The Dalhousie Graduate History Society is currently preparing for a March 2024 conference on interdisciplinary approaches to history and the value of consilience in research.
All graduate students with papers related to history or the use of history in other disciplines are invited to share their work with them and to present at the conference alongside other scholars. .
Work-in-progress research is eligible to be presented at the conference so long as adequate detail is provided on required dates. The conference will be a hybrid event held on Dalhousie’s Halifax campus – more details will be released as soon as they are finalized.
Please direct all inquiries and abstracts to dalconsilience@gmail.com
The Graduate Visual Culture Association (GVCA) at Queen’s University is seeking submissions for a graduate research conference emphasizing time and the intersections of the past with the present. Hosted by the Department of Art History and Art Conservation and the GVCA, this year’s hybrid conference will take place from Friday, February 9th to Saturday, February 10th, 2024. Details about format and keynote speaker will be announced in the coming weeks.
Please see the attached call for papers for further details about the conference’s theme and submission guidelines. The deadline for submission is Monday, November 20th, 2023.
If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact the conference organizers at contextandmeaning@queensu.ca.
The Journal for Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC) invites article submissions on topics related to pre-modern manuscripts, epigraphy and texts.
MTC is an open access journal established at The Queen’s College Oxford with support from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Clay Sanskrit Library. The journal aims to provide a platform for inter-disciplinary dialogue among scholars working on different premodern manuscript and epigraphic cultures. It encourages articles presented in a way that is accessible to scholars working on any region, with potential to stimulate discussion in the broader commas dealing with manuscripts, epigraphy and texts in different parts of the ancient world. To foster a stimulating environment for comparative discussions and ensure a balanced coverage of cultures and regions, the journal warmly welcomes contributions from researchers studying any early cultures, and interested in comparative discussion.
Please reach out to Christelle Alvarez (christelle_alvarez@brown.edu) if you would like more information, or directly to Yegor Grebnev (yegor@phoenixterrace.com), who is in charge of submissions.
For more information regarding submission requirements, please click the link here!
Call for Papers and Digital Projects Deadline: October 15, 2020
Rutgers Art Review, a journal of graduate research in art history, hereby invites all current graduate students, as well as professionals who have completed their graduate degree within the past year, to submit papers and digital humanities projects for its 38th edition.
Papers may address all topics and historical periods within the history of art and architecture, visual and material culture, art theory and criticism, archaeology, cultural heritage and preservation, aesthetics, film, and photography. Interdisciplinary studies concerning art and architecture written by students in other fields are also welcome. To be considered for publication, submissions must present original contributions to existing scholarship and conform to our submission guidelines. We encourage authors to ask a faculty member to review their paper before submission.
We also invite authors to submit digital humanities projects for consideration. We seek submissions that address important art historical questions with the help of digital tools. Of particular interest are digital projects that use computational methods, mapping, networking, and/or 3D modeling to analyze and interpret art historical or archaeological materials. Authors of digital humanities projects must include an additional paragraph in their abstract detailing the functionality of their digital resource and its impact on their paper’s claims.
For more information, including submission guidelines, please visit: https://rar.rutgers.edu
In the body of the e-mail, please make sure to include: -Your name -Graduate program affiliation -Degree being pursued or previously completed within one year of submission -Mailing address – E-mail address
Please submit all required materials in a single PDF file by the deadline of October 15, 2020 to:
Brittney Bailey, Franchesca Fee, and Jessica Mingoia, Editors, Rutgers Art Reviewrutgersartreview@gmail.com
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Abstract deadline: 31 January 2023
Mediterranean Archaeology sits at an often complex intersection of the fields of Archaeology, Classics, Anthropology, History, and Art History. While several of these fields, in particular Classics and Anthropology have begun periods of significant critical self-reflection that explicitly question their present and future, Mediterranean Archaeology is doing so in a more fragmented manner. This lack of coherence may perhaps be ascribed to institutional fragmentation, in particular in US academia, but it can also be traced to its intricate location at the intersection of multiple academic traditions. As a result, Mediterranean archaeology has struggled to identify its own priorities and find its own voice for challenging traditional narratives and approaches and, as a result, risks being subsumed by adjacent disciplines with louder voices, despite many possible valuable contributions.
In light of these challenges, and especially considering the rapid pace of developments in archaeological methods and theory, the time is ripe to consider both the state of our field at this moment in time and to discuss where it can and should go in the future. Nearly every facet of Mediterranean Archaeology may be questioned and, indeed, we must do so in order to guarantee the continued relevance of our subject in both the ancient and modern worlds.
