Resources in Art History for Graduate Students

SYMPOSIA OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA

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 offered annually. 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. Please note that these conferences are sorted by location of the conference.

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AFTER THE NEW ART HISTORY

26-27 March 2012. University of Birmingham, UK. "Proposals are invited for papers that address topics related to the conceptual, ideological and institutional state of contemporary art history, in particular, the fate of the so-called 'new' art history...Proposals should be addressed to Matthew Rampley (m.j.rampley@bham.ac.uk) Deadline: Nov 11, 2011.

ART HISTORY IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES (1939-1945)

27-29 April 2012. TU Berlin, Institut fuer Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik. "Proposals for lectures not in excess of 2500 characters are invited and should be sent no later than 30 October 2011 to the three organizers: Prof. Dr. Magdalena Bushart (magdalena.bushart@tu-berlin.de), Dr. Agnieszka Gasior (gasior@rz.uni-leipzig.de) and Dr. Alena Janatkova (alena.janatkova@culture.hu-berlin.de)." See the link for details.

ART'S INSIDERS: NEW HISTORIES OF EUROPE'S ACADEMIES

29-31 March 2012. Association of Art Historians 38th Annual Conference. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Deadline: Nov 7, 2011. Please see the link for details.

ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS CONFERENCE [UK]

29-31 March 2012. The Open University, Milton Keynes. Go to the link to find the list of Calls for Papers. Always includes a Student Session. "Deadline for submission of paper abstracts to be decided." [Posted 7 May 2011] Check the Web site for details.

ASSOCIATION OF THE HISTORY OF GLASS CONFERENCE

Not exactly annual, but apparently at least every now and then. Plus, a unique society. Check the Web site for more information about several conferences upcoming for 2010.

AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ANZASA)

Held 1-4 July 2010. "ANZASA brings together scholars from Australia and New Zealand with colleagues who specialise in American Studies from around the world for a major conference held every two years.." Check the Web site.

[BOSCH] JHERONIMUS BOSCH: HIS PATRONS AND HIS PUBLIC

16-18 Sep 2012. 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. "The work of Jheronimus Bosch (1516), arguably the most enigmatic painter of the later Middle Ages, continues to attract scholarly attention. Organized by the Bosch Research and Conservation Project and the Jheronimus Bosch Art Center, the conference Jheronimus Bosch; his patrons and his public aims to continue this discourse. Proposals are invited for 20-minute presentations that fit the conference theme, but other topics might also be considered. The organizing committee consists of Willeke Cornelissen-van de Steeg, Eric De Bruyn, Matthijs Ilsink, Jos Koldeweij, and Ron Spronk. Please send your proposal by e-mail to (spronkr@queensu.ca) by February 1, 2012.

BRITISH ART AS INTERNATIONAL ART, 1851 to 1960

20-21 April 2012. "This graduate conference will address the extent to which the concepts of 'Britishness' and 'the international' overlap in British art between 1851 and 1960, not only in terms of British artists working abroad and non-British artists adopting Britain as a base, but also in less tangible or previously unconsidered ways. We welcome papers from graduate students working in any field who engage with and reflect upon British art as international art. Please send an abstract of up to 300 words to (britartinternational@gmail.com) by 5pm on Friday 6th January. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes.

[CELTIC STUDIES] INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CELTIC STUDIES

Held 1-5 August 2011. National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. "Held every four years, this is the main academic gathering of Celticists and has a very strong medievalist dimension...Offer of Paper: 1 Aug 2010 to 30 Nov 2010." Please see thr Web site for details.

CENTER FOR ICELANDIC ART

Just had to post this--lots of stuff going on, including the link to "Iceland's first and only online art magazine".

CENTRE FOR STUDIES OF SURREALISM PhD CONFERENCE

Held 4 December 2009. Annual Postgraduate Symposium, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich., UK. "Theme: Subversive Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art. Please see the Web site for more information.

COMMUN(ICAT)ING BODIES

15-17 February 2012. University of Graz/Austria. (Verrry long posting--please see the Web site) "Please submit your 400 words abstract to (bodies@uni-graz.at). The deadline for submissions is September, 30 2011."

THE CONCEPT OF SPACE AND PLACE IN ART

16-17 May 2012. Tel Aviv University, Art History Department. "Abstracts are invited by 15 January 2012 and should be sent to: (supra.tau.conference@gmail.com)." Please see the link for details.

CONFLICTING ART HISTORIES: DIALOGUES OF COSMOPOLITANISM AND NATIONALISM IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH CULTURE

29-31 March 2012. Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. See Web site for details. Deadline: Nov 7, 2011. Contact: Freya Gowrley, University of Edinburgh (f.l.gowrley@gmail.com) and Viccy Coltman, University of Edinburgh (viccy.coltman@ed.ac.uk)

COUNCIL FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES: CONFERENCES

Links to conferences in all areas of European studies.

