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)





Here: Conferences in the U.S.A. and Canada







INDEX TO ALL THE PAGES







Asian Art

American Art History and Culture

Architecture and Urban Design

Classics and Archeology

Italy

Islamic Art

Medieval Topics

Renaissance and Baroque Topics

Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture


Film, Movies, TV, and Media

Popular Culture

Women, Men, and Gender
 
All Other Topics: British Isles, ANZAC, Europe, and Everywhere Else



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






















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




This page has been revised to move two large symposia subjects to their own individual sites: 
American Art History and Culture Symposia and  
Popular Culture. A few conferences will be listed on both this page and one of the two, as I deem 
appropriate.




ABSTRACT PAINTING AND BEYOND




9-11 February. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. This is a conference with several 
distinguished speakers, including: Elise Archias, Nancy Davenport, Andre Dombrowski, Darby English, 
Briony Fer, Rachel Haidu, Michael Leja, Daniel Marcus,  Christine Poggi, Anne M. Wagner, Margaret Werth. 
See linked Web site for details.




[AFRICAN ART] NEW SPACES FOR 
NEGOTIATING ART (AND) HISTORY IN AFRICAN CITIES




14-17 March 2012. Bamako, Mali. Deadline: October 31, 2011. Please see the link 
for details.




[African-American Studies] 13th ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY




Held 9-11 November 2011. Memphis, Tennessee. "We welcome the submission of individual papers, 
complete sessions, workshops, and roundtables on all topics relating to the scholarship and teaching 
of the history of African Americans and blacks throughout the Diaspora. We hope to elicit the participation 
of graduate students who represent a broad range of disciplinary and methodological approaches. 
Individual paper proposals should include a 300-word abstract, including a paper title; author contact 
information; postal address and e-mail address; and a brief curriculum vitae. The organizers of 
complete sessions should send, in a single submission, abstracts and cvs for each of the paper 
presenters; 200-word description of the session; and contact information for all participants. 
Please list audio-visual requirements, if any.

"The submission deadline for proposals is September 1, 2011. A committee of University of 
Memphis professors will consider all papers for the "Memphis State Eight Paper Prize" which is 
awarded to the conferenceÕs best paper. The first place prize includes a monetary award. Second 
and third place papers will also receive recognition. Please submit all proposals by e-mail to GAAAH 
President Kaylin Ewing:  (gaaah.memphis@gmail.com) or (kewing@memphis.edu)."




[African-American Studies] NEW PERSPECTIVES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE CONFERENCE




Held 18-19 February 2011. Fifth Annual New Perspectives on African-American History and Culture
Conference at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill...*Eligibility*: Faculty and graduate students. 
The deadline for proposals was Monday, November 1, 2010. Respond via e-mail to (bdp@email.unc.edu) with your 
name, institution, title, e-mail address,  proposed paper title, a 150-word abstract, and curriculum vitae. Please 
put "Conference Proposal" in your subject line. The conference paper itself should have a historical focus and be
a *maximum *of ten pages in length, not including endnotes and/or bibliography. 




AGES OF THE BOOK




15-19 October 2012. Mexico City. "The aim of the conference is to bring together specialists 
from diverse fields of study, such as written and printed culture, visual design and communication, 
editing and the publishing industry, history, literature and new technologies, for discussion of 
academic, scientific, technical and economic issues that will advance our knowledge on the written 
word throughout history. The conference will explore the wide range of traditions and innovations 
surrounding the composition of texts manifest in distinct periods and in different regions of the 
world, from the early production of codices through to present day electronic books...We accept 
abstract submissions in Spanish, English or French. Participants will be asked to provide a Spanish 
translation of their talk so that this can be projected on a screen during their presentation.
The deadline for abstracts is the 31st of January 2012. There will be no extensions. All abstracts 
will be reviewed by an international committee. Authors will be notified of the results from the 
31st of March 2012 and will have until the 31st of May to send their full papers. 
For more information please visit: (http://www.edadesdellibro.unam.mx)...Deadline: Jan 31, 2012.




AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION




This is the parent Web site and lists conferences to 2016. Note that the AHA does not limit its 
coverage to American topics, although they do predominate. 




[AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE] COMMUNITY AND NETWORKS: THE EARLY 
AMERICAN ROAD: BRINGING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER, 1900-1950




5-8 January 2012. Chicago, Illinios, American Historical Association Annual Meeting. "After 
the creation of the automobile, the common American had the ability, for the first time, to afford the 
expenses of traveling to any area of the country. During the first half of the 20th century, the cities 
of the United States were growing and Americans took to the road. This panel will address the historical, 
cultural, and social significance of the beginnings of the American road. The emphasis will be on how American 
citizens became better connected through the creation of the American road system. Topics include but are not
limited to the effect of the early American road system on business, leisure, community growth, family life, 
and government interaction. Please send questions and/or 200-300 word abstracts by January 15, 2011 to 
Dominic Longo, (dsl82@hotmail.com). To participate in the 126th Annual Meeting, scholars must be a member
of the American Historical Association as stated in the Annual Meeting Guidelines.





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.




ART AND STRUGGLE




8-9 March 2012. Presented by the Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories, 
Master's Program at OCAD University, Toronto, Canada. We welcome submissions from graduate students 
in all fields and disciplines. Selected participants will be notified by January 9, 2012,
and full papers due March 1, 2012. Symposium presentations will be 20 minutes in length.
For more information, visit: (www.ocad.ca/gradstudies) Please submit a CV and 250-word abstract 
by December 2, 2011 to Caoimhe Morgan-Feir at: (artandstruggle@gmail.com). 




