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Call for papers
The Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize recognizes excellent scholarship by a non-U.S. scholar in the field of historical American art (circa 1500—1980). The winning manuscript should advance understanding of American art and demonstrate new findings and original perspectives. It will be translated and published in American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s scholarly journal, which will also cover the cost of image rights and reproductions, and the winner will receive a $500 award. This prize is made possible by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
The aim of the award is to stimulate and actively support non-U.S. scholars working on American art, foster international exchange of new ideas and create a broad, culturally comparative dialogue on American art. To be eligible, essays should focus on historical American painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photography or visual culture of the same period. Preference will be given to studies that address American art within a cross-cultural context as well as new ways of thinking about American art. Manuscripts previously published in a foreign language are eligible if released within the last two years. For scholars from English-language countries, only unpublished manuscripts will be considered. Authors of eligible essays are invited to submit their own work for consideration. We urge scholars who know of eligible articles written by others to inform those authors of the prize.
The length of the essay (including endnotes) shall not exceed 8,000 words with approximately 12 illustrations. Manuscripts submitted in foreign languages should be accompanied by a detailed abstract in English. Six copies of the essay, clearly labeled “2010 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize,” along with the scholar’s name, mailing address, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and fax number must be received by January 14, 2011, at the following address:
American Art journal, Research and Scholars Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington D.C. 20013-7012
For more information, please contact executive editor Cynthia Mills (millsc@si.edu). For more information on American Art, please consult www.americanart.si.edu/research/journal. For details on the Terra Foundation for American Art, please visit www.terraamericanart.org.
European Architectural History Network
Second International Meeting
Brussels, Belgium
31 May – 3 June 2012
After the successful EAHN First International Meeting in Guimarães, the network is organizing a second pan-European meeting in Brussels in 2012. In accordance with the EAHN mission statement, this meeting again proposes to increase the visibility of the discipline, to foster transnational, interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches to the study of the built environment, and to facilitate the exchange of research results in the field. Though the scope of the meeting is European, members of the larger scholarly community are invited to submit proposals related not only to Europe’s geographical framework, but also to its transcontinental aspects.
The main purpose of the meeting is to map the general state of research in disciplines related to the built environment, to promote discussion of current themes and concerns, and to foster new directions for research in the field. Session proposals are intended to cover different periods in the history of architecture and different approaches to the built environment, including landscape and urban history. Parallel sessions will consist of either five papers or four papers and a respondent, with time for dialogue and questions at the end. In addition, a limited number of roundtable debates addressing burning issues in the field will also take place at the meeting. Proposals are sought for roundtable debates that re-map, re-define, and outline the current discipline. They will typically consist of a discussion between panel members and encourage debate with the audience. The goal is to create a forum in which different scholars can present and discuss their ideas, research materials and methodologies.
Scholars wishing to chair a scholarly session or a roundtable debate at the 2012 EAHN Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, are invited to submit proposals by 19 December 2010 to hilde.heynen@asro.kuleuven.be, Prof. Hilde Heynen, General Chair of the EAHN Second International Meeting, KU Leuven, Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning, Kasteelpark Arenberg 1, 3001 Leuven, Belgium. Phone: +32 16 321 361. A conference website will be online shortly.
By the time of registration for the conference, participating membership in the EAHN (with an annual membership fee) will be required to chair or present research at the meeting. A link on the website http://www.eahn.org will soon be available to enable anyone to join the EAHN as a dues-paying participating member.
Proposals in English of no more than 400 words including a session or roundtable title should summarize the subject and the premise. Please include name, professional affiliation (if applicable), address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and a current CV. Proposals and short CVs should be submitted by e-mail, including the text in both the body of the e-mail and in the attachment.
Session and roundtable proposals will be selected on the basis of merit and the need to organize a well-balanced program. A few open sessions or roundtables may be organized by the Advisory Committee, depending on the response to the following call for papers.
Voor meer informatie: http://www.eahn.org/site/en/home.php
College Art Association Annual Conference
February 22 -25 2012
CAA brings its Centennial year—which begins with the Annual Conference in New York in February 2011—to a close at the 2012 Annual Conference in Los Angeles, which takes place Wednesday, February 22–Saturday, February 25.
The Annual Conference Committee invites session proposals that cover the breadth of current thought and research in art, art and architectural history, theory and criticism, pedagogical issues, museum and curatorial practice, conservation, and developments in technology. Deadline: September 1, 2010; no late applications will be accepted.
General Proposal Information
The process of fashioning the conference program is a delicate balancing act. The 2012 program is shaped by four broad submission categories: Historical Studies, Contemporary Issues/Studio Art, Educational and Professional Practices, and Open Forms. Also included in the mix are sessions by CAA affiliated societies committees, and Book and Trade Fair exhibitors, as well as specially chosen Centennial sessions.
For balance and programmatic equity, open sessions, which have a broad, inclusive topic or theme, are also presented. Most program sessions, however, are drawn from submissions by individual members; the committee greatly depends on the participation of the CAA membership in forming the conference.
The Annual Conference Committee welcomes session proposals from established artists and scholars, along with younger scholars, emerging and midcareer artists, and graduate students. Particularly welcome are those proposals that highlight interdisciplinary work. Artists are especially encouraged to propose sessions appropriate to dialogue and information exchange relevant to artists.
The Annual Conference Committee considers proposals from individual CAA members only. Once selected, session chairs must remain current members through 2012. No one may chair a session more than once in a three-year period. (That is, individuals who chaired sessions in 2010 or 2011 may not chair a session in 2012.) Sessions may bring together scholars and participants in a wide range of fields, including but not limited to: anthropology, history, economics, philosophy, religion, literary theory, and new media. In addition, the committee seeks topics that have not been addressed in recent conferences or areas that have traditionally been underrepresented.
Proposals need not conform to traditional panel formats; indeed, experimentation is highly desirable. To this end, CAA presents Open Forms, a session category that encourages the submission of experimental and nontraditional formats (e.g., roundtables, performances, forums, conversations, multimedia presentations, and workshops). Open Forms sessions may be preformed, with participants chosen in advance by session chairs. These sessions require advance planning by the session chair; apply only if you have the time required to attend to such tasks. Sessions selected by the Annual Conference Committee for the 2012 conference are considered regular program sessions; that is, they are 2½-hours long, are scheduled during the eight regular program time slots during the four days of the conference, and require a conference badge for admission. With the exception of the Open Forms category, CAA session proposals may not be submitted as preformed panels with a list of speakers. Proposals for papers for the 2012 conference are solicited through the 2012 Call for Participation, published in February 2011.
Each CAA affiliated society and CAA committee may submit one proposal that follows the guidelines outlined above. A letter of support from the society or committee must accompany the submission. The Annual Conference Committee considers it, along with the other submissions, on the basis of merit.
Session Categories
Below are descriptions of the four general submission categories.
Historical Studies: This category broadly embraces all art-historical proposals up to the third quarter of the twentieth century.
Contemporary Issues/Studio Art: This category is intended for studio-art proposals, as well as those concerned with contemporary art and theory, criticism, and visual culture.
Educational and Professional Practices: This category pertains to session proposals that develop along more practical lines and address the educational and professional concerns of CAA members as teachers, practicing artists and critics, or museum curators.
Open Forms: This category encourages experimental and alternative formats that transcend the traditional panel, with presentations whose content extends to serve the areas of contemporary issues, studio art, historical studies, and educational and professional practices.
Proposal Submission Guidelines
All session proposals are completed and submitted online; paper forms and postal mailings are not required. To set up an account in CAA’s content management system (CMS), please write to Lauren Stark (lstark@collegeart.org) , CAA manager of programs. She will register your email address and provide you with a password. (The CMS email and password are different from the member ID and password needed for access to your CAA account.) After receiving your password, go to the CMS (http://conference.collegeart.org/cms/accounts/signin?forward=/cms/) to begin your application.
Prospective chairs must include the following in their proposal:
A completed online session-proposal form
If you have prior approval of one of CAA’s affiliated societies or a CAA committee to submit an application for a sponsored session, you must include an official letter of support from the society or committee uploaded as a PDF or Word file. If you are not submitting an application for a sponsored session, please skip this step
Your CV and, if applicable, the CV of your cochair; no more than two pages in length each, uploaded as a PDF or Word file (both CVs in one document)
The committee makes its selection solely on the basis of merit. Where proposals overlap, CAA reserves the right to select the most considered version or, in some cases, to suggest a fusion of two or more versions from among the proposals submitted. The submission process must be completed online. Deadline: September 1, 2010; no late applications will be accepted.
Contact
Please direct all queries to Lauren Stark (lstark@collegeart.org), CAA manager of programs.
