Call for Papers | Cleveland Symposium for Graduate Students
39th Annual Cleveland Symposium | Splendor: Exploring Value in the History of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art, 11 October 2013
Proposals due by 1 June 2013
The 39th Annual Cleveland Symposium, to be held at the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 11, 2013, invites graduate submissions examining the theme of splendor in the visual arts. This symposium aims to explore how works of art are elevated to become objects that are prized or venerated. Specifically, in discussing the value afforded a work, we seek to further understand its historical context, materiality, visibility, agenda, and cultural significance, whether through the object’s physicality or representational function. The grandeur and renown of a work can also manifest itself through its associations, patrons, and/or esteemed artists. Possible topics might include:
– Material value of object(s), attributed upon creation or retroactively
– The use of costly or precious mediums and components
– Public, private, royal, and civic commissions
– Decorative arts
– Reliquaries and other objects with religious functions
– Artist markets and trade
– Depictions of important political or religious events
– Pomp, pageantry, and ceremony
– Gifts, personal or diplomatic
We welcome submissions from art history and architecture graduate students in all stages of their studies and from all fields and geographic regions, ranging from ancient through contemporary art. We will also consider papers from a wide range of methodologies and approaches. A monetary prize will be awarded to the speaker who presents the most innovative research in the most successfully delivered paper. To be considered, please send a 250-word abstract, recent CV, graduate level, and contact information to clevelandsymposium@gmail.com by June 1, 2013.
New Title | The Oglethorpe Plan
From the University of Virginia Press:
Thomas D. Wilson, The Oglethorpe Plan: Enlightenment Design in Savannah and Beyond (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), 272 pages, ISBN 978-0813932903, $35.
ISBN 978-0813932903
The statesman and reformer James Oglethorpe was a significant figure in the philosophical and political landscape of eighteenth-century British America. His social contributions—all informed by Enlightenment ideals—included prison reform, the founding of the Georgia colony on behalf of the “worthy poor,” and stirring the founders of the abolitionist movement. He also developed the famous ward design for the city of Savannah, a design that became one of the most important planning innovations in American history. Multilayered and connecting the urban core to peripheral garden and farm lots, the Oglethorpe Plan was intended by its author to both exhibit and foster his utopian ideas of agrarian equality.
In his new book, the professional planner Thomas D. Wilson reconsiders the Oglethorpe Plan, revealing that Oglethorpe was a more dynamic force in urban planning than has generally been supposed. In essence, claims Wilson, the Oglethorpe Plan offers a portrait of the Enlightenment, and embodies all of the major themes of that era, including science, humanism, and secularism. The vibrancy of the ideas behind its conception invites an exploration of the plan’s enduring qualities. In addition to surveying historical context and intellectual origins, this book aims to rescue Oglethorpe’s work from its relegation to the status of a living museum in a revered historic district, and to demonstrate instead how modern-day town planners might employ its principles. Unique in its exclusive focus on the topic and written in a clear and readable style, The Oglethorpe Plan explores this design as a bridge between New Urbanism and other more naturally evolving and socially engaged modes of urban development.
Call for Papers | The Eighteenth-Century Gothick
The Eighteenth-Century Gothick Symposium
University of Oxford, 7 August 2013
Proposals due by 31 May 2013
The Gothick Revival in eighteenth-century Britain is a multi-faceted phenomenon, simultaneously liminal and mainstream, historical and modern, whimsical and serious. This one-day symposium seeks to explore the revival’s many dimensions. Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers that address any aspect of the Gothic revival, and may include:
• art
• architecture
• interiors
• furniture
• antiquarianism
• history
• literature
• medievalism
• patronage
• politics
• restoration
• sexuality
Please email 250-word proposals to the symposium organisers, Oliver Cox and Peter Lindfield by 31 May 2013 at 18thCenturyGothick@gmail.com.
