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Call for papers from graduate students only.
One-day conference on ‘The Representation of Adolescence in Early Modern Europe’, Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge, 24 September 2010.
See more details >11.30 - 17.40, Thursday 4 March 2010
See more details >Applications for the Voluntary Work Fund are now open for 2010.
See more details >Publishing Skills Training for PGRs and Portfolio: an e-journal for postgraduate research in visual arts and culture
February 11-12, 2010
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Northumbria University
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
The AAH Career's Day 2010 will take place on 12 March 2010 at the University of Edinburgh.
Hosted in the culturally vibrant and beautiful Edinburgh, this year’sCareers Day will bring together a wide range of arts professionals to share their experience and expertise in a diversity of fields: academia, curating, arts publishing and research. With representatives from some of the most outstanding cultural institutions in and around Edinburgh, this is bound to be a hugely rewarding experience.
The John Fleming Travel Award is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students studying art, art history, visual culture or architecture. The aim of the award is to encourage a better understanding and exploration of the arts from around the world by enabling students to travel as a means of assisting or furthering their research. The John Fleming Travel Award is sponsored by Laurence King Publishing who offer this award of £2000 annually in memory of the art historian John Fleming, co-author with Hugh Honour, of the book, A World History of Art.
See more details >Association of Art Historians Summer Symposium
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 24 - 25 June 2010
Call for Papers
Architectural Objects
Discussing Spatial Form across Art Histories
The 'spatial turn' in the history of art has had a significant impact on the understanding of artistic practice and the built environment, and the formal and political complexities of space in a broader sense. This symposium explores the role of architectural theory and practice within the history of art, working across theoretical and aesthetic categories to redefine notions of space and form.
See more details >The Terra Foundation for American Art is offering, in partnership with The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, the John F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität, Berlin, and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, six travel grants for researchers whose research project concerns American art or transatlantic artistic relations prior to 1980. Nationals of all European countries as well as foreign nationals enrolled in European universities can apply for these grants according to their level of study.
See more details >RX Cities: Postgraduate Conference
The life of the city has been central to the many jostling narratives of modernity which have informed our understanding of the relations of art and life. This conference invites papers which broadly explore the city as a nexus for the production and consumption of design goods, the built environment, and representation in the history of art and design.
The International Consortium on Art History
8th International Springtime Academy Florence, May 31 – June 5, 2010