Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
SYMPOSIA OF RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE
INTEREST
It is interesting to see how the Renaissance and/or Baroque conference seems to have moved away from the annual
CAA session to more independent venues (RSA, Sixteenth Century Society, SECAC, even Kalamazoo). Is this a sign of
CAA's lack of support for studies in these areas? Debate! 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
Held 5-7 June 2008, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Links to other conferences.
ARIZONA CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES
12 - 14 February 2009. in Tempe, Arizona. Annual--held usually in February. 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?]
ATTENDING TO EARLY MODERN WOMEN: CONFLICT, CONCORD
5-7 November 2009. Somehere in Maryland, looks like. Call for Workshop Proposals: Deadline October 1,
2008. See the Web site for more information.
BARNARD COLLEGE MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE
6 December 2008. Annual? Theme: The Shape of Time in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Director: Joel Kaye; Email: jkaye@barnard.edu.
CARAVAGGIO: REFLECTIONS AND REFRACTIONS
19-21 March 2009 Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Los Angeles, California. "As we
approach the 400th anniversary of Caravaggio's death (1610 / 2010), it is time to reconsider the artist and his
works by grappling not with the whole torrent of new Caravaggio research but selectively, with a more
limited group of pivotal if thorny issues that we consider paramount for renovating and re-launching studies in
this field. On reflection, we determined that four themes are particularly suited for these discussions, as they
encompass broad questions destined to change our views on Caravaggio, his art and his followers. Therefore, we are
particularly interested in new essays...
Proposals were due May 20, 2008, to both:
- Prof. Lorenzo Pericolo
- The Getty Research Institute
- 1200 Getty Center Drive Suite 1100
- Los Angeles CA 90049-1688
- tel 310-440-6400
- fax 310-440-7782
- lpericolo@getty.edu
and
- Prof. David M. Stone
- Department of Art History
- 318 Old College
- Newark, DE 19716
CENTRO/PERIFERIA?: PROVINCIALISM IN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART
21-19 March 2009 Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Los Angeles, California. "The
distinction center/periphery is commonly known to historians of Italian Renaissance art through the "classic"
definition presented by Enrico Castelnuovo and Carlo Ginzburg in 1979. More recently, Charles Cohen has proposed
the notion of provincialism to account for the pictorial oeuvre of il Pordenone (1996). Despite the potential of
these notions to expand and to articulate more fully our conception of early modern visual culture, few scholars
have focused their research on the relationship between the production of art works and style in leading centers,
such as Florence and Venice, and in their cultural "provinces." This panel hopes to address the status quaestionis
while seeking novel approaches to this subject. Proposals from all traditions and all media are welcome. Papers might
address little known art works and artists or revisit famous masterpieces and masters from this perspective. Ideally,
papers would abstract from particular aspects of the works on which they focus and address pertinent theoretical,
methodological, or historiographic issues. Abstracts were due noon of May 24 to:
Renzo Baldasso
Smithsonian Institution
baldasso@umd.edu
FACES OF THE CITY: POWER, COURT CULTURE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, CIVIC RITUAL,
AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN EARLY MODERN NAPLES
April, 2009 [sic] Royal Holloway University of London, UK. "We invite papers to address the
following subjects:
Politics, The Spanish entourage, Ambassadors and travelers, Academies: from literature to science,
Festivities and celebrations, The public sphere, Order and disorder, Visual representations of Naples.
Please send your proposal to Dr Lorenza Gianfrancesco, Royal Holloway University of London:
(l.gianfrancesco@rhul.ac.uk)" No due date listed!! Posted 21 October 2008
FOUNDATIONS OF MODERNITY: A Graduate Symposium on the Italian Renaissance at Yale
University
3-5 April 2009 Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. "On behalf of the Department of Italian Language
and Literature, we are pleased to announce the first Graduate Student Symposium on the Italian Renaissance, to be
held at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The Renaissance has long been considered the laboratory of
Western modernity. But is this a valid proposition? This conference aims to investigate the authentic
meaning of such a relationship and the role Italian cultural production played between the late 14th and the end of
the 16th century. In the interests of interdisciplinarity, paper topics may consider, but are not limited to the
following:
- Literary and political performances of Renaissance courts
- New worlds and early modern state formation
- Questions of science and technology
- Authorship, readership, and theories of imitation
- Renaissance and the ancient world
- Questions of orthodoxy and transgression in theology
- Formulations of Humanism
- Medieval and Renaissance: continuity or rupture?
