HBA Travel Award for Graduate Students
Historians of British Travel Award
Proposals due by 15 September 2012
The award is designated for a graduate student member of HBA who will be presenting a paper on British art or visual culture at an academic conference in 2013. The award of $750 is intended to offset travel costs.
To apply, send a letter of request, a copy of the letter of acceptance from the organizer of the conference session, an abstract of the paper to be presented, a budget of estimated expenses (noting what items may be covered by other resources), and a CV to Renate Dohmen, Prize Committee Chair, HBA, brd4231@louisiana.edu. The deadline is September 15, 2012.
Call for Papers | New Perspectives on the Romantic Period
As noted at BARS:
New Perspectives on the Romantic Period — A Student-Led Conference
Tate Britain, London, 6-7 November 2012
Proposals due 24 August 2012
The Tate Research Centre: British Romantic Art aims to promote research on British art from around 1770 to 1850. Tate’s collection of watercolours and drawings, and major holdings of the work of William Blake and John Constable is among the greatest in the world. With a special focus on Blake, Constable and Turner, the Centre offers a programme of events and activities aimed at encouraging research on these artists and on the Romantic era as a whole, as well as the legacy of Romantic art and culture in Britain and around the world.
This two-day conference is being organised by PhD students in collaboration with Tate. The event will be open to postgraduate researchers from the UK and abroad with a particular interest in the Romantic period, with the aim to discover and explore common areas of interest and create an informal network of students working in this area. We are looking for current postgraduates working on the Romantic period (loosely defined as c.1770–1850) to participate in this event. Contributions may be in the form of a traditional paper (of approximately twenty minutes), a gallery or print-room talk, chairing a round-table discussion or any other idea you may have to disseminate your research and contribute to the broader theme of the conference.Contributions should focus on British art and visual culture of the period c.1770–1850, though related cultural artefacts from different periods and countries may also be brought into the discussion. We particularly encourage submissions relating to the Tate collection.Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
– National identity; transnational currents or connections; empire
– Religious art
– Spectacle; visual entertainment
– Romantic influence and afterlife; cross-period connections; the past as a theme and obsession
– Definitions or limitations of the term ‘Romanticism’; questioning the canon
– New interpretations of Romantic art and artists; new approaches or methodologies
– Landscape art and theory
– Aesthetic discourses
The precise schedule for the two days is subject to submissions. A social event will be incorporated into the programme on the first evening.Please send a 300-word abstract of your idea (including your name and institutional affiliation) tonewperspectives@tate.org.uk The deadline is Friday 24th August 2012. In relation to successful submissions, the organisers will seek further details on the format and delivery of proposed contributions in due course. Please note there will be no registration fee for this event, but places will be limited.
Dissertations
From caa.reviews:
Dissertation Listings
PhD dissertation authors and titles in art history and visual studies from US and Canadian institutions are published each year in caa.reviews. Titles can be browsed by subject category or year.
Titles are submitted once a year by each institution granting the PhD in art history and/or visual studies. Submissions are not accepted from individuals, who should contact their department chair or secretary for more information. Department chairs: please consult our dissertation submission guidelines for instructions. The annual deadline is January 15 for titles from the preceding year.
