Appel à communication : « Photofilmic images in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture »

Wiels, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, March 12 – 15, 2014 Deadline: Oct 13, 2013

Photofilmic Images in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture

International conference organized by: Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), KU Leuven, and Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography (LGC)

Over the past two decades, research on the interaction between photographic and filmic images has become increasingly popular. This new orientation is partially based on the insight that the ontological differences between film and photography, claimed by scholars in photography theory and film studies up until the 1990s, can no longer hold in the digital era. With the advent of digital technology, boundaries between the photographic and the filmic have become increasingly blurred – both technically, in drawing . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Cathedral Libraries and Archives of Britain and Ireland »

University of York, York, July 3 – 05, 2014 Deadline: Aug 15, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cathedral Libraries and Archives of Britain and Ireland

Organised by Brian Cummings, Linne Mooney, Bill Sherman and Hanna Vorholt.

Hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York, in association with the York Manuscripts Conference and the Cathedral Libraries and Archives Network.

The York Manuscripts Conference has been held biennially or triennially since 1986 and, with about 50 papers, is amongst the largest conferences in Europe dedicated to manuscript studies. The Thirteenth York Manuscripts Conference, to be held from 3-5 July 2014 will have as its topic the Cathedral Libraries and . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « “You were not expected to do this”. On the Dynamics of Production »

“You were not expected to do this” On the Dynamics of Production (Distraction/Interference – Resistance/Accident)

International Conference Conveners: Dr. Daniel Blanga-Gubbay / Dr. Elisabeth Ruchaud.@Graduiertenkolleg Materialität und Produktion, Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf (Germany)

In ordinary terms, the word production refers to an act of creation and its result, or to a process at the end of which there is a materialisation of some kind, or to the act of making something present. By productively interfering with this common idea of production we would like to work towards establishing different ways of thinking about this concept.

Distraction and Interference as well as Resistance and Accident are exemplary categories of the unexpected moments that may or may not take place . . . → En lire plus

Appel à contribution : « Museum and Curatorial Studies Review, issue No. 2 »

Museum and Curatorial Studies Review is a new peer-reviewed journal powered by the University of California, Berkeley Electronic Press, and the California Digital Library. Each issue will feature full-length academic articles, exhibition reviews, book reviews and dialogic contributions (such as interviews and open letters).

Volume 1, Number 1 will be published very soon. The editors are now seeking contributions to journal’s second issue.

All submissions should be sent electronically in MS Word format and follow The Chicago Manual of Style. The details for each submission type are below:

Article (6,000-9000 words): send a fully drafted, polished version of the paper to be blind peer reviewed.

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Appel à communication : « New Approaches to Collecting (1400-1600) » (10-12 avril 2014, AAH, Londres)

London, Royal College of Art, April 10 – 12, 2014 Deadline: Nov 11, 2013

CFP for the annual Association of Art Historians conference, 2014 at the Royal College of Art, London

New Approaches to Collecting (1400-1600) Session Convenor: Leah Clark

This panel seeks submissions that address new approaches to collecting in the early modern world. Scholars have long been attentive to the emergence of the studiolo in the Italian Renaissance and its relationship to humanism and the revival of classical culture, pursuing connections between art, antiquity, politics, knowledge, and power. Traditional approaches to collecting have tended to concentrate on collectors’ tastes within larger patronage studies, analysing inventories as lists of static objects, or by examining the iconographic programmes . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Artistic Practices in the Long-Eighteenth Century »

CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, February 12 – 15, 2014 Deadline: Jul 15, 2013

Call for Papers: Artistic Practices in the Long-Eighteenth Century

Session at the College Art Association Conference, Chicago Session sponsored by the American Council of Southern Asian Art (ACSAA)

Panel Chair: Dr. Yuthika Sharma, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin, Germany.

The eighteenth century in South Asia was an era of transition that saw the gradual decentralization of the Mughal State, the rise of autonomous regional polities as economic hubs and consolidation of the English East India Company as an administrative power. The artistic culture of this period underwent a fundamental change with increasing diversification of the patronage base, the rise of the . . . → En lire plus

Appel à publication : « Visual histories of islamic cultures »

Subject: CFP: New monograph series for Islamic art and architecture

Visual Histories of Islamic Cultures A new monograph series for Islamic art and architecture

We are delighted to announce the launch of Visual Histories of Islamic Cultures, a new monograph series for Islamic art and architecture. The series will be published by the well respected German publisher de Gruyter, and co-edited by Avinoam Shalem and Finbarr Barry Flood. The editors will be assisted by an advisory board comprised of international scholars in the relevant fields.

Visual Histories of Islamic Cultures is the first professional academic book series devoted to the art, architecture and material culture of the Islamic world that approaches cultural production as . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Authentication of paintings »

Subject: CFP: Authentication of Paintings (The Hague, 7-9 May 14)

The Hague, May 7 – 09, 2014 Deadline: Sep 13, 2013

Conference on Authentication of Paintings Call for Papers

Authentication in Art invites submissions of proposals of 500-700 words (up to 3000 characters) for oral presentations, to be given at the conference in The Hague, The Netherlands, 7-9 May, 2014 (Please see for more details: http://www.authenticationinart.org/ and http://www.authenticationinart.org/call-for-papers/). Due to the multitude of problems that have become ever more prominent around establishing authorship of paintings and authenticity, the identification of fakes, and the contextual and legal issues associated with this process, the conference Authentication in Art has been established.

