Category Archives: Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS – Ambivalent Harmonies: Representing Peace in Time of Conflict in the Early Modern Catholic Iberian Habsburg Worlds

Edited VolumeDeadline: Thursday, June 29, 2023Editors: Marta Albalá Pelegrín, California State Polytechnic University, PomonaMaria Vittoria Spissu, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna Images and texts praising a merciful Catholic Church and a triumphant Habsburg Empire have propagated a fictitious projection of reality. Views of ideal communities committed to sharing instrumental virtues clashed with potentiallyContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS – Ambivalent Harmonies: Representing Peace in Time of Conflict in the Early Modern Catholic Iberian Habsburg Worlds”

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: JSAH Roundtable – Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World, 1400-1800

Deadline for proposal submissions: 15 May 2023 Histories of architecture and histories of construction continue to debate the relationship of design and craft. The biographical model, privileging the architect’s intellectual gifts and relations to patrons, has long emphasized the circulation of architectural knowledge through treatises, writings, and travel accounts, while histories of construction and theContinue reading “CALL FOR PROPOSALS: JSAH Roundtable – Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World, 1400-1800”

CALL FOR PAPERS: Ornament – Annual Conference, Lisbon, October 2023

Organized by: International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts and DesignSubmission Deadline: 15 May, 2023Location: Lisbon, PortugalDates: 10 – 12 October, 2023 “Ornament is not only produced by criminals; it itself commits a crime,” So said architect and designer Adolf Loos in his 1910 lecture-turned-essay “Ornament and Crime,” where he described the effortContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS: Ornament – Annual Conference, Lisbon, October 2023”

CALL FOR PAPERS – En Femenino: Art and Women in the Middle Ages

XVI Jornadas Complutenses de Arte MedievalMadrid, October 19th – 20th, 2023Universidad Complutense de Madrid During the last decades, references to women’s participation in medieval artisticprocesses have ceased to be the story of an absence. Similarly, studies ofmedieval female iconography have transcended their mere representation aswives, mothers, lovers, sinners and sin-inducers, or nuns. Throughout theMiddle Ages,Continue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS – En Femenino: Art and Women in the Middle Ages”

CALL FOR PAPERS: Movements and Transformations in the Making of Iberian and Latin American Art and Visual Cultures

Movements and Transformations in the Making of Iberian and Latin American Art and Visual CulturesEmerging Researchers SymposiumZurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art (Durham University, UK) 22-23 June 2023 Durham University’s Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art invites doctoral students and early career researchers to submit proposals for presentations at its annualContinue reading “CALL FOR PAPERS: Movements and Transformations in the Making of Iberian and Latin American Art and Visual Cultures”

CFP – Activation. Staging Strategies of Mobile Artworks in the Early Modern Hispanic World 

International and interdisciplinary conferenceBibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome 16 – 17 February 2023Deadline: June 20, 2022 Conception and scientific organisation: Dr. Sven Jakstat, Dr. Johannes Gebhardt, Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky The temporary activation of mobile works of art and cult objects can be traced back to antiquity and continues toContinue reading “CFP – Activation. Staging Strategies of Mobile Artworks in the Early Modern Hispanic World ”

CFP – Hispanic Art in British Regional Collections: History, Display, Research Conference, hosted by the Zurbarán Centre, Durham University, 22–23 September 2022

Deadline: 27 May 2022 British regional galleries are extraordinarily rich in holdings of Hispanic art. County Durham alone has the largest concentration of Spanish artworks anywhere in the world outside Spain. In addition to Francisco de Zurbarán’s cycle of Jacob and his Twelve Sons at Auckland Castle, significant holdings can be found at The BowesContinue reading “CFP – Hispanic Art in British Regional Collections: History, Display, Research Conference, hosted by the Zurbarán Centre, Durham University, 22–23 September 2022”

CFP: Transgression and Liminality in Iberian and Latin American Art: Emerging Researchers’ Symposium, Durham University, 7 and 8 July 2022

Durham University’s Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art invites doctoral students to submit proposals for presentations at the centre’s second Emerging Researchers Symposium, taking place at Durham University on 7 and 8 July. The aim of the event is to stimulate engaging and interdisciplinary conversations amongst international postgraduate students engaged with Hispanic artContinue reading “CFP: Transgression and Liminality in Iberian and Latin American Art: Emerging Researchers’ Symposium, Durham University, 7 and 8 July 2022”