Symposium | Strategies of the Interior
From the flyer for the upcoming symposium related to the University of Bern’s Interior project:
Strategies of the Interior: Anachronisms, Discontinuities, Narratives
University of Bern and Villa Mettlen, Muri bei Bern, 16-17 May 2013
Registration due by 26 April 2013
Concept and coordination: Christine Göttler, Peter Schneemann, and Tabea Schindler
This workshop is part of the activities of the Bern based SNSF Sinergia project The Interior: Art, Space, and Performance (Early Modern to Postmodern). It aims to provide a forum for exploring strategies and notions of the interior in diverse cultural contexts. Among the topics of focus are interiors as sites or signifiers of social, cultural, and religious interactions; narratives generated and stimulated by inhabited interiors; and the construction of interior spaces that refer to, represent and recreate different origins, experiences, and identities. Papers address the permeability and ambiguity of interior spaces, experienced as oscillating between private and public as well as between interior and exterior worlds. Attendance is free of charge but due to limited seats, registration is required until 26 April 2013. Contact: Michèle Seehafer, Project Assistant, michele.seehafer@ikg.unibe.ch. For more information please visit our project website.
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University of Bern
6:15 Keynote Lecture: Reindert Falkenburg (New York University Abu Dhabi), “Hieronymus Bosch, Diableries, and ‘Faulty Vision’” (keynote lecture)
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Villa Mettlen
9:00 Registration
9:15 Welcome and Introduction: Christine Göttler and Peter J. Schneemann
Anachronisms: Spaces as Sites or Signifiers
Chaired by Tabea Schindler
9:30 Nick Kaye (University of Exeter), “The Outside [Is] The Inside”
10:30 Pascal Griener (University of Neuchâtel), “Raptures in Ruptures: The Representation of Periods through Rooms in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham (London), 1854–1870”
11:30 Coffee and Tea
Narratives: The Construction and Representation of Space
Chaired by Peter J. Schneemann
11:45 Beate Söntgen (Leuphana University of Lüneburg), “Chardin: Interiority – Interaction – Communication”
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Michael Lüthy (Freie Universität Berlin), “The Room at the End of History: Marcel Duchamp in the Philadelphia Museum of Art”
15:00 Coffee and Tea
Discontinuities: The Animation and Stimulation of Space
Chaired by Christine Göttler
15:15 Caroline Van Eck (Leiden University), “‘To roll back the current of time to show glorious visions of the past’: The Period Rooms of William Beckford and Sir John Soane”
16:15 Ursula Frohne (University of Cologne), “Shared Spaces: Collective Experience and Receptive Modes inside Cinematographic Environments”
17:15 Final Discussion
Exhibition | Young James Boswell in London, 1762–63
From The Lewis Walpole Library:
‘In the Midst of the Jovial Crowd’: Young James Boswell in London, 1762–1763
The Lewis Walpole Library, April — mid-October 2013
Curated by James Caudle, The Associate Editor, Boswell Editions
In autumn 1762, the ambitious, clever, jovial, and bumptious twenty-two-year-old Scotsman James Boswell traveled south from Edinburgh to London to seek his fortune in the capital. In his lively journal, he recorded his extraordinarily action-packed eight months there, and his efforts to become a permanent Londoner.
London in the Sixties (the 1760s) was a thrilling place, full of pleasures and dangers, wisdom and folly, high life and low life. This exhibition aspires to place visitors ‘in the midst of the jovial crowd’ in which young James Boswell felt so alive and happy. Prints by Hogarth and Rowlandson and others, and rare books and ballads, will bring to life the current events, everyday social life, and personalities celebrated in Boswell’s London Journal, unpublished until 1950, but now one of the best-loved works of eighteenth-century life-writing.
Things: Material Culture at Cambridge, Easter 2013
Programming from CRASSH at the University of Cambridge:
Things: Material Cultures of the Long Eighteen Century
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge, ongoing series
The seminar meets alternate Tuesdays 12.30-2.30pm in the Seminar Room, Alison Richard Building, West Road. Please note that there will not be sandwiches served this term, so the seminar will start promptly at 12.30. You are welcome to join the speakers for lunch afterwards.
The early-modern period was the age of ‘stuff.’ Public production, collection, display and consumption of objects grew in influence, popularity, and scale. The form, function, and use of objects, ranging from scientific and musical instruments to weaponry and furnishings were influenced by distinct and changing features of the period. Early-modern knowledge was not divided into strict disciplines, in fact practice across what we now see as academic boundaries was essential to material creation. This seminar series uses an approach based on objects to encourage us to consider the unity of ideas of this period, to emphasise the lived human experience of technology and art, and the global dimension of material culture. We will build on our success discussing the long eighteenth century in 2012-13 to look at the interdisciplinary thinking through which early modern material culture was conceived, adding an attention to the question of what a ‘thing’ is, to gain new perspectives on the period through its artefacts.
Each seminar will feature two talks each
considering a way of thinking about objects.