- History of Renaissance as a critical category
- Renaissance art and its relation to modern image culture
"Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes (approximately 9-10 pages of double-spaced text) and may be in
Italian or in English. Please submit an anonymous abstract (no longer than 250 words) and, on a different
page, a cover sheet with the title of your paper, your name, affiliation, and contact information (including
telephone and e-mail address). Kindly send this information as Microsoft Word file attachment to
(foundationsofmodernity@yahoo.com) by November 15, 2008. Future information will be available on the events
Web page of the Yale Italian Department: (http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html) as the symposium draws nearer.
HISTORIANS OF NETHERLANDISH ART
Information about all conferences they sponsor, plus links to other announcements.
MICHELANGELO'S NEOPLATONISM: Theory and Practice
28-30 May 2009 Geneva, Switzerland, Sixteenth Century Society Conference 2009. "Whereas the impact of Neoplatonism
on Renaissance culture has always been emphasized by researchers of the history of literature and philosophy, it has been
repeatedly ignored or even challenged by art historians. With regard to Michelangelo's art, for instance, the influence of
Neoplatonism has been rejected alltogether by Eugenio Garin and Horst Bredekamp, although his lyrics bespeak a thorough
knowledge of neoplatonic theories. Apart from the disregard of the results of research done in other fields, the reason for
this seems to be the misconception that the interpreter of Renaissance art must decide between Neoplatonism and Christian
Orthodoxy although it is one of the most outstanding characteristics of Neoplatonism to successfully connect philosophy with
Christian tradition. This call welcomes papers on all aspects regarding the interrelation or non-relation between Michelangelo's
philosophical or theological thinking and artistic practice, be it case studies or more general approaches. Interdisciplinary
approaches are especially welcome. Please send abstract of no more than 200 words and curriculum vitae to:
- Berthold Hub/ETH Zurich:
- berthold.hub@gta.arch.ethz.ch
- Deadline: 2 November 2008
NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE STUDIES
Held March 6-8, 2008. Biennial. More information to be posted. [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 10-11 October 2008. Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. Annual?
NEWBERRY LIBRARY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
Annual. About June every year. "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." For more
information, see the Web site.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE
Held 3-5 April 2008. Vancouver, British Columbia. "The theme for this year's conference is "Renaissance
In-Betweenness." We invite papers, panels, discussion groups, and workshops that examine Renaissance engagements
with various transitional figures and cultural artifacts. The PNRS program coincides with the annual convention of
the Medieval Academy at the Hyatt Regency, and both organizations hope that conference participants will engage in
fruitful conversation across a range of historical fields and disciplines...Individual abstracts
(250-words) or panel / workshop proposals to Tiffany Alkan (talkan@sfu.ca) and Vin Nardizzi
(nardizzi@interchange.ubc.ca) were due October 1, 2007.
PATRISTIC, MEDIEVAL, AND
RENAISSANCE STUDIES CONFERENCE
Held 10-12 October 2008. Villanova University. 33rd International PMR Conference. "As always, the PMR makes an *
OPEN CALL to scholars, institutions, and societies/ to propose * *Papers, Panels, or Sponsored Sessions in
_all areas and topics_ *in *late antiquity/patristics, Byzantine Studies, Medieval Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish
Studies, *and* Renaissance & Reformation Studies. *. DEADLINE was May 30, 2008." Please visit *the Web site* for
further details.
PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE FORUM
24-25 April 2009. Annual. Abstract deadline: 15 January 2009. Please see the Web site for
more information.
REINVENTING THE OLD MASTER: FACT, FICTION, AND FABRICATION IN THE AFTERLIVES OF OF THE EARLY MODERN ARTIST
19-21 March 2009 Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, UCLA & The Getty Museum, Malibu. "Scholars
have long recognized that the nineteenth century saw a surge of interest in the lives of Renaissance and Early
Modern artists, an interest made manifest in a variety of media, including painting, prints, critical biographies,
popular literature, theater, opera, and caricature. Much attention, for instance, has been paid to the proliferation
of imagery recreating episodes from biographies of artists from Giotto to Rembrandt. Of particular import is the
recognition that the majority of these interpretations adhere to traditional literary topoi and biographical
patterns, such as the artist as madman, bohemian, child prodigy, or sexual deviant. These later interpretations
present themselves as history, but, in actuality, fact, fiction, and fabrication are inextricably entwined in the
nineteenth-century Nachleben of the Early Modern artist. How do we reconcile contradictions between the popular
perception of the artist and historical evidence? An abstract of no more than 150 words and a short CV
via e-mail to Dr. Mia Reinoso Genoni at genoniRSA@gmail.com was due May 23, 2008.
RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Held 2 February 2008. Annual, about the same time every year. See the Web site for full information. [N.B: Clicked
link leads to notice: "This Account Has Been Suspended. Please contact the billing/support department as soon as
possible." 25 October 2008. Wow, I would be so red-faced...]
RENAISSANCE NEOPLATONISM AND THE ARTS
19-21 March 2009 UCLA & The Getty Museum, Malibu. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "Whereas
[SIC] the impact of Neoplatonism on Renaissance culture has always been emphasized by researchers of the history of
literature and philosophy, it has been repeatedly ignored or even challenged by art historians. With regard to
Michelangelo's art, for instance, the influence of Neoplatonism has been rejected alltogether by Eugenio Garin
and Horst Bredekamp, although his lyrics bespeak a thorough knowledge of neoplatonic theories. Apart from the
disregard of the results of research done in other fields, the reason for this seems to be the misconception that
the interpreter of Renaissance art must decide between Neoplatonism and Christian Orthodoxy although it is one of the
most outstanding characteristics of Neoplatonism to successfully connect philosophy with Christian tradition.
This call welcomes papers on all aspects regarding the interrelation or non-relation between philosophy and art in
the Renaissance, be it case studies or more general approaches. Contact:
- Berthold Hub/ETH Zurich:
- berthold.hub@gta.arch.ehtz.ch
- Deadline was 15 May 2008
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."
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SOCIETY CONFERENCE 2008
28-30 May 2009. Geneva, Switzerland. Abstracts were due March 15, 2008. Proposals will be
accepted until 7 November 2008. For more information please see the Web page.
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SOCIETY CONFERENCE
2009
28-30 May 2009 The Crowne Plaza Hotel Geneva (Switzerland). "Proposals will be accepted until 7 November
2008...beginning August 1, 2008 proposals with abstracts (up to 200 words in length) for papers and complete
sessions for the SCSC meeting should be submitted on-line at: (http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conf_proposals.shtml)
SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES (UK)
16-19 April 2009. Biennial Conference. To be held at the Royal Holloway University of London. UK.
"All proposals, both individual and panel, should be submitted not later than 31 October 2008." See
the Web site for more information.
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 REFORMATION RESEARCH
28-30 May 2009 The Crowne Plaza Hotel Geneva (Switzerland). Will hold joint sessions with the Sixteenth
Century Studies Conference (SCSC). "General Theme: MEMORIA: WITNESSING AND REMEMBERING THE REFORMATION...If you
would like to submit a paper or session for sponsorship by the SRR, please contact Susan Boettcher by e-mail only:
susan.boettcher@mail.utexas.edu . Please contact me well ahead ofthe conference deadline of November 7, 2009."
Please see the Web site for more information.
SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE STUDIES (UK)
Held 10-12 July 2008 in Dublin. Annual. Headquartered in London. "The Society has a limited number of bursaries
for postgraduate students who would like to attend the conference." Also publishes Renaissance Studies.
Check the growing Web site for more information. Proposals for papers and panels are invited for the third
interdisciplinary conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies. The Society would welcome papers on any
aspects of Renaissance history, literature, philosophy, music, art, architecture and other artefacts. Proposals
are welcome from both established scholars and post-graduates working in the field. Proposals were due Friday 7
September 2007.
SOUTH CENTRAL RENAISSANCE
CONFERENCE
5-7 March 2009. Annual. Hot Springs, Arkansas. The deadline for abstracts is December 1, 2008.
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.
THE SPLENDOUR OF BURGUNDY (1419-1482). A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
12-14 May 2009 Concertgebouw Bruges, Belgium. "In the course of the fifteenth century, the reputation of the Burgundian
court rose to an unprecedented level, catapulted forward by ever growing territorial ambitions and accumulation of wealth.
