Appel à communication : « Collecting Prints and Drawings » (13-15 juin 2014, Kloster Irsee)

Kloster Irsee, June 13 – 15, 2014 Deadline-CFP: 30 nov. 2013

Collecting Prints & Drawings

Interdisciplinary conference organised by Collecting & Display in collaboration with Schwabenakademie Kloster Irsee Organisers: Andrea M. Gáldy – Sylvia Heudecker – Angela M. Opel

Cabinets of prints and drawings belong to the earliest art collections of Early Modern Europe. From the sixteenth century onwards some of them acquired considerable fame which necessitated an ordered and scientific display. This interdisciplinary conference brings together art historians, historians, curators and collectors and explores topics such as: when, how and why did cabinets of prints and drawings become a specialised part of princely and private collections? How important were collections . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : Festival de l’histoire de l’art (Fontainebleau 30 mai – 1er juin 2014)

Festival de l’histoire de l’art : Fontainebleau 30 mai – 1er juin 2014 Collectionner; La Suisse, pays invité

Le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art et le Château de Fontainebleau s’associent, avec le concours du ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, pour proposer la quatrième édition du Festival de l’histoire de l’art. Conçues comme un carrefour des publics et des savoirs, ces trois journées offrent conférences, débats, concerts, expositions, projections, lectures et rencontres dans le château et dans plusieurs sites de la ville de Fontainebleau. Le Festival explore chaque année un thème, en 2014 « Collectionner », et . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Art as Cultural Diplomacy » (15-16 novembre 2013, Prague)

Grand Majestic Plaza, Prague, Czech Republic, November 15 – 16, 2013 Deadline-CFP: 15 oct. 2013

Call for Papers for the Panel

Art as Cultural Diplomacy: (Re)Constructing Notions of Eastern and Western Europe

(As part of the Second Euroacademia International Conference ‘Re-Inventing Eastern Europe’ to be held at Grand Majestic Plaza, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-16 November 2013)

Panel Organizer: Cassandra Sciortino, University of California, Santa Barbara

Panel Description: The panel « Art as cultural diplomacy » seeks papers that explore the function of art (in its broadest definition) as an instrument of cultural diplomacy by the state and, especially, by nongovernmental actors. The main theme of the session is the . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Dolls and Puppets » (23-26 juin 2014, Bialystok, Pologne)

Bialystok, Poland, June 23 – 26, 2014 Deadline-CFP: 31 janv. 2014

Call for Papers

Dolls and Puppets as Artistic and Cultural Phenomenon

The presence of dolls and puppets has been a constant feature of life throughout the history of humankind. The use and perception of dolls and puppets reflects people’s attitudes towards the world and other people as well as spiritual concerns. In academic discussions this phenomenon is usually treated in relative isolation. Theatre historians have their own vision of the history of dolls and puppets, as do art historians, ethnologists, film connoisseurs and historians of literature. These various views do not, unfortunately, often enter into direct dialogue. The main aim . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « SAH 68th Annual Conference » (15-19 avril 2015, Chicago)

Chicago, IL, April 15 – 19, 2015 Deadline-CFP: 15 janv. 2014

Call for Session Proposals: SAH 68th Annual Conference April 15-19, 2015 | Chicago, IL http://www.sah.org/2015

At its 2015 Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois, April 15-19, the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Society’s founding. SAH will offer six concurrent paper sessions, in six modules over two days, for a total of 36 paper sessions. The Society invites its members, including graduate students and independent scholars, representatives of SAH chapters and partner organizations, as well as future members to chair a session at the conference.

Since the principal purpose of the . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Urbanism and Urbanity » (20-22 mars 2014, Chicago)

Chicago, IL, March 20 – 22, 2014 Deadline-CFP: 30 sept. 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) Urbanism and Urbanity March 20-22, 2014, Chicago IL

We seek papers and panels that investigate elements of urbanism and urbanity during’ the long nineteenth century, such as:

– urbanites (the flaneur, the prostitute,the detective, the criminal, etc.); – urbanites and the rise of consumer culture; – immigrants and urban communities: urban domesticity in literature and culture; – architecture, urban design, and city planning; – urban spaces and the gothic imagination; – mobilities and forms of urban transport; – the politics of urban space; – the city and the natural environment; – urban cartographies; . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communicaiton : « Rencontres doctorales : Recherches relatives au Moyen Âge tardif et à la première modernité »

Argumentaire

Depuis l’essor des universités jusqu’aux bouleversements engendrés par la science galiléenne, l’Europe vit d’incessants questionnements qui remettent en cause ses équilibres politiques et leurs légitimations, qui ébranlent les fondements de l’unité confessionnelle et déplacent les limites du savoir et de la création. En tentant de transcender les clivages hérités d’une longue tradition historiographique, le département de recherche Transitions se penche sur les mutations qui caractérisent le Moyen Âge tardif et la première modernité. Résolument multidisciplinaire, ce département entend élargir les intérêts à la constellation des facteurs qui ont concouru à la construction politique et culturelle des cadres dans lesquels nous nous définissons aujourd’hui encore.

