Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
SYMPOSIA OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS
WOMEN, MEN, AND GENDER STUDIES
THE ART OF GENDER IN EVERYDAY LIFE Vl
Held 2-3 April 2009. Annual. Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID. "The Conference Committee invites abstracts from university faculty and staff as well as from graduate and advanced undergraduate students." ABSTRACT POSTMARK DEADLINE was Monday, November 10, 2008. Please check the Website for more information.
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 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
FEMINIST APPROACHES TO MEDIEVAL ART: Islam, Byzantium, and the West
13-16 May 2010. International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan. "Feminist scholarship has had relatively little impact on Byzantine art history, and has yet to become visible in work on medieval Islamic art or on cross-cultural encounters. This session seeks to expand feminist discourses on medieval visual culture by extending their geographic, religious, and cultural parameters. We welcome papers that investigate feminist approaches to art of the Byzantine or Islamic traditions, as well as investigations that engage with the cross-cultural exchanges evident in material from across the medieval world. Sponsored by the Medieval Feminist Art History Project. Submission Details: Please submit a one-page abstract (for a 20-minute presentation) and a Participant Information Form (link below) to Marian Bleeke (at m.bleeke@csuohio.edu) no later than September 15, 2009. Participant Information Form: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html
GENDER AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
Held 9-10 January 2009. Annual. King's College, London. Deadline for proposals was 1 September 2008.
GENDER STUDIES CONFERENCE
March 2010 [sic]. To be held in Pisa, Italy. "The topic will be "Homosexual Women in Italian Culture"
Possible fields: - Italian Literature - Italian History - Art History - Cinema Studies The conference will only be held in in Italian language, but contributions in English are also welcome and will be taken into account for a second edition Abstract (300 words) and CV at (gender.conference.pisa@gmail.com) by 1st December 2009. Best regards Marianna Orsi
GENDERING THE REVOLUTIONARY
ERA, 1750-1850
25-27 February 2010. Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Charleston, SC. "(CRE) is a venue for the presentation of original research on not only the revolutionary history of Europe, but also the Atlantic World and beyond. We welcome proposals from allied disciplines and comparative studies; in short, the conference offers a platform for research into the revolutionary era broadly defined...A group of scholars who regularly attend the CRE is seeking to organize a series of four panels on gender during the Revolutionary Era and solicits papers for these panels. [Please see the Web site for more information] ...Please submit paper proposals on topics related to any of these four themes by October 15, 2009. Send a one page abstract and a brief CV to:
Karen Hagemann University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill History Department Hamilton Hall, CB # 3195 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3195, USA E-mail: hagemann@unc.edu and Denise Z. Davidson Georgia State University History Department PO Box 4117 Atlanta, GA 30302-4117, USA E-mail: hisdzd@langate.gsu.edu
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE--UCLA
5 February 2010. The UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN is sponsoring a conference Thinking Gender, "highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels. This year we are particularly interested in research on labor, social justice, public policy, the global and globalization, race and ethnicity in the Americas, and the "new" economy (austerity) and its effects on women and people of color. Additionally, because this year is the Center for the Study of Women's 25th anniversary, we are especially interested in topics relating to feminism's past and present, such as the state of feminism, changing notions of feminism, post-feminism or third-wave feminism, feminist community/ies both off and online, and feminist icons and leaders.
"For individual papers, please submit a Thinking Gender cover sheet, 250-word abstract, a CV (2 pages max, no resumes, please), and a brief bibliography (1 page max). For panels, please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required for the individual paper submissions. Please download cover sheet form and reference submission guidelines at [the Web site above], and note that only complete applications adhering to the stated guidelines will be accepted. Please also note that the Center for the Study of Women cannot provide travel funds for conference presenters. Deadline for Submissions: Monday, October 19, 2009, by Noon. We will only accept completed submissions emailed by the deadline, without exception. Please send submissions to: (thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu)
HISTORY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
18-19 September 2009. Bar Convent, York, England. Please contact Dr Carmen M. Mangion at c.mangion@history.bbk.ac.uk or Dr Caroline Bowden at c.bowden@rhul.ac.uk with any contributions, comments or queries. (Held faithfully every year--location changes)
NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN HISTORIANS
Held 4-6 June 2009. Deadline for proposals was August 1, 2008. Check the Web site for more information.