30 April 2013 — Printed Things
Sean Roberts (University of Southern California) and Elizabeth Upper (UL Munby Fellow)
14 May 2013 — Paper, Making, Things
Elaine Leong (Max Planck Institute, Berlin) and Helen Smith (University of York)
28 May 2013 — Handling Things
Melanie Vandenbrouck (National Maritime Museum), Felicity Powell (Artist), and Ben Carpenter (University of Wolverhampton)
11 June 2013 — Painted Things
Matthew Hunter (McGill University) and Mark Hallett (Paul Mellon Centre)
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Fellowships | University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowships
The 2014 University of Sydney Research Fellowship Scheme is now open.
The University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowships were established in 1996 to support excellence in full-time research undertaken in the University. The Fellowships are extremely prestigious and highly competitive internationally in line with equivalent externally funded fellowships. They are intended to support early career researchers. Applicants must have an outstanding track record relative to opportunity in order to be short-listed. Successful applicants are expected to be based full-time at the University for the duration of the Fellowship, which is for a maximum period of three years.
There is an Expression of Interest process for intending applicants within the humanities and social sciences with a deadline of Friday 3 May (the EoI form is available on the above webpage). For those applicants who progress beyond the EoI stage, the closing date for full applications is Friday 31 May.
This year we would like to make a special effort to recruit exceptional applicants in Art History, among other fields. As a guide, most applicants who progress to the stage of submitting a full application are onto their second book project and/or have a series of articles around a specific research area. This is often an applicant’s second postdoc, although that is not expected. All applicants must have received their PhD between 1 Jan 2008 and 31 Dec 2012.
Kind regards,
Jennifer
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JENNIFER MILAM | Professor of Art History
Pro Dean Research | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Call for Papers | HECAA Session at UAAC
Thanks to Christina Smylitopoulos, HECAA will be represented at this year’s UAAC Conference! Details and a full list of panels are available here»
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Universities Art Association of Canada / l’association d’art des universités du Canada
The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 17-20 October 2013
Proposals due by 4 June 2013
HECAA Open Session (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture)
As the first HECAA-spsonored UAAC panel, this open session welcomes proposals for papers that consider any aspect of art and visual culture of the eighteenth-century. Please email proposals for 20-minute papers to Prof. Christina Smylitopoulos: csmylito@uoguelph.ca.
Call for Panel Proposals | ASECS 2014, Williamsburg
Exhibition | Time and Navigation
Press release (10 April 2013) for a new permanent exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum:
Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., opening 12 April 2013
Curated by Paul Ceruzzi, Roger Connor, Andrew Johnston, and Carlene Stephens
Bond Chronometer, 1812. This was the first American-made marine timekeeper taken to sea. William Cranch Bond, a 23-year-old Boston clockmaker, crafted it during the War of 1812 (Smithsonian, National Museum of American History)
If people want to know where they are, they need a reliable clock. It might seem surprising, but knowing the accurate time is essential for determining position. A major exhibition opening April 12, Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, explores how revolutions in timekeeping over three centuries have influenced how people find their way. This project is a unique collaboration between two of the Smithsonian’s largest and most popular museums: the National Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of American History.
“Time and Navigation is an ambitious exhibit because it traces the development of very complicated technologies and makes us think about a subject we now take for granted,” said Gen. J.R. “Jack” Dailey, director of the museum. “Today, the technology needed to accurately navigate is integrated into mobile computers and phones: hundreds of years of technological heritage tell your handheld device where you are in a seamless manner. This opens up new possibilities and challenging questions for the next generation of scientists and explorers who visit this exhibit to start thinking about.”
The gallery is organized into five sections and spans three centuries of efforts to travel on Earth and through the solar system. In each section the visitor will learn about pioneer navigators facing myriad issues, but one challenge always stands out: the need to know accurate time.
Navigating at Sea is an immersive environment that suggests a walk through a 19th-century sailing vessel. Visitors will learn how centuries ago navigators at sea relied on chronometers and measurements of celestial objects to determine location. This section includes a mariner’s astrolabe, dating from 1602; a Ramsden sextant and dividing engine; several chronometers; a model of Galileo’s pendulum clock, as well as the earliest sea-going marine chronometer made in the United States, produced by Bostonian William Cranch Bond during the War of 1812. It also features an interactive display that allows visitors to use a sextant to navigate with the stars. (more…)
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