Resources in Art History for Graduate Students

SYMPOSIA OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS

N.B.: This page includes symposia and conferences for graduate students and those not solely for graduate students that seem to be either of special interest or are especially welcoming to you. Also note that while a regrettable number of sites below have not updated their information many of the events listed below are annual events. Contact them if you have any questions.

Rationale: the gold star is used to mark new postings accepting proposals until the date in bold type. After that date has passed, the gold star is removed and the conference becomes "to attend." After the the conference is over, I usually leave up a brief notice if it is an annual event.

Note on Location: The conferences on this page are being held in North America (U.S.A. and Canada), despite the actual location of the organization. (Example: The sometimes wandering RSA)

All Other Topics: U.S.A. and Canada

[Afro-American Studies]ART & POWER IN MOVEMENT: RETHINKING THE BLACK POWER AND BLACK ART MOVEMENTS

18-20 November 2010. University of Massachusetts Amherst. "As the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies celebrates the fortieth anniversary of its presence in the academy we wish to connect our commemoration with the emerging scholarship on African American culture and politics in the 1960s and 1970s. The Black Power movement and its cultural twin, the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s, fundamentally changed how people in the United States understood culture, education, community, politics, and even their own identities---in short, the humanities and fine arts in the broadest sense. The profound and continuing political impact can be seen in the many ways that images, formulations, and rhetoric of Black Power and Black Arts were recalled and deployed positively and negatively in the 2008 presidential campaign from Barack Obama's "Yes, we can" to right-wing characterizations of Obama as a "stealth black nationalist."

"This interdisciplinary conference will bring together new scholarship on Black Power and Black Arts as well as contributions by veterans of those movements...One-page abstracts and brief bios to (blackarts@afroam.umass.edu) by April 17, 2010." Contact the department fpr more information.

[AMERICAN ART] SOUNDING AMERICAN ART: PATTERNS AND POSSIBILITIES

10-13 February 2010 . Part of the College Art Association annual conference Chicago. "From the Revolutionary War through the contemporary era, American artists have depicted aural phenomena, using myriad formal strategies to visually convey sound and transmit its meanings. Sonic themes, including that of silence, figure prominently in representations of Republicanism, industrialization, religion, and other social processes. Issues of sound also arise in the delivery and reception of a work, most obviously when artists distribute their work through radio, recording technologies, and other types of aural augmentation. This session invites scholars to think critically and expansively as they explore the relationship between sound (natural, electronic, or otherwise) and artistic production in the United States from colonial times to the present. Papers examining such topics as musical imagery, synaesthesia, and artist-composer collaborations are welcome, provided they attend to larger sociohistorical issues related to sound. Papers utilizing interdisciplinary methodologies are of particular interest. Abstracts were due May 8, 2009, to Leo Mazow, Palmer Museum of Art, Curtin Road, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-2507.

[AMERICAN ART] VISUAL ARTS AND GLOBAL TRADE IN THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC

"Tentative Date": March 6, 2010. Salem, Massachusetts."We invite papers and proposals that examine the impact of global trade from the 1780s to the 1840s on all aspects of visual art production: painting, sculpture, architecture, garden design, ceramics, furniture, silver, wallpaper, textiles, fashion, and other media. We also invite papers on the transmission of artistic ideas-through eyewitness accounts, illustrated books and prints, imported images and objects, museum collections, patronage, art markets, and other topics. Honoraria and travel support for speakers are available through a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Organizing institutions include Salem State College, the Salem Maritime Historical Site (National Park Service), and the Salem Athenaeum. The conference will provide opportunities to tour Salem's magnificent Federalist architecture and museum collections.

"To submit proposals for papers, please send an abstract (300 to 500 words) and a brief c.v. via e-mail to (pjohnston@salemstate.edu). Proposals may also be submitted by mail to Visual Arts and Global Trade conference, c/o Patricia Johnston, Art Department, Salem State College, 352 Lafayette Street, Salem MA 01970. Proposals were due September 10, 2009.

AMERICAN ART HISTORY SYMPOSIUM--YALE UNIV.

Saturday, April 10, 2010. "The Department of the History of Art at Yale University announces its seventh annual American Art History Symposium. The organizers seek proposals from graduate students whose work exemplifies creative modes of inquiry and breaks with established critical approaches to the study of American art. We welcome submissions addressing any medium or period. Abstracts of approximately 500 words for papers not to exceed 20 minutes in length should be received, along with a CV, by Monday, February 22 for consideration. Selected speakers will be notified by Monday, March 1.