Brown University’s Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World will host a conference titled State of the Field 2023: Archaeologies of the Mediterraneanon April 14-15, 2023. This meeting builds on a tradition of ‘State of the Field’ workshops hosted by the Joukowsky Institute since 2011 that reflect upon current trends in archaeological practice. This year’s conference discusses the place of Mediterranean Archaeology in the modern world in North America, Europe and the Mediterranean. We intend to examine academic traditions and assumptions as well as contemporary institutional and political structures that frame our theoretical and methodological engagement with the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean and adjacent regions in order to ensure that the field maintains relevance into the future.
We invite submissions for papers of approximately 20 minutes by sending an abstract of no more than 350 words to Joukowsky_Institute@brown.edu by 31 January 2023. We will cover travel expenses and accommodation for speakers, and especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers.
Suggested themes can include, but are not limited to:
● Diversity – How has the field fared in diversifying its participants at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels? This can include topics of gender, class, race and any other background. Have we succeeded in teaching and researching more diverse subjects that better account for ancient realities? What remains to be done?
● Definitions – How do we define our field of study? What is its geography, chronology, and cultural scope? What subjects should we include, and what theories and methods should be used? How do we fit into current academic and university structures? Why does US academia not have Archaeology departments anymore? What are the consequences of this departmental division and what can we do about it? What do we have in common with other fields, and what is unique about our own?
● Relationships – How do we relate to non-academic structures, especially State-run or commercial (i.e., rescue or preventative) archaeology? What role do foreign schools and institutions serve in forming these relationships? How do we engage responsibly with local communities in the places where we conduct fieldwork?
● Historiography – How have the last two centuries (or more) of archaeological practice shaped the modern field, and should they be maintained or discarded? Have we done enough to examine and change the colonial foundations of the discipline? What can we do better?
● Responsibilities – How do we communicate the significance of our field to the public, both at home and abroad? What role does public archaeology play in our field? How has pedagogy changed, and how might it change further? What role do museums and archaeological parks play in our public relationships? How should items and exhibits be displayed?
● Narratives – How has our field shaped knowledge of the past? Are current practices changing narratives? What existing narratives remain to be challenged?
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From The University of New Mexico’s Art History Graduate Journal, Hemisphere :
The University of New Mexico’s Art History Graduate Journal, Hemisphere, has extended the deadline for submissions.
Attached is the Call for Papers for the 14th Volume of Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas. “ Women in the Americas: Makers, Patrons, and Consumers.”
Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas is an annual publication produced by graduate students affiliated with the Department of Art at the University of New Mexico.
The 2023 Annual Meeting is currently scheduled to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana from January 5-8. At this time the AIA is accepting submissions for all presentation types. The overall format of the meeting has not yet been determined. Over the past two years new ways of holding conferences have emerged and we are surveying past attendees to evaluate which options work best. Updated information will be posted as it becomes available.
New for 2023!For the 2023 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, the Program for the Annual Meeting Committee especially encourages the submission of organized sessions, papers, or posters that bring the archaeology of the Mediterranean world into conversation with that of the Americas and other regions. These sessions will be highlighted in the program with the header, “Archaeologies in Dialogue: Thinking Across Boundaries.” We also welcome sessions restricted to a specific region or time-period and hope that these will continue to be prominently represented in the meeting program.
We strongly encourage submitters to review the Call for Papers and submission forms prior to submitting. Please note that all submissions must be made using the online forms. The submission deadlines are:
FIRST DEADLINE – EXTENDED (April 3/April 17 with $25 fee): For all colloquia, any joint AIA/SCS sessions, and any open-session submissions needing an early decision to acquire a visa or obtain funding.
SECOND DEADLINE (August 7/August 21 with $25 fee): For workshops, open session paper and posters submissions, and any provisionally accepted colloquia and workshops that are resubmitting.
Tuesday, November 15, 2022: This deadline is applicable to all Lightning Session and Roundtable submissions.