DANCE AND DRAWING SINCE 1962

31 May-1 June 2012. University of Geneva, Switzerland. "Abstracts for 20-minute papers (maximum 400 words) in either French or English must be received by February 24th, 2012, along with a complete curriculum vitae...Please address abstract and CV in PDF format and by e-mail to the organizers, Sarah Burkhalter (sarah.burkhalter[at]unige.ch) and Laurence Schmidlin (laurence.schmidlin[at]gmail.com)."

DESIRING STATUES: STATUARY, SEXUALITY, AND HISTORY CONFERENCE

27 April, 2012. University of Exeter, UK. Deadline: Oct 1, 2011. "Please send 300-500 words abstracts to (j.funke@exeter.ac.uk) and (jeg208@exeter.ac.uk.)" Please see the link for details.

DICKENS AND THE VISUAL IMAGINATION

9-10 July 2012. Paul Mellon Centre, London, University of Surrey and Watts Gallery, Guildford. See also: (http://www.surrey.ac.uk/english/research/dickens2012/index.htm) for details. "Please submit proposals (of up to 250 words) by Wednesday 30 November 2011 at: (http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/dickens/cfp.php)."

DURATION: AN INTERNATIONAL, INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE EXPLORING THE TEMPORALITY OF CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC ARTS PRACTICE

29-30 March 2012. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Deadline: Sep 30, 2011. See the link for details.

EARLY MODERN MERCHANTS AS COLLECTORS

15-16 June 2012. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK. "The deadline for submissions was 31 May 2011. Scholars working on merchants in any region of the world in the early modern period are invited to submit proposals for papers. All queries should be sent to (christina.anderson@ashmus.ox.ac.uk)."

ECO-IMAGES: ALTERING ENVIRONMENTAL DISCUSSIONS AND POLITICAL LANDSCAPES

18-19 April 2012. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich. Deadline: Oct 15, 2011. Please see the link for details.

ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS

Held 6th-8th July 2011. London, UK. "We invite proposals of papers, demonstrations or short performances, workshops or panel discussions. A brief summary only is required for the selection process. Proposals are due 15 January 2011.

EMBLEMS OF NATIONHOOD: BRITISHNESS 1707-1901

10-12 August 2012. University of St Andrews, Scotland. "We seek 250-word proposals for 20-minute papers from postgraduates and established scholars from across the Arts and Humanities. The deadline for submission is 1st March 2012. Please e-mail submissions to (EmblemsOfNationhood@gmail.com). If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the conference organisers, Dr Kristin Lindfield-Ott (mko4@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Jennifer Whitty (jw836@st-andrews.ac.uk)."

ENCOUNTERS IN ART HISTORY & VISUAL CULTURE

22-23 May 2012. Haifa, Israel. See link for details. Abstracts are invited by 31 January 2012. Please send them to: (encounters2012@gmail.com).

ENVISIONING LIMITS: OUTER SPACE AND THE END OF UTOPIA

19-21 April 2012. Freie Universitaet Berlin. "This conference will examine the argument that the 1970s constitute a crucial transitional period in the history of outer space, spaceflight and extraterrestrial life. It aims to shift the focus away from explanations of transition from Cold War contexts and produce more nuanced narratives: from the familiar struggle between two superpowers, namely the USA and the former USSR, to distinctly European perspectives, and from political to other socio-cultural dimensions of the Space Age...Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words together with a short CV before 5 October 2011 to the conveners Alexander C.T. Geppert, William R. Macauley and Daniel Brandau at (astrofuturismus@fu-berlin.de)."

EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR AVANT-GARDE AND MODERNISM STUDIES

7-9 September 2012. University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Third Biannual Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM). Theme: Material Meanings. "This conference investigates the avant-garde's reconfiguration of matter and materials in the quest to generate new meanings and effects." Deadline: Dec 16, 2011. See also: (http://arthist.net/archive/1825)

FONS LARGUS: THE LIBRARY, A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION

14-17 May 2012. Warsaw, Poland. "The general aim of the conference is to provide a forum for scholars to review and discuss the function and mission of academic and research libraries, with particular reference to their inspirational role for the humanities, their subject and methodological orientation, as well as the libraries' impact on the artistic creativity and theory of fine arts and architecture...Scholars who are interested in attending and would like to contribute to any of the subjects of the Fons largus conference are kindly requested to submit the title of their paper and abstract [no more then 200 words] before Monday 6th February 2012. Applications with titles of papers & abstracts should be sent by e-mail on address: (konferencja.buw@uw.edu.pl)."

FRENCH BRONZES: HISTORY, MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES OF BRONZE SCULPTURE IN FRANCE (16TH - 18TH C.)