Conference Language: The conference language is English.

Topics: Papers . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Persistent Spaces: politics, aesthetics and topography in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century city »

Paris, Diderot University, December 12 – 13, 2013 Deadline: Oct 13, 2013

Call for Papers:

Persistent Spaces: politics, aesthetics and topography in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century city’

Two-day postgraduate conference, 12th-13th December 2013, Université Paris Diderot

The aim of this two-day conference is to bring together young researchers to explore the city and its ideologies from a fully interdisciplinary perspective. We would like to combine approaches from the fields of literature and the arts, sociology, philosophy, law, science and engineering in order to create a dialogue between disciplines and methodologies. This conference would also establish a dialogue between the 18th and the 19th centuries. We will seek to highlight the individual specificities of these two periods, but also . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Les Peintres et la Première Guerre mondiale : commandes, productions, collections, vers une histoire comparative »

Les Peintres et la Première Guerre mondiale : commandes, productions, collections, vers une histoire comparative

Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre – Musée de l’Armée (4-6 décembre 2014)

Colloque international organisé par le CREA-EA 370, la BDIC et le Musée de l’Armée

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En Grande-Bretagne, en France, et en Allemagne, pendant la Première Guerre mondiale et les années de l’immédiat après-guerre, des milliers d’œuvres d’art ont vu le jour, par lesquelles les artistes ont cherché à représenter le conflit. Les unes s’attachent à la figuration des combats sur les différents fronts, à la vie dans les tranchées, aux destructions humaines et matérielles, à la dévastation du paysage, les autres se concentrent sur l’arrière, le « front domestique . . . → En lire plus

Appel à contribution pour la revue Esse : « La Rénovation »

RÉNOVATION :

Pour son prochain numéro, esse souhaite sonder le phénomène de la rénovation que certaines pratiques artistiques abordent, et qui est aussi vécu en marge des activités artistiques par les artistes ou par les lieux de diffusion. Il appert d’abord que nombre d’œuvres se rattachent au champ de la rénovation par leurs usages comme tel de matériaux et d’outils, mais également en recourant à des dispositifs qui mettent l’accent sur le bâti, la construction, l’élaboration de chantiers ou la mise en chantier de processus. Dans cette perspective, nous sommes intéressés par des textes qui analysent des corpus d’œuvres où, sur le plan réel ou métaphorique, des opérations de . . . → En lire plus

Appel à candidature : « Bursaries for the Victorian tactile Imagination Conference »

Bursaries Available for the Victorian Tactile Imagination Conference Birkbeck, University of London 19-20 July 2013

The conference committee are delighted to announce that four bursaries are now available to enable postgraduate and early career researchers (within three years of the PhD viva) to attend the conference, generously supported by the British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS): www.bavsuk.org.

The bursaries will cover the conference registration fee as well as a contribution of £40 towards travel expenses (please note this does not include the conference dinner). In order to apply for a bursary, applicants must provide:

A brief (500 word) outline of how attending the conference will contribute to their research A short (2 page) CV A brief note stating . . . → En lire plus

Appel à contribution : « Exploring hierarchies within the historiography of the fine and decorative arts »

Association of Art Historians 40th Anniversary Conference, Royal College of Art, London, 10-12 April 2014

Museums & Exhibitions Group Annual Session

Challenging conventions: Exploring hierarchies within the historiography of the fine and decorative arts.

This session explores hierarchies within the discipline of art history, tracing the separation of the ‘fine’ and ‘decorative/applied’ arts and examining the impact of this division on the research, display and use of art objects within academic and museum contexts. Even before Kant subdivided the arts into ‘mechanical’ and ‘aesthetic’ groupings, the ‘decorative’ arts were somehow deemed lesser due to their inherent functionality, allied to base manual labour and divorced from the purity and higher appeal/role of the ‘fine’ arts. This approach was perpetuated . . . → En lire plus

Appel à contribution : « Other Animals and Humans in Medieval Art »

International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8 – 11, 2014 Deadline: Sep 15, 2013

Other Animals and Humans in Medieval Art Session to be held at the 2014 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo Michigan

Sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)

Organizers: Corine Schleif (Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ) Martha Easton (Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ)

For some “animals are good to eat.” For others “animals are good to think with” (Levi-Strauss). Medieval art and society could not have existed without nonhuman animals. Human knowledge of animals is and was produced and exchanged largely through images (Berger) – albeit differently during the Middle Ages than today. Papers may address the ways in which humans . . . → En lire plus

Appel à contribution : « ReMEDIAting Flusser: From Print-Text to the Image-Flood »