"In an effort to encourage dialogue among the participants and initiate focused discussion, we will ask selected speakers to submit in advance extended abstracts with images. We hope that our discussions might take the form of a workshop for ideas on the current state of the field and possible new directions in the study of American art. Please e-mail materials to (americanist.symposium@gmail.com). For further inquiries, please contact Elizabeth Athens at (elizabeth.athens@yale.edu) or Xiao Situ at (xiao.situ@yale.edu).

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS

They have several conferences under slightly different names around the world every year. Check under "Conferences" and "Calls for Papers" for details.

[AMERICAN STUDIES] McNEIL CENTER FOR EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES

They hold several conferences each year. Check the Web site for those of interest.

AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Held 5-8 November 2009. Washington D.C.. Theme: "Practices Of Citizenship, Sustainability And Belonging." See the Web site for more information.

AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS

Held 12-14 November 2009. Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX. "Conference Theme: 'The Beat Goes On: The Music of American Literature, History, and Culture.' Papers, abstracts, or panel information are due TBA.

ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

The annual conference sometimes has panels relating to art history.

ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN ART

Held Friday, March 21, 2008. Conferences seem to be held with CAA and The Art and Architecture Area of the American Culture Association. See Web site for more information.

ASSOCIATION FOR TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP IN ART HISTORY

Always held as part of CAA and Renaissance Society of America (others as well). See the Web site for more information.

BOSTON COLLEGE GRADUATE CONFERENCE ON ROMANCE STUDIES

Held April 3-4, 2009. Annual, supposedly. Please see the Web site for further information.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Held 27-28 March, 2009. ANNUAL. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA. "Chance: The 25th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art invites submissions on art and chance.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY

23 October 2009. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. "Graduate students in any discipline are invited to submit abstracts for "Incongruities," the 44th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium...the symposium will provide a forum for emerging scholars to discuss the roles that incongruity, disjuncture, and dissonance have played in definitions and uses of art throughout history. Contributions on any artistic medium (sculpture, print media, photography, architecture, film, painting, performance, etc.), period, and region are welcome...Abstracts were due May 15, 2009. Submissions may be e-mailed to ah-incongruity@ucla.humnet.edu or sent by mail to:

AHGSA Symposium 2009
UCLA Department of Art History
100 Dodd Hall
P.O.
Box 951417
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417
[Strange. The Web site linked above is for the 2006 offering.]

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE : ANNUAL HUMANITIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

Held April 11-12, 2008. Annual, held usually in April. For more information, please see the Web site.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Held 20 February 2009. Theme: The Limits of Knowledge: Doubt, Skepticism and the Visual. Abstracts were due to limitsofknowledge@gmail.com. by December 1st. We will notify participants by December 15th."

[CANADA] UNIVERSITIES ART ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

22-24 2009 October. University of Alberta in Edmonton. Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada. MANY topics listed--I separated out one on African art (see above), but seems to have something for almost everyone. Check the Web site; proposals were due JUNE 1, 2009.

CENTER FOR MATERIAL CULTURE SYMPOSIUM

Held 25 April 2009. Presented by the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, Delaware. Annual. For more information, please see the Web site.

[CARTOGRAPHY] CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY

12-17 July 2009. Copenhagen "The Conference is is the only scholarly conference solely dedicated to advancing knowledge of the history of maps and mapmaking, regardless of geographical region, language, period or topic... Theme: Maps, Myths and Narratives: CARTOGRAPHY OF THE FAR NORTH. Deadline for proposals was October 1st, 2008.

THE CLEVELAND SYMPOSIUM: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

26 February 2010. Annual. Theme in 2010: The Art of Exchange: Cross-Cultural Ideas in a Visual World. For more information, please see the Web site. "The exchange of ideas across local, regional, national, and continental borders has been one of the major vehicles by which art changes over time. We are seeking papers using all methodologies that explore these convergences. Examples include cases of artists influenced by other artists, places, time, culture, history, and any other relationships that are ultimately expressed in visual and material culture. We welcome submissions from graduate students in all stages of their studies and from all fields of art history including Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Contemporary and Non-Western. A monetary prize will be awarded to the speaker who presents the most innovative research in the most successfully delivered paper."