Voor meer informatie: http://www.collegeart.org/proposals/2012
The 2011 Annual Conference showcases the diversity and richness of art history in the UK and elsewhere over an extensive chronological range from ancient to contemporary (with a healthy dose in the middle). Sessions are geographically inclusive of Western Europe and the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia. A full range of methodologies is on offer, ranging from object-based studies, socio-historical analyses, theoretical discourses, visual culture of the moving image, exhibition cultures and display. The sessions reflect the composition of our wide constituency – independent or academic researchers (including students), museum curators and teachers.
If you would like to offer a paper, please email the session convenor(s) directly, providing an abstract of your proposed paper in no more than 250 words, your name and institutional affiliation (if any). You may only submit an abstract to one session. Please do not send proposals to the conference convenor.
For more information: http://www.aah.org.uk/page/3288
Begin september 2010 wordt in het kader van het lustrum van de Leidse Universiteit het symposium 'Ratio en Emotie' georganiseerd.
Kunsten versus Sciences = Emotie versus Ratio?
Het lustrumsymposium vindt plaats op 2 en 3 september (openingslezing 2 sept. van 17.00-18.00 uur door journaliste en schrijfster Hazel Rosenstrauch)
Onder de titel Kunsten versus Sciences = Emotie versus Ratio? verkent dit symposium de relatie tussen Kunst en Literatuur enerzijds, en exacte Sciences anderzijds. Zijn de Kunsten en de Sciences elkaars tegenpolen? Of gaat het juist om een innige verwevenheid? Zijn Kunst en Literatuur het emotionele bereik dat niets te maken heeft met de veronderstelde exacte rationaliteit van natuurwetenschappen, de Sciences? Hoe stellen kunstenaars, vormgevers en auteurs de verhouding tussen emotie en ratio voor in kunstwerken en genres die gaan over Science? Hoe zit dat in science fiction en verfilmingen hiervan, romans waarin ‘rationele’ wetenschap een rol speelt, bio-art dat door visuele retoriek reflecteert op hedendaagse bio-technologie, of robot design dat robots ontwerpt voor sociale omgang met de mens?
De voertaal van dit symposium is Engels.
Keynote lectures:
Elio Caccavale, bio-designer
Adam Roberts, science-fiction writer en docent Engelse literatuur en creative writing aan Royal Holloway, University of London
Call for papers:
U wordt uitgenodigd een abstract van maximaal 300 woorden op te sturen naar c.ten.brink@hum.leidenuniv.nl. De deadline is 15 juli 2010.
Het symposium kan een aanzet zijn voor een (Engelstalige) bundel met een selectie van de gepresenteerde papers.
Voor meer informatie klik hier.
Conference organized by Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines, 27 and 28 January 2011
Confirmed key note speakers:
Professor Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
The conference
‘Qui parle Europe a tort. Notion géographique’. Otto von Bismarck's elliptic remark, scribbled in the margin of a letter from Alexander Gorchakov in 1876, would go on to become one of the most often-quoted statements about Europe. But was Bismarck right? Is Europe nothing but a geographical notion? Even the briefest glance at history shows that more often than not perceptions and definitions of Europe go beyond the mere geographical demarcation of a continent. In 1919, for instance, Paul Valéry imagined Europe as a living creature, with ‘a consciousness acquired through centuries of bearable calamities, by thousands of men of the first rank, from innumerable geographical, ethnic and historical coincidences’. Of course this is only one of a multitude of different representations. Europe has always signified different things to different people in different places – inside Europe as well as outside. Europe meant, for instance, something different to Voltaire, l’aubergiste d’Europe, at Ferney in the 1760s than to Athanasius Kircher in Rome a century earlier or to Barack Obama in Washington today.
This conference explores the different ways in which Europe has been imagined and represented, from inside as well as outside Europe and from classical antiquity to the present day. This wide scope reflects the historical range of the LUICD’s three research programmes (Classics and Classical Civilization, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Modern and Contemporary Studies) as well as the intercontinental focus of many of the institute’s research projects. The conference aims to present a diachronic perspective of some of the many images of Europe, with particular attention to the historical, cultural and economic contexts in which these images were created and the media and genres in which they have been presented.
Although the emphasis of the conference lies on different and changing perspectives, perceptions and representations, it also wants to explore the notion of similarity – are there any aspects that keep recurring in the different visions, aspects that might even be said to be intrinsically European?