This reached a climax during the reign of Charles the Bold (1433-1477), the living embodiment of the pomp and pageantry of
the Burgundian court and a generous patron of the fine arts. Rather than focusing on a single domain, the conference aims to
shed light on Burgundian court culture as an organic whole, between the start of the reign of Philip the Good (1419) and the
death of Mary of Burgundy (1482). It is intended to provide a forum for new research from the fields of History, History of Art,
Literature and Musicology. To this end, two plenary assemblies will present a multidisciplinary approach to the topics of
'Power of/and representation' and 'Feast culture', while a number of specialised sessions will allow in-depth exploration
and discussion of more specific aspects of the conference theme.
"For the specialised sessions, we invite proposals for panel sessions as well as for individual papers of thirty minutes
(excl. discussion time). The function and meaning of concepts and artefacts (or their portrayal) in the context of the
Burgundian court culture can be discussed from multiple perspectives and (inter-)disciplinary approaches. Possible themes
include (but are not limited to) the relationship between courtly and urban networks; gift exchange and its remnants in
artefacts, literature and music; liturgical history of the court and its related institutions; administrative and
governmental history. Proposals for both panel sessions and individual papers in the form of an abstract not exceeding 300
words should be sent as an e-mail attachment to symposium@brugge.be by 15 December 2008. Notification of acceptance
will be given by 30 January 2008. The conference language is English.
STUDY OF RENAISSANCE INVENTORIES
19-21 March 2009 UCLA & The Getty Museum, Malibu. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. Please
send a 150 [SIC] abstract, paper title and CV to both Jessica Keating (j-keating@northwestern.edu)
and Lia Markey (lmarkey@uchicago.edu). Deadline was 16 May 2008. Speakers must be members of RSA at the time of
the Conference.
[TEXTILES] TOWARDS AN ICONOLOGY OF THE TEXTILE
19-21 March 2009 UCLA & The Getty Museum, Malibu. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "The
fabrication of textiles is one of the oldest cultural technologies. Nevertheless, relatively little art historical
research is being done on textiles. The objective of the proposed RSA session is to investigate the historical
meanings and functions of the textile medium in early modern art and architecture. The exploration of this specific
medium is meant as to contribution to a historical theory or iconology of the textile. The interdisciplinary study
of such a textile discourse may touch on: Scholars of any discipline interested in a historical reflection on the
textile are invited to submit a paper title, a 150 words abstract, and a short CV to Tristan
Weddigen (weddigen@gmx.ch) This was due 15 May 2008.
TUDORISM: HISTORICAL IMAGINATION AND THE
APPROPRIATION OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
5-7 December 2008. University of Bristol. Sponsored by the Colston Research Society and the
British Academy. Please see the Web site for more information.
UNIVERSITY
OF TEXAS AT TYLER CONFERENCE ON CLASSICAL, MEDIEVAL, AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES
Held 22 March 2008. Annual? Web site 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
Held 18-20 September 2008. Wise, Virginia. "The University of Virginia's College at Wise Medieval-Renaissance
Conference promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies. The conference
welcomes proposals for papers and panels on Medieval or Renaissance literature, language, history, philosophy,
science, pedagogy, and the arts. For more information, please visit the website. Deadline for submissions was June 10, 2008.
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...
Return to the Main Resources Page
A Guide to Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
This Web Page created, owned and updated by: Adrienne DeAngelis
It is interesting to see how the Renaissance and/or Baroque conference seems to have moved away from the annual CAA session to more independent venues (RSA, Sixteenth Century Society, SECAC, even Kalamazoo). Is this a sign of CAA's lack of support for studies in these areas? Debate! 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.
Held 5-7 June 2008, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Links to other conferences.
12 - 14 February 2009. in Tempe, Arizona. Annual--held usually in February. 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?]
5-7 November 2009. Somehere in Maryland, looks like. Call for Workshop Proposals: Deadline October 1, 2008. See the Web site for more information.
6 December 2008. Annual? Theme: The Shape of Time in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Director: Joel Kaye; Email: jkaye@barnard.edu.
19-21 March 2009 Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Los Angeles, California. "As we approach the 400th anniversary of Caravaggio's death (1610 / 2010), it is time to reconsider the artist and his works by grappling not with the whole torrent of new Caravaggio research but selectively, with a more limited group of pivotal if thorny issues that we consider paramount for renovating and re-launching studies in this field. On reflection, we determined that four themes are particularly suited for these discussions, as they encompass broad questions destined to change our views on Caravaggio, his art and his followers. Therefore, we are particularly interested in new essays...
