May 11, to Erin Campbell, Dept. of History in Art, University of Victoria (erinjc@finearts.uvic.ca).
5-7 November 2009. Somehere in Maryland, looks like. Call for Workshop Proposals Deadline was October 1, 2008. See the Web site for more information.
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "At the end of the
sixteenth century the practice of drawing displayed various possibilities for approaching the visible. After being
theoretically discussed by Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccari as the essence of every artistic invention, the function
of drawing as a handcraft and a method to acquire knowledge of the visible world became more important. This panel aims
to analyze this process by focusing on treatises and on documents concerning the statutes of academic learning as well
as on the artistic habits in the workshop of drawing based on living models in Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands
around 1600. Papers that present new interpretations and points of view on workshop practice and the use of drawing in
the working process on the one hand, and the status of drawing as an autonomous artistic expression on the other hand,
would be welcome. Objectives may include topics on the use and reuse of models in both work of art and artistic education,
drawings as strategies of artistic perception of the real, drawing as laical practice, or the use of drawing for books
dealing with naturalistic phenomena and natural science. Abstracts were due May 15, 2009 to:
Dr. Claudia Steinhardt-Hirsch, Institut fuer Kunstgeschichte,
Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz, claudia.steinhardt-hirsch@uni-graz.at
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "The 500th anniversary of Giorgione's death is an appropriate moment to reconsider the extraordinary innovations in Venetian painting that culminated in the mature works of the master from Castelfranco and the early, still contested oeuvres of the "due eccellenti suoi creati," Sebastiano and Titian. The 2006 Bellini*Giorgione*Titian exhibitions in Vienna and Washington, as well as the 2008 Sebastiano retrospective in Rome and Berlin, have provided the opportunity to juxtapose many works and re-evaluate these developments. This session welcomes papers that address the contributions of these masters, and the dialogue among them, in seminal works painted between 1506-1514. Abstracts to Jonathan Unglaub: (unglaub@brandeis.edu) were due May 7, 2009.
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "San Sebastiano in Venice presents a unique general concept by Paolo Veronese around 1550. Covering almost each part of the inside, ceiling and wall paintings as well as the extensive fresco program are unusual in their composition. Moreover, the ceiling designs and the frescoes in the gallery reveal an innovation. Hence the interior of the church is related to the new rooms of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, completed approximately at the same time. Therefore Veronese implanted for the first time profane principles in the equipment of a church. The proposed panel...will work on the contexts of the inside of San Sebastiano. It is important to ask if veronese biblical themes in their unusual presentation are related to concepts of pre- or anti-reformationist concepts of art theory and image theology. The liturgical and ceremonial use of the church is also not yet clarified. Finally it is to ask, how the side chapels (eg Cappella Grimani) are integrated to the pictorial concept of the whole church. In this context the relationship between the artist and the donators is a matter of interest. Papers may be proposed and given either in English or Italian. Abstracts were due to Kilian Heck [heck@kunst.uni-frankfurt.de] and Philipp Zitzlsperger [philipp.zitzlsperger@culture.hu-berlin.de] May 22nd.
CONVERSOS AND MORISCOS IN SPAIN AND BEYOND16-18 June 2010 Fifth International CONVERSO and MORISCO Studies Conference, University of Alcala. "Conference papers
will examine the Converso and Morisco experience in Spain and Portugal, in their empires, and in the diaspora communities
of the Mediterranean...As previously, the aims of the conference are to bring together an international and multi-disciplinary
group of scholars to examine not only Converso and Morisco topics but also the question of social identity...Send 250-word
abstracts in English or Spanish to: kingram3@slu.edu. Deadline for abstracts: Friday January 29, 2010.
