The London Society for Medieval Studies is hosting a lecture on Tuesday, January 24th at 7.00pm by:
Tom Nickson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) presenting on: ‘Sensing the Holy: Architecture and the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Spain’.
Wolfson Room (NB01), IHR Basement, Senate House (located on Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU).
All those who are interested in Medieval Studies are very welcome to attend!
The National Endowment for the Humanities funds numerous Summer Programs in the Humanities for School and College Educators. With respect to its seven seminars and seventeen institutes of Summer 2017 for college and university teachers, all of which are summarized here (be sure to subsequently click on the “College and University” tab so as to navigate away from the default “School” tab).
Application deadline: 1 March 2017.
Although no program this summer will focus expressly on the art and architecture of Portugal and Spain, the members of ASHAHS might wish to consider applying for these opportunities, which routinely bring together teachers from a range of backgrounds and interdisciplinary specialties. For instance, a program at Colgate University on medieval Jewish philosophy will cover the work of the Córdoba-born Maimonides, whereas a program at Indiana University bears the title of “Beyond East and West: Exchanges and Interactions Across the Early Modern World (1400-1800).” Those with expertise in al-Andalus and Islamic art history can consider applying to the program at the University of Hawaii, “Islam in Asia: Traditions and Transformations.”
Participants must meet the NEH eligibility criteria described, for example, in the PDF file available here and otherwise consult the information for each respective seminar or institute.
New online journal: Artefacto Visual: Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos
El primer número de la revista electrónica Artefacto Visual: Revista de estudios visuales latinoamericanos, con un dossier temático sobre “Violencia, conflicto y postconflicto: imágenes de América Latina“.
Contenido:
Presentación, pp. 4-6
Dossier: “Violencia, conflicto y postconflicto: imágenes de América Latina”
Notas para una constelación teórica en torno a la violencia y su representación, por Elena Rosauro, editora invitada, pp. 8-30
Hacer ver: representaciones de la guerra en Colombia, por Alejandro Gamboa Medina, pp. 31-46
1987: Visualidades punk y miradas racializadas en Perú, por Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa, pp. 47-67
Intervenciones sobre la violencia en México: prácticas instituyentes y poderes instituidos, por Ana Torres Arroyo, pp. 68-87
Tribuna Abierta
Multiple paths and multiple traumas: the Inhotim Cultural Institute and its technologies of affect, por Alice Hereen, pp. 89-107
Publicaciones de artista como forma de resistencia política y cultural: los papeles del CAyC (1968-1977), por Daniela Hermosilla Zúñiga, pp.108-126
Mover montañas o impugnarlas. Alegorías de la Modernidad en Cuando la fe mueve montañas, de Francis Alÿs, y Fitzcarraldo, de Werner Herzog, por Miguel Errazu, pp. 127-147
Rodrigo Moya en Guatemala. El registro fotográfico de un ajusticiamiento guerrillero, por Mónica Morales Flores, pp. 148-167
La Entrevista
Stephen Ferry: por una fotografía que debe volver adentro, por Claudia Gordillo, pp. 169-180
Reseñas
La prolongación de la memoria: Doris Salcedo en el Guggenheim de Nueva York, por Juanita Solano, pp. 182-187
Sumando ausencias: miradas y experiencias contradictorias, por Laura Ramírez Palacio, pp. 188-190
Lo visto y lo leído
El sujeto de la fotografía, por María Alzira Brum, p. 192
Política editorial e instrucciones para autores, pp. 194-200
3rd Islamic Archaeology Day 2017
(Jointly hosted by SOAS and UCL)
Saturday, 28 January 2017
UCL Institute of Archaeology, Room 612
31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY
Includes talks on al-Andalus!
We invite you to register online at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islamic-archaeology-day-2017-tickets-2953…. The registration fee of £10 (£5 for students) will cover lunch, refreshments and a wine reception. We would be very grateful if you could register as soon as possible and before Friday, January 20th so we can order the appropriate amount of sandwiches in time!
Corisande Fenwick
Hugh Kennedy
Scott Redford
Tim Williams
Programme
10:30 Registration and Coffee
11:00 Welcome & Introduction
Corisande Fenwick, Hugh Kennedy, Scott Redford, Tim Williams
11:15 Dehistan (Turkmenistan), archaeological evidence of a pilgrimage city
Alistair Northedge
11:40 Islamic archaeology in the Moroccan Sahara: settlement dynamics in the Draa Valley
Corisande Fenwick, Maria Gatto, Louise Rayne, Martin Sterry, David Mattingly and Youssef Bokbot
12:05 Islamic archaeology in East Africa, challenges and obstacles
Stephane Pradines
12:30 Citadels, Bazars and Shrines – An Overview of the Current State of Islamic Archaeology in Afghanistan
Arezou Azad and Andy Miller
1:00 Lunch (provided)
2:00 From Fustat to Merv: Revisiting the Beginnings and Technical Development of Islamic Glazed Wares
Moujan Matin, Oliver Watson, Michael Tite
2:25 Studying medieval Iranian world metalware: the ISLAMETAL project
Annabelle Collinet
2:50 Royal workshops: recent investigations into production at Madinat al-Zahra and the Alhambra.
Chloë N. Duckworth, Kate Welham, Derek Pitman, Alberto García Porras and David J. Govantes Edward
3:15 The yellow opaque glazes from Madinat al-Zahra (second half of the 10th century): a rare local production or an import?
Elena Salinas, Trinitat Pradell and Michael Tite
3:45 Tea break
4:15 Suburban life in early Islamic Jarash (Jordan): New evidence for urban development over the longue durée
Louise Blanke
4:40 The Islamic-Christian frontier in medieval central Iberia: new research at Molina de Aragón and Atienza
Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz, Rowena Banerjea, Alex Brown and Aleks Pluskowski
5:05 The role of archaeology in the representation of Islamic Middle East: A European museum prospective
Benedict Leigh
5:30 Archaeology of the Pearl-Fishing Towns of the Arabian Gulf: Case Studies in Globalization during the Late Islamic Period
Rob Carter
6pm Reception in SCR.
7pm Dinner (at own expense) at local restaurant.
Personnages oiseaux mosaic by Joan Miró (1978)
Ulrich Museum of Art
Wichita State University
Kansas
For more information, click here.
Job Details
Reference Number:
Location: Durham City / Bishop Auckland
Faculty/Division: Arts & Humanities
Department: Any in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Grade: Grade 10
Position Type: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 31 January 2017
Job Description
We are seeking an outstanding academic leader and scholar in Spanish and/or Latin American Visual Art to be the driving creator of the Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art, a new collaborative initiative between Durham University and Auckland Castle Trust (https://www.dur.ac.uk/zurbaran). The Director will be an internationally recognised authority in her/his field who will act as an intellectual entrepreneur, developing academic contacts both inside Durham University, and nationally and internationally.
Background
Durham University formally established the Centre in October 2016. It owes its inception to County Durham’s remarkable collections in Spanish art dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, on the one hand, and Durham University’s established strengths in Spanish and Latin American Studies, on the other. The Centre will build on existing work to foster excellent research in Spanish and Latin American art, from the European Middle Ages and Pre-Colonial Americas to contemporary film and photography. Members of the Centre will collaborate with museums and galleries, providing its researchers with a unique opportunity to work with curatorial staff on joint research and engagement projects. It is expected that Durham University’s undergraduate and postgraduate student communities will have the chance to work with the Centre.
The Centre will be an embedded part of Durham University located in Bishop Auckland, where the Director will be primarily based. This represents an exciting opportunity to further the ambitions of both partner organisations to become the leading home for the study, enjoyment and appreciation of Spanish and Latin American art.
The twin catalysts for this initiative are Auckland Castle Trust’s major arts and heritage-led regeneration project in Bishop Auckland and Durham University’s strategic investment in founding the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) in 2014. A key pillar of the Auckland Castle project is the creation of a suite of galleries to house permanent and temporary displays of Spanish art.
Durham University’s commitment to visual culture was cemented in 2013–14 by the establishment of two chairs in visual culture, situated in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLaC) and the Department of History. These appointments have provided dynamic leadership for CVAC, which co-ordinates visual culture research across the University’s three Faculties. CVAC unites some fifty members of academic and curatorial staff who are engaged in research on a variety of visual forms, objects and practices. It is home to a new taught MA in Visual Arts and Culture and to the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre in Visual Culture, established in 2015 with a £1million grant from the Trust. In its postgraduate provision and its current research initiatives, the Centre encourages collaboration between academic staff and those who care for and display the University’s museum and archival collections. This intimate relationship between scholarship and collection is mutually enriching for both parties. It allows curatorial staff to deliver teaching on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (over 1,000 hours in 2014–15), while also enabling teaching staff to become involved in the practice of curating exhibitions. This is one of Durham University’s unique features, and it enables not only visual culture but also other related areas, such as archaeology and anthropology, to thrive. Researchers from a number of different departments (including Anthropology, Archaeology, English, Geography, History, MLaC, Music and Theology) are currently exploring topics in visual cultures across a broad chronological span, and in a range of different forms, from the fine arts through to theatre, cinema, music and photography.