ART HISTORY SOCIETY OF CSU LOS ANGELES




Held 22 January 2011. "We welcome papers exploring the character, status, and function of artists in society 
in European, Islamic, and Mesoamerican art. Our goal is to investigate the position, training procedures, and 
general attitudes toward artists from a variety of civilizations and cultures in order to learn more about the 
different roles and practices of artists in diverse cultures...Abstracts were due October 25, 2010 via e-mail to: 
(ahssymposium@gmail.com)





THE ART OF TRAVEL




23 March 2012. Art History Graduate Symposium, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. New 
Brunswick, NJ. "How has travel opened up possibilities and challenges for the arts? How and why are artists 
transformed by their experiences of traveling to new places and encountering other peoples? How has foreign 
travel impacted host cultures? How does the movement of artistic media and materials from one location to 
another shape their meaning?...We invite graduate students from across disciplines to submit abstracts
(maximum 300 words) and a current CV to (rutgers.ahgso.symposium@gmail.com) by December 5, 2011... 
Applicants will be notified of the committee's decisions by December 15, 2011." See the link for details.




ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES




The annual conference sometimes has panels relating to art history. 




ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN ART




Held 8-9 October 2010. "...will host a symposium, Current Research in American Art, Brooklyn, NY.  
1-page proposal, c.v., and letter stating AHAA membership status to the Co-Chairs of the session of your choice 
were due June 23. The Web site includes information for the conferences in 2012 and 2013.





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. [New Web site is a mess--22 Nov. 2010]




[AUSTRIA] GLOBAL AUSTRIA




27-29 April 2012. Long Beach, California, California State University. "Abstracts in any field 
and era of Austrian Studies will be welcomed; interdisciplinary and transnational work is
strongly encouraged." See the Web site for further information. SUBMIT ABSTRACTS BY 15 SEPTEMBER 2011. 




 BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE 
ART HISTORY STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
  



 2-3 March 2012. ANNUAL. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA. 
See the spasmodically updated Web site for more information: (http://www.bu.edu/ah/students/graduate-student-history-of-art-architecture-association/the-symposium/). 
Theme: Seeing Multiple. "From a material and a symbolic viewpoint...We welcome submissions 
from graduate students at all stages of their studies, working in any discipline. 
by 28 November, 2011."  




UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM




30-31 March 2012. Annual. University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Theme is The Unseen. 
"Current and recently graduated Master of Arts, Masters of Fine Arts, Doctoral and Post Doctoral scholars 
are encouraged to submit an abstract of no more than 300 words by January 6, 2011. Include 
your full name, affiliation and contact information and send your abstract to 
(gradsymp@interchange.ubc.ca)." Please see the link for details.




CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN SOCIETY 
BIENNIAL CONFERENCE




Held 21-23 October 2010. Bienniel. The Huntington Library / Pasadena, California. THEME: WEIRD AMERICA: 
CIRCUM-ATLANTIC CULTURES, 1790-1830. "The Brown Society invites proposals on all aspects of weirdness in the 
circumatlantic basin between 1790 and 1830...250-word proposal deadline was Monday May 3. Please send a Word.doc 
of the proposal to: Duncan Faherty at (duncan.faherty@qc.cuny.edu) For any questions, please contact: Philip 
Barnard at (philipb@ku.edu).




UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES 
DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
  



Held 22 October 2010. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. "Graduate students in any field are invited to 
submit abstracts for UCLA's 45th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium, "Back to the Future." 
We invite papers that engage questions of time in art, art history, and exhibition. The symposium will 
allow emerging scholars to examine temporality, chronology, and constructed histories/futures in 
relation to the creation, transcendence, or obfuscation of the present. How is art a form of time travel? 
What are the stakes and consequences of forward- or past-looking aesthetics? How do the temporal 
qualities of art function in cooperation or discordance with formal qualities? What roles do
institutional context, art history, and politics play in the 'timing' of art? Abstracts were due May 15, 2010. 
Submissions may be e-mailed to backtofuture@humnet.ucla.edu." PLEASE MAKE A CURRENT WEB SITE




UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE: ANNUAL HUMANITIES 
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE: (dis)junctions




Held April 1-2, 2011. Annual, held usually in April. For more information, please see the Web site.  




UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA GRADUATE STUDENT 
SYMPOSIUM




Held 29-30 April 2011. "The graduate students in the History of Art and Architecture Department 
at the University of California, Santa Barbara announce our 36th Annual Symposium, devoted to the 
theme "Moralities in the Visual Arts." We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of this theme from 
graduate students and recent PhDs in all areas of scholarship...Please submit proposals of up to 300 
words for 20-minute papers along with a brief CV to Brigit Ferguson, symposium co-organizer, at 
(bgf@umail.ucsb.edu) by December 31, 2010. We will contact all submitters regarding acceptance 
of the proposals by February 1, 2011. We ask that papers, including images, be submitted to the 
organizers at least one week in advance of the symposium for the benefit of panel respondents.
 



CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS




Held 16 April 2011. Seventh Annual Art History Symposium:  The Real and the Fake. Please send a 
300-word proposal for a 25-minute lecture and a one-paragraph professional biography as an e-mail attachment 
to eobrien@csus.edu. Deadline was January 25, 2011. (Elaine O'Brien, Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art & 
Theory, CSU Sacramento)




[CANADA] 
UNIVERSITIES ART ASSOCIATION OF CANADA




Held 27-28 2011 October 2011.  University of Alberta in Edmonton. Conference of the Universities Art 
Association of Canada. The deadline for submissions to the Call for Papers is May 15th 2011. Check the Web 
site for details.




[CARIBBEAN]
ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN HISTORIANS




Held 16-20 May 2011. 43rd Annual Conference, to be held in Puerto Rico. "Application instructions, as
well as forms for paper and panel proposals, are available on the Association of Caribbean Historians website 
(see link above).  All applications must be received by Sept. 30, 2010 for consideration.





CENTER FOR MATERIAL CULTURE 
SYMPOSIUM




Held 16 April 24 2011. 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.




