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Job | Lecturer in Art History 1450 to 1800

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Lecturer in Art History 1450 to 1800 Art History and Visual Studies, University of Manchester Closing date : 20/06/2020 Reference : HUM-01188 Salary : £32,801 to £45,486 Employment type : Permanent Applications are invited for a lectureship in Art History in the period 1450 to 1800. A specialism in any area of European art, or in the inter-relationships between European and non-European art, eg. Latin American, Indian, or East Asian art, will be considered. The ability to teach widely about artists and art movements central to the art historical understanding…

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Funding: Andrew W Mellon Foundation/Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellowship (Mellon MA) The Courtauld Institute of Art

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Andrew W Mellon Foundation/Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellowship (Mellon MA) The Courtauld Institute of Art The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is offering a fellowship to an early career researcher in the field of Early Modern art. This fellowship will give the Fellow the opportunity to pursue a research project while gaining teaching experience in a research environment and participating in the launch of an interdisciplinary M.A. course. In addition to undertaking research, the Fellow is expected to teach one B.A.…

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Call for Papers: The Printed Image Within a Culture of Print 1400-1750

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The Printed Image Within a Culture of Print: Prints, Publishing and the Early modern Arts in Europe, 1450 - 1700 Saturday, 9 April 2011, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London Call for Papers Deadline 10 January 2021 Website: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2010/summer/apr9_Printsconference.shtml From the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, the advent of print utterly changed the production of images. A repertoire of images of all kinds, from the crudest woodcut to the most virtuosic engraving, from broadsides of wonders and prodigies to pictures reproducing famous paintings and sculptures, was put into the hands…

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News: Website - Recreating Early Modern Festivals

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Website - Recreating Early Modern Festivals A new website has been launched by a group of scholars called ‘Recreating Early Modern Festivals’. The website has information about research projects based on Early Modern Festivals in Europe. The core group of researchers is based at the University of Edinburgh, with a steering committee made up of academics from universities in the UK, Italy and Spain. The aim of the website and of the broader research group is to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to study Early…

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Research in Progress in Early Modern Art History at Melbourne University

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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…

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

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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…

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Call for Papers - Portraiture: Mobilsation and Consolidation (Marburg, June 2011)

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Call for Papers Portraiture: Mobilization and Consolidation Marburg, June 23-25, 2011 Organizers: Eva Krems, Institute of Art History, University of Marburg (krems@staff.uni-marburg.de) Sigrid Ruby, Institute of Art History, University of Giessen (sigrid.ruby@geschichte.uni-giessen.de) The conference shall address a pivotal issue of Early Modern portraiture: Its importance as a means of social interaction, differentiated according to usage and function, which in turn determine the visual appearance and material condition of the portrait(s) in question. Portraits generate images of individuals and groups, they consolidate social hierarchies, bring order to cultural and political networks,…

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Talk TONIGHT - ‘Disasters in Print in Early Modern Europe’ Jenny Spinks and Charles Zika

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Early Modern Circle Paper “Disasters in print in early modern Europe” A meeting of the Early Modern Circle for 2010 will take place TONIGHT Monday 20 September at 6.15pm in the Tutorial room, ground floor, Baillieu Library, the University of Melbourne. We will hear short papers by Jenny Spinks and Charles Zika on the topic of their work related to their ARC Discovery project “Reading the signs: disaster, apocalypse and demonology in European print culture, 1450-1700″ (also held with Prof Sue Broomhall). See the ARC website here - http://earlymoderndisaster.wordpress.com/ Please…

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Melbourne Prints online

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Two new websites have just been launched that detail Melbourne based research into Early Modern prints. These websites have been developed with the assistance of a Scholarly Innovation Information Grant from the Baillieu Library. MELBOURNE PRINTS  - http://melbourneprints.wordpress.com/ The ‘Melbourne Prints’ website is being used to showcase a range of rare early modern books and prints held in the Baillieu Library. The aim of the site is to document and deepen knowledge of the content, material production and provenance of these cultural objects; to enable students from different disciplines to…

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Call for Papers – Early Modern Exclusions

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Interdisciplinary Conference N.B. The conference organisers have indicated that they are keen to attract art history papers for this conference. Full details below. Date: 14 September 2020 Venue: University of Portsmouth, UK Keynote speaker: Dr Naomi Tadmor (University of Sussex) The Centre for Studies in Literature (CSL) and the Centre European and International Studies Research (CEISR) at the University of Portsmouth are pleased to announce a one-day, multi-disciplinary conference on “Early Modern Exclusions” to be held on September 14, 2010. This one-day conference develops out of, and responds to, research…

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Call for Papers: Art Schools: Inventions, Invective and Radical Possibilities

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Art Schools: Inventions, Invective and Radical Possibilities 11- 12 June 2020 University College London Submission deadline: 30 January 2021 In conjunction with Noami Salaman’s exhibition Looking Back at the Life Room at The Strang Print Room, UCL, this conference will explore the history and legacy of the life room, its traditions of looking and its approach to knowledge. If the seminar and group crit. have become as central to art education as the life room once was, what kind of looking and knowledge now prevail? If art school archives are…

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Fellowships at UCLA Centre for 17th and 18th century studies

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The Center administers a number of programs for senior and postdoctoral scholars. Visit their web page here for more information. Applications are considered once each year. Applications for appointments to be held anytime during a given fiscal year (from 1 July to 30 June) must be received in the preceding fiscal year, by 1 February. Fellowships include Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships This theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to encourage the participation of junior…

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