In 2003, CAA revised the subject area categories of art history and visual studies used for all our listings, including dissertations. These categories are listed in the Dissertation Submission Guidelines
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The index for 2011 lists eight eighteenth-century dissertations completed, including:
• Frederique Baumgartner, “Transformation of the Cultural Experience: The Art of Hubert Robert during the French Revolution” (Harvard, E. Lajer-Burcharth)
• Christina Ferando, “Staging Canova: Sculpture, Connoisseurship, and Display, 1780–1822” (Columbia, J. Crary, A. Higonnet)
• Katie Hanson, “A Neoclassical Conundrum: Painting Greek Mythology in France, 1780–1825” (CUNY, P. Mainardi)
• Amanda Lahikainen, “Unchecked Ideas: Humor and the French Revolution in Late Eighteen-Century British Political Graphic Satire” (Brown, K. D. Kriz)
and forty-one dissertations in progress, including:
• Katherine Arpen, “Pleasure and the Body: Representations of Bathing in Eighteenth-Century French Art” (UNC Chapel Hill, M. Sheriff)
• Julie Boivin, “Horrid Beauty: Rococo Ornament and Contemporary Visual Culture” (Toronto, M. Cheetham)
• Elizabeth Berler Brand, “Representing Natural History in Philadelphia, 1770–1820” (UT Austin, S. Rather, M. Cohen)
• Lauren Cannady, “Owing to Nature and Art: The Garden Landscape and Decorative Painting in Eighteenth-Century French Pavillons de Plaisance” (IFA/NYU, T. Crow)
• Zirwat Chowdhury, “‘Imperceptible Transitions’: The Anglo-Indianization of British Architecture, 1768–1820” (Northwestern, S. H. Clayson)
• Katelyn D. Crawford, “Itinerant Portraitists in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World” (Virginia, M. McInnis)
• Lindsay Dunn, “A Revolutionary Empress: Figuring Dynastic Power and National Identity in Representations of Marie-Louise, House of Habsburg-Lorraine (1791–1847)” (UNC Chapel Hill, M. Sheriff)
• Emily Everhart, “The Power of Friendship: Madame de Pompadour, Catherine the Great, and Representations of Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Art” (Georgia, A. Luxenberg, A. Kirin)
• Jessica Fripp, “Portraiture as Social Practice: The Creation, Collection, and Exchange of Portraits of Artists in Eighteenth-Century France” (Michigan, S. Siegfried)
• Daniel Fulco, “Palace Frescoes as an Expression of Princely Power in Early Modern Germany: Five Representative Examples” (Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, D. O’Brien)
• Meredith Gamer, “Criminal and Martyr: Art and Religion in Britain’s Early Modern Eighteenth Century” (Yale, T. Barringer)
• Victoria Sears Goldman, “‘The most beautiful Punchinelli in the world’: A Comprehensive Study of the Punchinello Drawings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo” (Princeton, T. DaCosta Kaufmann)
• Jennifer Jones, “A Discourse on Drawings: P. J. Mariette and the Graphic Arts in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris” (Columbia, D. Rosand)
• Jason LaFountain, “The Puritan Art World” (Harvard, J. Roberts)
• David Pullins, “Cut and Paste: The Mobile Image from Watteau to Pillement” (Harvard, E. Lajer-Burcharth)
• Brian Repetto, “Impressing the Patriot: Visual Culture and Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands” (Brown, J. Muller)
• Ünver Rüstem, “Architecture for a New Age: Imperial Ottoman Mosques in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul” (Harvard, G. Necipoğlu)
• Susan Wager, “Boucher’s Bijoux: Luxury Reproductions in the Age of Enlightenment” (Columbia, A. Higonnet)
• Diane Woodin, “Embodied Constellations: Representations of Science, Gender, and Social Allegiance in the Eighteenth Century” (UNC Chapel Hill, M. Sheriff)
Collaborative Doctoral Awards | Reconstructing Sloane
Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentships: Reconstructing Sloane
Applications due 29 June 2012; must be available for interview on 19 July 2012
Applications are invited for two Collaborative Doctoral Award studentships, available under the rubric Reconnecting Sloane: Texts, Images, Objects, to commence in Autumn 2012. The first CDA will be at King’s College London/The British Library and will focus on the correspondence (i.e. ‘texts’) of Sir Hans Sloane. The second will be at Queen Mary University London/The Natural History Museum and will focus on Sloane’s vegetable substances (i.e. ‘objects’). A third has already been awarded and will be at King’s College London/The British Museum and will focus on Sloane’s natural history drawings (i.e. ‘images’).
