Enfilade

The Rake’s Progress: Stravinsky, Hogarth, Hockney, Auden, and Kallman
The University of Colorado at Boulder, 26-27 October 2012

Proposal due by 1 May 2012

William Hogarth, "A Rake's Progress," plate 3, 1735

This conference will  be held in conjunction with the CU-Boulder Opera’s performances of The Rake’s Progress and the CU Art Museum’s exhibit, Hockney and Hogarth: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Collection of British Art (featuring Hockney’s A Rake’s Progress, 1961-63). The program committee for the conference seeks papers relating to Stravinsky’s music, Hogarth and Hockney’s art, and/or Auden’s and Kallman’s libretto to The Rake’s Progress. The conference seeks to be interdisciplinary, and will consider relevant papers from the standpoint of music history, musical analysis, art and art history, aesthetics, literary studies, and stagecraft. Papers will be limited to 20 minutes, with ten minutes for further discussion. Those interested in participating are asked to submit a 500-word proposal in
MSWord or pdf format. E-mail by May 1, 2012 to
CBISassistant@gmail.com

From the symposium website:

The Art of Death and Dying
University of Houston, 25-27 October 2012

Proposals due by 1 May 2012

The University of Houston Libraries, in partnership with the Blaffer Art Museum, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, the Department for Hispanic Studies, the Honors College and School of Art, will host a three day symposium titled “The Art of Death and Dying.” We welcome scholars in all disciplines to submit paper proposals on
literary, visual, and performing arts topics related to death and dying. Topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to:
– Literary, performing, or visual depictions or interpretations of death and dying
– Commemoration of the dead in art and performance
– Artifacts of death and dying as represented in archival or museum collections
– Artistic depictions of the after life
– Cultural death rituals
– Cultural expressions of mourning
– Death and dying in Latin American arts and culture
– Readings of original creative material on the subject
– Performances of material on the subject
– Presentation of visual material on the subject
– Memorial architecture
– Cemetery design
– Analysis of an artist’s, performer’s, filmmaker’s or writer’s work related to the subject
– Depictions of death and dying in film, radio, and television

Proposals related to death in Latin American art and visual culture are encouraged. The organizers will accept presentations in both Spanish and English. Papers will be selected based upon the quality of the proposal (including merit of the topic, clarity of expression, and relevance to the conference theme), the proposal’s ability to provoke critical exchange and debate, and opportunities for interaction between participants that will enable attendees to engage in a truly interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and viewpoints. Presenters will be afforded the opportunity for their symposium paper/presentation to be published in the Texas Digital Library. Papers will be twenty minutes in length and will be followed by ten minutes of discussion. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted on the symposium website.

Gardening and Knowledge: Landscape Design and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period
Hanover, 17-19 September 2012

Proposals due by 29 February 2012

Gardening and Knowledge is co-organised by the Centre of Garden Art and Landscape Architecture at the Leibniz Universität Hannover and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT) at the Universität Wuppertal in Hannover. The workshop will open on the evening of 17 September with a keynote lecture by Professor Dr. Michael Leslie and will conclude on September 19. Because experts from the USA and several European countries will be participating, the conference language will be English.

Speakers have already committed to presenting on such topics as:
– Gardening nature, gardening knowledge: early modern gardens and the rise of natural knowledge
– John Evelyn, the Elysium Britannicum and the generation/ creation of knowledge
– Water technology, the increase of knowledge and its impact on gardens in the time of the Renaissance
– Botanical illustrations and the cultivation of botanical knowledge in the early modern era
– Water technology and the theory of perspective in Early Modern garden art
– the scientific approach and professionalism in garden art historiography in the Early Modern Period

Proposals for papers are welcome by February 29, 2012. The workshop’s scope and aims invite interdisciplinary collaboration:
proposals from all disciplines that can meaningfully contribute to expanding the field of “Gardens and Knowledge”are welcome. Special consideration will be given to proposals from emerging scholars. Proposals must include a proposed title and an abstract (1–3 pages) of a 20-minute talk. The intention is to publish the conference proceedings promptly.