Kevin Ingram Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus 28003 Madrid, Spain Phone: 00 34 91 554 58 58 Fax: 00 34 91 554 62 02 E-mail: kingram3@slu.edu
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "Sexuality and desire are notions that traditionally have provoked uneasiness to art historians. Even though many works are loaded with obvious sexual connotations, art historical interpretations often continue to be vague and evasive. Despite the abundance of records of sodomy, only relatively slowly works of art are being acknowledged to be homosexual in nature: either in terms of the author's identity or the connotations of their style and content. The purpose of this call is twofold. It invites the re-examination of Italian Renaissance art: specific works, artists, contexts, where sexuality has been overseen, as well the attitude of modern art historians: the way they have approached artists, particular works, or the period as whole. Methodological approaches, such as psychoanalysis and gender studies, are particularly welcome, as well as contributions which will enable us to clarify the notion of gender identity, and thus sexuality/homosexuality, as working tools for a more informed discussion of Renaissance art in Italy. Abstracts were due no later than May 18, 2009 to:
- Dr. Berthold Hub, ETH Zurich, berthold.hub@gta.arch.ethz.ch, and
- Dr. Angeliki Pollali, The American College of Greece, apollali@acgmail.gr
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "This panel offers an occasion for a wide-ranging exploration and analysis of the representation of martyrdom in the early modern world. Post-tridentine reflections on martyrdom not only revolved around hagiographical questions but also the status of the image and art theory in general. The panel seeks to analyse these interdependences with a focus on the early modern, but not exclusively Christian world...We welcome proposals from different disciplines and interests. Please submit a 150-word abstract for a 20-minute paper, plus a short CV. Include your current affiliation, email address and institutional contact information and send the proposal to both organizers. Proposal deadline was May 3rd, 2009.
Organizers: Carolin Behrmann, The Getty Research Institute, cbehrmann@getty.edu Elisabeth Priedl, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, e.priedl@akbild.ac.at
Information about all conferences they sponsor, plus links to other announcements.
IMAGES OF CORPORAL MORTIFICATION AND CORRUPTION, MARTYRDOM AND MERCY: 1250-155015-17 April 2010. Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland. "This
session will explore images which illustrate the mortification of the flesh, bodily corruption, disfigurement, disease,
decay, physical degradation and death. Such images have been used to convey messages of strength, the triumph of faith
over fear and pain, the incorruptibility of the spirit, salvation, celebration and optimism. Images of suffering
are often coupled with those of compassion and protection. Issues surrounding the role of gender within images of
martyrdom and mercy will be investigated. Papers are invited which engage with related imagery (e.g. depictions of
justice, punishment, vengeance, restraint and clemency) from both religious and secular contexts and which explore the
relationship between text and image. We encourage submissions illustrating examples from a wide range of media (panel
and wall painting, manuscript illumination, sculpture, architectural structures and contexts, decorated household,
religious and civic objects and textiles) and originating from a variety of geographical locations.
Session convenors: Emily Jane Anderson (University of Glasgow) and Robert Gibbs (University of Glasgow).
E.Anderson.1@research.gla.ac.uk
R.Gibbs@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk
Abstracts of 250 words (max.) are invited by 10 November 2009 for the above session. The abstract should also
include your name, the title of your paper, your academic affiliation and full contact details. Papers will be a
maximum of 30 minutes in length.
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "The purpose of this panel is to examine the evolution of landscape painting, drawing and engraving from the Quattrocento to the end of the Seicento in Venice and its territories. Abstracts were due before April 20 to:
Christophe Brouard (Christophe.Brouard@univ-paris1.fr) and Laura de Fuccia (Laura.De-Fuccia@univ-paris1.fr).
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "At the theoretical level, comic art may be divided into two forms: the socially inclusive--where we smile uncomfortably at ourselves--or the socially rejective--where we "point the finger of scorn" censoriously at others. In practice, of course, these forms may overlap or intersect. We propose a panel to examine the ways early modern artists have used humor to galvanize communities, to ostracize people through ridicule, or even ambiguously promote both views simultaneously. Abstract to both organizers, Sandra Cheng at schengnyc@gmail.com and Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard at kac9b@mindspring.com were due April 29th.
