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).

July 21, 2017
Call for Papers: Processi italiani: Examining Process in Postwar Italian Art, 1945-1980 Session Sponsored by the Italian Art Society at the College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles 2018 Chair: Tenley Bick , Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Washington University Session Abstract: Dominant narratives in modern and contemporary art history have long positioned the 1960s Italian avant-garde Arte Povera—a movement known for ephemeral practices, informalist aesthetics, and “deskilled” procedures—as a subset of process art and post-minimalism, ascribing Italian innovations to movements better associated with British and American artists.

Call for Papers: Processi italiani: Examining Process in Postwar Italian Art, 1945-1980 Session Sponsored by the Italian Art Society at the College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles 2018 Chair: Tenley Bick , Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Washington University Session Abstract: Dominant narratives in modern and contemporary art history have long positioned the 1960s Italian avant-garde Arte Povera—a movement known for ephemeral practices, informalist aesthetics, and “deskilled” procedures—as a subset of process art and post-minimalism, ascribing Italian innovations to movements better associated with British and American artists.

July 19, 2017
Call for Papers: Venice, Materiality, and the Byzantine World Session Sponsored by the Italian Art Society at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies 10-13 May 2018, Western Michigan University The Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposium leading to the 2010 publication of San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice introduced new perspectives on Byzantine and Venetian visual and material culture that extended Otto Demus’s survey of Saint Mark’s basilica.

Call for Papers: Venice, Materiality, and the Byzantine World Session Sponsored by the Italian Art Society at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies 10-13 May 2018, Western Michigan University The Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposium leading to the 2010 publication of San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice introduced new perspectives on Byzantine and Venetian visual and material culture that extended Otto Demus’s survey of Saint Mark’s basilica.

May 30, 2017
CPF: Particularities of Place: The Practice of Collecting Early Modern European Art in the Southern United States Renaissance Society of America Conference 2018 New Orleans, Louisiana, 22-24 March The history of early modern European art collections in the American south offers a complex yet compelling narrative.

May 9, 2017
CFP: New Directions in Representation of the Italian Landscape RSA 2018 New Orleans, March 22-24, 2018 Session Sponsored by the Italian Art Society Images of the Italian landscape, both real and imagined, have been the subject of many fruitful investigations, from research on broad trends and refined definitions to focused monographs on individual artists.

CFP: New Directions in Representation of the Italian Landscape RSA 2018 New Orleans, March 22-24, 2018 Session Sponsored by the Italian Art Society Images of the Italian landscape, both real and imagined, have been the subject of many fruitful investigations, from research on broad trends and refined definitions to focused monographs on individual artists.

May 5, 2017
Call for Proposals: 2017-2018 European Art Seminar at the Newberry Library The Newberry Library’s European Art Seminar is accepting proposals for 2017-18 seminars until June 1, 2017.

Call for Proposals: 2017-2018 European Art Seminar at the Newberry Library The Newberry Library’s European Art Seminar is accepting proposals for 2017-18 seminars until June 1, 2017.

April 4, 2017
Call for Session Proposals 2: Renaissance Society of America 2018 New Orleans, 22-24 March 2018 The IAS will sponsor up to three sessions at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA).

Call for Session Proposals 2: Renaissance Society of America 2018 New Orleans, 22-24 March 2018 The IAS will sponsor up to three sessions at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA).

March 30, 2017
CFP: Revisiting Raphael’s Vatican

CFP: Revisiting Raphael’s Vatican

March 30, 2017
Call for Session Proposals 1: Renaissance Society of America 2018 New Orleans, 22-24 March 2018 The IAS will sponsor up to three sessions at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA).

Call for Session Proposals 1: Renaissance Society of America 2018 New Orleans, 22-24 March 2018 The IAS will sponsor up to three sessions at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA).

January 13, 2017
REMINDER: EIGHTH ANNUAL IAS/KRESS LECTURE PROPOSALS DUE 15 JANUARY The Italian Art Society seeks a speaker for the 2017 IAS/Kress Lecture in Bologna, Italy , to promote intellectual exchange between North American art historians and scholars in Italy.

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