SURREALISM AND
DISSIDENT SEXUALITIES
4 December 2009. "To coincide with the exhibition Subversive Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art, the 7th Annual PhD symposium of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies will be held at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich, UK. We invite proposals for 20 minute papers from post-graduate students whose research engages with Surrealism and/or its contemporary legacies...Surrealism, despite BretonÕs intolerance, did attract a formidable array of queer artists and writers, photographers, and filmmakers. These ÔotherÕ Surrealists were crucial to SurrealismÕs reception outside of France. They also laid the groundwork for creative negotiations of the body, gender, and sexuality by more recent generations of artists.
"Proposals may address individual case studies or broader historiographical or theoretical issues, such as the relationship of Surrealism to feminism, psychoanalysis and queer theory. Also ripe for investigation from this angle are: Surrealist precursors, e.g., Sade and Rimbaud; the child in the Surrealist imaginary; queering the uncanny, the Gothic; queer legacies in experimental film, photography, and literature. We wish to encourage students from all disciplines working on aspects of Surrealism to contribute. Please send proposals of no more than 500 words by 9th October 2009 to:
Kimberley Marwood kmarwo@essex.ac.uk Majella Munro mmunro@essex.ac.uk
UPSTATE NEW YORK WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION
Held March 2009. Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. "We invite proposals covering any aspect of women's and gender history, defined broadly to include all nations/continents, time periods, and related disciplines, and we encourage scholars from across New York State and around the region to participate. The keynote speaker will be Professor Leigh Ann Wheeler, Binghamton University. Please send an abstract of the paper or panel and a short CV for each participant to Carol Faulkner at (cfaulkne@maxwell.syr.edu). Proposals were due October 1, 2008. Annual? Who knows!
VEILED CONSTELLATIONS
3-5 June 2010. York University, Toronto, Canada. See Web site for more details. Proposals due: 1 October 2009
WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS
20-23 May 2010 . University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Paper and panel submissions
are due October 15, 2009. Please see the WAWH website for submission details.
WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS' GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE PAPER PRIZE
"...an annual $100 prize that recognizes the outstanding paper presented by a graduate student
at the annual WAWH conference. The committee will judge the presented paper, normally
10-12 pages. The presenter must also still submit a copy to the commentator of their panel.
All fields of history will be considered, and articles must be submitted with full scholarly
apparatus. Contact the committee chair with any questions about the prize: Paivi
Hoikkala, phoikkala@csupomona.edu (mailto:phoikkala@csupomona.edu). Contact the executive director
with questions about the organization: Amy Essington, amyessington@wawh.org (mailto:amyessington@wawh.org)
Women In/And/On Books
13-16 May 2010. Special session sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, International
Medieval Congress. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. "We invite papers considering the relationship of women to
books during any era or region in the Middle Ages. Possible papers might consider ways in which women have participated in
the production and dissemination of books, whether as authors, scribes, patrons, or owners. Alternatively, papers might
consider commentaries on women reading (both good and bad), the ways in which women are represented in books, or how the
culture of the book helped to shape women's lived experience. We are particularly interested in developing an inter- or
multi-disciplinary session. Please submit 1-page abstracts to the following (preferably by e-mail) by 15
September 2009. Queries and letters of interest welcomed.
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- Virginia Blanton
- Associate Chair, Department of English
- Associate Professor, English & Religious Studies
- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Kansas City, MO 64110 Voice: 816-235-2766
- Fax: 816-235-1308
- BlantonV@umkc.edu
WOMEN'S AND GENDER HISTORY SYMPOSIUM
Held 5-7 MARCH 2009. The Tenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. "To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite
submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual
papers on any topic in the field of women's and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged
individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium." Submission
Deadline was November 1, 2008.
WOMEN'S HISTORY NETWORK
Held 11-13 September 2009. St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK. Theme: Women, Gender and Political Spaces:
Historical Perspectives.
Publication Opportunities
ASPASIA
"ASPASIA is an international and peer-reviewed yearbook that seeks to bring out the best scholarship in the field of
interdisciplinary women's and gender history focusing on, and especially produced in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern
Europe." See the Web site for more information.
CRITICAL MATRIX: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture
See Web site for more information and latest CFPs.