10-13 February 2010. College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL. "Ephemeral and cost-effective, early modern prints (ca. 1450-1700) offered a greater diversity of subject matter and more uses than paintings or sculpture. Printed pilgrimage souvenirs, scientific instruments and even erotica survive with signs of heavy use. Prints were embellished, altered, inscribed, collected and displayed in numerous ways throughout the early modern period, a versatility recently emphasized in major publications and exhibitions including David Landau and Peter Parshall's "The Renaissance Print" and Susan Dackerman's "Painted Prints." This CAA session examines the contemporary treatment of prints as physical objects, whether on paper, printed in books or pasted onto other supports (i.e. albums, cloth, wood, or walls). While some talks may touch on the history of collections, presentations focusing on surviving prints with visible signs of use, misuse, or alternate states will be particularly apt...Application deadline was May 8, 2009. Contact: Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Prints and Drawings, 111 South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60603, (skarrschmidt@artic.edu); and Lia Markey, Princeton University Art Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, Princeton, NJ 08544, (lmarkey@princeton.edu). Please feel free to send applications via e-mail, including a two-page, double-spaced abstract, CV, and letter of interest. For more conference details, visit: (http://conference.collegeart.org/2010/).
11-13 March 2010. Sarasota, Florida. Biennial. The deadline for abstracts was October 1, 2009. [N. B.:An excellent conference! Highly recommended by the editor!] For more information see the Website and contact:
- Nova Myhill
- Division of Humanities
- New College of Florida
- 5700 N. Tamiami Trail
- Sarasota FL 34243
Held 30-31, October 2009. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. "The focus of the Conference will be how developing technologies - whether the printing press, navigation, scientific instruments, importation of new materials, etc. - changed, challenged, and reinforced concepts of value and judgment in the Renaissance. Questions around authority and trustworthiness emerge across disciplines as previous standards of taste and value no longer apply. We also seek papers that draw a comparison between these Renaissance concerns and those in our contemporary age of technological change. Underlying the entire conference will be a consideration of how the idea of "the Renaissance" is itself a term affecting value and judgment. Abstracts were due August 1 2009 to [Jodi Cranston] cranston@bu.edu with cc: to blues@bu.edu
NEWBERRY LIBRARY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE21-23 January, 2010.Annual. "Organized and run by graduate students,the conference is interdisciplinary in scope; papers are invited in any area of medieval or Renaissance studies. It provides participants the opportunity to present their work in a collegial scholarly forum, to meet students from other institutions and disciplines who will be their future colleagues, and to become familiar with the Newberry Library and its resources." Deadline: October 15, 2009. For more information, see the Web site.
8-10 April 2010. Venice, Italy. Renaissance Society of America Conference. "This session would like to examine this issue further by inviting papers that deal with the continuities, ruptures and changes in the practices and debates concerning ornament in religious architecture. We are particularly interested in the following questions: to what extent were Early Modern discussions on ornament in religious architecture indebted to Early Christian or Medieval ideas? Do the religious struggles of the 16th and 17th centuries introduce new concepts and uses of ornament? Are views on ornament in religious architecture consistently related to devotion, piety and religiosity, or do they become dissociated from religion? Which functions, meanings or agencies are ascribed to architectural ornament and splendour in a religious context? Are religious views of ornament conceptualized, and if so, in which discourses? Or are they shaped by devotional and other practices? Abstracts to both MaartenDelbeke (maarten.delbeke@ugent.be) and Anne-Franoise Morel (annefrancoise.morel@ugent.be) were due 1st of May.
Held April 30-2 May 2009. See the Web site for more information.
16-18 October 2009. Villanova University. Please visit *the Web site* for further details.