Dans . . . → En lire plus

Appel à contribution : « Expanded Photography » (AAH Annual Conference, 10-12 avril 2014, Londres)

London, Royal College of Art, April 10 – 12, 2014 Deadline-CFP: 11 nov. 2013

Association of Art Historians 40th Anniversary Annual Conference & Bookfair

CALL FOR PAPERS: Expanded Photography Session Chair: Dr. Lucy Soutter, The Royal College of Art

Contemporary artists are transforming our understanding of photography by combining it with other forms and activities. Many recent works incorporating photography have material or spatial aspects, overlapping with painting, sculpture, installation or architecture. Others emphasize action or the passage of time, combining photography with elements of moving image, performance or audience participation. Digital technology provides yet further hybrid manifestations of photography within art. While many such works have roots in the . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Visual Urban Transformations » (15-16 novembre 2013, Prague)

Grand Majestic Plaza, Prague, Czech Republic, November 15 – 16, 2013 Deadline-CFP: 5 oct. 2013

Call for Papers for the Panel:

Visual Urban Transformations: Changes in Urban Image Construction in Central and Eastern Europe

As part of the Second Euroacademia International Conference ‘Re-Inventing Eastern Europe’ to be held at Grand Majestic Plaza, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-16 November 2013

Panel Description:

As the chaotic canvases of cities are being stretched over a framework of identity, its further exploration seems more than appropriate. Amidst the incredibly rapid urban growth crowding more than half of the world population in towns and cities, the questions are only going to keep multiplying. How are . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Visual Arts of Iberia & Italy » (ICMS, 8-11 mai 2014, Kalamazoo)

Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8 – 11, 2014 Deadline-CFP: 25 sept. 2013

Call for Papers

49th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo 2014

Session: « Comparative Approaches to the Visual Arts of Iberia and Italy: Sites of Exchange and Affinity in the Western Mediterranean »

Regional approaches to art history have long separated Italy and Iberia, though a number of direct links and uncanny parallels generated strong affinities between the two peninsulas and their outlying islands during the Middle Ages. Medieval Italy and Iberia’s many contextual similarities resulted in large part from their direct access to the Mediterranean, as can be seen in their accommodation of diverse cultures, their . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « The Reception of German Art » (AAH, 10-12 avril 2014, Londres)

London, Royal College of Art, April 10 – 12, 2014 Deadline-CFP: 11 nov. 2013

Call for Papers

The Reception of German Art, Art Theory, and Philosophy by the Americas in the 20th Century Panel at the AAH Annual Conference, London The panel considers the impact of German Art, Art Theory, Aesthetics, and Philosophy on the Americas. The goal is to focus on German cultural transfer and influence in American Art History and Philosophical discourse. In the 20th century, many German artists and art theorists had to emigrate to the Americas. This contributed to the dissemination of Germany Art and Art Theory in the Americas. We are trying to examine . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « The Scientific and Cultural Exile » (3-5 avril 2014, Madrid)

Madrid, April 3 – 05, 2014 Deadline-CFP: 31 oct. 2013

The Scientific and Cultural Exile. Congreso Posguerras. 75º aniversario del fin de la Guerra Civil Española

Session “The scientific and cultural exile” Coordinated by José María López Sánchez and Idoia Murga Castro Almost the entirety of the scientific and cultural elites implicated with the political and modernised Republican project was sent into exile due to the end of the Spanish Civil War and the military collapse of the Republic. The rear-guard violence and the reprisal against certain members of scientific and cultural groups showed the risk of remaining inside Spain. In 1939 the exile started for many scientists, artists and intellectuals, . . . → En lire plus

Colloque : « La dame de cœur. Patronage et mécénat religieux des femmes de pouvoir (XIVe-XVIIe siècle). France, Espagne, Italie, Empire »

Les femmes ont de tout temps entretenu des liens privilégiés avec le sacré, bien mis en lumière par les historiens du haut Moyen Âge. Ces réflexions méritent d’être poursuivies pour les époques postérieures : quel rôle jouèrent les femmes de pouvoir dans le domaine religieux ? Existe-t-il des dévotions ou des domaines d’intervention plus spécifiquement féminins ?

