Announcements

AWARDS

Awards from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Every year, ASEEES awards prizes for distinguished contributions to the field and for outstanding scholarship:

  • Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Award
  • CLIR Distinguished Service Award
  • Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize
  • USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Zelnik Book Prize in History
  • Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies
  • Shulman Book Prize
  • Hewett Book Prize
  • Barbara Jelavich Book Prize
  • Kulczycki Prize in Polish Studies
  • W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize
  • Graduate Student Essay Prize
  • Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize

Nominations are still being accepted for most of these recognition awards and book prizes until
May 7, 2012. 
For more information, eligibility requirements, nomination instructions and deadlines for each prize, visit:  www.aseees.org/prizes.html.
Contact: Mary Arnstein, ASEEES Communications Coordinator, 203C Bellefield Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6424. Phone: 412.648.9809 (direct), 412.648.9911 (main),
412.648-9815 (fax).

CALL FOR PAPERS

None at this time.

CONFERENCES

Cultural Exchanges in the Late Byzantine World
University of Haifa, Israel
May 16-17, 2012
Onassis Program of Byzantine and Modern Hellenic Studies
Cultural Exchanges between Byzantium, East and West in the Late Byzantine World
(12th-16th centuries)
Contact: Emma Maayan maayanimage@gmail.com

Sixth International Conference of Iconographic Studies
Rijeka, Croatia
May 30-June 6, 2012
For further information, see the conference web page at www.ffri.hr/pu/ikon

La Miniature en Europe
Paris, France
October 11-12, 2012
This will be the 2nd International Symposium for research on 17th-19th century miniature painting in France and Europe.
For more information see http://arthist.net/archive/2172

Color in the 17th and 18th centuries: Connections between Science, Arts and Technology
Technische Universität Berlin
June 28-30, 2012
For more information: http://arthist.net/archive/2457

Saints' Cults and the Dynamics of Regional Cohesion
Dubrovnik, Croatia
October 18 - 20, 2012
A conference organized by the Croatian Hagiography Society HAGIOTHECA and the CULTSYMBOLS Project of the ESF EuroCORECODE Programme (www.cultsymbols.net). The topic proposed as the focus of the fourth Hagiotheca conference is the way in which the cults of saints contributed to the creation of spatially delimited (regional) collective identities in the Middle Ages. The notion of region can be understood broadly, as a flexible category which covers spatial entities of various sizes and kinds. The cult of saints often functioned as a cohesive (or disruptive) forces which helped people to attach to (or detach from) particular regions. The saints belonged to the symbols which helped to bind and break communities. Thus, the study of the cult of saints could offer significant contribution to the study of concepts of regional identity through scrutinizing the spatial aspect of the notion of the saintly patrocinium. The conference shall investigate how these cults contributed to the changing internal divisions, the fluctuating evolution or resurgence of local, territorial and national (regional and transregional) identities.
For the full call see http://arthist.net/archive/2522

The Critical Production of Display and Interpretation in Art History
Stockholm, Sweden
October 24-27, 2012
Papers will "review the assets and pitfalls of iconography as an analytical operandi" from the traditional lexical focus of iconographical interpretation that focuses on the textual description of a depiction to one that focuses on "other aspects of the visual language, such as the representation of space, body, rhythm and composition, and with specific consideration of the function of images."
For more information: http://nordicarthistory.org/conference

SEMINAR SERIES

La mode - objet d'études?-- Séminaire sur l'histoire de la mode et du vêtement.
[Fashion - an object for study? -- A seminar on the history of fashion and clothing.]
Paris, INHA
November 2011 through May 2012.
Ces séminaires entendent lancer de nouvelles pistes de réflexion sur l'histoire du vêtement et de la mode, dans sa relation à l'étude historique de l'art. [These seminars are meant to launch a new way of thinking about the history of clothing and fashion relative to the study of art history.]
For individual seminar dates and topics see http://arthist.net/archive/2173