[CLOCKS] NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CLOCK AND WATCH COLLECTORS

"LATE OCTOBER" 2009 "The 2009 and 2010 Symposiums will be held at locations near the National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia, PA. The Symposium is a forum for the presentation of significant and interesting research related to the art and science of timekeeping. The 2009 and 2010 Symposiums will be forums for papers covering a broad range of topics related to timekeeping. Papers may address but are not limited to historical, technological, scientific, and educational aspects of timekeeping. Abstracts were due January 31, 2009, via e-mail to: Katie Knaub, Director of Education, NAWCC, Inc., E-mail: (kknaub@nawcc.org)[The Web site is a MESS 26 August 2009]

[COMICS] COMIC BOOKS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS

Held 23-24 October 2009. Queensborough Community College (Bayside, Queens, New York City). Part of the NEPCA (Northeast Popular Culture Association).

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM IN ART HISTORY

Held 27-28 March, 2009. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. "Concordia University's Art History Graduate Students Association invites proposals for Writing Between the Lines: Art and its Historians, a two-day graduate symposium that will investigate the roles, opportunities, and quandaries of those involved in the writing of art history...English and French submissions from graduate students and emerging scholars in all areas of art history as well as related disciplines are welcome. Abstracts to (ahgsa.concordia@gmail.com) were due December 19, 2008. Annual?

CONSORTIUM ON THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA, 1750-1850

25-27 February 2010. College of Charleston and the Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC. "(CRE) is a venue for the presentation of original reserach 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...The program committee prefers proposals for complete sessions (three papers, plus a chair and a commentator). However, we will accept proposals for incomplete sessions and individual paper proposals. Session proposals should include name of presenter, title of paper, and brief abstract (no more than one page) for each paper; and brief CVs (no more than 2 pages) for each participant. The deadline for proposals was October 15, 2009. We welcome traditional presentations of new research as well as roundtable discussions and pedagogical panels. Proposals from doctoral students are welcome. Electronic submissions should be sent in Word format.

Send proposals to:
Professor Carol Harrison
Department of Hisotry
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
ceharris@mailbox.sc.edu

COSTUME SOCIETY OF AMERICA

25-30 May 2010. Kansas City, Missouri. See Web site for details. Deadline was October 1, 2009. Explore it also for information on various symposia and other offerings.

[COSTUME] WESTERN REGION OF THE COSTUME SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Held 9-10 October 2009. Lincoln, Nebraska Hosted by the Dept. of Textiles, Clothing and Design and University of Nebraska Lincoln. Seeb the Web site for more information.

CREATIVITY AND INTIMATE PARTNERSHIP

7-10 October 2010. Oakland, California. Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. "Conventional definitions of artistic genius have framed the creative process as an individual male's solitary battle for creative self-expression. However, more recent scholarship, such as the work of Whitney Chadwick and Isabelle de Courtivron, has shown that partnership often spurred mutual creativity. We are interested in organizing a panel to offer new perspectives on how collaboration has enhanced the creative process by considering the roles filled by "significant others": lovers, partners, and friends. Furthermore, we hope to revisit how these partnerships have been portrayed by shifting the focus from the accomplishments of the individual male to a more nuanced appreciation of the ways that the creative output of both parties was shaped by mutual support and inspiration. We welcome papers from all disciplines of German history and the arts, particularly visual arts, architecture, theater, and music. Please e-mail abstracts of 200 words to Zoe Lang (zlang@arts.usf.edu) and Megan Brandow-Faller (mmf34@georgetown.edu) by February 1, 2010.

Megan Brandow-Faller
Georgetown University Department of History
Box 571305 ICC 600
Washington, DC 20057-1305
Phone (202) 687-6061/ (646) 286 5332
mmf34@georgetown.edu

CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.) ANNUAL MEETING

Held 16-18 April 2009. Marriott (at the Plaza), Kansas City. Deadline for Proposals was September 15, 2008. See the Website for more information.

THE EVERYDAY: LIVED REALITIES AND OTHER FICTIONS

23 April 2010. Graduate Conference at McGill University, Montreal, QC. "Graduate students at the M.A. or Ph.D. level from all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts for presentations of twenty minutes. Participation in the conference provides a great opportunity to present scholarly research, meet graduate students from a variety of different fields, and benefit from engaged discussions as well as valuable responses to papers. Exceptional papers may also be selected for publication. This year's symposium will explore the various moments that make up our everyday. We wish to engage with the tensions that emerge between the real (concrete) and the perceived (represented) that manifest themselves within everyday practices that occur in specific moments in time within particular places - whether lived or imagined. The everyday, through its lived realities and other fictions, can become more than just our requisite critical context, it has the potential to become a, or perhaps the, common site of collective mediation...Abstracts for submission should be no more than 300 words, accompanied by a short biography or CV. Submissions are due by Friday, January 15th, 2010 and should be submitted via e-mail to the conference committee at: (ahcs_conferencecommittee@googlegroups.com).

