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Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2018–2019 academic year.
I Tatti Fellowship (one year; deadline: October 15) for post-doctoral research in any aspect of the Italian Renaissance broadly understood historically to include the period from the 14th to the 17th century, and geographically to include transnational dialogues between Italy and other cultures (e.g. Latin American, Mediterranean, African, Asian etc.).
Wallace Fellowship (four or six months; deadline November 15) for post-doctoral scholars who explore the historiography and impact of the Italian Renaissance in the Modern Era (19th–21st centuries).
Berenson Fellowship (four or six months; deadline November 15) for post-doctoral scholars who explore "Italy in the World". Projects should address the transnational dialogues between Italy and other cultures (e.g. Latin American, Mediterranean, African, Asian, etc.) during the Renaissance, broadly understood historically to include the period from the 14th to the 17th century.
Digital Humanities Fellowship (four or six months; deadline November 15) for projects that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries and actively employ digital technology. Applicants can be scholars in the humanities or social sciences, librarians, archivists, and data science professionals. Projects should apply digital technologies such as mapping, textual analysis, visualization, or the semantic web to topics on any aspect of the Italian Renaissance.
Villa I Tatti - Boðaziçi University Joint Fellowship (one year; deadline November 15) for post-doctoral research focusing on the interaction between Italy and the Byzantine Empire (ca. 1300 to ca. 1700). Scholars will spend a semester at Villa I Tatti and a semester at the Byzantine Studies Research Center of Boðaziçi University.
Craig Hugh Smyth Fellowship (four or six months; deadline November 15) for curators and conservators. Projects can address any aspect of the Italian Renaissance art or architecture, including landscape architecture.
David and Julie Tobey Fellowship (four or six months; deadline November 15) for research on drawings, prints, and illustrated manuscripts from the Italian Renaissance, and especially the role that these works played in the creative process, the history of taste and collecting, and questions of connoisseurship.
For more information on all fellowships at Villa I Tatti please visit http://itatti.harvard.edu/fellowships
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The Frick Collection and The Furniture History Society are pleased to present the emerging scholars symposium
FURNITURE AND THE DOMESTIC INTERIOR: 1500-1915
The Frick Collection, New York City, 27 October 2017
Attendance is free, but registration is required. For more information and registration, please visit our website.
https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp
PROGRAM INCLUDES
"Trompe-l’oeil? Early Modern Table Clocks in the Shape of Everyday Objects"
Susanne Thuerigen, PhD candidate, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
"The 'Camerella': A Bed Inseparable From Its Chamber"
Pasquale Focarile, 2017 Eva Schler Fellow, The Medici Archive Project
"Wood and Plaster 'Moors' in Early Modern Venetian Household Inventories 1600–1800"
Hannah Lee, PhD candidate, Queen Mary University of London
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Universität Augsburg, Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte/Bildwissenschaft (Gebäude D), 10. - 11.10.2017
Registration deadline: 6 October 2017
"Bilder exotischer Tiere zwischen wissenschaftlicher Erfassung und gesellschaftlicher Normierung 1500 – 1800"
Workshop des Lehrstuhls für Kunstgeschichte/Bildwissenschaft der Universität Augsburg
PROGRAMM
Dienstag, 10.10.2017 – Moderation: Rosalie Wiesheu (München)
14.00 Begrüßung
14.15 Robert Bauernfeind (Augsburg): Einführung
14.45 Florike Egmond (Leiden/Rom): The visual order of nature – integrating exotic animals into 16th century-European painted manuscripts
15.30 Anna Boroffka (Hamburg): Fremde Tiere, fremde Götter - Exotisierung und Aneignung im Vizekönigreich Neuspanien
16.15 Kaffeepause
16.45 Christoph Schmälzle (Berlin): Tierporträts des 17. Jahrhunderts zwischen Naturwissenschaft und Kunst: Die „Porträtgalerie“ auf Schloss Hellbrunn
17.30 Silke Förschler (Kassel): Unbekannten Tieren auf der Spur. Georg Forsters naturhistorische Reisebilder
Mittwoch, 11.10.2017 – Moderation: Dominik Brabant (Eichstätt)
09.00 Ivo Raband (Bern): „quod genus animantis à plurimis annis Antverpia non viderat“: Habsburgische Kamele in den Spanischen Niederlanden am Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts
09.45 Maurice Sass (Hamburg): Liebelei und Fehde auf dem Nashorn. Zu frühneuzeitlichen Rhinozeroshorn-Pokalen
10.30 Kaffeepause
11.00 Angelica Groom (Brighton): The Tyranny of an enduring schemata: The lion in Florentine art
11.45 Didi van Trijp (Leiden): Paper Aquaria: Picturing the Gold Fish in Eighteenth Century Europe
12.30 Mittagspause
Moderation: Pia Rudolph (München)
13.30 Christine Kleiter (Florenz): Truthahn, Tukan und Co. – Pierre Belons Vogeltraktat und die Rezeption exotischer Vögel in Kunst und Wissenschaft
14.15 Lisanne Wepler (Leiden): Ein Kasuar kommt selten. Und allein. Exotische Tiere in Fabeln
15.00 Kaffeepause
15.30 Stephanie Hanke (Florenz): Die Farben der Papageien: Exotische Vögel im frühneuzeitlichen Genua
16.15 Concepciòn Cortés Zulueta (Madrid): White Peacocks: The Exotic within the Exotic?
17.00 Abschlussdiskussion
Öffentliche Veranstaltung, aus organisatorischen Gründen wird um Anmeldung gebeten:
Dr. Robert Bauernfeind: [log in to unmask]
Pia Rudolph: [log in to unmask]
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Association for Art History Annual Conference, Courtauld Institute of Art and King's College London, 5-7 April 2018
Medieval Eurabia: Religious Crosspollinations in Architecture, Art and Material Culture during the High and Late Middle Ages (1000-1600)
Panel organised by Sami De Giosa, Oxford University and Nikolaos Vryzidis, British School at Athens
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The coexistence of Christianity and Islam in the Medieval Mediterranean led to a transfer of knowledge in architecture and material culture which went well beyond religious and geographical boundaries. The use of Islamic objects in Christian contexts, the conversion of churches into mosques and the mobility of craftsmen are only some manifestations of this process. Although studies beginning with Avinoam Shalem’s Islam Christianized (1996), have dealt extensively with Islamic influence in the West and European influence in the Islamic Mediterranean, sacred objects, and material culture more generally, have been relatively neglected. From crosses found in Mosques, to European-Christian coins with pseudo/-shahada inscriptions, medieval material culture is rife with visual evidence of the two faiths co-existing in both individual objects and monuments.
This panel invites papers from scholars working on intercultural exchange in art, architecture and material culture. We particularly welcome contributions that focus on sacred objects that have been diverted or ‘converted’ to a new purpose, whether inside or outside an explicitly religious context.
Papers should present original research, which expands the boundaries of knowledge and which the scholars would like to be considered for publication. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words long.
Deadline: 1 November 2017
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Art and Work
Department of Art History, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Submissions due: October 15, 2017
Keynote lecture by Jasper Bernes
The Department of Art History at Northwestern University will hold a one-day graduate symposium on Thursday, February 8, 2018 on the topic of art and work. The symposium will span historical periods and geographic regions to investigate the history, politics, and aesthetics of artistic labor. Our proposal is grounded by historical and theoretical concerns with the social positions of art making, the artist, and work more generally. How do the social and technical conditions of labor in a given society determine the possibilities of its art, and how do artistic imaginaries of work help shape struggles around these very social conditions? What kinds of knowledge, expertise, skills, or discourses come to distinguish an artist from an artisan, engineer, or maker, or from a teacher, political official, or social worker? How and where do these distinctions emerge or dissolve both visually and historically, and how do they relate to other predominant social markers such as race, gender, and class? We see these questions as resonating across boundaries of period and national tradition, and are excited to see what might be learned from thinking within a wide historical frame wherein both art and work are contested terms.
We welcome papers that consider, among other topics, the aesthetics of work and/or non-work; the social position of the artist; the problem of aesthetic autonomy; or spaces of production and their representations—from the artist’s studio to the collaborative workshop, the laboratory, the home, the factory, and beyond. We are also interested in how representations of artistic production and exercises in (or negations of) artistic technique mediate ongoing processes of social transformation. We invite papers from any time period or geographic region by graduate students in art history as well as related disciplines.
Possible topics might include:
- Depictions of studios, workshops, factories, spaces of production
- Craft labor and handwork
- Treatises and technical manuals
- Artistic readymades or the absence of work
- Histories of deskilling and automation
- Aesthetics and political economy
- Anti-work politics and aesthetics
- Global precarity and flexible labor regimes
- Reproductive labor, domestic work
- Affective and care-based labor
- Post-Marxist approaches to “immaterial labor”
- Community and public art
Symposium speakers who do not reside locally will receive round-trip economy airfare to Chicago/Evanston, accommodation for two nights in Evanston, and a travel stipend to cover ground transportation to and from the airport. Please email proposals to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by October 15, 2017. Include in your proposal a 300-word abstract and a brief C.V. in a single PDF file. Selections will be announced in late October.
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