The conference aims to provide a platform for graduate students in the humanities, from Leiden as well as other universities in the Netherlands and abroad, to present and exchange their ideas in an international and interdisciplinary environment. The organising committee is honoured that Professor Jonathan Israel and Professor Edith Hall have accepted our invitation to act as keynote speakers and participate in discussions during the conference.
Proposals
The LUICD Graduate Conference aims to reflect the institute’s interdisciplinary and international character and as such welcomes proposals from graduate students from all disciplines within the humanities, from universities from the Netherlands as well as abroad. The conference wants to present a variety of different perspectives on Europe (from within as well as outside the European continent) and those working in fields related to other continents are particularly encouraged to submit a proposal.
Subjects may include historical events, processes and discourses, textual and/or visual representations, literary or art canons, colonial and post-colonial relations, philosophical developments and political issues. Questions that could be raised include:
* How did (and do) oppositions such as barbarism versus civilization, Christianity versus paganism or old versus new worlds relate to the conceptualization of Europe?
* What role does (perceived) cultural superiority play in these oppositions?
* What ideas might be regarded as predecessors of or alternatives to the concept of Europe?
* In what ways did (and do) forms of universalism and regionalism compete with identity formation on a continental level?
* How have individual artists represented Europe?
* How do different (literary) genres, such as travel literature, historiography or letters, construct a particular image of Europe or Europe’s relations with other cultures?
* Is it possible for art collections to imagine Europe or to question existing perceptions of Europe?
* How do migrant literature and cinema reflect the changing identity of Europe today?
Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) for a 20-minute paper to C.Maas@hum.leidenuniv.nl. The deadline for the proposals is 1 November 2010 – you will be notified whether or not your proposal has been selected before 15 November 2010.
After the conference, the proceedings will be published either on-line or in book form. More information on this will follow in due course.
If you have any questions regarding the conference and/or the proposal, please do not hesitate to contact us at the above e-mail address. More information about the conference will be published on the conference webpage, which will go online this summer.
The organizing committee:
Drs. Thera Giezen
Drs. Jacqueline Hylkema
Drs. Coen Maas
The third annual Glasgow Colloquium on Art Historiography will be held in the Institute for Art History of the University of Glasgow 25th – 27th November 2010. Papers lasting 20 minutes are invited on formative moments, movements, institutions and individuals in accordance with the mission statement of the Journal of Art Historiography. The UK means England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Moments could include significant exhibitions or the creation of the Dip AD, with its attendant requirements for art historical instruction. Movements could include the movement of scholars or exchange of ideas, the movement towards new art history and broadening of study to extend out of Europe. Institutions could include the foundation of art history departments or changes in the museum sector. Individuals could include significant scholars who have made an impact on the practice of the discipline.
Declarations of interest with a provisional topic should be sent to the organiser, Richard Woodfield, at r.woodfield@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk, as soon as possible and no later than June 30th. Finalised papers should be submitted by 1st November and will be circulated to participants prior to the event. Those papers, or developed versions of them, will be eligible for publication in the Journal. The organiser will also actively solicit papers.
There will be a conference fee of £75 to cover the costs of a conference dinner, refreshments and administration. Contributors will be expected to make their own hotel bookings though rooms will be reserved in convenient hotels for booking purposes. The expected cost of a single hotel room would be no more than £45 per person per night. Cheap internal and international flights are available through both Glasgow and Edinburgh airports.
Information about the Journal: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/arthistoriography/
Information about the Department of Art History: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/historyofart/
Information about Glasgow: http://www.gla.ac.uk/visitors/
For further information contact Richard Woodfield, at r.woodfield@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk.
Historians of Netherlandish Art, an affiliate of the College Art Association, is pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of JHNA, the open-access e-Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (www.jhna.org).
Issue 1:1 is dedicated to the late Carol Purtle, one of the founders of HNA. In crafting the first issue, the editors decided to focus on Netherlandish painting of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the subject of Carol's intellectual engagement. Larry Silver, Mark Trowbridge, Laura Gelfand, and Stephen Hanley have all contributed articles and Anne W. Lowenthal has written a tribute to Prof. Purtle.
JHNA will be publishing issues of peer-reviewed articles two times per year. These articles focus on art produced in the Netherlands (north and south) during the early modern period (c. 1400-c.1750), and in other countries and later periods as they relate to Netherlandish art. This includes studies of painting, sculpture, graphic arts, tapestry, architecture, and decoration, from the perspectives of art history, art conservation, museum studies, historiography, and collecting history.