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS ART HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

Held 21 March 2009. Sixth Annual Festival. "We invite 300-word proposals for 20-minute lectures on the theme of "Location and Dislocation" in the history of art. The symposium is open to a wide range of historical and contemporary topics on the placement and displacement of artists, identities, artworks, texts, collections, and cultures. "Location" is broadly defined as geographic, temporal, racial, sexual, virtual, invented, or actual. We welcome proposals from historians and theorists of early modern, modern, and contemporary art of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas with research interests in architecture, design, visual culture, and cross-disciplinary studies. Proposal deadline: January 16, 2009. E-mail to eobrien@csus.edu or mail to Elaine O'Brien, Art Department, California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6061.

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ART HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Held 23-24 October 2009. Annual. Deadline for proposals was September 8. Very detailed Web site should answer your questions.

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GRADUATE ART HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

Held 3 February, 2007. Annual? Nothing on the Web site as of 25 March 2008.

[FRENCH NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART] ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART

Held 22-24 October 2009. Salt Lake City, UT. See Web site for more information. Proposals of no more than 250 words to Marni Kessler (mrk@ku.edu) were due March 15.

THE FRICK COLLECTION AND THE INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF ART

Usually held at the end of March/beg. of April. To participate you must be enrolled in one of the 14 member institutions and be nominated by your department. Write: Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 E. 78th St., New York, NY 10021. Tel.: (212) 288-0700.

GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Held 2 - 5 October 2008. Thirty-second Annual Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota.

[GRADUATE STUDENTS] NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS

Held 29 October-2 November 2008. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Annual?

HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTS AND HUMANITIES

13-16 January 2010. Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa and Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel Honolulu Hawaii, USA. "Call for papers, abstracts, student papers, work-in-progress reports, research proposals, workshop proposals, poster sessions,research tables, or reports on issues related to teaching, practitioner forums,panel discussions, and tutorials. All areas of arts and humanities are invited. You may submit your paper/proposal by using our online submission system! To use the system, and for detailed information about submitting see: http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm=20. The deadline for submissions is Saturday, September 12th, 2009. Please see the Web site for more information.

HERITAGE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE GRADUATE CONFERENCE

Held 3-4 October 2008. Cooperstown Graduate Association, Cooperstown, New York. Boy, do I hate PDFs--make a real Web site, why doncha.

THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

June [sic] 2010. Theme :Historical Inquiry in the New Century. To be held at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Deadline for proposal submissions was 1 September 2009.

HUMOR STUDIES CAUCUS

18-21 November 2010. San Antonio, Texas. "The Humor Studies Caucus works to support the critical study of all aspects of American humor at the annual American Studies Association meeting. Our goal is to create a network of scholars interested in the multidisciplinary study of American humor through a large number of approaches: material and visual culture; ethnography, history, and literary analysis; performance and film studies; audience and reception studies, etc...General inquiries and proposals can be sent to the Humor Studies Caucus e-mail: ASAhumor@gmail.com. The deadline for proposals is January 18, 2010."

INDIANA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

Held Saturday, 24 March 2007. Annual? Ever again? Ask...

INTERDISCIPLINES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

There is/was one in 2007. No other information on strangely obscure Web site. Supposedly Annual. Try: (interdisciplines@fsu.edu)." Please see the Web site for more information, haha.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY, FINE ARTS AND AESTHETICS

Held 14-15 May 2009. Annual. Radcliffe Gymnasium, Cambridge Mass USA. Theme this time: ORIGINALITY IN ARTISTIC CREATION. Abstracts were due Jan 1, 2009, Full papers due: March 1, 2009. Please see the Web site for more information. Send registration, abstracts and papers to:

• Professor Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
• Program Coordinator, ISPAFA Conference
• World Phenomenology Institute
• 1 Ivy Pointe Way
• Hanover NH 03755 USA
• FAX 802-295-5963

INTERNATIONAL VISUAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION

Held sometime in 2008. Buenos Aires. Please see the irritatingly obtuse Web site for full information, if you can find any.

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Held 7-8 March 2008. No sign of the next one, but the department was badly flooded in 2008 and so they may have other things on their minds.