Together the CDAs will explore and develop our understanding of Sir Hans Sloane and his contribution to eighteenth-century intellectual life through his activities as a physician, collector, natural philosopher and man of letters. The Research Programme aims to examine the role of a major early Enlightenment collection, and its collector, in the making of knowledge about nature. Sir Hans Sloane’s (1660-1753) extensive collection of texts (in print and manuscript), images (paintings, drawings and prints) and objects (including specimens and herbaria) formed the founding collection of the British Museum (BM) in 1753, but was subsequently dispersed, primarily to the British Library (BL) and the Natural History Museum (NHM). For Sloane and his contemporaries, the collection would have been understood as a whole, and its uses would have involved working between texts, images and objects. The programme’s three linked studentships – each of which will be conducted with the partner organization that now holds the part of Sloane’s collection that will be studied – will aim to ‘Reconnect Sloane’ by examining the making and use of this collection in terms of the specific material within it – texts, images and objects – and also the connections between materials. Working across the separate collections in the way this will provide new insight into Sloane’s role in the making of natural knowledge.
The deadline for applications is 29th June, and you must be available for interview on 19th July. For more information on how to apply, please see the attached documents included below. Please note, the AHRC has strict residential eligibility criteria governing the students that can be nominated for this award. If you are not a British citizen and/or not usually resident in the UK (and have not been for the past three years), please check your eligibility and discuss this with the project supervisors so that your eligibility can be determined.
2011 Edition of CAA’s ‘Graduate Programs in Art History’
From CAA:
CAA has published new editions of Graduate Programs in Art History: The CAA Directory and Graduate Programs in the Visual Arts: The CAA Directory. As comprehensive resources of schools across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, these guides list 650 programs in fine art and design, art and architectural history, curatorial studies, arts administration, and more.
The directories provide prospective graduate students with information they need prior to beginning the application process. The directories are also key professional references for career-services representatives, department chairs, graduate and undergraduate advisors, librarians, professional-practices educators, and professors interested in helping emerging generations of artists and scholars find success.
Graduate Programs in Art History covers four program types: History of Art and Architecture, Arts Administration, Curatorial and Museum Studies, and Library Science. This directory integrates programs in visual studies into History of Art and Architecture. . . .
More information is available here»
Call for Papers | Graduate Student Conference on Travel
Transporting Bodies and Minds: 18th- and 19th-Century Travel
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 15 September 2012
Proposals due 1 May 2012
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, travelers of all kinds documented their experiences in private letters and diaries, official correspondence, life writing, spiritual and religious narratives, and ethnographic accounts. Furthermore, these experiences were often transformed into works of art, with real and imagined moments of contact serving as the inspiration for painting, music, poetry, prose fiction, photography, and other creative ventures. These aesthetic productions transformed the foreign into the national, the known into the unknown, appearing to expand access to other cultures–a model of cultural transportation that recent criticism is troubling.
Scholarship drawing on theories of post-colonialism, gender, material and visual culture, cognitive studies, posthumanism, and other critical paradigms has challenged our understanding of the impact–not just aesthetic, but also commercial, martial, and religious–of travel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This work has made strides in elucidating a more dynamic picture of the way travel and cultural encounter could transform (or fail to transform) prior understandings of both time and space. Moreover, it has allowed for a more capacious appreciation of how influence happens, extending beyond more uni-directional, Eurocentric approaches.
Continuing this work, the University of Michigan’s Eighteenth-Century Studies Group and Nineteenth-Century Forum will co-host an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on these topics, to take place in Ann Arbor, MI, on September 15, 2012. We are pleased to announce that Kate Flint, Provost Professor of English and Art History (University of Southern California), will be our keynote speaker.
Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers that explore the implications of travel, tourism, boundary crossing, exploration, and other related topics–from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Submissions of either individual papers or full panels are welcome. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Karen McConnell (mcconnka@umich.edu) by May 1, 2012.
