Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
SYMPOSIA FOR DEVOTEES OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
ART AND CULTURE
This site will include postings for conferences and societies working until about 1820. [April 2011: There
seems to be something of a crisis in 18th century studies, as a number a societies seem to have died.]
Remember to check the Symposia page for more general conferences related to this area.
Check out the
Jane Austen Action Figure!! A must accessory for your next seminar!!
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
Held 16-19 March 2011. Vancouver, B.C. Annual, usually March. See the Web site (and tiresome pdf)or more information.
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES: Northeast Region
Held 5-8 November 2009. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Proposals were due 15 June 2009. Please see the Web site for more information.
ART ET SOCIABILTE' AU XVIIIE SIECLE
23-25 June 2011. Paris, Institut national d'histoire de l'art salle Vasari. Please see the Web site for more information.
BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
Held 5-7 January 2011. St. Hugh's, Oxford. Theme: Time and Space. Deadline for submission was Saturday 26th September 2009. See the Web site for more information.
BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES: EVENTS
Many conferences all over the world.
CENTER FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY
11-13 May 20101. Annual. Prizes and fellowships, too. Please see the Web site for important application information.
CONFLICTING
ART HISTORIES: DIALOGUES OF COSMOPOLITANISM AND NATIONALISM IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH CULTURE
29-31 March 2012. The Open University, Milton Keynes. Association of Art History Conference. See also: (http://conflictingarthistories.wordpress.com/). "While historians Linda Colley and Gerald Newman prioritised national identity as an evaluative tool for the examination of aspects of eighteenth-century British culture, is it appropriate to apply this label to broad cultural manifestations, notably the consumptive behavioural patterns of the aristocracy and the middling classes alike? This session will consider this intriguing dichotomy of eighteenth-century British art--the underwritten and unresolved conflict between nationalism and cosmopolitanism--and its relation to the artistic practice, material culture and intellectual history of the period." Proposals due 7 November 2011.
CONSORTIUM ON THE
REVOLUTIONARY ERA: 1750-1850
23-25 February 2012. Louisiana State University.
EAST-CENTRAL AMERICAN SOCIETY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
Held 8-11, 2009. Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Web site not updated: 26 April 2011.
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Held 25-26 June 2010. No sign of a 2011+ conference: 26 April 2011.
FORTUNE & FATALITY: PERFORMING THE TRAGIC IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE (1553-1715)
Held 20 October 2006. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. [The Conference is long over but this painting is too fantastic to drop...]
HISTORIANS OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Conferences are held as part of CAA and annual meeting for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Also awards the Dora Wiebenson Graduate Student Prize for "the best graduate student paper presented during the previous calendar year at a scholarly conference or as a sponsored lecture." There is also the Mary Vidal Memorial Fund for "for modest subventions...intended to defray costs associated with research travel, conferences in which the recipients are presenting, or publication permission fees." See the Web site for more information.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
25-29 July 2011. Graz, Austria. International congresses take place every 4 years. What a pallid Web site.
NORTHEAST AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
Held 5-8 November 2009. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Proposals were due 15 June 2009. Please see the Web site for more information. Apparently, same as the AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES: Northeast Region (above).
22-25 February 2012. Los Angeles. College Art Association Annual Conference. "This panel invites papers that address the relationship between pictures and contexts in the eighteenth century-in terms of both imagery presented (the place portrayed) and the actual physical locations of pictures as experienced (the placement of pictures). In light of recent scholarship that has stressed the global eighteenth century- looking from Europe to the New World and to Africa and Asia-the session explores the role of place, be it geographical or phenomenological, in terms of how pictures functioned through consideration of where they functioned. Possible themes might include imperial or national ambitions; audience and politics of place; marketing strategies and the commodification of art viewing; exhibition venues; connections between painting and architecture; the relationship between painting, prints, and the decorative arts; and disjunctions between pictorial form and the siting of works of art. Considerations of methodological concerns in dealing with place are also welcome. Abstracts with a short CV and cover letter may be sent to the session chair by 6 May 2011: CraigAshleyHanson@gmail.com.
SOUTH-CENTRAL SOCIETY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
Held 17-19 February 2011. Saint Simon's Island, Georgia. Check the Web site for more information.
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