8-10 April 2010. Venice, ITALY. "Since the Renaissance, the identity of early modern Venetian painting is mostly defined by the terms of color and colorism. Instead of reinforcing the modernist idea that flat color is opposed to a perspectival representation of space based on disegno, this panel intends to explore the possibilities and limits of a coloristic or painterly construction of space and its supposed Venetian specificity. This session focuses not only on the historical development of techniques for the construction pictorial space, but also deals with the interactions between represented and real spaces...Abstracts were due before 1 May 2009. Please, consult the RSA website for practical information [above]. Organizers:
Stefan Neuner (neuner@khist.uzh.ch) Tristan Weddigen (tristan.weddigen@khist.uzh.ch) Institute of Art History University of Zurich http://www.khist.unizh.ch
16-17 April 2010. Annual. Please see the Web site for more information.
8-10 April 2010 RSA conference, Venice, Italy. "This CFP focuses on the printing of Greek medicine in Venice, specifically the search, production, circulation, and collection of books in the milieu of scholars and printers. Papers should be devoted to the collections from which the manuscripts used by printers came, the networks through which they were obtained, possibly also the commission from which they resulted or the programs of which they were a part, so as to widen the perspective and to contribute to a reconstruction of the whole milieu at the origin of these editions: the scholars, their collections, their contacts, the copyists working for them and sometimes with them, their programmes and their attempts to compensate for the lacunas of the text availability, and any other element that contributed to the printing of Greek medicine in Venice." Contact:
Alain TOUWAIDE Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, and Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History Washington DC Phone # 1-202-633-0967 Fax # 1-202-786-2563 Email: touwaida@si.edu
8-10 April 2010 RSA conference, Venice, Italy. "In 1960 the late Ernst Gombrich stated that ...the true miracle of the language of art is not that it enables the artist to create the illusion of reality. It is that under the hands of a great master the image becomes translucent (Art and Illusion). The Albertian conception of a painting as a window looking onto a studied version of the natural world meant that painting could be both truthful and deceptive in its imitation of nature. In this session, we hope to address the ways in which artists question or confirm the role of sight in the verification of truth. Papers might address artistic strategies (e.g., trompe loeil) that call attention to the functions or defects of viewers perceptions, or depict themes of vision, sight, deception, or the image as representative of truth; given the location of the conference, Venetian topics are particularly sought. Abstracts to both organizers were due Friday, April 11.
Erin Benay & Kandice Rawlings Rutgers University ebenay@marlboro.edu & krawlings@gmail.com
8-10 April 2010 RSAA conference, Venice, Italy. "Recent editions, translation and critical investigations of Marsilio Ficino's texts have profoundly changed our understanding of this scholar's thought, sources and legacy. First hand knowledge of Ficino's Platonic Theology and his commentaries of Plato's dialogue, in addition, have contributed to rethink the problem of Renaissance "Neoplatonism" as a whole. This recent scholarly work, however, has not sufficiently adequately acknowledge Ficino's pivotal role in the transmission of Plato's thought to Early Modern Europe. This panel invites scholars to reassess the problem of Ficino's Nachleben from a documentary and critical point of view. In particular, scholars are invited to address issues such as how Ficino's texts circulated in XVI century Italy and Europe? Who translated these texts into local vernaculars and in what kind of contexts? What were the purposes of these translations and vulgarizations? Abstracts to Dario Brancato (dbrancat@alcor.concordia.ca) were due May 15th.
12-14 May 2010 . The Foresight Centre, Liverpool, UK. Very long description--check the detailed Web site. "Proposals were due 30th September 2009."
6 February 2010. Annual, about the same time every year. See the Web site for full information.
"Since 1954, the Renaissance Society of America has been the leading organization in the Americas for the interdisciplinary study of the period 1300-1650 in Western history."
