Research at the Boston Athenaeum
Short-Term Fellowships at the Boston Athenæum
Applications due by 15 April 2011
The Boston Athenæum, offers short-term fellowships to support the use of Athenæum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects. Each fellowship pays a stipend for a residency of twenty business days and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenæum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible.
The Boston Athenæum, a membership library, first opened its doors in 1807, and its rich history as a library and cultural institution has been well documented in the annals of Boston’s cultural life. Today, it remains a vibrant and active institution that serves a wide variety of members and scholars. Members take advantage of its large and distinguished circulating collection, a newspaper and magazine reading room, the exquisite fifth floor reading room, quiet spaces and rooms for reading and researching, a children’s library, and wireless internet access throughout its building. The Special Collections resources are world-renowned, and include maps, manuscripts, rare books, and archival materials.
Additional information is available here»
Art History Post-Doc in Hong Kong
From The University of Hong Kong:
Two-Year Research Post-Doc at The University of Hong Kong
Applications due by 18 April 2011
Founded in 1911, The University of Hong Kong is committed to the highest international standards of excellence in teaching and research, and has been at the international forefront of academic scholarship for many years. Ranked 21st among the top 200 universities in the world by the UK’s Times Higher Education, the University has a comprehensive range of study programmes and research disciplines spread across 10 faculties and about 100 sub-divisions of studies and learning. There are over 23,400 undergraduate and postgraduate students coming from 50 countries, and more than 1,200 members of academic and academic-related staff, many of whom are internationally renowned.
The Society of Scholars in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong is a society of young scholars involved in cutting-edge research. It is designed to encourage critical and creative thought both within and between the disciplines in the Arts and Humanities. There are two research Scholarships for 2011: one in Art History and one in History.
Each Scholarship is for two years and is non-renewable. Applicants are invited from all educational institutions across the world. The Scholarships are intended for researchers early in their careers to carry out innovative research. Candidates are expected to be either graduate students in the final stages of their Ph.D. studies, or researchers who have been awarded their Ph.D. degree for not more than two years from the date of application. Details about the Society and FAQs are available at: http://www.soh.hku.hk/scholars/2011/index.html.
Scholars will be provided with free accommodation, office space, airfares for overseas candidates, a research grant of up to HK$14,000 a year, and a stipend of HK$22,000 per month. (Scholars who have not yet been awarded a Ph.D. degree will receive a salary of HK$18,000 per month.) Successful candidates will be appointed as Research Scholar. (more…)
Architecture Dissertations in Progress
As part of the Early Modern Architecture initiative, we are compiling an international list of Ph.D. dissertations from any discipline and on any aspect of the architecture (design, theory, and practice) of Europe and its colonies, 1400-1800. Once we have assembled a substantial number of dissertations, we will post the list on our site. If you are supervising or writing a dissertation that is in progress or was completed during the 2010-2011 school year, please email us with the author’s and supervisor’s names, the dissertation title, and the names of your department as well as institution. We will then add your information to our list. Alternatively, an online form is available through our website here.
— Kimberley Skelton and Freek Schmidt
Graduate Students and Young Scholars: Newberry Summer Workshop
Summer Workshop: Reintegrating British and American History, 1660-1750
The Newberry Library, Chicago, 11-22 July 2011
Applications due by 21 March 2011
Directors: Mark Knights and Trevor Burnard of the University of Warwick
Speakers: Kevin Sharpe, Queen Mary, University of London; David Hancock, University of Michigan; Evan Haefeli, Columbia University; Phil Withington, University of Cambridge; John Garrigus, University of Texas at Arlington; Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna College.
Themes: British and American historiographies; trade and political economy; space and time; toleration, witchcraft and religious diversity; citizenship and communities; political culture; visual culture; race, Native Americans and slavery; French and Spanish America; gender. Participants will also have an opportunity to present a paper based on their own research.
Eligibility: Advanced graduate students and early career researchers who have completed a Ph.D. in a relevant field within the last two years. Up to two graduate students studying in the UK with an interest in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries will be chosen to attend. Priority will be given to students/early postdoctoral scholars connected to institutions that are members of the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies consortium.
Awards: Successful applicants will receive economy airfare to Chicago, accommodation near the Newberry Library, and a per diem for meals.
To apply: Complete the form here and upload a cover letter setting out why you would like to attend the workshop and how its themes relate to your research, and a curriculum vitae of no more than two pages. Include the names and contact details of two referees in your cover letter.
This program is funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
American Print Culture Summer Seminar
From the American Antiquarian Society:
Encountering Revolution: Print Culture, Politics, and the British American Loyalists
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, 13-17 June 2011
Applications due by 11 March 2011
What happens to the dominant critical models in Revolutionary history-those that govern the way we conceptualize the meanings of print, the nature of authorship, the rhetorical forms of expression, and the very notion of “public” culture-when we reinsert the Loyalist presence into Revolutionary American Studies? The 2011 AAS Summer Seminar in the History of the Book in American Culture will employ transatlantic methods and contexts as a way of challenging the field’s reliance on nationalist models of literary and cultural history that rest upon the political history of the formation and development of the United States. This seminar will interrogate the “Americanness” of American political writing to articulate generic and thematic continuities between British and British American writing and printing. By accounting for Loyalist writing in a revisionary history of Revolutionary print culture-through an examination of Loyalist printers and distribution networks as well as of efforts to censor Loyalist publications-we also hope the seminar will interrogate current models of the “public sphere” and of the historical/theoretical models informing public and private life in late eighteenth-century British America. Our goal is to consider the multiple, transatlantic audiences that Loyalist writing imagines for itself-and the larger issues about British American identity and identification that such imagined communities of readers raise for us today. The seminar will be led by Philip Gould (Professor of English, Brown University) and Ed Larkin (Associate Professor of English, University of Delaware). Details about the seminar and application forms are available at the AAS website. Limited amounts of financial aid are available for graduate student applicants.
Call for Papers: Graduate Symposium, ‘Writing with Images’
Writing with Images: An Art Symposium
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, 22 April 2011
Proposals due by 18 March 2011
This graduate symposium asks what it might mean to write with images or to allow images to “speak for themselves” as Sunil Manghani demonstrates in his 2008 book, Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. To date, no local attempt has been made to draw different strands of inquiry together to identify specific qualities of image critique for image analysis and its relation to current theories and concepts. Successful submissions will reflect issues ranging from current debates regarding Image Critique as a source of creative input for Visual Culture, Art History, Studio Practice, and Art Education application. The symposium is a space to highlight the scholarly pursuits of students representing the visual arts. Scholars of all disciplines are encouraged to apply, especially (but not limited to) visual culture, art history, studio artists, and art education graduate students or advanced undergraduates.
The one-day symposium will take place at Illinois State University Gallery with a concurrent morning session in the Center for Visual Arts, room 201, located on the campus of Illinois State University at Normal, Illinois. There will be a keynote address by Dr. Kristine Nielsen, the Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. See the website for abstract submission and symposium details.
Call for Papers: Graduate Student Conference on American Stories
The Power of Stories: Authority and Narrative in Early America, An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 29 September — 1 October 2011
Proposals due by 15 March 2011
This conference will bring together a diverse group of graduate students to discuss the power of stories and their relationship to authority in early America and the Atlantic world before 1850. Addressing written, pictorial, oral, or other narratives, papers might consider examples of how groups or individuals decide what stories to tell about themselves; why some narratives come to predominate over others; how narratives change over time and across generations; and the ways in which stories can strengthen or undermine political, ethnic, religious, economic, or other communities. At a broader level, papers might address how scholars can harness the power of stories in their own writing as a means of evoking past worlds.
We seek papers that will engage a wide range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, Native American studies, literature, American studies, African American studies, political science, art history, geography, material culture, and race and gender studies. In order to be considered, applicants should email their proposals to mceas.stories.2011@gmail.com by March 15, 2011. Proposals should include a one-page c.v. and a prospectus of no more than 250 words. Paper presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. Limited financial support is available for participants’ travel and housing expenses. Decisions will be announced by May 15, 2011.
Please direct conference-related questions to Whitney Martinko at mceas.stories.2011@gmail.com.
Call for Papers: 2012 CIHA in Nuremberg, ‘Challenge of the Object’
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.
Wiebenson Prize Deadline Approaching Soon
Note from the President
Dear HECAA members,
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 2011, students should submit three copies of their papers — as read, without notes, but with illustrations — to me, and I 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.
Dr. Julie-Anne Plax
jplax@email.arizona.edu
Curatorial Fellowship at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Allen Whitehill Clowes Curatorial Fellowship
Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2011-12
Applications due by 31 March 2011
The Indianapolis Museum of Art is pleased to announce a nine-month curatorial fellowship. The fellowship supports scholarly research related to the Clowes Collection at the IMA and provides curatorial training in the field of European painting and sculpture. The Clowes Fellow is fully integrated into the curatorial division of the Museum and has duties comparable to those of an assistant curator, ranging from collection research and management to exhibition development and the preparation of interpretive materials and programs.
To be eligible for the fellowship, the applicant must be enrolled in a graduate course of study leading to an advanced degree in the history of art or a related discipline, or be a recent degree recipient (within the last two years). Applicants must demonstrate scholarly excellence and promise, as well as a strong interest in the museum profession. U.S. citizenship is not required. The Clowes Fellow will receive a stipend of $18,000 and an educational travel allowance of $2,000. Housing is provided in a scholar’s residence on the grounds of the museum. The nine-month fellowship period will begin September 5, 2011. The appointment is renewable. (more…)
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