EARLY MODERN WOMEN: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL
See the Web site for more information.
FRONTIERS:
A Journal of Women Studies
"Frontiers is one of the oldest and most respected academic feminist journals in the United
States. Founded in 1975, it is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary journal of
scholarship, creative work, and personal essays...This special issue of Frontiers will explore
reciprocal relationships between gender and the city. For many decades feminist scholars in numerous
and diverse fields have studied the importance of gender in constituting cities and the role of urban
places in constructing gender. We want to develop a vigorous cross and inter-disciplinary conversation
about these relationships of gender and the city...Submissions should be sent to Frontiers as
e-mail attachments to (frontiers@asu.edu) or on disc according to submission guidelines [on the Web
site, above]."
GENDER & HISTORY
SPECIAL ISSUE: Historicizing Sexuality and Gender. "This special issue of Gender & History examines the
historical relationship between sexuality and gender writ large. We solicit work that explicitly examines the
possibilities and limitations of these categories for analyzing the past. We especially encourage comparative
analysis, scholarship that focuses on the nonwestern world, and work that contributes to the theorization of
these categories and their relationship to one another. We welcome the submission of historical work produced
within related disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. [VERY long posting; write below to get more verbiage]
...By January 15, 2009, please submit a 1-2 page abstract as an attachment to gendhist@umn.edu with "Issue
22:3 abstract submission" in the subject line. (Abstracts must be in English. However, limited funds for the
translation of articles written in other languages may be available). By February 15, 2009 authors will be
notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for complete
articles is June 15, 2009. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be
included in issue Gender & History 22:3 , scheduled to appear in November 2010.
ISLAM AND GENDER IN ASIA AND THE DIASP0RA
See the Web site for more information.
MEDIEVAL FEMINIST FORUM
See the Web site for more information.
n. pardoxa
"n.paradoxa invites feminist scholars working on contemporary art by women
to contribute to future issues of its bi-annual publication." See Web site for more information.
NATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION JOURNAL
See the Web site for more information.
DISSERTATION SUPPORT
Woodrow Wilson
Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowships. These "support the final year of dissertation
writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses
issues of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways. Awards of up to $3,000
each are applicable to research/travel costs. Applications are available online only
and applications will open the first week of September. To learn more, and to apply,
visit (http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies). Potential applicants who have questions
after a full review of the WomenÕs Studies Fellowship Web site may e-mail (billmaier@woodrow.org).
Susan Billmaier
Assistant Program Director
WomenÕs Studies Fellowships
5 Vaughn Drive Suite 300
Princeton, NJ 08540-6313
Office: 609-452-7007 (310)
STUDY ABROAD [sic]
MATILDA: joint European Master in Women's and Gender History
"MATILDA is a two-year MA program designed for students wishing to develop expertise in womenÕs and gender history, as
well as in European history, and who are interested in intercultural exchange. The universities involved are: Vienna
University (coordinating institution), the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, the Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, the
Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, and the University of Nottingham.
ACCREDITION:
The degree has now been accredited in four of the five partner universities, which means that the program can officially
start. The process of accreditation for the fifth partner is under way.
See the Web site for more information.
(above left) Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Self-Portrait with amber necklace. 1906.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland.
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3-5 June 2010. York University, Toronto, Canada. See Web site for more details. Proposals due: 1 October 2009
WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS20-23 May 2010 . University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Paper and panel submissions are due October 15, 2009. Please see the WAWH website for submission details.
"...an annual $100 prize that recognizes the outstanding paper presented by a graduate student at the annual WAWH conference. The committee will judge the presented paper, normally 10-12 pages. The presenter must also still submit a copy to the commentator of their panel. All fields of history will be considered, and articles must be submitted with full scholarly apparatus. Contact the committee chair with any questions about the prize: Paivi Hoikkala, phoikkala@csupomona.edu (mailto:phoikkala@csupomona.edu). Contact the executive director with questions about the organization: Amy Essington, amyessington@wawh.org (mailto:amyessington@wawh.org)
Women In/And/On Books13-16 May 2010. Special session sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, International Medieval Congress. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. "We invite papers considering the relationship of women to books during any era or region in the Middle Ages. Possible papers might consider ways in which women have participated in the production and dissemination of books, whether as authors, scribes, patrons, or owners. Alternatively, papers might consider commentaries on women reading (both good and bad), the ways in which women are represented in books, or how the culture of the book helped to shape women's lived experience. We are particularly interested in developing an inter- or multi-disciplinary session. Please submit 1-page abstracts to the following (preferably by e-mail) by 15 September 2009. Queries and letters of interest welcomed. >
- Virginia Blanton
- Associate Chair, Department of English
- Associate Professor, English & Religious Studies
- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Kansas City, MO 64110 Voice: 816-235-2766
- Fax: 816-235-1308
- BlantonV@umkc.edu
Held 5-7 MARCH 2009. The Tenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women's and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium." Submission Deadline was November 1, 2008.
