Presentation Day - 'Milton Keynes’ Medieval Heritage: Exploring the Unique Wall Paintings of St. Mary's Chapel, Bradwell Abbey'
Academics and local speakers discuss the importance of the 14th century wall paintings at Bradwell.
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Lecture - 'Modelling Leonardo' by Prof Martin Kemp
The Historical and Archival Research Group (HARG) of the Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR), Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.
See more details >AAH seeks nominations for the 2014 REF Assessment
The AAH is one of many nominating bodies for the 2014 REF panel Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory.
See more details >TLR - 'Bulletin Academic' notes on the REF Impact Agenda
Consultancy Bulletin Academic are releasing a number of documents and studies on the Impact Agenda for the forthcoming REF exercise.
See more details >Call for Contributions - Re-Visions. The journal of international postgraduate students’ art & design research
Re-Visions aims to critically analyze discourses in which subject-matters and themes enter prospective fields of research and grow in complexity, mutate and change in conceptual, theoretical and cultural frameworks.
See more details >Andrew W Mellon Foundation/Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Courtauld Institute of Art
1 September 2011 to 31 August 2012
£25,013 per annum
New AAH Chair Elect, plus vote for Honorary Secretary
The Association of Art Historians is pleased to be able to announce that following our recent call for nominations for a new Chair of the Association, Professor Alison Yarrington from the University of Glasgow is elected to the position unopposed. Professor Yarrington will assume the role of Chair-Elect and will take over formally at the next AAH Annual Conference, to be held at the University of Warwick in April next year. A biography and list of publications can be found at http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/historyofart/aboutus/staff/yarrington.
There were two nominations received for the post of Honorary Secretary - Dr. Veronica Davies (Open), and Professor Richard Woodfield (Nottingham Trent) - and as such, a vote of the membership is required.
Please take a brief moment to navigate to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JZFLJQH to register your vote. The survey page includes brief statements and biographies for both candidates. Aside from voting directly for the two candidates, you will be able to vote for "Chair Proxy", which delegates your vote to the current chair of the Association, Professor Evelyn Welch. You will need to have your AAH membership number in order to vote - please contact the AAH office at admin@aah.org.uk should you require a reminder.
Voting closes on the 1st September 2010.
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Conference - 'Rubens and the Human Body'
University of York, 17-18 September 2010
See more details >Call for Papers - 'Tradition and Transformation', AAANZ Annual Conference 2010
1-4 December
University of Adelaide, University of South Australia and Art Gallery of South Australia
Teaching Learning and Research - David Willetts and RCUK
We reproduce below a report from Professor James Ladyman (University of Bristol) on a recent meeting with David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science, regarding the UK's research councils.
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