RETHINKING EARLY MODERN PRINT
CULTURE15-17 October 2010 An international and interdisciplinary conference at The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. "The view that early modernity saw the transformation of European societies into cultures of print has been widely influential in literary, historical, philosophical, and bibliographical studies of the period. We invite papers seeking to explore questions of production and reception that have always been at the core of the historiography of print, developing a more refined sense of the complex roles played by various agents and institutions. But we especially encourage submissions that probe the boundaries of our subject, both chronologically and conceptually: did print culture have a clear beginning? How is the idea of a culture of print complicated by the continued importance of manuscript circulation (as a private and commercial phenomenon)? How did print reshape or reconfigure audiences? And what was the place of orality in a world supposedly dominated by print textuality? What new forms of chirography and spoken, live performances did print enable, if any?...We invite proposals for conference papers of 20 minutes and encourage group-proposals for panels of three papers. Alternative formats such as workshops and roundtables will also be considered. Abstracts of 250 words can be submitted electronically on the conference website(linked above). The deadline for submissions is 15 December 2009. All questions ought to be addressed to the conference organizers, Gregoire Holtz (French, University of Toronto) and Holger Schott Syme (English, University of Toronto), at (printconference@gmail.com).
16-17 October 2009. Indianapolis Museum of Art and Indiana University, Bloomington. "We are seeking abstracts for papers to be presented at this two-day interdisciplinary conference centered on religiosity in the Hispanic world from 1492-1680. Submissions should represent the fields of literature, art, religion, politics and/or history. The symposium will coincide with the opening of the Indianapolis Museum of Art's special exhibition, Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World, which examines the religious visual culture of 17th-century Spain and its American colonies through the lens of belief and its lived experience...Proposals were due May 15, 2009 to Prof. Steven Wagschal (swagscha@indiana.edu) and Prof. Giles Knox (gknox@indiana.edu)." For more information, see the Web site.
8-10 April 2010 RSAA conference, Venice, Italy. "Ships in all epochs since Antiquity have played important roles in European art...One or two panels will explore what impact ships had on art produced in Early Modern Europe. Questions to be considered include: How did nautical imagery mirror war or peaceful times? How and where did ships serve for the propagandistic use of rulers and powerful persons? Was there a "renaissance" of antique ship types or do medieval images and contemporary ship designs dominate Renaissance art production? In what ways is the ship a symbol of the "Age of Discovery", economic power, struggle and war? Possible topics from architecture and sculpture as well as painting and the graphic arts include: the "Ship of State" and shipwrecks, fountains with naval imagery and "ship monuments" in their relationship to history and politics, economics, literature and philosophy. Abstracts were due April 30, 2009 to:
Dr. Nicole Hegener, Institut fuer Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, nicole.hegener@culture.hu-berlin.de and Dr. George Gorse, Art & Art History Department, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 91711 ggorse@pomona.edu
14-17 Oct 2010 Montreal, Canada. "The call for papers will be released in December 2009."
Held 16-19 April 2009. Biennial Conference. To be held at the Royal Holloway University of London. UK. Proposals were due 31 October 2008. See the Web site for more information.
Held 28-30 May 2009. Annual? Who knows!!
Held 6-8 March 2008. Kansas City, Missouri. The deadline for abstracts was December 1, 2007. This is the same as the South-Central Renaissance Conference (see below). Except these guys don't update their Web site.
16-18 July 2010 University of York, UK. Annual. Headquartered in London. Proposals (max. 400 words) are welcome from both established scholars and postgraduates and were dueFriday 25 September 2009 to the conference organizer:
Prof William Sherman Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies University of York Heslington YO10 5DD United Kingdom E-mail: ws505@york.ac.uk
18-20 March 2010. Annual. Corpus Christi, Texas. The deadline for abstracts was December 1, 2009. Check the Web site for more information. Same as the SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE ART CONFERENCE, looks like. Note that they offer travel fellowships for graduate students. Please see the Web site for more information.
8-10 April 2010 RSA conference, Venice, Italy. "Did the Venetian terraferma mean anything beyond political administration and financial obligations? The existing historiography has been swamped by attempts to define the early modern Venetian state and to outline its drive towards efficient organisation. This interdisciplinary panel will present new work on the personal, social and cultural ties within the territory. The focus will be on connections and networks which encompassed Venice and towns or cities of the mainland...Abstracts to Gabriele Neher (gabriele.neher@nottingham.ac.uk or Jane Stevens Crawshaw janecrawshaw@gmail.com) were due 1 May 2009.
