Resources in Art History for Graduate Students

WOMEN, MEN, AND GENDER STUDIES

SYMPOSIA OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

The listings below concern many areas of gender studies, always at least marginally related to art historical subjects.

THE ART OF GENDER IN EVERYDAY LIFE IX

7-9 March 2012. Annual. Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID. "The Conference Committee invites abstracts from university faculty and staff as well as from graduate and advanced undergraduate students." ABSTRACT POSTMARK DEADLINE: Tuesday, November 1, 2011. Please check the Website (scroll down) for more information.

ASSOCIATED COLLEGES OF THE SOUTH WOMEN'S STUDIES CONFERENCE

Held 1-2 April 2011. University of Richmond, Virginia. Ninth biennial.

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN AND MYTHOLOGY

19 May 2012. Madison, WI "The theme of the conference is Art and Inspired Scholarship... Send 250-word abstract (for panels, 200 word abstract plus up to 150 words per paper) to (aswmsubmissions@gmail.com) by December 15, 2011. Include bio of up to 70 words for each presenter, as well as contact information including surface address and e-mail.

AT HOME AND ABROAD: NEW ENGLAND WOMEN, TRAVEL & ARTISTIC EXPRESSION, 1840-1910

10 March 2012. Collins Cinema, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. "During the second half of the nineteenth century, New England women from both elite and modest backgrounds increasingly traveled outside the United States as tourists, to escape social constraints, and to gain the artistic training largely denied them at home. Although some of these women chose to remain abroad, the majority eventually returned to the United States, bringing with them a new perspective on their surroundings, their social milieu, and themselves. While Isabella Stewart Gardner most famously built her Venetian palazzo on the Fenway, other women--amateur and professional artists in particular--developed studios, salons, and social networks that supported their individual artistic pursuits. Their paintings, photography, sculptures, interiors, collecting activities, and landscape designs all reflected the experience of their extended stays in foreign cities and artists' colonies.

"This one-day symposium will explore the influence that travel and study had on New England women, and, in particular, the ways in which their sojourns shaped their artistic expressions. Papers should be theoretical or analytical in nature rather than descriptive and should be approximately 20 minutes long. 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 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 September 30th, 2011.

FEMINISM AND EARLY MODERN ART

22-25 February 2012. Los Angeles. Annual meeting of the College Art Association. "Feminism has indelibly transformed the study of early modern art and architecture, and yet seldom, in comparison to other disciplinary fields, is its practice explored self-consciously, discretely, or critically. The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women seeks papers that contribute to or critique feminist art-historical practice from any perspective. Possible topics include the historiography of feminist thought, managing resistance to or suppression of feminist study in scholarship, and the relationship of feminism to gender studies and men's studies. Presentations that employ―-or challenge―-feminist approaches to art in history are equally welcome. Papers could address, for example, the gendering of objects and spaces, value judgments assigned to artistic media, the reception of images by women and/or men, the relationship of gender to class and race, and importantly, notions of power in early modern society. Please send an abstract of one to two double-spaced, typed pages and a short CV to Andrea Pearson at (pearson@american.edu) by Friday, May 27, 2011. Notification by June 15."

FEMINIST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

9-11 November 2012. Sponsored by the Art History Program, Department of Art, College of Arts and Sciences at American University. "Please submit one-page single-spaced proposals on any topic of feminist interest in art history and/or visual studies with a 2-page curriculum vita by May 15, 2012. Accepted proposals will be notified by July 1, 2012. Please e-mail proposals and CVs to: (fahc3.cfp@gmail.com). See also: H-Arthist posting.

GENDER AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES CONFERENCE

Held 11-13 January 2012. Annual. The University of Manchester. Deadline for proposals is 1 September 2011. "We welcome scholars from a range of disciplines, including history, literature, art history and archaeology. A travel fund is available for postgraduate students who would otherwise be unable to attend."

GENDER AND TRANSGRESSION IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Held 23-24 April 2010. St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Scotland. "Now in its third year, the conference aims to create a lively and welcoming forum for postgraduate students and academic staff to build contacts, present research and participate in creative discussion on the topics of gender and transgression in the Middle Ages. We are especially keen to explore the ways in which these topics, frequently studied in reference to points of rupture or breakdown, may also be discussed in their relation to growth and change in the past...Please send abstracts for papers of approximately 300 words to: (genderandtransgression@st-andrews.ac.uk). The deadline for submission was 14th February 2010. Please see the Web site for more information. [No sign of this conference 5 May 2011]

GENDER, RACE AND EDUCATION IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY: SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

12-13 April 2012. "One-page abstracts due by January 15, 2012. Accepted speakers notified by January 20. Contact: (sstein@scsu.edu). See link for details.

GENDER STUDIES CONFERENCES

Conferences, mostly "to attend" from all over the world.