CHRISTIANITY AND LATIN AMERICAN ART




21 February 2012. Los Angeles, California, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Association of 
Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art. "We invite papers that explore religious themes, 
narratives, iconography, or sensibilities in Latin American visual culture, in a variety of media, 
of any period or region of Latin America, of colonial or postcolonial history." Please see Web site 
for details.  "Proposals of no more than two pages double-spaced should be submitted, along
with cover letter and CV to both Prof. Rachel Smith at (rcsmith@taylor.edu), and Prof. Ronald R. 
Bernier at (bernierr1@wit.edu). Deadline for submission is September 15, 2011. 




THE CLEVELAND SYMPOSIUM: 
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY




23 March 2012. Annual. Theme in 2010: Things Fall Apart: Fragmentation in Visual Culture
.For more information, please see the Web site. "We welcome submissions from graduate students in 
all stages of their studies and from all fields and geographic regions, ranging from ancient through 
contemporary art. We will also consider papers from a wide range of methodologies and approaches. 
A monetary prize will be awarded to the speaker who presents the most innovative research in the most 
successfully delivered paper. Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words for papers of no longer 
than 20 minutes, along with a curriculum vitae or resume, to (clevelandsymposium@gmail.com) by 
December 15, 2011. Please include "Cleveland Symposium Submission" in the subject line of your e-mail.




[COMICS]  GRAPHIC NOVELS, COMICS, AND POPULAR CULTURE




8-11 April 2012. Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "The 
SW/TX PCA/ ACA invites papers on 
Comics, Graphic Novels, Popular Culture. Any Aspect of Comics and Graphic Novels in Popular Culture will
be considered...Please send title and 25-200 word abstract by December 1, 2011.





CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT 
SYMPOSIUM IN ART HISTORY




Held 11-12 March, 2011. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Annual. See the Web site for details.




COSTUME SOCIETY OF AMERICA 




Held 7-12 June 2011. Boston. Massachusetts. See Web site for details. Deadline was October 1, 2010. 
Explore it also for information on various symposia and other offerings.




COSTUME SOCIETY OF 
AMERICA: WESTERN REGION




17-18 March 2012. The William S. Hart Ranch & Museum in Santa Clarita, CA. Theme: Interpreting 
History through Costume. "The Western Region Symposium offers an opportunity for established Members and
potential New Members to present Oral Research Papers or Research-in Progress Reports on unpublished research, 
new creations and/or practical experience...Your proposal abstract and e-mail must be received October 
15, 2011." See the link above for more information. 




[COSTUME] DECONSTRUCTING COSTUME HISTORIES: Re-Reading Identities in Fashion Collections and 
Exhibitions




22-25 February 2012. Los Angeles. CAA 100th Annual Conference. "This panel invites papers discussing 
the diversity of costume and dress as experienced by minority, ethnic, and underprivileged economic groups 
and the representation of gender, race, and class in fashion collections and exhibitions. The panel also
welcomes the examination of appropriation, nationalism, multiculturalism, colonialism/post-colonialism, 
subcultures, street fashion, and other related topics in light of fashion collections and exhibitions...
Please send completed submission form, a one to two page double-spaced abstract, a letter explaining the 
speaker's interest and expertise in the topic, a current CV, and a sample of your work if relevant by May
20, 2011 to both organizers:
Consuelo Gutierrez: (cg_information@yahoo.com) ; Ian McDermott: (ian.mcdermott@artstor.org)





CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.) 
ANNUAL MEETING




Held 24-26 March 2011. Columbia College Chicago. Deadline for Proposals was 17 September 2010. See 
the Website for more information. 




[DECORATIVE ARTS]
MUSEUM OF EARLY SOUTHERN DECORATIVE ARTS CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE




Held 28-30 October 2010. Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, Georgia. Biennial. "Papers on topics 
relating to early American and southern material culture are encouraged from Scholars, curators, and 
graduate students in American studies, southern studies, decorative arts, history, art history and 
other fields. Subjects with an interdisciplinary approach to the study of material culture are highly 
encouraged. Proposals will be accepted for individual papers or for panel sessions. Paper proposals 
must include the author's name, the paper title, a one-page abstract and the author's curriculum vitae.  
Session proposals must include a chair, list of presenters, cover letter, a one-page summary of the 
session theme, presenter curriculum vitae, and abstracts for all papers. The deadline for proposals 
was May 15, 2010. Electronic submissions in MS Word format are preferred.  Please send proposals to: 
(MESDAEducation@oldsalem.org), or via US Mail to:



 


[DESIGN] BRINGING 
IT BACK: DESIGN AND REVIVALS




13-14 April, 2012. Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY. "This symposium 
seeks papers, from students in all fields, that look at aspects of particular revivalist 
movements in the history of the decorative arts and design or at revivalism in general. We 
are interested in proposals that discuss form and style as well as proposals that examine 
design's role as a cultural metaphor and as a mediator of sociopolitical perspectives...To 
submit a proposal, send a two-page abstract, one-page bibliography and a c.v. to:
Dr. Ethan Robey, Associate Director, MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts & Design, 
(robeye@si.edu). Deadline: January 30, 2012." See the link for details.




CONCORDIA 
UNIVERSITY GRADUATE INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE




1 March 2012. Concordia University, Montreal. Theme: The Once and Future Worlds. "We invite 
papers from graduate students from all areas of the humanities that will inspire, challenge, and stretch 
personal assumptions, academic categories, and pedagogical approaches. This conference provides an excellent 
opportunity to share and publicize research as well as to meet other like-minded up-and-coming academics and 
researchers...Presentations in either French or English are encouraged. Proposals may be submitted by e-mail. 
..Proposals should be postmarked no later than December 9th, 2011...E-mail: (agic.concordia@gmail.com)
Visit the website at (http://agicconcordia.wordpress.com/). 