9-12 June 2012. Paris, Musee du Louvre and Centre de Recherche et de Restauration Mus. d. France. "We are aiming to bring together a diverse group of specialists--e.g., historians (of technology, art, trade, ideas), conservation scientists, curators, and conservator-restorers--to engage in an inter-disciplinary exchange and to promote further research into the development and cross fertilization of ideas and technology related to the making of bronzes in France Ñ and by French artists abroad--from the Renaissance to the 19th century." Participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations before November 1st, 2011. The conference language will be English.See also: (http://http://frenchbronze.net/index.php) for details.

FUSION ARCHITECTURE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT DAY: INCORPORATION, CONFRONTATION OR INTEGRATION?

31 May-3 June 2012. EAHN, Brussels. "For details regarding submission of abstracts, please refer to the call for papers on the conference website: (www.eahn2012.org). Each speaker is expected to fund his or her own registration, travel and expenses. Please submit your proposal (max. 300 words) plus a brief CV by 30 September 2011 to both BRIGITTE Soelch (soelch@khi.fi.it), Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, Italy and ERIK WEGERHOFF (wegerhoff@tum.de), Lehrstuhl fuer Theorie und Geschichte von Architektur, Kunst und Design, TU Muenchen, Munich, Germany." See the link for details.

GREAT EXHIBITIONS ON THE MARGINS

26-27 April 2012. University of Wolverhampton, UK. "This symposium turns attention to the exhibitions of arts and industries in the regions outside the capitals and to the assumptions that lay behind them. Its main focus will be placed on their ambitions, originality, relationship to the "greater" exhibitions and, in particular, their engagement with visual culture...Deadline: Jan 11, 2011." See the link for details.

IMAGE POLITICS: PICTUR(E)ING CLIMATE--Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations

19-20 January 2012. University of Potsdam, Institute for Arts and Media. Deadline for Abstract Submissions: October 1, 2011. See link for details.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ICONOGRAPHIC STUDIES

30 May-6 June 2012. Rijeka, Croatia; Center for Iconographic Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Rijeka. "...One of the objectives is to inform scholars, students and others interested in the field, of recent research developments in studies in iconography. The conference papers will deal with methodological approaches within iconography and iconology--new methods, new concepts and new scholarship stress the need for interdisciplinary approaches in research which are resulting in altered interpretations of the meaning of images...Deadline: December 30, 2011." See the Web site for more details.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ARTS IN SOCIETY

Held 9-11 May 2011. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany. "a scholarly platform for discussions of the arts and art practices, enabling an interdisciplinary conversation on the role of the arts in society. They are intended as a place for critical engagement, examination and experimentation of ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world - in studios and classrooms, in galleries and museums, on stage, on the streets and in communities."

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ICONOGRAPHIC STUDIES

Held 25-27 May 2011. Rijeka, Croatia. "This conference is organized to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue as well as to continue the cycle of sessions for scholarly discourse on the significant subjects in iconographic studies. The conference presentations will be dealing with different subjects concerning political iconography, with accent on the representations of sovereign, in art and literature with main accent on the European Middle Ages but also with references to the precedent and following periods..." Deadline: December 30, 2010. Contact: Marina Vicelja or Petra Borovac (marina.vicelja@ri.t-com.hr); (pu@ffri.hr)." Please see the Web site for details. [Update: Web site is now in Serbo-Croatian only: 18 June 2011]

INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC ASSOCIATION

Held 21-24 July 2009. Lancaster University, England. Biennial. "promotes the study and dissemination of information on gothic culture from the mid eighteenth century to the contemporary moment..." See the Web site for more information. [Update: Web site will not load due to: "many connection errors": 18 June 2011]

INTERNATIONAL VISUAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION

Held 6-8 July 2011. Annual. Vancouver, University of British Columbia, Canada. Theme: Visual Research as a Collaborative and Participatory Practice. For additional information, please see the Web site.

MARX AND THE AESTHETIC

10-13 May 2012. U. of Amsterdam. Please see link for details. "Please send your abstract (max. 500 words) including information about institutional affiliation and field of scholarship) before January 31st to (mail@marxandtheaesthetic.org)."

MATERIALS OF MOURNING IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND

3 December 2011. Centre for Modern Studies, University of York. Deadline: Sep 15, 2011. Please see link for details.

MODERN INTERIORS RESEARCH CENTRE (MIRC)

Conference last held 14-15 May 2009. Hosted by the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC), Kingston University, London. See the Web site for more information.

MODERNISM AND THE NON-WEST

29-31 March 2012. 38th Annual Association of Art Historians Conference. The Open University, Milton Keynes. "Please submit proposals for papers, of not more than 500 words, to (majella_munor@yahoo.co.uk) by the deadline of November 7th 2011. Further information on the conference is available at the Association of Art Historians Website: (http://www.aah.org.uk/page/3339)."