[JEWISH STUDIES]ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Held 21-23 December 2008. Grand Hyatt Washington (Hotel) Washington, D.C. Please see the Web site for more information.

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Held 17-19 April 2009. Lawrence, KS. "The Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas, in conjunction with the Department of Art History at the University of Missouri, will hold is graduate student symposium. We seek papers to suit the topic "Nomadism in Art: The History of Art in Ages of Globalization." Deadline was February 1, 2009.

LOUISIANA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

Held 19-21 March 2009. Monroe, Louisiana. "The deadline for submissions was September 1, 2008. All proposals should be submitted via e-mail to the chair of the Program Committee, Dr. Mary Farmer-Kaiser, at (kaiser@louisiana.edu). The body of your e-mail should include your name, affiliation, contact information (phone and email address), and proposal title. Please send the supporting materials (abstracts and CVs) in a MS Word attachment. Annual?

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE/UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

Held 28-30 September 2007. Annual? Please see the Web site for more information.

[MANUSCRIPTS] LAWRENCE J. SCHOENBERG SYMPOSIUM ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Held 24-25 October 2008. "In partnership with the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science (PACHS) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Libraries are pleased to announce the 1st Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania. This annual symposium, organized by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI), brings together scholars from around the world to present research related to the study of manuscript books produced before the age of printing and to discuss the potential for digital technologies in advancing manuscript research. This year's symposium examines scientific manuscript book production in Western Europe, Asia, and the Arabic world before the year 1600. For more information, program details, and registration, go to: [the Web site linked above]."

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST MARK ROSKILL MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM

Held 6 March 2009. "The Organization of Graduate Students in Art History (OGSAH) announces the Ninth Annual Mark Roskill Memorial Symposium in the History of Art, to be held on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The graduate students of the program in Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst welcome the submission of abstracts for papers investigating the cultural construction of identity through the visual world. We encourage broad historical and contemporary inquiries from a variety of diverse perspectives and academic disciplines. Deadline for submissions was November 30, 2008 at 5:00 pm. Submissions can be made to symposium coordinators Rebecca Hiester and Marissa Patterson at (umassarthistsymposium@gmail.com).

MATERIALS OF PERSUASION

23 April 2010. Bard Graduate Center in New York City. "Persuasion is the key to the art of rhetoric, but there has always been a material dimension to persuasion as well...Objects are vehicles of persuasion. We are persuaded to purchase and consume objects, and we use them to persuade others, to mediate the identities we put forth, and our interactions with each other. The roles of persuasive objects change over time as they pass from hand to hand. The mutable relationships between material objects, people, and desire are powerful, tantalizing subjects of study. So how does persuasion factor into these fluid equations? Makers, buyers, and users all have unique perspectives on the art of persuasion, as well as unspoken intentions that are constantly at work beneath the surface. Some of these intentions may be deceptive - persuasion can have a dark side. Finally, persuasion rests upon various types of evidence - what must we see in order to believe? We invite scholars from diverse fields to explore these issues - come, and be persuasive...Those interested in submitting papers for consideration should contact (gradsymp@bgc.edu). Please include the title and a 250-word abstract of your paper topic, as well as a CV that includes your contact information and email address. Please send your submission no later than Friday, January 29, 2010. Accepted speakers will be notified in February.

MEPHISTOS

Held 4-6 April 2008. University of Texas at Austin. 26th annual MEPHISTOS graduate student conference devoted to the History, Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Annual??

MID-ATLANTIC POPULAR/AMERICAN CULTURE ANNUAL CONFERENCE

5-7 November 2009. Hilton Boston Logan Airport in Boston, MA. For more information, please see the Web site.

MIDDLE ATLANTIC SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF ART

Held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Student participants come from a selected group of colleges and universities. There appears to be no Web site for this; and I haven't found the date for the next one. I guess if you're in the know, you'll know.

MIDWEST ART HISTORY SOCIETY

Held 2-4 April 2009. Kansas City. "Founded in 1975, the organization is open to all art historians living in the states that comprise the Midwestern United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wisconsin). Members of the organization work to foster close relationships between Museum and academic art historians, and have devoted themselves to mentoring and encouraging the development of young art historians who are just entering the profession. Participation on the part of graduate students is eagerly encouraged, and we offer grants to offset the expenses incurred by graduate students presenting papers at the annual conference." For more information, please see the Web site.

MIDWEST INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE CONFERENCE

Held 20-22 February 2009. This was the fourth annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

MIDWEST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION

Held 3-5 October, 2008. Please go to the ornate, multi-part Web site for more information.

