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 V

Held 6-7 March 2008. 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." Abstracts were due November 5, 2007<. Please check the Website for more information.

COMING UP FOR HEIR: IDENTITIES AND SEXUALITIES LET LOOSE IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE

24-27 April 2008 Long Beach, CA. "The European Early Modern Age designates a period that spans from the Quatrocento [sic] to the Enlightenment, between the 15th and 18th centuries. Known for its rich interconnectedness between cultures and languages, it was a fertile period that witnessed monumental political and historical shifts such as the accelerated Christianization of many non-Western populations as well as the advent of the Age of Exploration. As the many kingdoms, languages and burgeoning countries (city-states) in Western Europe were reshaping and redefining their own cultural and political identities, Early Modern writers were engaging with polemics of the day asserting and confronting their own identities and sexualities within and outside the domain of the written word. Male and female writers express a fascination with a turn to the classical golden age explaining the epistemological and philosophical shift and pursuing questions of subjectivity and representation. Our panel will reflect on the nature of these variously recorded identities and their engagement with community as a cultural and visual exercise. Abstract deadline for Paper Proposals was November 15, 2007.

FEMINIST ART

22-24 MAY 2008 New York University, NYC. "The Visual Culture Division invites submissions for the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.)...What is the role of feminist art today? What does it look like? Who does it include and who does it exclude? How can it continue to impact the social and cultural values surrounding gender, race, and sexuality today? Theories, critiques, histories, counter-histories, and counter-memories of feminist art, past, present, and future are welcome. Abstracts were due October 22.

GENDER AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES CONFERENCE

Held 11-13 January 2008. Annual. Edinburgh Theme for 2008: Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages. Deadline for proposals was 3 September 2007.

GENDER AND GENERATIONS: WOMEN AND LIFE CYCLES

5-7 September 2008 University of Glasgow, Scotland. 17th Annual Conference of the Women's History Network. "Concepts and experiences of the life-course have been critical to making sense of gender difference and women's lives in the past, and have traditionally been a central concern of historians of women. Integral to pioneering work on the history of reproduction and the family, work and leisure, and the body, science and medicine, analysis of the life cycles of women has nonetheless left many questions yet to be explored. This conference encourages comparison of women's life cycle experiences both across the widest possible range of times and places, and with the life cycle experiences of men. The focus will also be on inter-generational relations as an important, yet often neglected, explanatory factor in either continuity or change over time...Proposals were due 31 January 2008 to:

• Dr. Rosemary Elliot
• Department of Economic and Social History
• University of Glasgow
• Lilybank House
• Bute Gardens
• Glasgow G12 8RT
• E-mail: r.elliot@lbss.gla.ac.uk

GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES ITALIAN STYLE

3-5 July, 2008 MONASH CENTRE, PRATO, ITALY. Deadline for Abstracts was December 10, 2007. "In the 1980s and the early 1990s, the field of gender studies was commonly understood and treated as being unproblematically synonymous with women's studies. However, increasingly, the category of 'gender studies' has broadened significantly, both informed by and informing developments in queer and sexuality studies. This conference will explore how new definitions of and critical approaches to gender and sexuality have impacted on current debates in Italian studies as an international field. In particular, we are interested in how the study of gender and sexuality has changed the map of Italian studies and critically enriched the discipline particularly outside of Italy. Moreover, since the early 1990s a new emphasis on cultural studies has facilitated growing intersections and dialogues between theoretical discourses informing traditional fields of enquiry as well as less traditional fields such as cinema studies, diaspora studies and gay and lesbian studies. The conference will explore ways in which the combination of a cultural studies approach with gender and sexuality studies is changing the landscape of the discipline of Italian Studies in Italy and beyond. [A Web site would be nice]

HISTORY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Held 31 August and 1 September 2007. Senate House, London, England. 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.

LATIN AMERICA, RACE, AND SEXUALITY

22-24 May 2008 New York University, NYC. Part of the Cultural Studies Association conference. "I [sic] invite presentation abstracts to form a panel about the cultural intersections of race and sexuality in Latin America. The lenses of race and sexuality are open to interpretation, but presenters are asked to establish substantive connections between these forms. Moreover, this panel welcomes proposals that make use of innovative, interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives. To submit to this panel, please send an abstract of 500 words and a CV to Ed Chamberlain at edachamb@indiana.edu. The use of Word document attachments are preferred for submission. The deadline to submit abstracts was November 1st 2007.

NATIONAL WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

19-22 June 2008. Cincinnati, Ohio. The proposal submission deadline was November 1, 2007.

PAN-FEMINISM: THE DISPERSAL OF A CRITICAL ATTITUDE

25-28 February 2009 Part of the College Art Association meeting in Los Angeles. "This panel extends the discussion on feminist perspectives to non women-centered topics, begun at CAA in Boston in 2006. Participants will examine instances in which the theoretical models used in various feminist discourses have been applied or may be legitimately applied to non-women centered topics. Panel organizers invite papers that investigate or perform the dispersal of feminist critical thinking and practices. Questions to consider include: How are the lessons of feminism dispersed into questions posed by queer studies, post-colonialism, transgenderation, communications/media studies, or by the very questioning of notions of culture and race? Does the feminist objective to proliferate feminism paradoxically challenge the centrality of the feminist subject? Gender studies successfully generalized the lessons of feminism into the study of the social construction of gender, which led to the subsequent study of the "engendering" of men. But these remain gender-centric pursuits, and the lessons/principles of feminism apply to fields and subjects (agents) more diverse than traditional gendered investigations alone can describe or analyze. In what ways is feminism being dispersed, for good or ill?

"Panelists will explore the instances in which a topic outside traditional womenÕs issues has benefited from a feminist/pluralist perspective. The session will then open to include questions and discussion with the audience. Send proposals for 20-minute papers by May 9, 2008 to co-chairs:

Janet T. Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University          jtmarquardt@eiu.edu
Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Rutgers University           jdven@andromeda.rutgers.edu

SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN HISTORIANS

Last held in 2006. No more?

WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS

15-18 May 2008. University of British Colombia, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada. "The conference will begin Thursday with a welcome dinner reception and end with the Awards Banquet on Saturday evening. Sessions will be held Friday morning and afternoon and Saturday morning and afternoon, but not on Sunday...The deadline was January 15, 2008.

WHAT IS MASCULINITY? HOW IS IT USEFUL AS A HISTORICAL CATEGORY?

14th, 15th & 16th May 2008 Birkbeck College, University of London. "In recent years, there has been an explosion in scholarship that questions masculinity in history. This vibrant new approach has incorporated many different theoretical and empirical considerations in historical scholarship. Birkbeck College is hosting a conference with the idea of providing a discussion across fields and time period specialism. We would welcome papers in contemporary and modern, early modern, medieval, Classical and non-western history, from historians throughout the world who are working in the general field of masculinity studies. We hope the conference will provide discussion of the latest thinking, debates and contention in this field, and that it will serve as a review of 'where we are now' in terms of scholarship in the field of masculinity studies. The highest quality papers in this conference will be published in a single volume collection, by Palgrave Macmillan. The deadline for proposals was 1st September 2007. Please send your proposal to Dr Sean Brady (Birkbeck College University of London): s.brady@bbk.ac.uk .

WOMEN'S AND GENDER HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

Held 6-8 MARCH 2008. The Ninth 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. For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chairs, Carmen Thompson or Jacob Baum at gendersymp@gmail.com

Publication Opportunities

n. pardoxa

"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.

(above left) Paula Modersohn-Becker.

 Self-Portrait with amber necklace. 1906.

Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland.

On Artemisia Gentileschi.