Suggested paper topics include (but are not limited to): (more…)
Edinburgh’s Master’s Program in Eighteenth-Century Cultures
Allan Ramsay, "Portrait of the Artist's Wife," 1754-55 (Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland)
The University of Edinburgh’s one-year Master’s program in Eighteenth-Century Cultures — the only program of its kind, based in the world’s first UNESCO City of Literature, and the capital city of the Scottish Enlightenment, that focuses on eighteenth-century culture from British, Continental, and transatlantic perspectives. Students work closely with an international team of scholars, curators, and archivists, to develop a solid yet innovative understanding of the cultural history of the eighteenth century. The program combines an on-site internship in one of Edinburgh’s world-class galleries or museums or archives with seminar-based academic training.
Students taking this programme work closely with a team of international experts in visual, material, literary, and social history, including scholars based in History, History of Art, Divinity, and Law. We collaborate with archivists and curators from National Museums Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland, and other cultural repositories.
Our expertise covers British, European, and transatlantic approaches to this period. This programme provides students with a wide-ranging introduction to the cultural life of the eighteenth century, from a perspective befitting our location in Scotland’s capital. In addition to weekly seminars and research training, leading to a summer spent preparing their dissertations, students on this programme take an internship in one of Edinburgh’s world-class repositories of Europe’s cultural heritage. They develop skills in curatorship, archival management, conservation, restoration of architectural monuments and gardens, or engage in public history. Upon graduation, you will have gained the research and practical expertise in cultural history for a career within or beyond the scholarly world. You will also have had the unique opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to our understanding of cultural life in the eighteenth century.
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Vidal Award Results
Warm congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Mary Vidal Award!
Lauren Cannady (New York University) to present a paper, “The Garden Landscape and the French Interior” at the HECAA New Scholars session at CAA
Amanda Strasik (University of Iowa) to present a paper, “Portraying the (Future) Queen: Le Portrait de Marie-Josèphe de Saxe et le duc de Bourgogne,” at the HECAA New Scholars session at ASECS
Art, Agency, Empire: India in Global Contexts
From the YCBA:
Art, Agency, Empire: India in Global Contexts — Graduate Student Symposium
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 11 February 2012
Edward Lear, "Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling," detail, 1879 (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art)
This one-day graduate student symposium is informed by the recent proliferation of projects on India’s visual and material culture, including two exhibitions that opened at the Center in the fall of 2011: Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed (October 27, 2011– February 12, 2012), which includes a substantial section devoted to the works the artist produced during his residence in India, between 1783 and 1789; and Adapting the Eye: An Archive of the British in India, 1770–1830 (October 11–December 31, 2011), which concentrated on the complex networks of British and Indian artists, patrons, and scholars in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Art, Agency, Empire: India in Global Contexts explores how, in a postcolonial period, it has become increasingly pressing to reevaluate India as a site of multifarious cultural (indeed intercultural) production, which has provoked global responses across media. The symposium is free and open to the public; registration is required. Online registration is available from January 16 to February 9, 2012. Onsite registration is available on February 11 from 8:30 am.
The program will include papers by graduate students (listed here) as well as breakout sessions in the Johan Zoffany exhibition and Center’s collections.
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Keynote Lecture, 5:30 pm
Gillian Forrester (Curator of Prints and Drawings Yale Center for British Art)
In the Cock-Pit: Zoffany and the Performance of Empire in India
Wiebenson Prize Deadline Approaching Soon
Each year HECAA awards the Wiebenson Prize for an outstanding graduate student paper presented during the previous calendar year at a scholarly conference or as a sponsored lecture. Announced at HECAA’s annual luncheon (each spring at ASECS), the prize includes modest remuneration.
The prize is named for Dr. Wiebenson, Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
By 15 February 2012, each applicant should submit an electronic copy of the paper for consideration – as read, without notes, but with illustrations – to Julie Plax, who will then forward the submissions to an ad hoc committee responsible for selecting the winner. Honorable mention is also an option for papers of distinction not chosen for the prize. Recipients must be HECAA members in good standing.
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