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA and THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS AT LAWRENCE

Annual, held every March. Please see the Web Site for more information.

MODERNIST STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

Held 13-16 November, 2008. Nashville, Tennessee. For more information, please see the Web site.

[MORRIS] WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY IN THE U.S.

Held 27-30 December 2008. San Francisco, CA. "Call for proposals for two sessions at the Modern Language Association Convention. Aabstracts were due 20 March 2008 to Prof. Florence Boos, Dept. of English, University of Iowa via e-mail: florence-boos@uiowa.edu

• Prof. Florence Boos
• Dept of English
• University of Iowa
• E-mail: florence-boos@uiowa.edu

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Held 3-14 April 2007. "The Museum of Modern Art, New York, announces its third annual graduate symposium in modern and contemporary art." Annual? Guess not.

NATIVE AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES AREA: POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION

10-13 February 2010. Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture AssociationÕs 31st Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM. "Proposals for both Panels and Individual Papers are now being accepted for the Native/Indigenous Studies Area...Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to L. Rain Cranford-Gomez or Citlalin Xochime at the contacts below. Please forward this e-mail to people who would be interested in participating." (Write for more information)

*L. Rain A Cranford-Gomez*
Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
American Literature and Language Arts
ohoyocreole@gmail.com

*Citlalin Xochime*
Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
New Mexico State University
citlalin@att.net 

DEADLINE December 15, 2009

NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST CIVILIZATION GRADUATE CONFERENCE

Held 1 March 2007. University of Toronto, Canada??? Please see the Web site for more information.

NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

Held 26 April 2008. (Note that they hold TWO conferences per year, in spring and fall.) Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. A title, one paragraph description, and short vita were due January 15, 2008 to:

• Professor Ballard Campbell
• Northeastern University
• History Department
• 360 Huntington Avenue
• Boston, MA 02115
• E-mailto: b.campbell@neu.edu

Please see the Web site for more information.

NEW ENGLAND SELF-FASHIONING: PORTRAITS AND PRESENTATIONS, 1700=1950

13 March 2010. A symposium sponsored by the Grace Slack McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College and the Office of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield. "A one-day symposium will explore the people of New England through their visual and material representations from the 18th through the 20th centuries. How have the residents of New England been portrayed individually or in groups? How have they chosen to represent themselves Ð in what contexts and in which media? How, in particular, has portraiture and self-presentation in New England presented an alternate view of the region? We particularly invite papers that will explore portraiture and self-fashioning through a variety of lenses from paintings on canvas, to prints and photography, mixed media, moving images, sculpture, fashion, architectural patronage and interior design. Explorations of portraits in various media that juxtapose or inter-weave text and image and papers that explore the topic using interdisciplinary sources or methods are also particularly encouraged.

"Please submit 250-word proposals and a two-page c.v. via electronic mail to Martha McNamara (mmcnamar@wellesley.edu) and Josh Lane (lane@historic-deerfield.org). Proposals should be theoretical or analytical in nature rather than descriptive and should include the title of the paper and the presenter's name. For further information, please contact Martha McNamara (mmcnamar@wellesley.edu) or Josh Lane (lane@historic-deerfield.org). The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2010.

NINETEENTH-CENTURY topics NOW HAVE THEIR OWN PAGE

NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION

Held 26 February-1 March 2009. Annual. Boston, MA.

NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION

Held 31 October-1 November, 2008. To be held at UMass, Dartmouth.

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Held 29 April 2006. Annual?? [See the Web site for more details, if any.]

ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

Held 15-19 October 2008. [See the Web site for more details.]

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ART HISTORY ASSOCIATION GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

16-17 April April 2010 Annual. Please see the Web site for full information. "Interested graduate and undergraduate students should submit 250-word abstract and current curriculum vitae by Friday, January 15, 2010 before 5pm."

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS

Held 26-29 March, 2009. Seattle, WA. For more information, check the Web site. (Check site every year)

PACIFIC COAST COUNCIL ON LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Held 7-8 November 2008. Hyatt Place, Las Vegas, Nevada.

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION OF VISUAL CULTURE

Held 17-18 April, 2009. "...invites proposals for papers and presentations from across disciplines and methodologies to participate in our first annual conference, Image as Witness. Our conference theme is deliberately broad and intended to encourage submissions with diverse interests including but not limited to cultural conflict, political change, museum displays, and innovative technologies. Abstracts were due February 27, 2009. For more information, please contact: (mailto:psu.gsavc@gmail.com). Emily Schiller, GSAVC Conference Co-Chair."