DESIGN/HISTORY/REVOLUTION
 



27-28 April 2012. Parsons/New School for Social Research/New York City. See also: 
(http://designhistoryrevolution.wordpress.com/). Please submit a 250-word abstract (maximum) and 1-page
CV to: (designhistoryrevolution@gmail.com). Deadline: Dec 7, 2011.




DISABILITY & POPULAR CULTURE




Held 14-16 Oct 2011. Midwest Popular Culture Association (MPCA), Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "The Disability & 
Popular Culture area of the MPCA invites proposals (or abstracts) for papers on any aspect of the intersection 
of disability and popular culture. All topics, approaches, and perspectives related to disability and popular 
culture are welcome. Interdisciplinary perspectives are encouraged, as are discussions of new directions in 
disability studies and popular culture studies. Proposals should be 250-300 words in length, and must be 
received by April 30, 2010...Proposals and inquiries should be sent by e-mail to the Disability & Popular 
Culture area chair, Asim Ali, at (aali@umd.edu)...More information regarding the conference is available at:
(http://www.mpcaaca.org."

 


ELECTRONIC 
VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS
 



10-12 July 2012. British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA. "The EVA London 
annual conference tracks and presents the development and application of electronic visualisation 
technologies, in art, music, dance, theatre, the sciences and other fields...Deadline: 22nd January 
2012." See the link above or (http://www.eva-london.org/) for details.




THE END 
OF THE "-ist" AND THE FUTURE OF ART HISTORY




30-31 March 2012. Graduate Research Conference, Princeton University Department of Art & 
Archaeology. "The Princeton...2012 graduate research conference, The End of the '-ist' and the 
future of art history. Including scholarship on European, American, Latin American, African, Asian 
and other areas of study, this year's conference will consist of an evening session and opening 
address on Friday, March 30th followed by a series of three panels and a keynote address by Yaelle 
Biro (Assistant Curator of African Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art) on Saturday, March 31st...
Interested participants should submit a CV and one page abstract for a twenty minute paper as 
attachments to (gradsymp@princeton.edu) by 1/5/2012. Successful applicants will be 
notified by 01/20/2012...Limited funds for travel and lodging are available for participants."
See the link for details.




EUROPEAN STUDIES CONFERENCE


Held 6-8 October 2011. University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska. Thirty-sixth  Annual European Studies 
Conference. "As an interdisciplinary conference, the Steering Committee invites submissions of
a variety of scholarly papers by 16 May 2011. All presentations must be in English. Presentation of 
individual papers should be no more than 20 minutes long. You may download or print out the Call for Papers form 
[at the link], or request that a form be mailed to you." 




EXPERIMENTAL CULTURES: 
MERGERS OF ART AND SCIENCE




27 November 2012. 6th Annual Graduate Symposium, Department of Art, University of Toronto, 
Canada. "Please e-mail abstracts of no more than 500 words for 20-minute papers, in addition to a 
short CV to (gusta.symposium@gmail.com) by November 15, 2011. Successful candidates will be 
contacted by December 1, 2011." See link for details.




FLORIDA STATE 
UNIVERSITY ART HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM


4-5 November 2011. Annual. Very detailed Web site should answer your questions. The deadline for 
abstracts (maximum 500 words) is Monday, August 29, 2011. Please include the title of the talk, 
graduate level, and whether the subject originated in thesis or dissertation research. Send the abstract either 
as a printout or an e-mail attachment to:

Dr. Lynn Jones, Symposium Coordinator
Florida State University
Department of Art History
220-D Fine Arts Building
530 West Call St.
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1151
lajones@fsu.edu 






FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY DEPT. OF RELIGION ANNUAL GRADUATE 
STUDENT SYMPOSIUM




17-19 February 2012. Tallahassee, Florida. "This year's symposium will be centered on the 
theme Beyond Borders: Constructing, Deconstructing and Transgressing Boundaries...Due to our 
commitment to collaborative scholarship, students from all fields with interdisciplinary interests 
in the study of religion and at all levels of graduate study are encouraged to submit paper 
proposals. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Building and Maintaining Identities; 
Communities, both Local and Global; Scholars Manufacturing Subjects; Strategies of Empowerment 
and Subjugation; Limits of Embodiment; Political, Ethical and/or Gender Conflicts; Discourses of 
(In)Justice.

"Presentations should be approximately 15 to 20 minutes in length and will receive faculty 
responses. In addition, every year respondents select the best graduate paper to receive the Leo 
F. Sandon Award, an endowed award named for the Religion Department's former chair. Proposals 
including an abstract of approximately 300 words, a list of key terms, and a one-page CV should 
be submitted by December 1, 2011 for review. Final papers must be submitted by January 15, 
2012.  Please send proposals to Michael Graziano at (fsureligionsymposium@gmail.com).




UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GRADUATE ART HISTORY 
SYMPOSIUM




Held 3 February, 2007. Annual? Nothing on the Web site as of 19 April 2011.  




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




22-25 September 2011. Louisville, Kentucky. Please see the Web site for details.





GREATER VIRGINIAS




29-31 March 2012. James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. The Virgina Forum.
The Virginia Forum is interdisciplinary and welcomes proposals from scholars, teachers, and  
professionals in all fields. The theme, "Greater Virginias", emphasizes Virginia's relationship 
across political and geographical boundaries to broader ideas, patterns, and adjoining regions. 
The theme is comparative and invites scholars to submit papers about all aspects of Virginia life, 
geography, environment, history, and culture...Direct further inquiries to: (vaforum@jmu.edu). 
Proposal Deadline: September 30, 2011." Please see the link for details.




HAWAII INTERNATIONAL 
CONFERENCE ON ARTS AND HUMANITIES




10-13 January 2012. Honolulu. Hawaii. Submission/Proposal Deadline: August 19th, 2011. 
Please see the Web site for more information and how to submit online.

