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Conference - 'Art Histories, Cultural Studies and the Cold War'

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies in London
Friday 24th September with Miranda Carter as the keynote speaker talking on 'Anthony Blunt: Art and Intelligence'.

AAH Independents Musuem Visit

The third and penultimate event of the year will take place on Saturday, October 2nd. By popular request we will visit the Ashmolean Musuem in Oxford.

All those intending to come please be at the main entrance at 12.30. We will have lunch and then visit the museum.
 

Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowships

Research Fellowships are intended for artists, scholars and curators, interested in working on historic and contemporary sculpture using the Institute’s library, archive of sculptors’ papers and the collection of Leeds Art Gallery.

Call for papers - 'Contemplations of the Spiritual in Contemporary Art'

Friday 10th – Saturday 11th December 2010
Liverpool Cathedral, St James Mount, Liverpool, L1 7AZ

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.