WOMEN'S HISTORY NETWORKHeld 11-13 September 2009. St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK. Theme: Women, Gender and Political Spaces: Historical Perspectives.
ASPASIA
"ASPASIA is an international and peer-reviewed yearbook that seeks to bring out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and gender history focusing on, and especially produced in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe." See the Web site for more information.
CRITICAL MATRIX: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture
See Web site for more information and latest CFPs.
EARLY MODERN WOMEN: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL
See the Web site for more information.
FRONTIERS: A Journal of Women Studies
"Frontiers is one of the oldest and most respected academic feminist journals in the United States. Founded in 1975, it is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary journal of scholarship, creative work, and personal essays...This special issue of Frontiers will explore reciprocal relationships between gender and the city. For many decades feminist scholars in numerous and diverse fields have studied the importance of gender in constituting cities and the role of urban places in constructing gender. We want to develop a vigorous cross and inter-disciplinary conversation about these relationships of gender and the city...Submissions should be sent to Frontiers as e-mail attachments to (frontiers@asu.edu) or on disc according to submission guidelines [on the Web site, above]."
GENDER & HISTORY
SPECIAL ISSUE: Historicizing Sexuality and Gender. "This special issue of Gender & History examines the historical relationship between sexuality and gender writ large. We solicit work that explicitly examines the possibilities and limitations of these categories for analyzing the past. We especially encourage comparative analysis, scholarship that focuses on the nonwestern world, and work that contributes to the theorization of these categories and their relationship to one another. We welcome the submission of historical work produced within related disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. [VERY long posting; write below to get more verbiage] ...By January 15, 2009, please submit a 1-2 page abstract as an attachment to gendhist@umn.edu with "Issue 22:3 abstract submission" in the subject line. (Abstracts must be in English. However, limited funds for the translation of articles written in other languages may be available). By February 15, 2009 authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for complete articles is June 15, 2009. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue Gender & History 22:3 , scheduled to appear in November 2010.
ISLAM AND GENDER IN ASIA AND THE DIASP0RA
See the Web site for more information.
MEDIEVAL FEMINIST FORUM
See the Web site for more information.
n. pardoxa
"n.paradoxa invites feminist scholars working on contemporary art by women to contribute to future issues of its bi-annual publication." See Web site for more information.
NATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION JOURNAL
See the Web site for more information.
DISSERTATION SUPPORT
Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowships. These "support the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses issues of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways. Awards of up to $3,000 each are applicable to research/travel costs. Applications are available online only and applications will open the first week of September. To learn more, and to apply, visit (http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies). Potential applicants who have questions after a full review of the WomenÕs Studies Fellowship Web site may e-mail (billmaier@woodrow.org).
Susan Billmaier Assistant Program Director WomenÕs Studies Fellowships 5 Vaughn Drive Suite 300 Princeton, NJ 08540-6313 Office: 609-452-7007 (310)
STUDY ABROAD [sic]
MATILDA: joint European Master in Women's and Gender History
"MATILDA is a two-year MA program designed for students wishing to develop expertise in womenÕs and gender history, as well as in European history, and who are interested in intercultural exchange. The universities involved are: Vienna University (coordinating institution), the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, the Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, and the University of Nottingham.
ACCREDITION:
The degree has now been accredited in four of the five partner universities, which means that the program can officially start. The process of accreditation for the fifth partner is under way.
See the Web site for more information.
(above left) Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Self-Portrait with amber necklace. 1906.
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland.
On Artemisia Gentileschi.