Au-delà des bienfaits spirituels attendus, le mécénat et le patronage religieux des reines et des princesses était en effet l’un des modes d’expression privilégiés de leur pouvoir : fondations et offrandes participaient de leur identité et de leur prestige. Liens entre deux familles, entre deux espaces . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Sea Currents: The 19th-Century Ocean World » (AAH Annual Conference, 10-12 avril 2014, Londres)

London, Royal College of Art, April 10 – 12, 2014 Deadline-CFP: 11 nov. 2013

Sea Currents: The 19th-Century Ocean World (AAH Annual Conference, London, Royal College of Art, 10-12 April 2014)

Convenors of Session: Kathleen Davidson (University of Sydney) and Molly Duggins (University of Sydney)

Vast and fluid, the oceanic spaces of empire in the 19th century inspired an imaginative and multifaceted aesthetic discourse that intersected with colonial and scientific expansion. From the seashore, which emerged as a site of leisure, liminality and transgression, to the seabed, which was perceived as a perilous but alluring frontier, marine environments captivated contemporary practitioners and audiences alike on a local and global . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « The Artwork Exposed » (17-18 avril 2014, Amsterdam)

The Artwork Exposed: Politics and the Arts (1850-1914) Seminar in Collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Historical Society (KNHG) Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 17-18 April 2014

Organized by: Camelia Errouane (University of Groningen) Laura Prins (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)

Confirmed key-note speaker: Michelle Facos (Indiana University Bloomington)

Artworks do not stand on their own: they are made for specific goals and presented in certain contexts; they are viewed and consumed by different persons and eventually they are analyzed by critics and historians. Within this social dynamic, the relationship between the arts and politics has always been complex: Governments of all colors have used and abused the arts throughout history, while individual artists, too, have used . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Rhétorique des arts, XXII : Cacher… l’art? »

On connaît la sprezzatura prônée par Castiglione et qui consistait à cacher l’artifice pour donner au courtisan l’allure d’une aisance naturelle, principe qu’appliquèrent aussi les artistes maniéristes cherchant à produire sans effort apparent « l’art sans art » propre au génie. N’était-on pas déjà confronté au même paradoxe, lorsque, pour viser l’efficacité du discours, Aristote recommandait « de parler de façon non pas fabriquée mais naturelle » (Rhétorique 1404b18) ? De la même manière, des générations de peintres se sont appliqués à effacer les traces de leur main à la surface de la toile pour favoriser l’effet de transparence propice à l’illusion mimétique. . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Fortified Palaces in Early Modern Europe 1400-1700 » (19-21 juin 2014, Turin)

Turin, June 19 – 21, 2014 Deadline-CFP: 30 sept. 2013

Call for Papers for Sessions at the Third International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network

Fortified Palaces in Early Modern Europe 1400-1700

Please send your proposal before September 30, 2013, by using the special forms at www.eahn.org.

From the fifteenth century onwards the spread of firearms profoundly affected the medieval castle. Residential and defensive elements that were once united in a single structure now evolved into separate architectural entities. The château fort gradually developed into a residential palace surrounded by a fortified perimeter. In addition, the shift from vertical to horizontal defence meant that the main trait . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Re-Imagining the Good Life in Times of Crisis » (8-10 mai 2014, Louvain)

Leuven, May 8 – 10, 2014 Deadline-CFP: 20 oct. 2013

Performing Protest Re-Imagining the Good Life in Times of Crisis Leuven, 8-10 May 2014

Keynote Lectures: Ingolfur Blühdorn (Bath) Boris Groys (NYU)

In 2011, Time Magazine named the “protester” person of the year, arguing that protest has become “the defining trope of our times” and the protester “a maker of history”. More than anything, however, this making of history is a creative process. The post-democratic experience of disempowerment at the grass-roots level of many European societies coincides with the urgent need for new visions of social prosperity and wellbeing as revealed by the recent crisis of economic, environmental and social sustainability. . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Monument / Anti-Monument Panel » (10-12 avril 2014, Saint Louis)

St Louis, MO USA, April 10 – 12, 2014 Deadline-CFP: 18 sept. 2013

Call for Papers

« Monument/Anti-Monument » is an international conference that will bring together artists, art historians, curators, academics, architects, urban planners, designers, archaeologists and other experts to explore contemporary thinking about the intersection of sculpture and public space.

While « Anti-Monument » was a term coined by Robert Smithson to refer to « accidental: monuments such as buildings and industrial spaces, this panel would center around the concept of Counter-Monuments, generally associated with Holocaust memorials and defined by James Young as created by artists who have, “a deep distrust of monumental forms in light of . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period » (30-31 janvier 2014, Liège)

Université de Liège – Belgium, January 30 – 31, 2014 Deadline-CFP: 1 nov. 2013

Research on the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (14th-17th centuries). Meeting among PhD students

Call for papers

Since the development of universities to the changes caused by Galilean science, Europe has experienced constant questionings which challenge its political balances and their legitimations, which undermine the foundations of confessional unity and move the borders of knowledge and creation. Trying to transcend the divisions inherited from a long historiographical tradition, the research department Transitions addresses the mutations which characterize the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (14th-17th centuries). Resolutely multidisciplinary, this department intends to . . . → En lire plus