The deadline for submission of articles for Issue 1:2 is September 1, 2009.
(Session call no. 11:) Thresholds – Portals – Porches – Gates. Facing Spatial Boundaries in Early Modern Amsterdam
Chair: Freek Schmidt, Free University Amsterdam, Faculty of Arts, De Boelelaan 1105, NL - 1081 HV Amsterdam
Email: f.schmidt@let.vu.nl
The number and variety of structures that helped to regulate public and private life in the early modern city are impressive. The pedestrian faced, crossed or passed numerous of these spatial boundaries every day, turning a walk around the city into a special experience. The presence of so many specially constructed, crafted and decorated boundaries may even have led to a sense of spatial segregation that we are familiar with today. Thresholds, portals, porches and gates were among the crucial elements that played an important part in everyday life of most inhabitants. An impressive amount of documentary evidence, both in images and descriptions, points to the special importance that was attached to these structures. Architects and other artists were employed in their design and production, while painters and draughtsmen produced numerous series of views of city gates, porches, etc. for a varied clientele.
This session invites papers that deal with the theme of spatial boundaries in the built environment of Amsterdam. Particularly welcome are papers that look explicitly at pictorial (and written) evidence of spatial boundaries in Amsterdam in the early modern period. Papers may either focus on all kinds of spatial boundaries within the city, including those at home (male-female), on the art of walking the city, but also concentrate on one specific building type and its visual representation that serves as a (monumental) physical boundary or passage, on city gates, on porches and portals of social, cultural or religious institutions, in order to help us understand how these spatial boundaries were conceived, created, perceived or experienced.
Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2009
More information: http://www.hnanews.org/hna/conferences/amsterdam.html
Special Number, Nottingham French Studies
Edited by Nicholas Hewitt and Tania Woloshyn
Nottingham French Studies is inviting proposals for articles for inclusion in a special number on L’Invention du Midi, to be published in late 2010.
The number will explore the cultural, economic and physical developments of the South of France, including such regions as the Côte d’Azur, in the national and international imagination from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Some possible topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- The region’s tourism: its history, its visual or literary cultures, its economics, or its physical effects
- The issue of health, in relation to climate therapies, invalid practices, and the intervention of physicians in the region’s historical development
- Modes of transport: new directions, developments, and facilitations
- The significance, distribution or production of the region’s visual culture across a range of media: painting, posters, photographs, postcards, and prints
- The region’s literary representation (by locals or visitors), its histories, its production
- Cinematic representations of the region, its histories and productions
- Themes of immigration, cross-cultural exchange, and cosmopolitanism throughout the region’s history
- Its urban centres, especially Marseille and Nice
- The historical or contemporary issue of crime, vice, or immorality
- National versus local identities, Mediterranean culture and the French imagination
Proposals, consisting of a short abstract (approx. 250 words) and contact details, should be sent to either:
Nicholas Hewitt (nick.hewitt@nottingham.ac.uk), or
Tania Woloshyn (woloshyn.tania@googlemail.com), to whom any further queries may be addressed.
Articles should be approximately 5000 words long and may include illustrations, although it is the responsibility of the author to secure authorisation of reproductions.
The deadline for final paper submission is 31 December 2009.
A workshop to be held at The Courtauld Institute of Art, 10 December 2009, 2.00 - 6.00pm.
Giorgio Vasari, writing in the sixteenth century, famously associated what he saw as a decline in the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture with the invasion of Rome by ‘Goths and other barbarians’. Just what constitutes ‘Gothic’ art, however, remains contentious. In the nineteenth century John Ruskin was amongst those who explored the meaning of the term, seeking to define the ‘Gothicness’ of medieval works. Unlike Vasari, however, Ruskin celebrated this quality, which he defined as one of savageness, changefulness, naturalism, grotesqueness, rigidity and redundance. Moreover, Ruskin advocated the use of this ‘Gothic’ style by contemporary artists and architects.
This workshop will explore responses to the art of the Middle Ages in works of art and architecture produced after 1550. Proposals are invited for papers which explore the use of medieval art and architecture in visual media produced in Europe and beyond, from 1550 to the present day.