-
Proposals were due May 20, 2008, to both:
- Prof. Lorenzo Pericolo
- The Getty Research Institute
- 1200 Getty Center Drive Suite 1100
- Los Angeles CA 90049-1688
- tel 310-440-6400
- fax 310-440-7782
- lpericolo@getty.edu
- Prof. David M. Stone
- Department of Art History
- 318 Old College
- Newark, DE 19716
21-19 March 2009 Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Los Angeles, California. "The
distinction center/periphery is commonly known to historians of Italian Renaissance art through the "classic"
definition presented by Enrico Castelnuovo and Carlo Ginzburg in 1979. More recently, Charles Cohen has proposed
the notion of provincialism to account for the pictorial oeuvre of il Pordenone (1996). Despite the potential of
these notions to expand and to articulate more fully our conception of early modern visual culture, few scholars
have focused their research on the relationship between the production of art works and style in leading centers,
such as Florence and Venice, and in their cultural "provinces." This panel hopes to address the status quaestionis
while seeking novel approaches to this subject. Proposals from all traditions and all media are welcome. Papers might
address little known art works and artists or revisit famous masterpieces and masters from this perspective. Ideally,
papers would abstract from particular aspects of the works on which they focus and address pertinent theoretical,
methodological, or historiographic issues. Abstracts were due noon of May 24 to:
Renzo Baldasso
Smithsonian Institution
baldasso@umd.edu
FACES OF THE CITY: POWER, COURT CULTURE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, CIVIC RITUAL,
AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN EARLY MODERN NAPLESApril, 2009 [sic] Royal Holloway University of London, UK. "We invite papers to address the following subjects:
Politics, The Spanish entourage, Ambassadors and travelers, Academies: from literature to science, Festivities and celebrations, The public sphere, Order and disorder, Visual representations of Naples.Please send your proposal to Dr Lorenza Gianfrancesco, Royal Holloway University of London: (l.gianfrancesco@rhul.ac.uk)" No due date listed!! Posted 21 October 2008
FOUNDATIONS OF MODERNITY: A Graduate Symposium on the Italian Renaissance at Yale
University- Literary and political performances of Renaissance courts - New worlds and early modern state formation - Questions of science and technology - Authorship, readership, and theories of imitation - Renaissance and the ancient world - Questions of orthodoxy and transgression in theology - Formulations of Humanism - Medieval and Renaissance: continuity or rupture? - History of Renaissance as a critical category - Renaissance art and its relation to modern image culture
"Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes (approximately 9-10 pages of double-spaced text) and may be in Italian or in English. Please submit an anonymous abstract (no longer than 250 words) and, on a different page, a cover sheet with the title of your paper, your name, affiliation, and contact information (including telephone and e-mail address). Kindly send this information as Microsoft Word file attachment to (foundationsofmodernity@yahoo.com) by November 15, 2008. Future information will be available on the events Web page of the Yale Italian Department: (http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html) as the symposium draws nearer.
Information about all conferences they sponsor, plus links to other announcements.
MICHELANGELO'S NEOPLATONISM: Theory and Practice28-30 May 2009 Geneva, Switzerland, Sixteenth Century Society Conference 2009. "Whereas the impact of Neoplatonism on Renaissance culture has always been emphasized by researchers of the history of literature and philosophy, it has been repeatedly ignored or even challenged by art historians. With regard to Michelangelo's art, for instance, the influence of Neoplatonism has been rejected alltogether by Eugenio Garin and Horst Bredekamp, although his lyrics bespeak a thorough knowledge of neoplatonic theories. Apart from the disregard of the results of research done in other fields, the reason for this seems to be the misconception that the interpreter of Renaissance art must decide between Neoplatonism and Christian Orthodoxy although it is one of the most outstanding characteristics of Neoplatonism to successfully connect philosophy with Christian tradition. This call welcomes papers on all aspects regarding the interrelation or non-relation between Michelangelo's philosophical or theological thinking and artistic practice, be it case studies or more general approaches. Interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome. Please send abstract of no more than 200 words and curriculum vitae to:
- Berthold Hub/ETH Zurich:
- berthold.hub@gta.arch.ethz.ch
- Deadline: 2 November 2008
Held March 6-8, 2008. Biennial. More information to be posted. [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 10-11 October 2008. Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. Annual?