Please send titles, abstracts (1-3 pages) and a short CV (one page max.) via post or e-mail to:
cgl@uni-hannover.de
Zentrum für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur
Leibniz Universität Hannover Herrenhäuser Straße 8 D-30419 Hannover, Germany

From the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies:

CSECS 2012 — Crossings: The Cultures of Global Exchange in the Eighteenth Century
Edmonton, Alberta, 18-20 October 2012

Proposals due by 15 March 2012

Plenary Speakers: Srinivas Aravamudan (Duke University) and David Bell (Princeton University)

Xu Yang, "The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour," Scroll Two, detail, 1770. Accession #2004.19.15.1, Mactaggart Art Collection, University of Alberta

The Cultures of Global Exchange seeks papers investigating what happens when cultures meet in the eighteenth century. Many historians now trace the origins of modern globalization to the eighteenth century, pointing to the global circulation of goods, labour, and information as its defining feature. By focusing on the nature of cross-cultural exchange, the conference will pursue the significance of framing the century within the terms of a nascent globalized world. We invite proposals that investigate cultural exchanges in a range of fields, including but not limited to history, literature, visual culture, geography, economics, anthropology and area studies. Investigations of transcultural crossings could address dialogues between Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Levant, India, China and the South Pacific.  Especially welcome are papers on the topic of cultural encounters between Europeans and Western Canadian First Nations peoples. Possible topics include:
•    the material history of global traffic
•    translation histories
•    literary circulations
•    the culture of mobility
•    information/scholarly networks
•    representations of cross-cultural encounters
•    cultural and commercial trade routes
•    spaces of intellectual exchange
•    the culture of commodity exchange
•    theories of globalization
•    travel writing
•    eighteenth-century empires
•    ideas of difference
•    trans-cultural versus cross-cultural

As is traditional in CSECS, proposals not on the conference theme will also be considered.

Email: csecs.scedhs2012@ualberta.ca
Mail: Katherine Binhammer, CSECS
3-5 Humanities, U of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T5G 2E5

Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West
Peking University, Beijing, 10-13 October 2012

Proposals due by 12 April 2012

Proposals are called for papers to be presented at a bilingual (Chinese-English, with simultaneous translation) symposium called Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West, to be held on the campus of Peking University, October 10-13, 2012. The goal of the symposium is to highlight new ways of looking at the artistic contacts and mutual interactions between China and the West during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). By gathering scholars from around the world, it aims at bringing together different art histories as well as diverse methods of analyzing the artistic products of intercultural exchange. The symposium covers all forms of art, architecture, and decorative art. Special preference will be given to young scholars bringing a fresh methodological perspective to the subject.

Held under the auspices of the J. Paul Getty Foundation, in the context of its initiative of “Connecting Art Histories,” the symposium is co-sponsored by Peking University and Seton Hall University. Its steering committee is comprised of Ding Ning, Peking University; Petra Chu, Seton Hall University; Greg Thomas, The University of Hong Kong, and Chiu Che Bing, Paris. Advisor: Thomas Gaehtgens, Getty Research Institute.

Those interested in presenting a paper at the symposium should send a one-page (double-spaced) proposal accompanied by a one-page resume (in one document) as an e-mail attachment to Petra Chu at petra.chu@shu.edu. Both proposal and résumé need to be in English (though completed papers may be delivered in Chinese). Proposal deadline: April 5, 2012. Selected participants will be notified by May 5, 2012. Final papers are due August 1, 2012.  Travel to Beijing and lodging for all speakers will be paid by a generous grant from the Getty Foundation. For more information, please e-mail Petra Chu at petra.chu@shu.edu or Ding Ning at dingning@pku.edu.cn

This CFP was announced here at Enfilade back in November; the deadline, however, is now fast approaching. –CH