Topics covered might include (but are not limited to):
- Ideas of the ‘Gothic’ or ‘Gothicness’ as expressed in art and architecture
- Relationships between writing on ‘Gothic’ art and visual imagery
- The use or reuse of medieval material by later artists and architects
- The use of ‘Gothicness’ in the construction of concepts of historicism and/or nationalism
- The importance of historical appropriations in the history of art
Proposals of no more than 250 words for fifteen minute papers should be sent to laura.cleaver@courtauld.ac.uk or ayla.lepine@courtauld.ac.uk by 30 September 2009.
For further information, contact Laura Cleaver or Ayla Lepine at the addresses above.
This session is organised as part of a programme of PhD seminars, and is particularly appropriate for those undertaking postgraduate research.
A workshop to be held at The Courtauld Institute of Art, 23 November 2009, 2.00 - 6.00pm.
From the mid-twentieth century notions surrounding framing devices and their hermeneutical, epistemological and ontological functions have been explored in many disciplines. The word ‘frame’ has been applied in a wide range of contexts, from literary theory to neuroscience. The common feature of all its meanings, however, has been that the frame in some way contextualises the framed, guiding the viewer/reader towards a particular reading/understanding of its contents.
This workshop will explore the significance of concepts of frames and framing for the understanding of medieval art and architecture. It will address how images and architecture are ‘framed’ and how both might contribute to the beholder’s perception of texts, spaces or objects, thereby constituting hermeneutical or ontological frames in themselves.
Proposals are sought for papers which explore such concepts of frames and framing in all media, from Byzantium and Western Europe, in the period c.400-1450.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- The question of what constitutes a frame
- Physical frames and framing systems
- Narrative and contextual frames
- Cognitive frames and structures
- The status and significance of the frame
- Disrupted or broken frames
Please send abstracts of not more than 250 words for papers of 15 minutes to laura.cleaver@courtauld.ac.uk by 31 July 2009. For further information and useful bibliography on the topic see http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/projects/medievalarttheory/index.shtml or contact Laura Cleaver at the address above.
The workshop is organised as part of the Medieval Art in Theory project at The Courtauld and is particularly suitable for those engaged in PhD research. For more information about the Medieval Art in Theory project please see the website.
The AAH Annual Conference and Bookfair takes place at a different UK venue each year. These prominent, international events take place over three days and attract up to 600 delegates and publishers. The 36th Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians will take place at the University of Glasgow, 15th - 17th April 2010.
The 36th AAH Annual Conference
Conference Convenor: Dr John Richards
CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline 9th November 2009 (Download PDF of full session list)
Various critical themes have shaped AAH conferences in recent years, and provided a focus for disciplinary self-reflection. We seek to continue in this reflective spirit, but rather than organiSe papers thematically, this call for papers is a general one from which different themes are expected to emerge.
The year 2010 marks the beginning of a new decade in 21st-century art historical investigation and an ideal moment for a reassessment of historical objects, issues, and methods, as well as acknowledging newer works of art and criticism developed across disciplines, periods, media and practice boundaries. Papers that address or employ new methods and issues are welcome, but equally important will be state-of-the-discipline investigations and critical assessments that may be uni- or multi-disciplinary, object-based, pedagogical, interrogative, theoretical, or performative. While we hope that the full historical and methodological range of the discipline will be represented, and the proposal of sessions devoted to the widest possible range of periods and cultures is encouraged, the 2010 conference particularly welcomes proposals related to medieval and Renaissance topics.
2010 marks the 20th anniversary of Glasgow as European City of Culture, and the city as a whole will be hosting this conference, from its collections to historic buildings. Though the majority of sessions will take place on the Gilmorehill campus of the University of Glasgow, one afternoon of the conference will be hosted by The Glasgow School of Art, in conjunction with the Centre for Contemporary Arts. Sessions for the GSA will demonstrate the diversity of current critical and analytical approaches to contemporary practices in art and architecture, and may be couched in practice-led and performative strategies of inquiry.
Deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 9th November 2009.
For other queries about the conference or bookfair please contact the convenor and/or administrator at aah2010@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk
Conference Convenor:
Dr John Richards, University of Glasgow, Department of History of Art
Conference and Bookfair Administrator: Dr Ailsa Boyd, University of Glasgow, Department of History of Art
In 2010 the Renaissance Society of America organizes their annual meeting in Venice. Sessions will be held on artistic exchanges between the Netherlands and Italy.
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. More information: http://www.rsa.org/