GRADUATE GENDER SYMPOSIUM

Held 31 March-1 April 2010. Annual? University of Akron, Ohio. "The Graduate Committee for Research on Women/Gender (G-CROW) at The University of Akron is pleased to announce our Third Graduate Gender Symposium, showcasing graduate scholarship in all fields of women’s studies and research on gender. Our theme, “Local to Global,” is purposively a broad and inclusive one, in order to provide opportunities for graduate students working on a variety of topics and within many disciplinary approaches in their exploration of the various and often contested meanings of gender, past and present. [there follows a long list of exciting activities included] "There is no participation fee, parking is free for participants, and several discounted hotel rooms ($70) have been set aside at the historic Quaker hotel for participants traveling from outside metropolitan Akron. (Also participants may apply for a grant that will offset hotel fees.) Proposals were due Feb 1, 2010. Proposals should be 300 words or less, and should include name, title of presentation, university and department affiliation, e-mail, phone number, and mailing address. E-mail proposals to: Katie Brown at (kmc75@zips.uakron.edu). [No sign of this conference 5 May 2011]

HISTORY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND

20-21 June 2012. School of Education, University College, Dublin. For more details contact (deirdre.raftery@ucd.ie) -OR- (louise.oreilly@nuim.ie). Proposals due 30 December 2011." (Held faithfully every year--location changes)

HOME/LAND: WOMEN, CITIZENSHIP, PHOTOGRAPHIES

5-7 July 2012. The School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK. "Home/Land is an interdisciplinary conference that asks what dialogues might be engendered, globally and locally, around concepts of citizenship and belonging by engaging with women's photographic practices. In the terms of this conference, 'photographic practices' may include both historical and contemporary work, still and/or moving image, derived from fine art and social science contexts and embracing genres such as portraiture, landscape, documentary and installation...Abstracts of no more than 300 words accompanied by a brief biographical statement (150 words maximum) should be sent to Marion Arnold (M.Arnold@lboro.ac.uk) and Marsha Meskimmon (M.G.Meskimmon@lboro.ac.uk) by 11th November 2011." See the link above for details.

INDECENCY

1-3 March 2012. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "...The history of gender and sexuality is in many ways the history of indecency—of bodies, acts, and attachments that were deemed indecent by culture or legal code, and of the various ways subjects questioned, resisted, or embraced that label. Indeed, indecency has long functioned as a pivot upon which concepts and experiences of inclusion and exclusion depend, and thus it offers us a valuable way of exploring both dominant paradigms and their undoing...To submit a paper or panel by e-mail (preferred method): please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to (gendersymp@gmail.com). SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2011.

NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

Held 10-13 November 2011. in Atlanta, Georgia.

SOCIETY FOR MEDIEVAL FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP

"Publishes Medieval Feminist Forum and co-sponsors MEDFEM-L, an unmoderated forum for the discussion of feminist approaches to medieval studies..." See the Web site for details.

SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN HISTORIANS

4-6 June 2012. Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Deadline for proposals is August 1, 2011. Check the Web site for more information.

THINKING GENDER: UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE

3 February 2012. Annual. Send submissions to: (thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu). Deadline for Submissions: Thursday, October 17th, 2011 at 12 noon. See the link for details.

UNIVERSITY OF AKRON GRADUATE GENDER SYMPOSIUM

30-31 March 2012. Biennial. "The Graduate Committee for Research on Women/Gender (Grad-CROW) at The University of Akron, located in northeast Ohio (40 miles south of Cleveland), is pleased to announce an upcoming symposium showcasing graduatestudents' original research in all fields of women's and/or gender studies. Our theme, Gendered Worlds is purposively a broad and inclusive one, in order to provide opportunities for graduate students working on a variety of topics and within many disciplines to explore women’s lives and/or the various and often contested meanings of gender, past and present. This symposium is open to any student enrolled in a graduate program whose work centers on women and/or gender. While we expect most women's and genderstudies applicants will be contributing to fields associated with the Humanities and Social Sciences, we especially want to encourage those graduates enrolled in MFA and performance art programs to apply and will work with them to find appropriate ways to present their creative work. Proposals are due December 31, 2011. E-mail proposals to Natalie Hall, Vice-President of Grad-CROW, at (nah28@zips.uakron.edu). Those selected will be notified via e-mail by February 1, 2012."

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN CENTER FOR WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES

29-30 March 2012. Please see the Web site for details.

UPSTATE NEW YORK WOMEN'S HISTORY ORGANIZATION

21 April 2012. Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York. "The Upstate New York Women's History Organization (UNYWHO) seeks individual paper and panel proposals for a conference co-sponsored by the *Journal of Women's History*. We invite proposals covering any aspect of women's and gender history, defined broadly to include all nations/continents, time periods, and related disciplines, and we encourage scholars from across New York State and around the region to participate. The keynote speaker will be Professor Susanne Klausen of Carleton University, Canada. Please send an abstract of the paper or panel and a short CV for each participant to (jwh@binghamton.edu). Proposals are due December 1, 2011."

WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS

3-5 May 2012. Doubletree Hotel in the Berkeley marina in Berkeley, California. Please see the WAWH website for submission details. Proposals due 15 September 2011.

WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS' GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE PAPER PRIZE

"...an annual prize that recognizes the outstanding paper presented by a graduate student at the annual WAWH conference. The committee will judge the presented paper, normally 10-12 pages. The presenter must also still submit a copy to the commentator of their panel. All fields of history will be considered, and articles must be submitted with full scholarly apparatus." See the Web si4te for details.

WOMEN ARTISTS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY

3 March 2012. "Although Italian women artists are of primary concern at this conference, papers on women artists of other countries are welcome particularly if they can be linked with the Medici or if their works were collected by any of the Medici (as in the case of Rachel Ruysch for instance). We are also particularly keen to include papers dealing with the collecting and display of works by women artists in the years 1500-1750, as well as papers that characterize the patronage enjoyed by women artists of this period. To apply, please submit by December 1, 2011, a paper title, a one-page abstract either in English or Italian, and a curriculum vitae. Submissions should be sent via e-mail to Dr. Sheila Barker: (barker@medici.org)." Please see the link for details.

WOMEN'S HISTORY NETWORK

Held 9-11 September 2011. The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University. Theme: Looking Back - Looking Forward .

WOMEN'S STUDIES AREA OF THE POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION AND AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION

11-14 April 2012. Boston. "We welcome papers and panels on any facet of popular culture relating to the study of women and gender..." The deadline for paper and panel proposals is December 15, 2011. Please send all queries and submissions to Holly Kent, at (hkent3@uis.edu).

Publication Opportunities

ASPASIA

"ASPASIA is an international and peer-reviewed yearbook that seeks to bring out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and gender history focusing on, and especially produced in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe." See the Web site for more information.

CRITICAL MATRIX: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture

See Web site for more information and latest CFPs.

EARLY MODERN WOMEN: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL

"'Essays on Women and Gender from 1400-1700. '...is now accepting submissions for Volume 6 (2011)... We especially encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary boundaries. Essays may consider art history, cultural studies, history, history of philosophy, history of science, iterature, music, politics, religion, theater, and any global region.." Theme for this issue: "Early Modern Women and Memory." See the Web site for more informatio.

FRONTIERS: A Journal of Women Studies

"Frontiers is one of the oldest and most respected academic feminist journals in the United States. Founded in 1975, it is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary journal of scholarship, creative work, and personal essays...

GENDER & HISTORY

"...is now established as the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations. Spanning epochs and continents, Gender & History examines changing conceptions of gender, and maps the dialogue between femininities, masculinities and their historical contexts. The journal publishes rigorous and readable articles both on particular episodes in gender history and on broader methodological questions which have ramifications for the discipline as a whole."

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES

See the Web site for more information.

JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY

"Call for Special Issue: "Human Rights, Global Congresses, and the Making of Postwar Transnational Feminisms"...The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2011. Submissions will be part of the regular review process employed by JWH. Please submit papers to both Jean Quataert (profquat@binghamton.edu) and Benita Roth (broth@binghamton.edu). The special issue is slated to appear in September 2012, issue 24, 2." Plese see the Web site form more information.

THE LATCHKEY

"*The Latchkey* is a peer-reviewed, online journal dedicated to the study of the late Victorian and Modernist New Woman. We address the lives and writings of New Women authors, figures, and associates; the representation of the New Woman in literature, culture, art, and society; proto-feminism and early feminist journalism; and current innovative scholarship on the New Woman.

MEDIEVAL FEMINIST FORUM

See the Web site for more information.

n. pardoxa

"n.paradoxa is the only international feminist art journal in the world!"

WOMEN IN JUDAISM

"A multidisciplinary journal."

WOMEN'S STUDIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL

"provides a forum for the presentation of scholarship and criticism about women in the fields of literature, history, art, sociology, law, political science, economics, anthropology and the sciences."

DISSERTATION SUPPORT

Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowships. Please see the Web site for current information.

STUDY ABROAD [sic]

MATILDA: joint European Master in Women's and Gender History

"MATILDA is a two-year MA program designed for students wishing to develop expertise in women's and gender history, as well as in European history, and who are interested in intercultural exchange. The universities involved are: Vienna University (coordinating institution), the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, the Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, and the University of Nottingham.
ACCREDITION:
The degree has now been accredited in four of the five partner universities, which means that the program can officially start. The process of accreditation for the fifth partner is under way.
See the Web site for more information.

Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma

...with a view of half of the history of art.

On Artemisia Gentileschi.