Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
SYMPOSIA OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS
WOMEN, MEN, AND GENDER STUDIES
THE ART OF GENDER IN EVERYDAY LIFE Vl
Held 2-3 April 2009. 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 was Monday, November 10, 2008. Please check the Website for more information.
DESIRE, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER
8 - 10 April 2010. Venice, Italy, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. "Sexuality and desire are notions that traditionally have provoked uneasiness to art historians. Even though many works are loaded with obvious sexual connotations, art historical interpretations often continue to be vague and evasive. Despite the abundance of records of sodomy, only relatively slowly works of art are being acknowledged to be homosexual in nature: either in terms of the author's identity or the connotations of their style and content. The purpose of this call is twofold. It invites the re-examination of Italian Renaissance art: specific works, artists, contexts, where sexuality has been overseen, as well the attitude of modern art historians: the way they have approached artists, particular works, or the period as whole. Methodological approaches, such as psychoanalysis and gender studies, are particularly welcome, as well as contributions which will enable us to clarify the notion of gender identity, and thus sexuality/homosexuality, as working tools for a more informed discussion of Renaissance art in Italy. Abstracts were due May 18, 2009 to:
- Dr. Berthold Hub, ETH ZŸrich, berthold.hub@gta.arch.ethz.ch, and Dr.
- Angeliki Pollali, The American College of Greece, apollali@acgmail.gr
GENDER AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
Held 9-10 January 2009. Annual. King's College, London. Deadline for proposals was 1 September 2008.
GENDER AND THE LANGUAGE OF LEGITIMACY
7-10 May 2009. Part of the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. "This session proposes to examine how the boundaries of language, legitimacy, and gender intersect. How do men and/or women use gendered language to speak about themselves and others? How do authors/chroniclers/historians use gender to speak about their characters or men and women from the past and pass judgment upon them? How does gendered language cement or detract from authority or legitimacy? Is the use of gendered language concerning legitimacy overt or subtle, and how does it work? Are the uses of gendered language in such cases significantÑi.e. do they have the power to change minds or actually help--or are they meaningless catch phrases? Legitimacy here is meant to be broadly construed; it can mean anything from legitimacy of birth, of power or authority, right to rule (secular or ecclesiastical), an author's justification for writing, etc. Likewise, gender is not limited to one sex; I am looking for papers that speak about women, men, or about both women and men. Abstracts to (or contact) Colleen Slater were due September 15th at ces55@cornell.edu."
HISTORY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Held 22-23 August 2008. National University of Ireland, Galway. Annual. Please contact Dr Carmen M. Mangion at c.mangion@history.bbk.ac.uk or Dr Caroline Bowden at c.bowden@rhul.ac.uk with any contributions, comments or queries.
NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN HISTORIANS
4-6 June 2009. Deadline for proposals was August 1, 2008. Check the Web site for more information.
UPSTATE NEW YORK WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION
Held March 2009. Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. "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 Leigh Ann Wheeler, Binghamton University. Please send an abstract of the paper or panel and a short CV for each participant to Carol Faulkner at (cfaulkne@maxwell.syr.edu). Proposals were due October 1, 2008.
WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS
Held April 30-May 3, 2009. Annual? "The WAWH program committee welcomes proposals for panels or single papers on any historical subject, time period, or region. Papers do not need to emphasize women's or gender history. All periods of history are welcome as well as non-U.S. subjects. Panels, workshops, or roundtables on issues in the historical profession are also encouraged. Paper and panel submissions were due October 15, 2008. Please see the WAWH website for submission details and prize information.
WOMEN, FEMININITY, AND THE PUBLIC SPACE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY VISUAL CULTURE
10-13 February 2010. Chicago, Illinois. Part of the College Art Association Conference.
WOMEN IN THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN
7-10 MAY 2009 Session to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Sponsored by the Byzantine Studies Association of North America, Inc. "Recent studies of the medieval MediterraneanÑboth focused historical research as well as investigations of cross-cultural phenomena--have resulted in fresh, dynamic ways of understanding the region as a center for exchange of ideas, economic goods and artistic practices. The goal of this session is to delve deeper into the daily lives of women who lived at the intersections of the Byzantine, western and Islamic worlds. As functionaries in medieval court life, women played a vital role as ambassadors, authors, and as patronesses of art. By investigating their social and religious practices along with their artistic patronage, this session aims to discuss the hybrid character of women's experiences in the 'societies in between.' DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS was 15 September 2008. Contact:
Andrea Olsen History of Art Department 268 Mergenthaler Hall Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218 469-288-1253 andrea.olsen@jhu.eduWOMEN'S AND GENDER HISTORY SYMPOSIUM
Held 5-7 MARCH 2009. The Tenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women's and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium." Submission Deadline was November 1, 2008.
11-13 September 2009 St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK. Theme: Women, Gender and Political Spaces: Historical Perspectives. CFP with dates to be revealed "soon", they say: 20 Sept. 2008.