PHILADELPHIA SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF ART

Like the Frick talks and the Middle Atlantic Symposium on the History of Art (see above) this is open to students at a selected group of colleges and universities in the area; presumably you know whether your school is included in this group.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

held 10-12 October 2008. Sponsored by students in the History of Art and Architecture Department and the Film Studies departments, U. Pittsburgh. See the Web site for more details.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY DEPT. OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

28 March, 2009. Theme: Horizons & Horizontality. Annual? "This conference seeks to explore the roles played by horizons and horizontalityÑ-both literal and figurativeÑ-in the visual arts and the writing of their histories. Submissions are invited to interpret the terms ÒhorizonsÓ and ÒhorizontalityÓ concretely or broadly...We welcome submissions from graduate students in all areas of art history, archaeology, architecture and related disciplines. E-mail abstract and CV to Tessa Paneth-Pollak and Frances Jacobus-Parker at (gradsymp@princeton.edu) by Monday, January 11, 2010. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words and final papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Selected speakers will be notified by February 1, 2010.

[PRINTING] LEGACIES OF THE BOOK: EARLY MISSIONARY PRINTING IN ASIA AND THE AMERICAS

24-26 September 2010. San Francisco. "The Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim invites proposals for 20-minute papers (in English) for an international symposium to be held on the 400th anniversary of the death of the Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci (1552-1610). The principal focus will be on the history of missionary printing outside of Europe. The aim is to outline a comparative cultural typology of books printed in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in the context of Christian missions as a means of transmission of faith, knowledge, and culture. It will also analyze the process of adaptation of the press to and the beginnings of production of movable type in non-European languages in Asia and the Americas. Travel funding and accommodation for scholars whose papers are selected is available. See the website for more information.

Xiaoxin Wu
Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
U.S.A.
Phone: 415-422-6401, Fax: 415-422-2291
E-mail: wu@usfca.edu

(RE)MAKING (RE)PRESENTATION: CUNY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

3 May 2010. "The Theatre Students of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York announce their second graduate student conference, in conjunction with the conferral of the 2010 Edwin Booth Award by the Doctoral Theatre Students Association...Please send proposals or abstracts of 100 to 300 words to Bethany Holmstrom, Rayya El Zein, and Kelly Aliano at TSGCCUNYconference@gmail.com by January 30, 2010. Please include a cover letter stating name, affiliation, and A/V requirements." See the Web site for more.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN EUROPEAN SCHOLARS CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE

Held 19-20 October 2007. "Annual"? Web site not updated 10/2008.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY CONFERENCE

Held September 20 2008. For more information, please visit the website.

ROMANCE STUDIES COLLOQUIUM

Held 1-3 October 2009. Jersey City, Montclair State University, NJ. Theme is "Storytelling". Proposals were due 15 February 2009 to Ms. Ashley Hansberry, Colloquium Assistant (ros@montclair.edu). Please indicate your audio-visual requirements. The colloquium will address issues related to storytelling across the Romance languages and may include ethical, sociological, anthropological, linguistic, political, literary, or theoretical aspects. Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches (painting, architecture, film, performance, photography, theory, cultural studies, and media) are actively encouraged."

ROMANIAN STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

5-6 February 2010. Indiana University. We welcome paper proposals from graduate students and recent PhDs on any topic related to Romania, Moldova, or the Romanian diaspora in any discipline or methodology, including but not limited to history, political science, economics, international relations, anthropology, literature, sociology, musicology, art history, and cultural studies. Especially encouraged are papers that take an interdisciplinary approach. Small travel grants may be available to aid student travel to and from the conference. Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words, along with your contact information to RomSO@indiana.edu by Friday, December 11, 2009. (Note: this notice was posted on the listserv H-ARTHIST on 8 December. If you have something ready, give it a try...) We will be pre-circulating the papers so that our commentators can provide more extensive feedback. Therefore, if your paper is selected we ask that you submit a complete paper by Friday, January 15, 2010. Any other inquiries about the conference may be directed to the Indiana University Romanian Studies Organization at RomSO@indiana.edu or to Alex Tipei at atipei@indiana.edu.

SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON CULTURAL AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION

Held 15-17 October 2009. Newport, RI. 13th Annual Conference. Theme: The Art, Architecture, and Literature of the Gilded Age. "Fueled by the great prosperity after the Civil War, artists, writers, designers, architects and patrons looked both internally and abroad in an attempt to prove the United States equal to the Old World. These efforts pervaded all forms of artistic media, especially art, interior design, architecture, sculpture, literature and photography. Artistic and literary sources for the Gilded Age were wide ranging from the American Colonies to European Renaissances to the orient, and resulted in multi-media presentations of American supremacy. Salve Regina University's Conference will explore the application of these ideas to the art, architecture, interior design, decoration, and literature of Gilded Age epoch...We welcome submissions from scholars of all academic disciplines, as well as from younger scholars and graduate students. Proposals should include 250-word abstracts and CVs. Proposals were due March 15, 2009 to:

• Catherine Zipf
• Salve Regina University
• 100 Ochre Point Ave.
• Newport, RI 02840
• Catherine.Zipf@salve.edu.

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ART HISTORY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

10 April 2010. San Jose, California."16th Annual Symposium. "We are considering 20 minute papers from graduate and advanced undergraduate students on various aspects of art, architecture, and visual culture. You will be asked to submit a 250-word abstract, a maximum 10-page paper, images, and a brief letter from a sponsoring faculty member. For more information and an application form, please contact Dara Feuerberg, President of the Art History Association, at (dfeuerberg@gmail.com). Deadline for papers is February 1, 2010."

SOUTHWEST/TEXAS POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS

10-13 February 2010. Albuquerque, NM, Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Associations 30th Annual Conference." TBA more information.

SURREALISM AND THE AMERICAS

4-5 November 2010. Rice University, Houston, Texas. "This conference focuses on the interactions and patterns of influence among surrealist artists and collectors within the Americas that have been marginalized within dominant narratives of Surrealism and European exile. It will address three primary areas: 1) the reception of Surrealism by collectors and curators in the Americas; 2) Latin American artists engagement with the surrealist project; and 3) Surrealism's "after-life" in art and criticism in the Americas since the 1960s. More generally, the conference intends to shed light on what has often been described as Surrealism's "tense relationship" with Latin America. The conference also seeks to investigate the artistic legacies or contestations that continue in the visual culture of the Americas in the wake of earlier generations of Surrealism. Abstract and c.v. to: claudia.mesch@asu.edu, and amy.winter@qc.cuny.edu, were due October 1, 2009. For full CFP please see: jsa.asu.edu; click on "Announcements."

TENNESSEE CONFERENCE OF HISTORIANS

Held 25-26 September 2009. Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. Annual?

THINKING ABOUT 'THINGS': INTERDISCIPLINARY FUTURES IN MATERIAL CULTURE

10-12 May 2010. University of Michigan. "...a three-day international and interdisciplinary graduate student conference designed to explore material culture and the ways in which we create it, interact with it, use it, discard it, and study it....Because of the nature of our funding and mission, we can only accept papers from students. Papers dealing with notions of preservation, broadly interpreted, are sought from graduate students working across a diverse spectrum of disciplines and interdisciplines. Deadline for submission of abstracts is January 15, 2010. We welcome submissions from students at all stages of graduate study." Please see the Web site for more information.

VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES

Held 5-8 November 2009. Part of the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. "The ASA is particularly interested in work that explores the rituals and practices that have defined us as citizens, delimited and sustained communities, and/or created a sense of belonging in our lives. The meeting theme and location present an important opportunity to examine the visual dimensions of nationalism, immigration, and/or civic engagement; visions of the ideal "American" (re)produced by our national monuments and museums; contestations over citizenship expressed through artistic debates; the role that new media have played in the formation of imagined communities; and many other rich topics. While proposals may take the traditional form of scholarly papers, the ASA welcomes the use alternative formats such as roundtables, workshops, and site visits...deadline was January 26, 2009.

VISUAL CULTURE GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

Held 11-13 April 2008. Sponsored by the Department of American Studies at Saint Louis University, MO. Apparently annual. Please see the Web site for more information.

WORLD HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Held 25-28 June, 2009. Salem State College, Salem, MA. Annual conference at different locations and with different topics each year. The next regional meeting is the NW World History Association annual meeting, in Seattle, October 9-10, 2009. Deadline for paper submissions was August 25. Note: "A new group "Art in World History" has been formed within the World History Association. It welcomes contact with like minded scholars and teachers in other organizations. For more information contact Ralph Croizier, ralphc@uvic.ca."

           Ralph Croizier
           Professor of History and Art History
           Emeritus, University of Victoria 
           e-mail: 

Black Moon Japanese art and culture.