 



THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY




Held 3-5 June 2010. Theme Historical Inquiry in the New Century. Held at Washington 
University, Washington, DC. Deadline for proposal submissions was 1 September 2009. [Web site 
not updated 19 April 2011.]




[HUMOR] DEADLY 
SERIOUS ART: STRATEGIES OF HUMOR AS CRITIQUE




9 March 2012. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Sponsored by the Art 
History Department. "Proposals should take the form of a 300-word abstract, to be submitted with a CV 
by October 28, 2011. Participants will be notified by November 8th...Please e-mail proposals 
to: Sarah Archino: (sarchino@gc.cuny.edu) and Monica Steinberg: (msteinberg@gc.cuny.edu)."




HUMOR STUDIES CAUCUS




Held 20-23 October 2011. Baltimore, Maryland. Part of the American Studies Association. 
Annual; about the same dates each year.





INDIANA UNIVERSITY 




3 March 2012. Bloomington, Indiana. Theme: INSIDE/OUT: Negotiations of Space and Identity 
in Arts and Architectures. "We invite graduate students to submit abstracts of 250 words for papers 
exploring aesthetic practices as they are conditioned by place, nation, transnationalism, 
post-coloniality, or diaspora. How are social spaces Ñartifactual, material, and imagined--made 
expressive of human categories and identities? The symposium is open to investigations of any 
compelling topic, era, artist, or place considered in this light. By welcoming diverse perspectives 
from all areas of art and architectural history and visual culture studies, the symposium will create 
a dialogue around concepts of identity, belonging, borders, and cultural exchange as they 
are constructed and articulated through creative work. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. 
Please e-mail abstracts to ahasympo@gmail.com by December 30, 2011.




INSTRUMENT, IMAGE, EKPHRASIS: INTERSECTING GENRES OF KNOWLEDGE




25 February 2012. 24th Annual Stony Brook University English Department Graduate Conference. 
"The English Department at Stony Brook University is proud to offer an interdisciplinary call for 
papers that asks graduate scholars to reflect on the instruments of their discipline, and to think 
about how ekphrasis (ek as "out," and phrasis as "speaking") speaks out about the intersection of
image, instrument, and genre. What is "instrumentality" in literature, or art, or philosophy? How 
is it the same, or different, in the social or hard sciences? Does it imply a certain mentality, 
or construct a static "reader"? Abstracts can be up to 250 words, and should be submitted by 
Friday, December 17, 2011. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance shortly after the 
December deadline. Students interested in competing for the Best Paper Prize sponsored by Stony 
Brook English faculty must submit a completed paper no later than January 16, 2012 for consideration. 
Award winners will be announced at the conference. E-mail submissions to: (SUNYSB.GradConf@gmail.com).




INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE IN 
THE HUMANITIES: WORD/IMAGE/CULTURE




10-12 November 2011. Annual. University of West Georgia campus in Carrollton, Georgia. Topic: 
Transformation / Adaptation. Proposals are due by July 15, 2011. For individual proposals please 
submit a one-page abstract in English, French, German or Spanish via e-mail to Dr. John Blair, jblair@westga.edu. 
Include the presenter's name, institution, e-mail, phone and any audio-visual or technical requirements for 
the presentation."

 


INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE FANTASTIC IN THE ARTS


 21-25 March 2012. Orlando, Florida at the Orlando Airport Marriott. 




INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE 
ASSOCIATION




4-6 October 2012. Chicago, IL. "The International Sculpture Center (ISC)
seeks papers for the 23rd International Sculpture Conference: Process, Patron and Public. This
conference will bring together artists, educators, art administrators, museum directors, collectors, 
patrons, students and sculpture enthusiasts to explore how sculpture becomes part of our culture.
Individuals are invited to submit proposals for papers and panel discussions that provoke critical 
exchange and debate in relation to the broad thematic areas referred to above. To submit an abstract 
or to join the mailing list, please visit (http://www.sculpture.org/), call 609.689.1051 x.308
or e-mail (events@sculpture.org). [NO DEADLINE FOR AMSTRACTS LISTED: 8 January 2012]




INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY, FINE ARTS AND AESTHETICS




 Annual. Web site not updated: 19 April 2011. Please see the rather confused Web site for more information. 




INTERNATIONAL VISUAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION




Held 6-8 July 2011. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Please see the Web site for full 
information. 




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. [No sign of it 19 April 2011]




[JEWISH STUDIES] JEWISH ART: REEVALUATION, RECOVERY, RECLAMATION, RESPECT




22-25 February 2012. Los Angeles. College Art Association annual conference. "There is a long 
and vexed history between Jewish cultural production in the visual realm and the discipline of art history. 
However, as a field, the study of Jewish art has been coming into its own. Scholars have inquired across a 
broad range of issues: asking "what is Jewish art?" and "Why has it been excluded from Western 
(typically Christian) art history?" At the same time, other practitioners have engaged in "excavate and 
recovery" studies necessary for the writing of any history of a marginalized group and akin to other 
'newer' fields, such as Feminist art and African American art. Other important work examines the portrayal 
of Jews in visual culture and re-evaluates canonical artists for the impact of their heritage on their
work. Where are we now? What kinds of questions are we asking? This session invites papers that examine 
issues-old and new-in field of Jewish art, broadly interpreted. Case studies are also welcome. 
Abstracts with a short CV and cover letter may be sent to the session chair:
Andrea Pappas (Santa Clara University) at (apappas@scu.edu). Deadline: May 6, 2011.


 

[JEWISH STUDIES] ASSOCIATION FOR 
JEWISH STUDIES ANNUAL CONFERENCE




18-20 December 2011. Grand Hyatt Washington, Washington D.C. Online submissions due 15 May 2011. 
Please see the Web site for more information.

 


UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM




Held 4-5 March 2011. Lawrence, KS. No sign of the conference on the departmental Web site: 19 April 2011.....