Auckland Castle is one of the most important working episcopal palaces in Europe, the seat of the Prince Bishops of Durham since the twelfth century. For more than 250 years, Auckland Castle has been home to the internationally significant cycle of masterpieces from the Spanish Golden Age, ‘Jacob and his Twelve Sons’ by Francisco de Zurbarán. These paintings hang in the specially-constructed Long Dining Room and, as such, form part of the extraordinary and high-quality collections of Spanish art in County Durham, which holds the largest concentration of Spanish art in the UK outside London. In addition to Auckland Castle, significant holdings form part of the collections of the Bowes Museum (which has more than 100 artworks), Durham University, Durham Cathedral, Raby Castle and Ushaw College.
Jonathan Ruffer, an investor and philanthropist, set up Auckland Castle Trust in 2012 to secure the future of the Zurbaráns in Bishop Auckland. This was a symbolic act, which prevented the sale of the paintings abroad. Auckland Castle Trust is using these paintings and the Castle as the centre-piece of an innovative art, culture and heritage-led regeneration initiative in one of the North-East’s poorest and most disadvantaged communities.
This project has seen the Trust develop ambitious plans for a Spanish Art Gallery. Located in the centre of Bishop Auckland, the Gallery’s permanent and temporary exhibition spaces will showcase Spanish and Latin American art from local collections and from leading national and international partners. To date, the Trust is negotiating partnerships with an impressive array of institutions, including in the UK, the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Bowes Museum, and Glasgow Life; in Spain, the Museo Nacional del Prado, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, and the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica; and in the US, the Meadows Museum, Dallas, the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, and the Frick Collection, New York.
Relationships and Contacts
The Director will work closely with the Centre Administrator, as well as Centre staff, affiliates and postgraduates. S/he will also work with the Director of the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture and with the University’s Director of Cultural Engagement. The role will also involve close collaboration with key staff at Auckland Castle Trust, including the Senior Curator for Spanish Art and his team and the Curatorial Director. The working relationship will be formalised in a management memorandum that will include the establishment of a Joint Management Board. The Director will lead on the drafting and agreement of the memorandum. The Director of the Zurbarán Centre will be located in an appropriate academic department of Durham University and will be line-managed by the Head of Department.
Requirements
The successful applicant will be a researcher of international distinction with a record of successful academic leadership. S/he will have an international reputation based on a profile of world-leading publications in one or more sub-disciplines of Spanish and/or Latin American visual art. S/he will have a broad view of current scholarship in the field, and an interest in the relationships between different scholarly approaches to the subject. S/he will be expected to provide dynamic and proactive leadership, developing and enriching the research culture of her/his department, the Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art, and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. S/he will also strengthen existing relationships between Durham University and Auckland Castle Trust, and develop connections between the Centre and a range of international partners from the university and cultural sectors. The postholder will have a track record of postgraduate supervision and a commitment to excellence in teaching, contributing constructively to the ongoing development of undergraduate and postgraduate curricula.
The post is available from 1 September 2017.
Responsibilities
Person Specification
Qualifications:
Essential:
Experience:
Essential:
Desirable:
Skills / Competencies:
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Additional Information
Durham University is one of the UK’s leading Universities with a strong commitment to the highest international levels of excellence in research and education. There is an expectation that the person appointed will take personal responsibility for developing their role, and show excellence in leadership in working with students, academic colleagues and professional support staff.
As a senior member of staff, the successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate leadership externally in promoting the interests of the University.
As part of the application process please provide the names and contact details (preferably email) of at least 3 referees who could be contacted prior to interview.
Interview Date: April 2017 (TBC)
ARTES VISIT TO MADRID
RIBERA DRAWINGS, MUSEO del PRADO
With Dr Edward Payne, Senior Curator, Spanish Art, Auckland Castle Trust
Saturday 14th January 2017, 9:30 – 11:00 A.M.
ARTES members wishing to travel should RSVP to artesiberia@gmail.com and arrange their own travel and accommodation. |
Beyond the Symbolic: Art and Social Engagement in the Americas
IFA-ISLAA Symposium
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
New York
14-15 April 2017
Deadline: Jan 20, 2017
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art are pleased to announce the second annual IFA–ISLAA symposium for emerging scholars. “Beyond the Symbolic: Art and Social Engagement in the Americas” will be held in New York on April 14–15, 2017. The symposium will include keynote lectures by Coco Fusco and Andrea Giunta.
This symposium interrogates the relevance of merging art and politics in the Americas, especially in works that explicitly seek to resist political oppression, economic imperialism, and legacies of colonialism through public discourse. We aim to address not only contemporary works that marshal “relational aesthetics” at a moment of profound geopolitical crisis, but any intervention that has sought to target the body politic and yield political or social transformation. Less interested in quantifying the efficacy of such works, this symposium hopes to examine larger questions regarding the potential ability of artistic practice to produce concrete results—that is, the compatibility of art and activism. What constitutes success or failure?
Current graduate students, recent graduates, and emerging scholars are invited to apply. Applicants from fields outside the realm of art history are highly encouraged (e.g. Cinema and Media Studies, Performance Studies, Latin American and Latinx studies, Cultural Studies, History). Papers in languages other than English will be taken into consideration.
To apply, please submit an abstract of up to 300 words to symposium@islaa.org by Friday, January 20, 2017. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by Monday, February 13, 2017.
Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes, with additional time for discussion. In your application, please indicate your current institutional affiliation and from where you will be traveling. Limited funding will be available to assist with travel expenses.
This symposium is part of the Latin American Forum. Generously funded by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) and coordinated by Professor Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor in the History of Art, the Forum invites distinguished visiting lecturers to the IFA to foster greater understanding and recognition of Latin American art around the world. The symposium is organized by current IFA PhD candidates Brian Bentley, Madeline Murphy Turner, Sean Nesselrode Moncada, and Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano, and Juanita Solano Roa.
For further information or with any questions, please contact symposium@islaa.org.
This morning, Miguel Zugaza informed the Permanent Committee of the Royal Board of Trustees of his decision to conclude his term next year as director of the Museo del Prado after fifteen years in the position. He also announced his intention to reassume the post of director of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum on the retirement of its present director.
In a text addressed to Iñigo Méndez de Vigo, the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport, and to Unai Rementeria, Chairman of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, Miguel Zugaza stated that he “considers the goals established during his term of office to have been fulfilled and expresses his thanks for all the support received.” The Museum’s Director for the past fifteen years considers that “the Museum is now embarking on a new and exciting phase with the focus on its bicentenary and on the completion of the Museo del Prado Campus with the addition of the Hall of Realms.” At the same time, he considers himself “extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to return to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (of which he was director between 1995 and 2001) and offer it all the experience he has acquired.”
The Minister of Education, Culture and Sport has personally thanked Miguel Zugaza for the services he has rendered the Museum over so many years and has asked him to continue to be involved in its bicentenary project through the Committee for the 2nd centenary of the Museo Nacional del Prado in 2019.
For his part and in the name of the Bilbao museum’s founding institutions (the City Council of Bilbao, the Provincial Government of Bizkaia and the Basque Government), the Chairman of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and current president of the Bilbao museum’s Board of Trustees expressed his satisfaction at being able to count on Miguel Zugaza for leading the museum forward after the outstanding contribution made over the past years by Javier Viar Olloqui.
Both institutions have agreed to stay in contact in order to facilitate the transition of directorship of the respective museums. With this aim in mind, the Minister will propose to the Prado’s Royal Board of Trustees the creation of a specific committee at the Museum. As established in its statutes, it will initiate the selection procedure prior to the proposal of a new appointment to the Council of Ministers. Mr Zugaza will remain in his position with all the powers authorised by it until a new director is appointed.
José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, president of the Museum’s Royal Board of Trustees, wished to emphasise that “the Museo del Prado will never be able to sufficiently express its thanks to Miguel Zugaza for his intelligence, wisdom and imagination and the authority with which he has led the Museum”, and that “the results of his efforts, namely the great success of the Prado, speak for themselves.”
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