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
"Volume 18: Collaboration. Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture invites original submissions for its forthcoming issue dedicated to collaboration. As the rhetoric of collaboration permeates contemporary discourse--from political and economic globalization to "relational aesthetics"--what is the potential for new feminist practices and what are the historical lessons of feminism about the limits and possibilities of collaborative practices?" SEE the Web site for more information. Submissions of 15-25 pages in length and according to the Chicago Manual of Style were due to matrix@princeton.edu by June 15, 2008. Annual?
EARLY MODERN WOMEN: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL
"'Essays on Women and Gender from 1400-1700.' ...is now accepting submissions for Volume IV (2009)... 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. Newer and interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome...Editors will accept submissions on a continuous basis." 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...This special issue of Frontiers will explore reciprocal relationships between gender and the city. For many decades feminist scholars in numerous and diverse fields have studied the importance of gender in constituting cities and the role of urban places in constructing gender. We want to develop a vigorous cross and inter-disciplinary conversation about these relationships of gender and the city...Submissions should be sent to Frontiers as e-mail attachments to (frontiers@asu.edu) or on disc according to submission guidelines [on the Web site, above]."
GENDER & HISTORY
SPECIAL ISSUE: Historicizing Sexuality and Gender. "This special issue of Gender & History examines the historical relationship between sexuality and gender writ large. We solicit work that explicitly examines the possibilities and limitations of these categories for analyzing the past. We especially encourage comparative analysis, scholarship that focuses on the nonwestern world, and work that contributes to the theorization of these categories and their relationship to one another. We welcome the submission of historical work produced within related disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. [VERY long posting; write below to get more verbiage] ...By January 15, 2009, please submit a 1-2 page abstract as an attachment to gendhist@umn.edu with "Issue 22:3 abstract submission" in the subject line. (Abstracts must be in English. However, limited funds for the translation of articles written in other languages may be available). By February 15, 2009 authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for complete articles is June 15, 2009. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue Gender & History 22:3 , scheduled to appear in November 2010.
ISLAM AND GENDER IN ASIA AND THE DIASP0RA
"This Special Issue of the Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS) solicits articles on Islam and Gender with a focus on Asia. Submissions will address women's lives, gender dynamics and Muslim women's movements, including both formal movements and subtle, informal,everyday acts of resistance. The special issue will include a broad range of discussions on how Muslim women strategize and negotiate their lives and/or movements to accommodate and/or resist Islamic dominance in terms of the nation state, constitutions and dominant cultural norms. We are seeking articles that tackle the above stated issues, specifically covering the regions of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, S.E. Asia and any Muslim demographic from the pertinent region as well as the diaspora, including refugee populations. Scholars and activists are invited to submit unpublished manuscripts that are currently not under review. Please consult the JIWS web site. Forward all submissions via e-mail attachment to the special issue editors, Huma Ahmed-Gosh at (ghosh@mail.sdsu.edu) or Rahat Imran at (rai@sfu.edu) by April 1, 2009.
MEDIEVAL FEMINIST FORUM
"We invite submissions for a special issue (volume 44 number 2) to address the past, present, and future of feminist approaches to medieval art and visual culture. Some contributors may wish to highlight the ways in which feminist perspectives have enriched the understanding of medieval art or to identify the contributions that studies of visual materials have made to feminist work in medieval studies. Others may prefer to identify dead ends to which feminism has led medieval art history or to critique ways in which feminist scholarship on medieval visual culture has been co-opted in a post-feminist age. We also welcome essays on current research that utilize feminist approaches and essays that seek to chart a path forward for feminist work on medieval art.
- Marian Bleeke, Assistant Professor of Art History
- Department of Art, Cleveland State University
or- Felice Lifshitz, Professor of History
- Department of History, Florida International University
- E-mail: lifshitz@fiu.edu or m.bleeke@csuohio.edu
"n.paradoxa invites feminist scholars working on contemporary art by women to contribute to future issues of its bi-annual publication." See Web site for more information.
NATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION JOURNAL
Special Issue, Spring 2007 : "Feminist Activist Art" "The goal of this special issue is to identify the directions a feminist activist art praxis has taken, the challenges it has faced and will face into the future. The intent is to encourage the development of fruitful activist directions for feminist art projects, and assure that womenês studies more completely integrates this powerful cultural phenomenon into its pedagogical lexicon. We seek essays that will help shift the discourse about feminist activist art away from definitions and categories and toward the evaluation of the ideas, politics and aesthetics that have shaped the practice." See the Web site for more 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 womenÕs 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.
INTENSIVE PROGRAM/SUMMER SCHOOL 2009:
MATILDA has received funding for three Intensive Programs/Summer Schools. The first Intensive Program/Summer School will take place in Lyon, France, July 6-18, 2009. Its theme is "Transnational Approaches to Women's and Gender History: Institutions and Movements, 19th and 20th centuries." The Intensive Program/Summer School is open to non-MATILDA students as well.
APPLYING:
Applying for MATILDA for the academic year 2008-2009 is still possible at the Universities of Nottingham and Sofia. For more information see the Web site. Or write to (matilda.history@univie.ac.at).(above left) Paula Modersohn-Becker.
Self-Portrait with amber necklace. 1906.
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