CFP
June 23, 2026
CFP – Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian Women & Visual Culture (March 11-13, 2027)
CFP – Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian Women & Visual Culture (March 11-13, 2027)
This session investigates how late medieval Italian women lived their lives both in compliance with and in circumvention of the societal assumptions circulating about their nature and capabilities, read through their relationships to visual images and performative media. Papers will address this topic through two lenses: 1) ways that gendered religious and social beliefs were encoded in late medieval-early Renaissance visual imagery and performance and 2) how women of different social and economic strata negotiated regulations that defined and constrained them in the ways they engaged with these media.
The roles of women as artists, patrons, and audiences for visual culture enjoy extensive in-depth study for northern medieval and High Renaissance cultures since the mid 20th century. Studies of women’s participation in the visual culture of late medieval-early Renaissance Italy, itself an often-marginalized field, are much rarer. This session seeks to help redress that imbalance by focusing on late medieval-early Renaissance Italian women as patrons, but also as audiences of artistic projects and performative visual media, and the ways women responded to or helped shape the imagery and ideas those works projected.
Papers are welcome from scholars in all stages of their careers whose research focuses on Italian images of and/or used by women, religious drama, or sermon literature that address women or ideas about women in the 14th-early 15th centuries.
Please submit a 300-word abstract and a CV by JULY 15 to Judith Steinhoff at jsteinhoff@uh.edu
June 23, 2026
CFP: Venice and its Mainland Empire (at RSA 2027)
CFP: Venice and its Mainland Empire (at RSA 2027)
While the Venetian Republic was creating a stato da mar in the Mediterranean to ensure its economic security and military defense, it was also expanding its territories in the Terraferma — the Veneto and the Friuli — with its political authority framed as a mutually beneficial system of reciprocity and abundance. In 1483, the Venetian diarist Marin Sanudo described a fresco on the public loggia in the Veneto town of Rovereto that featured the lion of St Mark and an inscription: “I am the lion, of whom no one possesses a broader world empire; the land and sea obey me, and I administer justice: and beware to those men who do evil, my sword will avenge their crimes.”
In recent years Save Venice has expanded its conservation efforts into the Terraferma with such masterpieces as Titian’s Annunciation in Treviso and Donatello’s equestrian monument to Gattamelata in Padua. This session, sponsored by Save Venice, invites papers exploring the political, cultural and artistic reach of Venice in its Terraferma territories from the fourteenth through the seventeenth century. Possible topics include civic infrastructure, public monuments and paintings; portraits; commissions by Venetian officials; villa life, and male and female Terraferma artists in Venice and Venetian artists in the Terraferma.
Prospective speakers should send their full name, current affiliation, and email address, along with their paper title (15 words maximum), abstract (200 word maximum), and resume (2 pages maximum), PhD or other terminal degree completion year (past or expected) to Sarah Blake McHam (sarah.blake.mcham@gmail.com) and Patricia Fortini Brown (pbrown@Princeton.edu) by July 15. Applicants will be notified by July 31.
For more information, click here: https://www.rsa.org/page/RSAAnnualMeetingCFPIndex
February 14, 2022
Call for Contributors: The Italian Art Society Seeks Staff Blog Writers
The Italian Art Society’s IASblog seeks applications for staff writers to contribute regular features for the 2019-2020 term.
January 10, 2020
CFA: Raubkunst at the Ringling: A Catalogue in Absentia
A researcher and writer is being sought to investigate the provenance of a quartet of quirkily shaped, sized, and framed 18th Century oil paintings associated with the work of Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754).
CFP: Artistic Biography in Early Modern Europe RSA at CAA 2019 Call for Papers, CAA 2019 (New York, 13-16 February 2019): RSA-sponsored session: Artistic Biography in Early Modern Europe Co-chairs: Babette Bohn and Jeffrey Chipps Smith .
May 1, 2018
Call for Contributors: IASblog Staff Writers for 2018-2019 term
Call for Contributors: IASblog Staff Writers The Italian Art Society ’s IASblog seeks applications for staff writers to contribute regular features for the 2018-2019 term.
November 13, 2017
Call for Papers: The Courtauld Institute of Art’s 23rd Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium: Collecting (in) the Middle Ages, 16 February 2018.
Call for Papers: The Courtauld Institute of Art’s 23rd Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium: Collecting (in) the Middle Ages, 16 February 2018 Deadline: 15 November 2017 The Courtauld Institute of Art’s 23rd Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium invites speakers to consider the nature of medieval collections, the context of their creation and fruition, and their legacy — or disappearance — in the present.
August 30, 2017
Call for Session Proposals: AAIS 2018
Call for Session Proposals: American Association for Italian Studies, 14-17 June 2018, Sant’Anna Institute, Sorrento Italy The IAS seeks session proposals for the annual meeting of the interdisciplinary American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS).