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British Spanish Society Christmas Party! *THURSDAY 10th DECEMBER* 7-9pm @ Instituto Cervantes

British Spanish Society Christmas Party! *THURSDAY 10th DECEMBER* 7-9pm @ Instituto Cervantes

Essay prize and Scholarships: Call for Submissions, deadline 15th February 2016

ARTES offers a number of prizes and scholarships, which all have the same deadline of 15th February 2016. Click the links below to find further details: Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize: sponsored by the Embassy of Spain in London, this prize is awarded to the best essay on any aspect of Hispanic visual culture. ARTESContinue reading “Essay prize and Scholarships: Call for Submissions, deadline 15th February 2016”

AAH CONFERENCE – ORIENTALISM & SPAIN IN THE 19 & 20TH CENTURIES – 7-9 APRIL 2016 – UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

AAH2016 Annual Conference and Bookfair University of Edinburgh 7 – 9 April 2016 ORIENTALISM & SPAIN IN THE 19TH & 20TH CENTURIES Convenors: Claudia Hopkins, University of Edinburgh, c.hopkins@ed.ac.uk Anna McSweeney, SOAS, University of London, am105@soas.ac.uk Spain represents a unique and fertile context in which to explore attitudes to the art and culture of theContinue reading “AAH CONFERENCE – ORIENTALISM & SPAIN IN THE 19 & 20TH CENTURIES – 7-9 APRIL 2016 – UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH”

Call for Papers: Spain and Orientalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – Association of Art Historians conference (Edinburgh, 7-9 April 2016)

Spain represents a unique and fertile context in which to explore attitudes to the art and culture of the Islamic world. Spain was routinely ‘orientalised’ by northern European cultures in the 19th century, as foreign visitors indulged in oriental reveries when reflecting on Spain’s Islamic past (711–1492) and admiring its ‘Moorish’ remains at the AlhambraContinue reading “Call for Papers: Spain and Orientalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – Association of Art Historians conference (Edinburgh, 7-9 April 2016)”