Annual. About June every year. "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." For more information, see the Web site.
Held 3-5 April 2008. Vancouver, British Columbia. "The theme for this year's conference is "Renaissance In-Betweenness." We invite papers, panels, discussion groups, and workshops that examine Renaissance engagements with various transitional figures and cultural artifacts. The PNRS program coincides with the annual convention of the Medieval Academy at the Hyatt Regency, and both organizations hope that conference participants will engage in fruitful conversation across a range of historical fields and disciplines...Individual abstracts (250-words) or panel / workshop proposals to Tiffany Alkan (talkan@sfu.ca) and Vin Nardizzi (nardizzi@interchange.ubc.ca) were due October 1, 2007.
Held 10-12 October 2008. Villanova University. 33rd International PMR Conference. "As always, the PMR makes an * OPEN CALL to scholars, institutions, and societies/ to propose * *Papers, Panels, or Sponsored Sessions in _all areas and topics_ *in *late antiquity/patristics, Byzantine Studies, Medieval Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, *and* Renaissance & Reformation Studies. *. DEADLINE was May 30, 2008." Please visit *the Web site* for further details.
PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE FORUM24-25 April 2009. Annual. Abstract deadline: 15 January 2009. Please see the Web site for more information.
19-21 March 2009 Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, UCLA & The Getty Museum, Malibu. "Scholars have long recognized that the nineteenth century saw a surge of interest in the lives of Renaissance and Early Modern artists, an interest made manifest in a variety of media, including painting, prints, critical biographies, popular literature, theater, opera, and caricature. Much attention, for instance, has been paid to the proliferation of imagery recreating episodes from biographies of artists from Giotto to Rembrandt. Of particular import is the recognition that the majority of these interpretations adhere to traditional literary topoi and biographical patterns, such as the artist as madman, bohemian, child prodigy, or sexual deviant. These later interpretations present themselves as history, but, in actuality, fact, fiction, and fabrication are inextricably entwined in the nineteenth-century Nachleben of the Early Modern artist. How do we reconcile contradictions between the popular perception of the artist and historical evidence? An abstract of no more than 150 words and a short CV via e-mail to Dr. Mia Reinoso Genoni at genoniRSA@gmail.com was due May 23, 2008.
Held 2 February 2008. Annual, about the same time every year. See the Web site for full information. [N.B: Clicked link leads to notice: "This Account Has Been Suspended. Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible." 25 October 2008. Wow, I would be so red-faced...]
19-21 March 2009 UCLA & The Getty Museum, Malibu. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "Whereas [SIC] the impact of Neoplatonism on Renaissance culture has always been emphasized by researchers of the history of literature and philosophy, it has been repeatedly ignored or even challenged by art historians. With regard to Michelangelo's art, for instance, the influence of Neoplatonism has been rejected alltogether by Eugenio Garin and Horst Bredekamp, although his lyrics bespeak a thorough knowledge of neoplatonic theories. Apart from the disregard of the results of research done in other fields, the reason for this seems to be the misconception that the interpreter of Renaissance art must decide between Neoplatonism and Christian Orthodoxy although it is one of the most outstanding characteristics of Neoplatonism to successfully connect philosophy with Christian tradition. This call welcomes papers on all aspects regarding the interrelation or non-relation between philosophy and art in the Renaissance, be it case studies or more general approaches. Contact:
- Berthold Hub/ETH Zurich:
- berthold.hub@gta.arch.ehtz.ch
- Deadline was 15 May 2008
"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."
28-30 May 2009. Geneva, Switzerland. Abstracts were due March 15, 2008. Proposals will be accepted until 7 November 2008. For more information please see the Web page.
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SOCIETY CONFERENCE
200928-30 May 2009 The Crowne Plaza Hotel Geneva (Switzerland). "Proposals will be accepted until 7 November 2008...beginning August 1, 2008 proposals with abstracts (up to 200 words in length) for papers and complete sessions for the SCSC meeting should be submitted on-line at: (http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conf_proposals.shtml)
16-19 April 2009. Biennial Conference. To be held at the Royal Holloway University of London. UK. "All proposals, both individual and panel, should be submitted not later than 31 October 2008." See the Web site for more information.
?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 REFORMATION RESEARCH28-30 May 2009 The Crowne Plaza Hotel Geneva (Switzerland). Will hold joint sessions with the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (SCSC). "General Theme: MEMORIA: WITNESSING AND REMEMBERING THE REFORMATION...If you would like to submit a paper or session for sponsorship by the SRR, please contact Susan Boettcher by e-mail only: susan.boettcher@mail.utexas.edu . Please contact me well ahead ofthe conference deadline of November 7, 2009." Please see the Web site for more information.
Held 10-12 July 2008 in Dublin. Annual. Headquartered in London. "The Society has a limited number of bursaries for postgraduate students who would like to attend the conference." Also publishes Renaissance Studies. Check the growing Web site for more information. Proposals for papers and panels are invited for the third interdisciplinary conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies. The Society would welcome papers on any aspects of Renaissance history, literature, philosophy, music, art, architecture and other artefacts. Proposals are welcome from both established scholars and post-graduates working in the field. Proposals were due Friday 7 September 2007.
SOUTH CENTRAL RENAISSANCE
CONFERENCE5-7 March 2009. Annual. Hot Springs, Arkansas. The deadline for abstracts is December 1, 2008. 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.
THE SPLENDOUR OF BURGUNDY (1419-1482). A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH12-14 May 2009 Concertgebouw Bruges, Belgium. "In the course of the fifteenth century, the reputation of the Burgundian court rose to an unprecedented level, catapulted forward by ever growing territorial ambitions and accumulation of wealth. This reached a climax during the reign of Charles the Bold (1433-1477), the living embodiment of the pomp and pageantry of the Burgundian court and a generous patron of the fine arts. Rather than focusing on a single domain, the conference aims to shed light on Burgundian court culture as an organic whole, between the start of the reign of Philip the Good (1419) and the death of Mary of Burgundy (1482). It is intended to provide a forum for new research from the fields of History, History of Art, Literature and Musicology. To this end, two plenary assemblies will present a multidisciplinary approach to the topics of 'Power of/and representation' and 'Feast culture', while a number of specialised sessions will allow in-depth exploration and discussion of more specific aspects of the conference theme.
"For the specialised sessions, we invite proposals for panel sessions as well as for individual papers of thirty minutes (excl. discussion time). The function and meaning of concepts and artefacts (or their portrayal) in the context of the Burgundian court culture can be discussed from multiple perspectives and (inter-)disciplinary approaches. Possible themes include (but are not limited to) the relationship between courtly and urban networks; gift exchange and its remnants in artefacts, literature and music; liturgical history of the court and its related institutions; administrative and governmental history. Proposals for both panel sessions and individual papers in the form of an abstract not exceeding 300 words should be sent as an e-mail attachment to symposium@brugge.be by 15 December 2008. Notification of acceptance will be given by 30 January 2008. The conference language is English.
19-21 March 2009 UCLA & The Getty Museum, Malibu. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. Please send a 150 [SIC] abstract, paper title and CV to both Jessica Keating (j-keating@northwestern.edu) and Lia Markey (lmarkey@uchicago.edu). Deadline was 16 May 2008. Speakers must be members of RSA at the time of the Conference.
19-21 March 2009 UCLA & The Getty Museum, Malibu. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "The fabrication of textiles is one of the oldest cultural technologies. Nevertheless, relatively little art historical research is being done on textiles. The objective of the proposed RSA session is to investigate the historical meanings and functions of the textile medium in early modern art and architecture. The exploration of this specific medium is meant as to contribution to a historical theory or iconology of the textile. The interdisciplinary study of such a textile discourse may touch on: Scholars of any discipline interested in a historical reflection on the textile are invited to submit a paper title, a 150 words abstract, and a short CV to Tristan Weddigen (weddigen@gmx.ch) This was due 15 May 2008.
5-7 December 2008. University of Bristol. Sponsored by the Colston Research Society and the British Academy. Please see the Web site for more information.
Held 22 March 2008. Annual? Web site seldom updated in time for submissions; you ask them why. For more information, please attempt to see the Web site.
Held 18-20 September 2008. Wise, Virginia. "The University of Virginia's College at Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference promotes scholarly discussion in all disciplines of Medieval and Renaissance studies. The conference welcomes proposals for papers and panels on Medieval or Renaissance literature, language, history, philosophy, science, pedagogy, and the arts. For more information, please visit the website. Deadline for submissions was June 10, 2008.
"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.
About a dozen very different fellowships for study/research at the Met or in other locations. Check the Web site for the full information.
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