MUSIC AND THE VISUAL ARTS

29-31 March 2012. 38th AAH Conference & Bookfair, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. "This session aims to bring together scholars interested in the engagement of music and the visual arts, and the critical language required for the examination of such issues, in all periods. To propose a paper please send an abstract of no more than 250 words to the session convenors, Tim Shephard (e-mail: tim.shephard@nottingham.ac.uk) and Diane Silverthorne (e-mail: d.silverthorne@bbk.ac.uk), by Monday 7 November 2011. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, and contact details."

NEW DIRECTIONS IN GOTHIC REVIVAL STUDIES

13-14 July 2012.University of Kent, Canterbury. "This conference will be the primary international academic event marking the bicentenary of the birth of the architect A. W. N. Pugin, bringing the field's leading scholars worldwide to a broad-based conference in Canterbury." Please see Web site.

NEW HOMETOWNS: LINKING MODERNITY AND TRADITION IN THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I

29 August-1 September 2012. Prague. 11th International Conference on Urban History Cities & Societies in Cpomparative Perspective. "All abstracts (maximum 500 words) should be submitted by October 1, 2011." Please see the link for details.

NOT A DAY WITHOUT A LINE: ARTISTS' WORDS AND WRITINGS

8-9 November 2011. University College, Ghent, Belgium. Proposal deadline: 2 September, 2011. Please see Web site for details.

PERFORMATIVITY IN THE GALLERY

29-31 March 2012. Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. "This session explores participation, liveness, interactivity, process-based performative practices and performance for the camera in interdisciplinary practices, presented in visual arts gallery spaces." Deadline for proposals: 7 November 2011.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE UNREPRESENTABLE

15 May 2012. Colechester, UK. Please see the link for description. "Please send 300-word abstracts of 20 minute-papers accompanied by a short CV to (artpgconf@essex.ac.uk) by 30 January 2012. Successful submissions will be notified by the end of February.

PROBING THE INTERIOR 1800-2012

25 May 2012. The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R. "Bodily, psychic and spatial interiors can be mapped, traversed and violated in multiple ways. This one-day conference will interrogate and re-evaluate the contested terrain of the interior in its varied forms. It will examine the interlacing and overlapping of different types of interiors, and seek to re-position the 'interior' in critical terms. Moreover, it will attempt to develop new ways of thinking about the relationship between the decorative arts, furniture, bio-technologies, anatomy and space." Deadline: November 30, 2011.

ROMANCE STUDIES COLLOQUIUM

Held 13-15 September 2010. Annual? Gregynog, Newtown, Powys, Wales. "The colloquium will address issues related to the theme of wilderness as it has been treated across the Romance languages. Papers may include studies of 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. Papers may focus on any time and place in Romance studies. Proposals for individual twenty-minute papers (300 words in English) or for panels (panel rationale of 100 words, participants, titles, and brief abstracts of 100 words) should be sent in electronic form to Dr Lloyd Hughes Davies (L.H.Davies@swansea.ac.uk) were due March 31 2010. A selection of peer-reviewed essays (c. 6,000 words) based on papers given at the colloquium will be published in the journal Romance Studies.

RUSSIAN EMIGRE CULTURE: CONSERVATISM OR EVOLUTION?

18-19 November 2011. Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany. "A holistic look at Russian emigration is a rather recent phenomenon in spite of the fact that the different waves of emigration interacted in many ways. A critical and objective assessment of the cultural achievements of the Russian emigration was hampered for much of the 20th century by ideological prejudice on both sides and it is especially the interaction between the cultural life in the Soviet Union and in the emigration that could not be treated adequately. Scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers of 25 minutes with a short abstract (max. 30 lines) and CV (max. 15 lines) before 1 April 2011." See link for details.

SCULPTURE AND ITS EXHIBITION HISTORIES

29-31 March 2012. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. "It is a commonplace that sculpture is best encountered to be appreciated and that its forms and meanings are inadequately captured by the photographic image. This session takes up this familiar complaint, arguing that over the last hundred years or so it has been through sculpture's exhibition that it has been most articulately staged. Presented in the art gallery and museum, sculpture's complex meanings and its histories have been most sensitively presented...We invite proposals for 25 minute conference papers. Please submit a 250 word abstract and short CV to Kirstie Gregory, (kirstie@henry-moore.org). Deadline for submissions is Monday 7 November 2011." Please see the link for more details.

SOUTH AFRICAN VISUAL ARTS HISTORIANS (SAVAH) CONFERENCE

5-7 July 2012. University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. Theme: "Visual dialogues: South Africa in conversation". Deadline: 31 January 2012. Please see the link for details.