ABSTRACT Landscapes are unique archives of human fingerprints and environmental processes. A long tradition of archaeological research has elucidated key developments of human landscapes, from the longevity of agricultural expansion in temperate regions to creative responses to serendipitous climate extremes in the Mediterranean basin, to mention but two important examples. As landscape archaeology deepens and widens knowledge of the past, so do the challenges of disentangling the complexities of the human-environment nexus: socio-ecological processes, actors, and impacts operate at multiple spatial and temporal scales; the importance of baseline and reference datasets to characterize natural versus anthropogenic conditions, processes, and outputs. Furthermore, most of the theories and practices of landscape archaeology have developed in and for temperate environments, making their applications to other biogeographic settings not straightforward. Methodological advances in the extraction and study of multiple proxies, from organic and inorganic sources to remotely sensed records and nano-scale markers, are expanding resolution and detail at an unprecedented level. However, these advances also introduce new challenges: which methods to integrate to investigate what and where. Recent applications combining geomorphological, geophysical, bio-geo- archaeological analyses have proven robust and effective in examining archives and deciphering landscapes’ evolution under human influence. To push research, we call for contributions that illustrate the potentials, challenges, and frontiers of multi-proxy methods and multi-scalar analysis in profiling human landscapes throughout time. Looking at landscapes as archives, specific topics to be addressed include (1) Baseline and reference data; (2) Context versus scale; and (3) Trends versus anomalies.
From the Brandeis Classical Studies Department Graduate Student Representatives:
Call for Papers!
“Ancient Worlds, Embodied: Identity, Society and the Human Body in Antiquity”
Department of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
Annual Graduate Conference
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Debby Sneed, Lecturer at California State University, Long Beach
Conference Date: April 8th – 9th, 2022
The Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University invites submissions of abstracts for our Annual Graduate Student Conference. This year’s conference will provide a platform for the exploration of ideas related to the human body through the examination of textual, visual and material evidence from the ancient world. The intention of this conference is to engage with the human body through a range of disciplines as it impacted societies in antiquity. Graduate students of any field in the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to submit abstracts for consideration, some relevant fields are: Art History, Anthropology, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Disability Studies, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies.
Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:
– The depiction and reception of bodies in ancient visual and textual cultures
– Beauty, desire, and sexuality in the ancient world
– Investigation of social, cultural, gender, or religious identities in antiquity
– History of health, medicine, and disability
– Scientific approaches to the body (bioanthropology, ethnoarchaeology, etc.)
– Athleticism, sport, and competition
– The modern reception of ancient works related to the body
Submissions must be original, single-authored works by current graduate students. Papers should be 15 minutes in length, followed by a 5 minute question-and-answer session. At present, the conference will be held in a hybrid format, with in-person presentations held on Friday, April 8th and virtual presentations on Saturday, April 9th. If interested in participating, please submit an abstract for consideration (no more than 300 words), a paper title, and a current CV to classics@brandeis.edu. In the body of your email, please specify if you are interested in presenting your paper in either a virtual or in-person format. The submission deadline for abstracts is February 18, 2022. Selected presenters will be notified by March 4, 2022. Please direct any questions about the conference or submission process to Kelly Ahrens, Ella Hathaway and Carlee Unger at classics@brandeis.edu.
Accommodation is free for all participants during the three nights of March 24-27, 2022. The participants will stay in a double room. Please let us know if you want to share your room with a friend or colleague who registers for the conference as a participant or listener. Otherwise, the conference organizing committee will assign the rooms to participants based on their gender.
The conference has a virtual presentation option. Virtual participants will receive presentation certificates and their papers will appear in program, abstract, and proceedings books like with our face-to-face conferences. Participants will receive all conference documents (Conference Program Book, Conference Abstract Book, Certificate of Participation, and Proceedings Book) digitally.
Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2022.
Please register and submit your abstract (proposal) first. There is no format for proposal submissions. The abstract (proposal) will added to the submission panel in your conference account. If your proposal is accepted for presentation, then you may upload your full paper for publication in the proceedings, one of the conference journals or annual book. The full paper template is available in the Paper Guidelines menu.
The conferences invites submissions which address the theory, research or applications in all disciplines of education and social sciences. Conferences are organized for:
Faculty members in all disciplines of education and social sciences
Graduate students
K-12 administrators
Teachers
Principals
All interested in education and social sciences
After the peer-reviewing process, the full papers will be published in the proceedings, annual book, or one of the sponsor journals, and submitted to the related indexes/databases. The publications affiliated with ISTES Organization are indexed or listed by the following sources: Web of Science, Scopus, ERIC. ISTES books on education and social sciences have been accepted for SCOPUS coverage from 2020 onwards.
Best regards,
Prof. Dr. Mack Shelley, Iowa State University, USA Prof. Dr. Wenxia WU, George Washington University, USA