 



LANDSCAPES IN TIME




18 April 2012. Detroit, Michigan. The Landscape History Chapter of the Society of Architectural
Historians (SAH). "Please submit abstracts and a one-page curriculum vita by 1 August 2011
to both (susan.herrington@ubc.ca) and (sduempel@umd.edu)." See the Web site for details.  

 


THE LIFE OF NEW MATERIALS




17-18 November 2011. Hagley Museum and Library, Chemical Heritage Foundation, and 
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science. "Paper proposals are invited for a conference...that
will explore the lives of the new materials that have made possible many of the technological advances 
of our age...Papers should be historical and based on original research, and may consider any region 
of the world after 1900. Submissions should include a brief c.v. and an abstract for the proposed 
paper that is no more than 500 words in length. The deadline for proposals was April 1, 2011. 
Please go to [the Web site] to submit a proposal."





 [MAPS] EXPLORING MAPS: HISTORY, FABRICATION, 
AND PRESERVATION




2-3 November 2011. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, PA. "This program will provide an overview of 
the history of maps and address predominant issues in their care and preservation. Speakers will also
explore creative, innovative approaches to reinterpreting and revitalizing historic maps through
advances in preservation and technology."




UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MARK ROSKILL GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM




Held 15 October 2010. UMass, Amherst. "This year's symposium will concentrate on the theme of art and
architecture as objects of cultural confrontation and conversation. We invite graduate students and recent 
graduates to submit abstracts. Papers may address issues related to the concept of cultural property,
provenance, issues of restoration, the ethics of excavations, authorship, art as cultural heritage, 
globalization, landscape and urban-planning, sacred sites and their role in religious conflict or
cohesion, advertising, propaganda, cross-cultural influences, artistic re-appropriation and reuse, the 
impact of the audience, among others. Papers in all fields and periods of art history are welcome. 
Guidelines for Submission: Submission is open to graduate students in art history, archaeology and 
conservation.




MATERIAL CULTURE SYMPOSIUM FOR 
EMERGING SCHOLARS




14 April 2012. Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Delaware. "Focus: Object-based research has 
the potential to expand and even reinvent our understanding of culture and history. In honor of the 
tenth anniversary of the MCSES, we seek a broad range of papers from emerging material culture scholars. 
Whether exploring the latest theories, viewing existing material through a new lens, or reinterpreting 
standing historical conversations with an object-based focus, proposed papers should exemplify the 
possibilities in material culture research. In exploring these material matters, we hope to promote 
an interdisciplinary discussion on the state of material culture studies today...Send your proposal, 
with a current c.v. of no more than two pages, to (emerging.scholars@gmail.com). Deadline: Proposals 
must be received by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 16, 2011. Speakers will be notified of the 
vetting committee's decision in January 2012."




MID-AMERICA 
HUMANITIES CONFERENCE




9-10 March, 2012. The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. "The 2012 MAHC conference 
theme, World as Text: Text as World seeks to investigate historical and contemporary 
practices of reading and writing the world, broadly conceived. As a forum for interdisciplinary 
student research, MAHC encourages participation from students in the humanities, social sciences, 
and the arts: anthropology, religious studies, art history, literatures and languages, history, 
women's studies, media studies, visual arts, geography, theatre, dance, sociology, film, 
American Studies, and other interdisciplinary programs. Please submit a 250-word abstract to: 
(dfourny@ku.edu) by 11/18/11. Open to undergraduate as well as graduate student research." 
See link for details [not updated as of 25 October 2012].





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 14-16 April 2011. Grand Rapids, Michigan. "This session is open to presentations on new research, 
innovative methodologies in the field of 19th century art (broadly defined): new interpretations of familiar
works; papers on perception, critical theories, primary criticism, global interchange of forms, styles and 
ideas. Phylis Floyd, Michigan State University, (Floyd@msu.edu)" For more information, please see the Web site.
Proposals were due by 15 October 2010.




MIDWEST CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES




Held 4-6 November 2011. Annual.Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN. "The MWCBS seeks papers from 
scholars in all fields of British Studies, broadly defined to include those who study England, Scotland, 
Wales, Ireland, and Britain's empire. We welcome scholars from the broad spectrum of disciplines, including 
but not limited to history, literature, political science, gender studies and art history. Proposals for 
complete sessions are preferred, although proposals for individual papers will be considered...Proposals 
should include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a brief, 1-page c.v. for each participant, including 
chairs and commentators." See the Web site for more information.




MIDWEST INTERDISCIPLINARY 
GRADUATE CONFERENCE




Held 13-15 February 2010. This was the fifth annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference.




MIDWEST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION




Held 14-16 April 2011. Grand Rapids, Michigan. "Proposals of no more than 250 words and a recent CV 
were due October 15 electronically." Please go to the ornate, multi-part Web site for more information. 

 


UNIVERSITY OF 
MISSOURI ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM




9-10 March 2012. "The Art History and Archaeology Association at the University of Missouri, in association 
with the Department of Art History at the University of Kansas, invite submissions that take an object-based 
approach to the role of cross cultural exchange in the realms of art and material culture. Submissions should be 
submitted electronically to (AHA2012MUsym@gmail.com) no later than January 9, 2012. Proposals should consist 
of a 250-500 word abstract and CV." Please see the link for more information.





MODERNIST STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE




18-21 October, 2012. Las Vegas, Nevada. "Send 300 word abstract with 5 item bibliography and full academic 
CV (as separate e-mail attachments): *Will Scheibel (willscheibel@gmail.com)*. Please visit the MSA 
website for more details about the 2012 conference: http://msa.press.jhu.edu/. Deadline for 
submission: Fri., April 6, 2012. 





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




Several conferences in the U.S. and the U.K. throughout the year; check the Web site.