November 1-3, 2013 University of Connecticut, Storrs

We are at the point of an epistemological turn. How do we gain, analyze, and disseminate knowledge? How is knowledge curated and archived? How do Western notions of creativity, imagination, and production evolve and change in a global multi-media environment? These and other questions are at the forefront of humanistic endeavors in the digital age and at this symposium, with a focus on the work of Vilém Flusser (1920-1991). Flusser addressed these questions in his wide-ranging texts, engaging a variety of fields in this debate. It is the task of the humanities to engage other fields of inquiry as well as the public and industry, and, most importantly, contribute to the . . . → En lire plus

Appel à contribution : « Cultural Exchange: Russia and the West II »

Cultural Exchange: Russia and the West II

University of Cambridge, 10th December 2013

Following the highly successful Cultural Exchange: Russia and the West conference, held at the University of Bristol in 2011, Theodora Clarke and Cinthia Willaman are pleased to announce a follow up postgraduate symposium at the University of Cambridge.

Cultural Exchange: Russia and the West II is an opportunity to re-examine the artistic links between the two regions both before and after the Revolution of 1917. Russian history is marked by key moments of contact and exchange which have shaped and transformed its cultural heritage. The conference will challenge the notion that Russia was isolated by geography and politics by considering the development of Russian art . . . → En lire plus

Appel à contribution : « Le document graphique dans son contexte : le hors-champ des images du spectacle ».

Appel à contribution pour le 3e numéro de la revue European Drama and Performance Studies (Classiques Garnier, 2014) « Le document iconographique dans son contexte : le hors-champ des images du spectacle »

L’histoire des arts du spectacle s’appuie sur des images (représentations d’acteurs, de scènes…) et plus largement sur des documents pouvant faire place à l’image (affiches, programmes, éditions illustrées de textes dramatiques, articles de presse avec illustrations ou photographies, caricatures, pochettes de « disques de théâtre », etc.). Ces images ont été étudiées en tant qu’elles pouvaient renseigner sur la représentation disparue et la fabrique des spectacles. Certaines d’entre elles sont même devenues quasiment mythiques à force d’être reproduites, de la miniature du martyre de . . . → En lire plus

Appel à candidature : 3 collaborateurs pour le groupe de recherche « Objet prémodernes. Une archéologie de l’expérience ». Munich, Institut d’Histoire de l’Art de l’Université Ludwig Maximilian.

Munich, Institut d’Histoire de l’Art de l’Université Ludwig Maximilian

Groupe de recherches international junior « OBJETS PRÉMODERNES. UNE ARCHÉOLOGIE DE L’EXPÉRIENCE »

3 Collaborateurs/trices de recherche (2 doctorant/e/s, 1 post-doctorant/e)

Date d’embauche: 01/10/2013 (ou au plus tard le 01/12/2013)

Fin de la période de candidature: 07/07/2013

Échelon salarial: TV-L E13, 66% (Emploi, paiement et couverture sociale sont déterminés par la convention collective pour le secteur public: Tarifvertrag für den öffentlichen Dienst – TVöD)

Trois postes de Collaborateurs/trices de recherche (2 doctorant/e/s, 1 post-doctorant/e) sont à pourvoir à l’Université Ludwig Maximilian de Munich dans le cadre du Groupe de recherches international junior « OBJETS PRÉMODERNES. UNE ARCHÉOLOGIE DE L’EXPÉRIENCE » (Réseau d’élite de Bavière).

L’Université Ludwig Maximilian de Munich . . . → En lire plus

Appel à contribution : « Nun Artists in Early Modern Italy », Biblioteca Domenicana, Florence.

Biblioteca Domenicana, Florence, October 5, 2013 Deadline: Jul 31, 2013

Nun Artists in Early Modern Italy

Co-sponsored by the Medici Archive Project’s Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists and the Biblioteca Domenicana in Santa Maria Novella, this conference highlights new research on artistic production in female monastic communities since the early Renaissance until the Napoleonic suppression.

Demolishing older notions of enclosure as an absolute barrier between nuns and the world outside, recent research on social and religious aspects has begun to reinsert the convent within the wider networks of patronage and economic life in the early modern state, and to reposition it within larger civic and ecclesiastical discourses. Presumably this model can also be applied to the . . . → En lire plus

Appel à candidature : « Lecturer in European/Non-European Art History (Medieval to 18th Century), University of Manchester ».

University of Manchester, UK, September 01, 2013 Application deadline: Jun 26, 2013

University of Manchester

Lecturer in European/Non-European Art History (Medieval to 18th Century).

Reference: HUM-02855 Faculty: Humanities School: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Salary: £33,230-£45,941 Employment type: Permanent

Applications are invited from art historians with a specialism in European or non-European art from the Medieval period to the 18th century. The person appointed will be expected to expand upon our provision in pre-1800 art history. Preference may be given to a scholar who would make use of the university’s renowned holdings of Medieval books and manuscripts, or fine art prints, watercolors, and paintings from later periods. A non-Western specialism in Islamic, Persian, Indian, or East Asian . . . → En lire plus