Histories of British Art, 1660-1735: Reconstruction and Transformation
King’s Manor, University of York, 20-22 September 2012

Proposals due 2 March 2012

We welcome proposals from graduate students, academics working in History of Art and other Humanities disciplines, curators and all others engaged in research on the field. The conference is a key output of a major AHRC-funded project on art of the period, Court, Country, City: British Art, 1660-1735. This project is ran in collaboration between Tate Britain and the University of York, and led by Professor Mark Hallett (York), Professor Nigel Llewellyn (Tate), and Dr. Martin Myrone (Tate).

Conference costs will be heavily subsidized thanks to AHRC funding, however spaces for the conference are limited and priority will be given to speakers. A number of graduate student bursaries will be available. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to claudine.vanhensbergen@tate.org.uk

A PDF of the poster is available here»

AAH Summer Symposium 2012 Art and Science: Knowledge, Creation and Discovery
The Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, 28-29 June 2012

Proposals due by 29 April 2012

Though their academic paradigms may at first seem diametrically opposed, the association between the arts and the sciences has survived renaissances, revolutions and beyond. This intellectual conjunction has motivated artistic practice and production throughout history, forming the conceptual nucleus of some of the most stimulating forms of creative expression. By engaging with this inter-relationship, we hope to address the assumed divisions that have kept the arts and sciences as separate areas of academic enquiry, whilst at the same time questioning if such an alliance is necessary or profitable for either discipline.

As well as considering general ideas of artistic and scientific collaboration, this year’s Summer Symposium will investigate the interaction between art and science throughout artistic practice, theory and history. Topics for papers could include, but are not limited to:

• Artists who work directly or indirectly with science
• Medical and anatomical images, diagrams, and the art of science
• Architecture and the body
• Histories of collection, taxonomies, display and acquisition in the arts and sciences
• The role of the science of perception in the development of perspective, figuration and abstraction
• The idea of the modern as related to science and technology
• The figure of the polymath
• Neuroscience and histories of vision
• Photography between science and art
• Mathematics and beauty – the Golden Section
• Technology and the evolving dissemination of art history
• Science in art historical conservation and research

Papers should be 20 minutes in length and abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted with a brief biography to: aah.art.science@gmail.com by 29 April 2012. The conference is open to all but speakers need to be student AAH members.

Symposium Organisers
Arlene Leis, University of York, acl914@interfree.it
Rebecca Norris, University of Cambridge, rn290@cam.ac.uk
Freya Gowrley, University of Edinburgh, f.l.gowrley@gmail.com

Third Annual Feminist Art History Conference
American University, Washington D.C., 9-11 November 2012

Proposals due 15 May 2012

This conference builds on the legacy of feminist art-historical scholarship and pedagogy initiated by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard at American University. To further the inclusive spirit of their groundbreaking anthologies, we invite papers on subjects spanning the chronological and geographic spectrum to foster a broad dialogue on feminist art-historical practice. Speakers may address such topics as: artists, movements, and works of art and architecture; cultural institutions and critical discourses; practices of collecting, patronage, and display; the gendering of objects, spaces, and media; the reception of images; and issues of power, agency, gender, and sexuality within visual cultures.

Sessions and keynote will be held on AU’s campus with additional events at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in conjunction with its 25th Anniversary celebration

Keynote address
“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Feminism, Art History and the Story of a Book”
Whitney Chadwick, Professor Emerita of Art History, San Francisco State University

Please submit via email a one-page, single-spaced proposal and two-page curriculum vita by May 15, 2012 to fahc3.cfp@gmail.com. Notification of acceptance by July 1, 2012

Sponsored by the Art History Program, Department of Art, College of Arts and Sciences at American University
Organizing committee:  Kathe Albrecht, Juliet Bellow, Norma Broude, Kim Butler, Mary D. Garrard, Namiko Kunimoto, Helen Langa, and Andrea Pearson