8-10 April 2010 RSA conference, Venice, Italy. "Papers are sought that address the discourse of travel, identity and the individual in the Renaissance. We seek papers about travel, travelers, pilgrimages, cartography, etc.. We would like to see papers from a wide range of theoretical and cultural perspectives...lease submit a 150-word abstract for a 20-minute paper, plus a one-page CV. Submissions will only be accepted if pasted in the body of an e-mail message (regretfully, no attachment will be opened). Proposals to the organizer Cristina Perissinotto, cperissi@uottawa.ca. with the subject line "Venice RSA", were due May 3rd.
Held 22 March 2008. Annual? One of the worst Web sites ever--seldom updated in time for submissions; you ask them why. For more information, please attempt to see the Web site.
24-26 September 2009. Wise, Virginia. For more information, please visit the website.
8-10 April 2010 RSAA conference, Venice, Italy. "Papers are sought that address the topics of utopia, imaginary cities, pre-planned cities and other imaginary places in the Renaissance. These spaces can be physical, mental, political, cultural and spiritual...Please submit a 150-word abstract for a 20-minute paper, plus a one-page CV. Submissions will only be accepted if pasted in the body of an e-mail message (regretfully, no attachment will be opened). Please include your e-mail address and institutional contact information and send the proposal to the organizer Cristina Perissinotto, (cperissi@uottawa.ca), with the subject line "Venice RSA", due May 3rd.
8-10 April 2010 Venice, Italy. Part of the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "This panel aims to compare studies whose topic has been the relationship between architecture and religious reform in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, prior to the Counter-Reformation, including the Observantist movements and the Devotio moderna. Abstracts, a short CV, and contact information to Andrea Guerra (guerra@iuav.it) and Paola Modesti (paolamodesti@gmail.com) due May 20th.
WRITING IN EARLY MODERN
PORTRAITURE1-4 April 2010 American Comparative Literature Association 2010, new Orleans. "The rise of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century sparked a pan-European conversation on the visual appearance of alphabetic letters. Concerning themselves with fonts and calligraphy, authors of manuals recruited Renaissance developments in mathematics and the visual arts to fashion their letterforms...This panel investigates the relationship between the painted word and the painted image in early modern portraiture. Where do the two mix, and where are they at odds with each other within painted human identities? ...Participants need not be registered members of the ACLA to submit a paper proposal. The deadline is November 13, 2009. You will find directions for submission at: [the Web site linked above].
LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN RENAISSANCE FLORENCE: THE COURTAULD WEDDING CHESTS One of the best exhibition Web sites I've ever seen. This includes online lectures and films.
SOME RELEVANT SUPPORT PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS OF RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE STUDIES
ANDREW W. MELLON FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM AT THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS VATICAN FILM LIBRARY AT SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY
"Research in the collections of the Vatican Film Library by qualified scholars is supported by two fellowship programs. The Vatican Film Library Mellon Fellowship is offered through the Vatican Film Library for research of periods between two and eight weeks in length, though shorter periods of time can be accommodated. The NEH Research Fellowship is offered through the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University for scholars resident during the fall or spring terms. This fellowship encompasses research conducted in both the Vatican Film Library and in the rare book and manuscript collections of Pius XII Memorial Library. These fellowships cannot be held concurrently." Please see Web site for information on study periods and deadlines. Or contact : Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Program, Vatican Film Library, Pius XII Memorial Library, Saint Louis University, 3650 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108-3302.
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART : ART HISTORY FELLOWSHIPS
About a dozen very different fellowships for study/research at the Met or in other locations. Check the Web site for the full information.
Views of Villa Spelman
Read the Villa Spelman Blog for the end of the story of this Italian Renaissance center
Something Else to Do: Blogs and Sites of Interest
- Renaissance Lit Blog From Adam Smyth, University of Reading, UK.
- Web4Ren Forum "Many sorts of information of potential relevance to those interested in Renaissance Intellectual History."
- More to come, I hope...
A Guide to Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture