IAS Conferences At a Glance

These tables provide a quick view of all IAS-sponsored sessions in past and future cycles. More information can be found on each individual conference page by clicking the relevant link. Tables can be sorted by clicking on the desired heading.

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Upcoming Conferences

Conference	Location	Date	Deadline	Sessions
AAH		1807056000April 7, 2027 – April 9, 2027	October 20, 2026
IAS Study Day		1794398400November 11, 2026	October 1, 2026
CAA		1801612800February 3, 2027 – February 6, 2027	April 10, 2026
SCSC		1793232000October 29, 2026 – October 31, 2026
RSA	Philadelphia, PA	1804723200March 11, 2027 – March 13, 2027

Past Conferences

Conference	Location	Date	Sessions
AAH		1775606400April 8, 2026
Kress		1779811200May 26, 2026
ICMS	Kalamazoo, MI	1778716800May 14, 2026 – May 16, 2026	Picturing the Aldilà: Italian Last Judgments Revisited
CAA	Chicago, IL	1771372800February 18, 2026 – February 21, 2026
SCSC	Hilton Downtown Portland, OR	1761782400October 30, 2025 – November 1, 2025
Kress	Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte Via Miano 2, Naples, Italy Sala 20	1748622600May 30, 2025
ICMS	Kalamazoo, MI (Hybrid Format)	1746662400May 8, 2025 – May 10, 2025	Historia Gothorum: Ostrogothic and Lombard Italy
SAH	Virtual	1726704000September 19, 2024 – September 21, 2024
CAA	New York Hilton Midtown	1739318400February 12, 2025 – February 15, 2025	Spectacles of Nationhood: World’s Fairs and Italian Identity Formation
Kress	Musei Reali di Torino	1719586800June 28, 2024
RSA	San Francisco, CA	1771459200February 19, 2026 – February 21, 2026
SCSC	Toronto	1730332800October 31, 2024 – November 2, 2024
AAIS	Sant'Anna Institute, Sorrento, Italy	1717632000June 6, 2024 – June 9, 2024	Cultivating Sacred Vision: Body-Mind Practices and Devotional Art in Early Renaissance Italy
RSA	Chicago, IL	1710979200March 21, 2024 – March 23, 2024	Molding Matters: Women in Early Modern Sculpture I Molding Matters: Women in Early Modern Sculpture II
ICMS	Kalamazoo, MI (Hybrid Format)	1715212800May 9, 2024 – May 11, 2024	Italian Art for a Persecuting Society Spatial Confinement and Virtual Peregrinations of Women in Late Medieval Italy
SCSC	Baltimore, MD	1698278400October 26, 2023 – October 29, 2023	Antiquarianism and the Image of Rome I Antiquarianism and the Image of Rome II Antiquarianism and the Image of Rome III
Kress	Sala Barbantini, Fondazione Cini, Venice	1688144400June 30, 2023
AAIS		1684368000May 18, 2023 – May 20, 2023
ICMS	Kalamazoo, MI and online	1683763200May 11, 2023 – May 13, 2023	Questioning “Gregorian Reform Art” (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries): Challenges, Strategies, and New Approaches I: Rome and Northern Italy Questioning “Gregorian Reform Art” (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries): Challenges, Strategies, and New Approaches II: To the Boundaries Unfolding the Past: The Materiality and Temporality of Medieval Southern Italy – Session I Unfolding the Past: The Materiality and Temporality of Medieval Southern Italy – Session II
CAA	Chicago	1707868800February 14, 2024 – February 17, 2024	New Approaches to Embodiment and Italian Art
CAA	New York City	1676419200February 15, 2023 – February 18, 2023	Materialità and Italian Visual Culture from Ancient to Contemporary 
AAIS	Online: May 13–15, 2022; In-person in Bologna: May 29–June 1, 2022	1652400000May 13, 2022 – June 1, 2022	Transatlantic Romanesque: Medieval Italian Architecture Between Los Angeles and Ciudad de México
Kress	Cortona, Italy. Centro Convegni S. Agostino, Sala d'Assedio	1656604800June 30, 2022
ICMS	Virtual conference	1652054400May 9, 2022 – May 14, 2022	Drawing Together and Setting Apart: Pulpits and Screens in Medieval Italy, I: Case Studies from Central and Northern Italy Drawing Together and Setting Apart: Pulpits and Screens in Medieval Italy, II: Forms and Functions Encountering the Sacred in Medieval Italian Spaces, I: Painting and Space Encountering the Sacred in Medieval Italian Spaces, II: Roundtable: Amy Neff, A Soul’s Journey: Franciscan Art, Theology, and Devotion in the Supplicationes variae
CAA	Virtual conference	1644969600February 16, 2022 – March 5, 2022	Beyond Transfer and Revival: Narrative Creativity in Medieval Italian Mural Decoration (11th–13th c.)
AAIS	Virtual	1622160000May 28, 2021 – June 6, 2021	Bodies of Water: Man-Made Natural Disaster Italian Art and Architecture on Film: An Interdisciplinary Overview
Kress	Alma Mater Studiorum, Universita di Bologna	1496851200June 7, 2017	Babette Bohn, Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, "'Il fenomeno bolognese'" rivisto: Donne artiste a Bologna tra Quattrocento e Settecento"
Kress	Universita degli Studi "la Sapienza," Rome	1530115200June 27, 2018	Anthony Cutler, Evan Pugh University Professor in Art History and Penn State, "Godsbody: The Roman Crucifix from its Beginnings to the Cinquecento"
Kress	Italy, Cortona	1592438400June 18, 2020 CANCELED
ICMS	Kalamazoo, MI	1557360000May 9, 2019 – May 12, 2019	Session I: Narrating power, Showing Chivalry: For a Visual Cultural History of Late Medieval Sicily Session II: The Sala Magna’s Ceiling in Context: Medieval Painted Ceilings in the Mediterranean Xth-XIVth century Session III: The Sala Magna’s Ceiling in Context: Medieval Painted Ceilings in XVth century Italy
CAA	New York	1550016000February 13, 2019 – February 16, 2019	Inhabiting Modernity: Home and Homemaking in Postwar Italy
CAA	Los Angeles	1519171200February 21, 2018 – February 24, 2018	“Processi Italiani”: Examining Process in Postwar Italian Art, 1945–80
SAH	Saint Paul, Minnesota	1524009600April 18, 2018 – April 22, 2018	Thalassic Architecture: Medieval & Renaissance Italy and the Sea
AAIS	Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC	1552521600March 14, 2019 – March 17, 2019	Character Portraits and Vasari Character Portraits II: Vasari and Beyond
Untying “The Knot”: The State of Postwar Italian Art History Today	CIMA, New York	1423440000February 9, 2015 – February 10, 2015
Kress	Florence, Italy	1464804000June 1, 2016	Megan Holmes, "New Perspectives on the Reception of Florentine Panel Painting: Interpreting Scratch Marks"
Kress	Naples, Italy	1432137600May 20, 2015	Nino Zchomelidse, “Scena Sacra – Tribuna Civica: Il ruolo dell’ambone nella Campania medievale”
Kress	Pisa, Italy	1401211800May 27, 2014	Jean Cadogan, “Maravigliose istorie: The Mural Decoration of the Camposanto in Pisa”
Kress	Rome, Italy	1369760400May 28, 2013	Sarah Blake McHam, "Laocoön, or Pliny Vindicated"
Kress	Venice, Italy	1339003800June 6, 2012	Debra Pincus, “The Lure of the Letter: Renaissance Venice and the Recovery of Antique Writing”
Kress	Florence, Italy	1307548800June 8, 2011	Alison Luchs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, “The Wake of Desiderio: His Impact on Sculpture of the Late Quattrocento”
RSA	Sheraton Boston, Marriott Copley Place, & Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA	1742428800March 20, 2025 – March 22, 2025	Bearing Witness: Scratching the Surface of Italian Art Displaying Renaissance and Baroque Art: Exhibition Choices of Italian Museums Through Time Ennobling the Provincial City in Late Medieval/Early Modern South Italy: Urban Planning, Palaces, Tombs, Mausolea Guasti: Preventive Destruction During the Italian Wars
RSA	San Juan, Puerto Rico	1678320000March 9, 2023 – March 11, 2023	Re-Orienting the Early Modern Networks of Exchange between Italy and Asia Transgressing the Socially Controlled Body of Early Modern Italy I: Religion and the Body Transgressing the Socially Controlled Body of Early Modern Italy II: Public Persona and the Body
RSA	Dublin	1648598400March 30, 2022 – April 2, 2022	Risky Business: Dangers Faced by Artists and Patrons WITHDRAWN: New Affordances of Digital Visualization and Simulation in the Arts of Italy Women and Gender in Trecento Art & Architecture I Women and Gender in Trecento Art & Architecture II
SAH	Austin, Texas	1397001600April 9, 2014 – April 13, 2014
SAH	Chicago	1429056000April 15, 2015 – April 19, 2015
ICMS	Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (Virtual)	1620604800May 10, 2021 – May 15, 2021	Panel I: Liturgical Furnishings Panel II: Experiencing Sacred Space Panel III: The Afterlives of Italian Romanesque Sculpture
ICMS	Kalamazoo	1588809600May 7, 2020 – May 10, 2020 CANCELED
Kress	Sala della Passione, Pinacoteca di Brera, via Brera 28, Milano	1558630800May 23, 2019	Timothy McCall, Villanova University, “‘No Great Sin in a Lord’: Galeazzo Maria Sforza and the Materiality of Lordship in Renaissance Milan”
CAA	New York (Virtual)	1612915200February 10, 2021 – February 13, 2021	“Italianicity is not Italy”: Questioning Italian Art History
CAA	Chicago	1581552000February 13, 2020	From Cloaca Maxima to America: Italy’s ‘History of Shit’
AAIS	University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ	1585180800March 26, 2020 – March 28, 2020 CANCELED	Collectivity and Individuality in Modern Italian Art and Cultural Production (1860 – Present)
SCSC	Albuquerque, New Mexico	1541030400November 1, 2018 – November 4, 2018	Assessing Gems in Renaissance Italy: Significance and Valuation
SCSC	St. Louis, MO	1571270400October 17, 2019 – October 20, 2019	Fiat Lux: Giovanni Bellini and Andrea del Sarto on Art, Religion, and Science. Art and Natural History III: Italy and the Wider World Why the Renaissance Matters: The Value of Renaissance Art History in the Modern and Contemporary World.
SCSC	San Diego, California, Hilton	1635379200October 28, 2021 – October 31, 2021
SCSC	Minneapolis, Minnesota, Hyatt Regency, Boundary Waters B Room	1666828800October 27, 2022 – October 30, 2022	Media Papalis: New Approaches to Early Modern Papal Patronage
SCSC	Baltimore, Maryland, Hyatt Regency	1603929600October 29, 2020 – November 1, 2020 CANCELED
RSA	Virtual	1618272000April 13, 2021 – April 22, 2021	New Perspectives in Italian Art I — Sculpture New Perspectives in Italian Art II – Iconography New Perspectives in Italian Art III – Late 16th Century New Perspectives in Italian Art IV – Patronage Visual Networks of Healing in Renaissance Italy Women and Gender in Italian Trecento Art and Architecture I Women and Gender in Italian Trecento Art and Architecture II
RSA	Philadelphia, PA	1585785600April 2, 2020 – April 4, 2020 CANCELED
RSA	Toronto	1552780800March 17, 2019 – March 19, 2019	Art Beyond Spanish Italy, 1500-1700 Mamluk Aesthetics and Renaissance Italians, Out from the Ottoman Shadow Patterns of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Graphic Collections I Patterns of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Graphic Collections II
ICMS	Western Michigan University	1525910400May 10, 2018 – May 13, 2018	Venice, Materiality, and the Byzantine World I Venice, Materiality, and the Byzantine World II
RSA	New Orleans	1521676800March 22, 2018 – March 24, 2018	Beyond Scylla and Charybdis: Exchanges Between Early Modern Sicily, Spain, and North Africa I Beyond Scylla and Charybdis: Exchanges Between Early Modern Sicily, Spain, and North Africa II New Directions in Representation of the Italian Landscape I: The Functions of Landscape
SCSC	Milwaukee, WI	1508976000October 26, 2017 – October 29, 2017	Revisiting Raphael’s Vatican Stanze: Papal Power and Artistic Agency in Sixteenth-Century Rome I Revisiting Raphael’s Vatican Stanze: Papal Power and Artistic Agency in Sixteenth-Century Rome II
SCSC	Bruges, Belgium	1471478400August 18, 2016 – August 20, 2016	Co-opetition: Testing the Bounds of Cooperation and Competition The Holy Republic of Venice
SAH	Glasgow, Scotland	1496966400June 9, 2017	Rethinking Medieval Rome: Architecture and Urbanism
ICMS		1494460800May 11, 2017 – May 14, 2017	Digital Reconstructions: Italian Buildings and their Decorations Obscured by the Alps: Medieval Italian Architecture and the European Canon
RSA	Chicago	1490832000March 30, 2017 – April 1, 2017	Altarpieces on the Move: Religious Art Redeployed in Early Modern Italy Eternal Painting? The Meaning and Materiality of Copper Supports
CAA	New York	1487116800February 15, 2017 – February 18, 2017	Italianità diversa: Diversity and Multiculturalism in Italian Art,
SAH	Pasadena	1459900800April 6, 2016 – April 10, 2016
ICMS	Kalamazoo	1463011200May 12, 2016 – May 15, 2016	New Perspectives on Medieval Rome I New Perspectives on Medieval Rome II
AAIS	Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge	1461283200April 22, 2016	Anachronism and Historicism in Italian Modern and Contemporary Art I Anachronism and Historicism in Italian Modern and Contemporary Art II
RSA	Boston	1459382400March 31, 2016 – April 2, 2016	Art and the Emotions of Renaissance Women Artistic Exchange between Italy and the Netherlands, 1300–1700 I Artistic Exchange between Italy and the Netherlands, 1300–1700 II Artists and their Friends: New Questions and Ideas Francesco de Mura (1696–1782) and the Golden Age of Naples Non-figurative disegno in the Italian Renaissance: Construction, Heuristics, and Theory of the Object
CAA	Washington, D.C.	1454457600February 3, 2016 – February 6, 2016	Beyond Texts and Academies: Rethinking the Education of the Early Modern Italian Artist Rethinking the Rhetoric and Force of Images
AAIS	University of Colorado, Boulder	1427328000March 26, 2015 – March 28, 2015	More than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy I: Etruscan Italy More than Mere Playthings: The Minor Arts of Italy II: Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Italy Unattended Figures: Revisiting Figuration in Postwar Italian Art, 1946–1980
SCSC	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	1445472000October 22, 2015 – October 25, 2015	Engaging Objects: Materiality, Mobility, and the Senses in Italian Art and Material Culture 1300-1700
RSA	Berlin	1427328000March 26, 2015 – March 28, 2015	Italians Look at Germans Reception, Reuse, and Repurposing in Italian Renaissance Art I: Architectural Revival and Reinterpretation Reception, Reuse, and Repurposing in Italian Renaissance Art II: Re-Framing the Holy The Absent Image in Italian Renaissance Art Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo: A Broader Vision
CAA	New York	1423612800February 11, 2015 – February 14, 2015	Di politica: Intersections of Italian Art and Politics since WWII
ICMS	Kalamazoo, MI	1431648000May 15, 2015	Civic Foundation Legends in Italian Art I: Rome and the City-Republics Civic Foundation Legends in Italian Art II: The Southern Kingdom Civic Foundation Legends in Italian Art III: Roundtable Discussion
SCSC	New Orleans	1413417600October 16, 2014 – October 19, 2014	Artistic Competition, Collaboration, and Exchange: Early Modern Academies of Art in Central Italy Broken Bodies: Representing Pain in Early Modern Visual Art Sensuous Suffering: The Early Modern Experience of Pain in the Visual Arts (Art History Roundtable)
AAIS	Zurich	1400803200May 23, 2014 – May 25, 2014	Maestri ticinesi, magistri grigioni: Swiss-Italian Architects and Craftsmen in Early Modern Europe I: Architects Maestri ticinesi, magistri grigioni: Swiss-Italian Architects and Craftsmen in Early Modern Europe II: Craftsmen Photography and Power I Photography and Power II Photography and Writing: from Illustrated Novels to Weekly Magazines I Photography and Writing: from Illustrated Novels to Weekly Magazines II
ICMS	Kalamazoo, MI,	1399507200May 8, 2014 – May 11, 2014	Medieval Art and Architecture in Southern Italy I: Mobility and Materiality Medieval Art and Architecture in Southern Italy II: Multiethnic and Multi-Religious Environments Medieval Art and Architecture in Southern Italy III: Learning, Production and Exchange in Schools, Monasteries, and Courts
RSA	New York	1395878400March 27, 2014 – March 29, 2014	Blood: Representation, Materiality and Agency in Italian Renaissance Art Italian Sculpture, a Social History: the Practice of the Craft from Nicola Pisano to Michelangelo On “Naturalism” in Early Modern Italian Art Painted Objects: Furniture Ornament and the Arts in Renaissance Italy Stillness in Early Modern Italian Art
CAA	Chicago	1392163200February 12, 2014 – February 15, 2014	Futuro Anteriore: Cultural Self-Appropriation as Catalyst in the Art of Italy Periodization Anxiety in Italian Art: Renaissance, Baroque, or Early Modern?
SCSC	Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico	1382572800October 24, 2013 – October 27, 2013	Pope Julius II (1503-1513): The Arts in Rome 500 Years after his Death
AAIS	Eugene, Oregon	1365638400April 11, 2013 – April 14, 2013	Getting the Boot: Perspectives on Italian Art and Architecture from Antiquity to Today I Getting the Boot: Perspectives on Italian Art and Architecture from Antiquity to Today II Interdisciplinary Approaches to Italian Art and Architecture I Interdisciplinary Approaches to Italian Art and Architecture II Rome and Romanitas: The Eternal City through the Ages
ICMS	University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo MI	1368057600May 9, 2013 – May 12, 2013	Ruptures in Italian Medieval Art and Architecture I: Ruptures in Historiography Ruptures in Italian Medieval Art and Architecture II: Ruptures in Architecture Ruptures in Italian Medieval Art and Architecture III: Ruptures in Forms I Ruptures in Italian Medieval Art and Architecture IV: Ruptures in Forms II
SAH	Buffalo	1365552000April 10, 2013 – April 14, 2013	Perception and Experience in the Italian Garden, 1500-1750
RSA	San Diego	1365033600April 4, 2013 – April 6, 2013	Collections and Objects of Knowledge: Books, Gardens, and Studioli Situating Patterns of Patronage in the Italian Renaissance City The Physicality of Devotion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy I The Physicality of Devotion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy II
CAA	New York	1360713600February 13, 2013 – February 16, 2013	Disegno Bad Boys, Hussies, and Villains
ICMS	University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo MI	1336608000May 10, 2012 – May 13, 2012	Italian Art and the Confluence of Cultures I: Early Medieval Art in Italy Italian Art and the Confluence of Cultures II: “Latin” and “Greek” Visual Cultures in the Italian Peninsula Italian Art and the Confluence of Cultures III: The Art of Islands and Islets Italian Art and the Confluence of Cultures IV: Cross-Cultural Exchanges Within and Beyond the Peninsula
SAH	Detroit	1334707200April 18, 2012 – April 22, 2012
RSA	Washington D.C.	1332374400March 22, 2012 – March 24, 2012	Public Art and Contested Spaces in Early Modern Italy I: Sacred and Communal Spaces:  Pisa, Siena, and Venice Public Art and Contested Spaces in Early Modern Italy II: Princely and Papal Power: Genoa, Lombardy, and Rome Public Art and Contested Spaces in Early Modern Italy III: Machinations of Power in the Republic, Duchy and Beyond: Florence The Appeal of Sculpture in Renaissance Italy: Collecting, Patronage, Style, and the Role of Touch
SCSC	Fort Worth	1319673600October 27, 2011 – October 30, 2011	Moving Images: Journeys in Form and Medium
CAA	Los Angeles	1330041600February 24, 2012 – February 25, 2012	Territory and Border: Geographic Considerations of Italian Art and Architecture (Long Session) Urbanism in Italy: From the Roman City to the Modern Era (Short Session)
ICMS	Michigan, MI	1305158400May 12, 2011 – May 15, 2011	I: Seminal Figures II: Geographic Limits  III: In Praise of Ambiguity IV: Urbanism
RSA	Montreal	1300924800March 24, 2011 – March 26, 2011	Rome Revitalized
CAA	New York	1297382400February 11, 2011 – February 12, 2011	Artists’ Biographies from Antiquity to the Present (short session) Claiming Authorship: Artists, Patrons, and Strategies of Self-promotion in Medieval and Early Modern Italy I (long session) Claiming Authorship: Artists, Patrons, and Strategies of Self-promotion in Medieval and Early Modern Italy II (long session)
RSA	Venice	1270684800April 8, 2010 – April 10, 2010	Giovanni Bellini I: Toward 2016: Critical Assessment and Examination of an Early Source Giovanni Bellini II: Bellini and the Venetian Portrait Giovanni Bellini III: Bellini’s Christian Pictures, an Art “More Human and More Divine” I Giovanni Bellini IV: Bellini’s Christian Pictures, an Art “More Human and More Divine” II Giovanni Bellini V: Bellini and the Art of Drawing Giovanni Bellini VI: Sebastiano and Titian: “Due eccellenti suoi creati”
CAA	Chicago	1265760000February 10, 2010 – February 14, 2010	“I Primi Lumi” : Studies in Italian Renaissance Art in Memory of Andrew T. Ladis Caravaggio at Four Hundred and Beyond
ICMS	University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI	1273708800May 13, 2010 – May 16, 2010	Sanctity and the Arts in Medieval Italy I: Foreign Saints in Italy, Italian Saints Abroad Sanctity and the Arts in Medieval Italy II: Sites of Veneration: Spurring New Devotion Sanctity and the Arts in Medieval Italy III: Moveable Icons, Moveable Cults Sanctity and the Arts in Medieval Italy IV: Novel Narratives, Narrative Novelties
Kress	Archivio di Stato di Roma/Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, Rome, Italy	1274832000May 26, 2010	Herbert L. Kessler, Johns Hopkins University, “Visione e immagine. Bifocal seeing in Medieval Italian Art”