Month: November 2010

Call for Papers: Media Art History - Rewire

Call for Papers Media Art History 2011 - Rewire Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology Liverpool, 28th September - 1st October 2011 Call For Papers now open - Deadline Monday, January 31st 2011 http://www.mediaarthistory.org Host: FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool In collaboration with academic partners: Liverpool John Moores University, CRUMB at the University of Sunderland, the Universities of the West of Scotland and Lancaster, and the Database of Virtual Art at the Department for Image Science. Following the success of Media Art History 05 Re:fresh in Banff, Media Art History 07…

Call for Papers: In the Wake of the ‘Global Turn’ - Practices for an Exploded Art History without Borders

Call for Papers In the Wake of the ‘Global Turn’ - Practices for an Exploded Art History without Borders Organised by the Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusttes on Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29, 2020 Convened by Jill Casid and Aruna D’Souza. Conference website - http://clarkart.edu/research/content.cfm?ID=378 Deadline January 15th 2011. This Clark conference on art history in the wake of the “global turn” takes up, and yet departs from, decades of the critique of Eurocentric priorities and presumptions of the discipline of art history. What would it mean to understand the global turn as something that does not merely expand…

Funding: British Academy Visiting Scholars

British Academy Visiting Scholars The Academy’s Visiting Scholars scheme enables scholars from overseas to apply to the Academy, in conjunction with a UK host, for research visits to the UK of two to six months. The main purpose of the visit should be to enable the visitor to pursue research. The UK host must be resident in the UK, and must undertake to make all the necessary practical and administrative arrangements for the visit. The Academy grants the title of British Academy Visiting Scholar and awards funding for the visit. Although applicant from anywhere outside the UK may apply to this scheme, it…

Research in Progress in Early Modern Art History at Melbourne University

Research in progress in Early Modern Art History Date: 18th November 2010 Venue: Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre Research papers in honour of Professor John Paoletti, following the Margaret Manion lecture on 17th November ‘Clothing Michelangelo’s David: History, Iconography, Context’ (6:30pm) - Full lecture details here. Program 11-11.30 Dale Kent, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne ‘La cara e buona imagine paterna di voi’: ideal images of patriarchs and patrons as models for the right ordering of Renaissance Florence’ Paternal, filial and civic duties were closely related in Renaissance Florence, and their imperatives derived ultimately from the example of the Divine…

Lecture: John Paoletti ‘Learn My Language: Strategies of Medici Patronage in Renaissance Florence’

The Bill Kent Foundation invites you to the Inaugural Bill Kent Memorial Lecture Professor John T. Paoletti Learn My Language: Strategies of Medici Patronage in Renaissance Florence Emeritus Professor John T. Paoletti is currently a Macgeorge Fellow at The University of Melbourne. He was Professor of Art History and the William R Kenan Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University. Co-author of Art in Renaissance Italy, a standard text on the subject (now in its third edition), he has also published widely on issues of patronage and on Michelangelo, and is currently completing a book on Michelangelo’s David. He co-edited…

Funding: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Architecture and Design at RMIT University

Postdoctoral Research Fellow RMIT University - School of Architecture and Design,  Melbourne, Australia A$50,811 - A$68,921 p.a. + 17% super, CBD location, Full-time, 4 year fixed term contract until 24 December 2020 A position for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow is available within RMIT University’s School of Architecture and Design. You will work alongside Dr Quentin Stevens in connection with a major ARC-funded project exploring the design and public perception of contemporary memorials and other public artworks. The post would suit someone with a PhD in open space design, human-environment relations, urban geography, and/or public art policy. Experience in the publication…

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities Call for Applications on Concepts of Diaspora note deadline is Thursday 11 November 2020 The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is currently accepting applications for the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities for three fellows, who will be appointed to a one-year term beginning July 1, 2011. The Mellon Postdoctoral Program encourages innovative teaching, enriches educational and research opportunities in the humanities, and fosters the career development of a select group of promising young scholars. Fully one-third of the Krieger School’s faculty is engaged in humanities departments, where scholarly and pedagogical…

Cultural Treasures Day at the University of Melbourne

Cultural Treasures Day 2010 The University of Melbourne There are many exciting museums and collections at the University of Melbourne. Join us in this very special event where you will discover exhibitions, talks, demonstrations, displays, tours, and a musical performance. A whole day of entertainment, fascination and fun for grown-ups and families, all for free and just minutes from the city centre. Sunday 14 November 2010, 10am–4pm Email bookings: treasures-days@unimelb.edu.au Tel (03) 8344 3964 Collections Open (all open 10am - 4pm unless otherwise stated) Classics and Archaeology Gallery: Ancient coins: heads and tales of antique lands Ian Potter Museum of…

Review: Takashi Murakami – The Fun King meets the Sun King

Takashi Murakami – The Fun King meets the Sun King Chateau de Versailles September 14 – December 12 2010 Reviewed byVictoria Hobday. Following the autumn throngs through the royal apartments at the Palace of Versailles one is struck by the diversity of nationalities, the amount of photographic equipment and the irritating background drone of audio-guides tuned to a multitude of languages with the volume cranked up. The self consciously regal decoration of the rooms still impresses with their grand scale and wonderful ceiling paintings, the parquetry in its distinctive squared pattern polished by the tread of a steady army of…

Symposium: The Lighter Side of the Middle Ages (ANU)

The Lighter Side of the Middle Ages Symposium, Australian National University, Canberra An interdisciplinary symposium to celebrate the launch of Chaucer’s Landscapes, a collection of essays by renowned medievalist Professor Ralph W.V. Elliot. It was not all plague and penury in the Middle Ages Some of them were having a very good time. The full program is below or can be viewed with full abstracts here (pdf) There is no registration fee for the symposium, but for catering purposes please send an email by Wednesday 24th November to confirm that you are attending this event. The launch of Professor Elliott’s…

Call for Papers: Historiography and Antiquarianism (Sydney, 2011)

Call for Papers Historiography and Antiquarianism 12-14 August 2011, University of Sydney, Australia Convenors: Frances Muecke (CAH, Sydney) & John Gagné (History, Sydney) Sponsors: Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia and School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney Organising Committee: Dr. Jenny Spinks (Postdoc, History, Melbourne); Dr. Gary Ianziti (Centre for the History of European Discourses, Queensland); Dr. Amelia Robertson Brown (CAH, Queensland); Prof. D. Potts (Archaeology, Sydney); PG rep.: Christian Callisen (QUT) Titles and 150-word abstract due 15 January 2021 This conference aims to expand a discussion on approaches to the past from Greco-Roman…