NEW ENGLAND AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE




Held 1-3 October 2010. Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA. "Theme: "American Mythologies: Creating, 
Re-creating, and Resisting National Narratives".  More information is available at the 
Web site." 




NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION




29 October 2011. Biddeford, Maine, the University of New England. "Kindly submit a title, one 
paragraph description, and short vita by JUNE 15, 2010." See the Web site for more information.




NEW GROWTH: DIALOGUES ON THE TREE




31 March 2012. York University, Toronto, Canada. "Please send a 250-word abstract of
your paper along with a working title, curriculum vitae, and contact information to: (ahgsay@gmail.com).
The deadline for submissions is December 20, 2011.




NINETEENTH-CENTURY topics NOW HAVE 
THEIR OWN PAGE



NORTH AMERICAN 
SOCIETY FOR SPORT HISTORY




1-4 June 2012. Berkeley, CA. "I would like to put together a proposal for the 2012 North 
American Society for Sport History conference in Berkeley that considers the role of sport in 
American art. If you might be interested in submitting a paper for this session and/or collaborating 
with me on its development, please send me an e-mail at (jsaggese@cca.edu). (Jordana Moore Saggese, 
Visual Studies, California College of the Arts)." See the link for more details.




NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES




Held 28-29 October 2011. Worcester, Massachusetts. "We solicit the participation of scholars in 
all areas of British Studies, broadly defined. You can submit a proposal for a full panel or round-table
or for an individual paper. You do *not* have to be from the Northeast Region to present a paper. 
Proposals should be e-mailed to Margaret Hunt (Chair, Program Committee) at (mrhunt@amherst.edu). 
Graduate student conferees should consider entering their paper for the David Underdown Prize of the 
NECBS. Please feel free to email Margaret Hunt if you have any questions about the prize or about 
the conference more generally. Deadline extended to April 25." See the Web site for details.


 


NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION




15-18 April 2012. St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY. Annual. The deadline for 
session proposals was 30 September, 2011. See the Web site for details.


 


NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
    



Held 23 October 2010. Please see the Web site for details.




OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY ANNUAL MEETING 2011




Held 8-9 APRIL, 2011. Granville, Ohio. "The Ohio Academy of History seeks papers from scholars in 
all fields of history, including World, Native American, Latin American, African, Asian, European, 
American, Middle Eastern, Rural, Gender, Religious, Cultural, Political, Economic, etc.  Papers may 
deal with subjects in any area or time period.  Those focusing on historiography, methodology, pedagogy, 
and public history are also welcome. Proposals may consist of individual papers or sessions organized 
around a common theme. The Academy welcomes discussion panels. Sessions generally include three papers 
(20 minutes each), a chair, and a commentator. The best papers will be refereed for publication in the 
Academy's Proceedings...Proposals were due 1 November 2010.

   


ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING




Held 12-16 October 2011. Denver, Colorado. [See the Web site for more details.] 

 


UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ART HISTORY ASSOCIATION 
GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM




12-13 April 2012. Annual. The theme: Art & Politics. Potential participants 
should submit a 250-word abstract and current curriculum vitae by Friday, 1 December, 2011. 
Please see the H-ARTHIST Web site for full information. 




ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS




18-22 March, 2012. Frontier Airlines Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "The deadline for proposals was 
Tuesday, February 1, 2011." For more information, check the Web site.  SEE ALSO: Conference in San Francisco, CA. 
Spring 2013 [sic]. The deadline for proposals is Wednesday, February 15, 2012. See: 
(http://annualmeeting.oah.org/call_for_proposals/2013_sanfrancisco.html).




PACIFIC COAST COUNCIL ON LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES




Held 4-5 November 2011. California State University in Los Angeles, California. "The conference will bring 
together scholars, educators, graduate and undergraduate students, and community members interested in Latin 
American Studies. Individual papers and panels from all areas of the social sciences, humanities and 
the arts, and/or cross-disciplinary studies and relating to Latin American/Hispanic/Latino/a Studies 
are welcomed. The conference also encourages proposals for round tables, workshops, film screenings, and 
poster sessions. Deadline for Submissions for the first call for papers is Sunday, July 31, 2010." 
See the Web site for more information.




PARSONS/COOPER HEWITT GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM ON THE 
DECORATIVE ARTS AND DESIGN




Held 28-29 April 2011. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York. Theme was STUFF. "We invite 
papers dealing with what things are made of. How is meaning resident in materials? We especially seek papers 
that explore the uses of engineered materials or the dialectic of the natural and the artificial...Send a 
two-page abstract, one-page bibliography and a c.v. to: Dr. Ethan Robey, Associate Director MA Program in the 
History of Decorative Arts & Design (robeye@si.edu).  Deadline: February 22, 2011." See the arthist Web site link 
above for details. [Annual? Chissa!]




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. [No sign of it on the Web site 26 October 2011]




POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION OF CANADA




Held 12-14 May 2011. Sheraton Fallsview Hotel and Conference Centre, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. 




RADICAL AESTHETICS AND POLITICS




9 December 2011. Hunter College, City University of New York. Please 
see the Web site for the description. Proposals due 15 August 2011.





ROCKY MOUNTAIN INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY CONFERENCE




Held 9-11 September 2011. For more information, please visit the Web site. 




UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS ART HISTORY 
GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM




Held 18 November 2011. St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota. Second annual. "This year we seek 
paper topics that address the theme "The Art of Memory" " within art history and architecture from all fields 
of specialization. Research may explore the cultural, methodological and historical aspects of memory across 
all time periods, media and geographic regions...For consideration, please submit a 250-word abstract and CV as 
Word document attachments to (gradarthistsymp@stthomas.edu) by June 15, 2011. 
See the excellent Web site for more information.




SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ART HISTORY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM




Held 16 April 2011. San Jose, California. "17th Annual Symposium. "Where is the social art history heading? 
How ought art history to understand "context" today? How is the social aspect of art linked to recent formations 
in globalization, identity, subjectivity, space, mediatization and museography? The Art History Association at 
San Jose State University seeks papers that concern art in its historical context for this graduate student 
symposium." Submissions were due January 31, 2011. 




SEA 
LITERATURE, HISTORY & CULTURE




11-14 April 2012. Boston, MA. "For the joint national conference of the Popular Culture 
& American Culture Associations (PCA/ACA), we invite proposals of individual papers, special 
panels, or session organized around a sea-related theme." Submission date: 15 December 2012. 
See the Web site for more details.

 


[SLAVERY] NARRATIVES AND 
VISUAL IMAGES OF SLAVERY, FORCED LABOR, AND GENOCIDE




3-6 January, 2013. New Orleans. "Papers focusing on the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, 
colonialism in Africa, the Holocaust, Nazi labor camps, the Armenian genocide, the Apartheid, the 
Rwandan genocide, the war in Darfur, contemporary slavery, and human trafficking, are welcome.
Please send your paper proposal no later than February 1st 2012 to: 
(aaraujo@howard.edu) or (analucia.araujo@gmail.com)." See the link for details.




UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN 
CALIFORNIA GRADUAYE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM




19 February 2012. Theme: Art and the Mind: Neuroaesthetics, Phenomenology, and the Experience 
of Vision...We welcome topics from all time periods and global regions. Papers may address the 
encounter with art, take up neuroaesthetics as a methodology, or historicize the confluence of science 
and aesthetics. Interested participants should submit a CV and abstract of no more than 500 words to 
(artandthemind@college.usc.edu) by November 28, 2011. Successful applicants will be notified 
by December 12th." Please see the link above for details. 




SPACE BETWEEN SOCIETY: LITERATURE AND CULTURE 1914-1945




14-16 June 2012. Providence, Rhode Island. Conference of the Society. "The 14th annual Society 
Conference invites proposals that consider questions and problems related to the study of material 
cultures in the years 1914-1945.  Please send abstracts (no more than 300 words) along
with a short biographical statement to Tamar Katz and Claire Buck at
(cbuck@wheatonma.edu) by 28 November 2011. 




SYMBOLISM: ITS ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES




25-28 April, 2012. Part of the Art, Literture, Music in Symbolism and decadence 
conference. Allerton Park, near the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana campus, in 
Monticello, Illinois. Proposals of about 300 words and should be sent to (symbolismabstracts@uis.edu) 
before May 10, 2011. Please see the Web site for details.




TENNESSEE CONFERENCE OF HISTORIANS




Held 31 March 2011. Chattanooga, Tennessee. Annual? [PLEASE MAKE A STAND-ALONE WEB SITE!!]




UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 
ANNUAL GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM




27 January 2012. Toronto, Canada. Theme: Experimental Cultures: Mergers of Art and 
Science. See also: (http://groups.chass.utoronto.ca/gradart/activities.html). 
The Deadline for the abstracts and a short CV : November 15, 2011.




TUFTS ART HISTORY GRADUATE CONFERENCE




6 March 2012. Tufts University, Medford MA. "Tufts University Art History Graduate Program 
invites proposals for its graduate student research conference...The theme is Art and Exchange. 
As art historians become more concerned with the global nature of art history throughout time, exchange 
becomes one of the primary themes of our research. Rather than regional styles being formed exclusively 
by local custom, we find that they are influenced by artistic currents that, with increasing rapidity, 
travel the globe. Yet stylistic exchange is not the only form of exchange that occurs in art. There is, 
of course, the exchange of monetary value, power, and prestige for artistic goods and services. The 
purpose of this conference is to discuss the many ways that exchange occurs both historically and in 
the present day, and to understand its impact on art. We invite participants to explore existing and 
historical relationships between exchange and art from the perspectives of visual culture, art history, 
and art practice. 

"For consideration please submit a 250-word abstract and CV as attachments to (Andrea.Rosen@tufts.edu) 
by November 1, 2011. Selected participants will be notified by December 1st and your full paper 
will be due by February 1st. Paper presentations will be 20 minutes in length.






U.S. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY CONFERENCE




Held 17-18 October 2011. CUNY Graduate Center, New York City. "The Conference Committee of the Society for 
U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) invites paper and panel proposals for its fourth annual conference...This 
year's conference theme is "Narratives." The theme highlights the fact that stories are essential to the 
study of American thought. Intellectual historians catalogue and interpret the narratives used by the figures 
they study, and construct narratives themselves in composing their own accounts of the past. Electronic abstracts 
for papers, panels, or both are due June 15, 2011...Send all submissions to: S-USIH 2011 Conference 
Committee (usih.2011@gmail.com)




UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ART HISTORY GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM




Held 25-26 March 2011. The Color Green. "The Graduate Program in Art and Architectural 
History at the University of Virginia requests submissions to its biannual symposium." 




THE VIRGINIA FORUM




29-31 March 2012. James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. "The Virginia Forum is 
interdisciplinary and welcomes proposals from scholars, teachers, and historical professionals in 
all fields. The 2012 theme, "Greater Virginias," emphasizes Virginia's relationship across political 
and geographical boundaries to broader ideas, patterns, and adjoining regions. The theme is comparative 
and invites scholars to submit papers about all aspects of Virginia life, geography, environment, history, 
and culture. We plan to offer sessions and workshops that draw from the full range of Virginia-focused 
research, including the humanities and sciences...Please submit a one-page paper proposal and a one-page 
curriculum vitae in a single email message to (vaforum@jmu.edu) by 30 September 2011. 
Please be sure to include your e-mail address and other contact information." Please see the link 
for details.




VISUAL CULTURE GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE




Held 16-18 April 2010. 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




2-4 January 2012. Pannasastra University of Cambodia. Annual conference at different locations 
and with different topics each year. 










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