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Note below the opportunity from NCHA for support for U.S. graduate students:

The Challenge of the Object / Die Herausforderung des Objekts
33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA)
Nuremberg, 15-20 July 2012

Proposals due 30 April 2011

From July 15 to 20, 2012 the Germanisches Nationalmuseum is hosting the 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA) in Nuremberg and invites art historians from all over the world to attend and discuss The Challenge of the Object. The object and how it is perceived in art history is a question that is currently very highly charged, the result of increasing globalization and digitalization. Art and cultural historians from all over the world, from a vast cross-section of disciplines and fields of professional interest are called upon to discuss together the role and the theory of the object in art history. The topics are divided into 21 sections with up to 20 talks each. The sections should enable a comparison to be made between the different viewpoints and methods. For that reason they are categorized according to how their questions on the object in art history are formulated. This should allow talks on different genres, epochs and countries to be brought together.

The congress will be rounded off with an extensive supporting program with excursions, for example to Documenta in Kassel, and a wide-ranging program for young academics. At the same time the Germanisches Nationalmuseum will be presenting the important special exhibition on The Early Dürer. The Call for Papers ends on April 30, 2011. From November 2011, registration for participation without a presentation is also possible. Detailed descriptions of the individual sections as well as information on the congress and the Call for Papers can be found at the conference website.

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From the the website of the NCHA, the U.S. affiliate of the CIHA:

The National Committee for the History of Art (NCHA) is the U.S. affiliate of the international community of art historians, the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA). Both the NCHA and CIHA aim to foster intellectual exchange among scholars, teachers, students and others interested in art history broadly conceived as encompassing art, architecture, and visual culture across geographical boundaries and throughout history. . .

The National Committee for the History of Art was founded in 1980, in anticipation of the 1986 International Congress of the History of Art, held in Washington. Irving Lavin was the founding NCHA President and was instrumental in shaping the organization as it prepared to conceive and host the International Congress. Under the leadership of Nancy Troy, NCHA organized and hosted a second conference, Past Perfected: Antiquity and its Reinventions, held in Los Angeles in 2006. It currently is concerned with developing global networks of art historians, particularly in areas of the world in which art history is an emerging discipline. With support from the Getty Foundation, NCHA brings together art historians from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe for discussions on the state of the discipline and to help forge communities of scholars around the globe. For each International Congress, NCHA provides support for some twenty-five American Ph.D. students who wish to attend and looks forward to doing so once again for the 2012 International Congress that will be held in Nuremberg.