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Call for Papers
Conferences
Jheronimus Bosch; His Patronsa nd His Public
's-Hertogenbosch, September 16-18, 2012.
The work of Jheronimus Bosch (ca. 1450 - 1516), arguably the most enigmatic painter of the later Middle Ages, continues to attract scholarly attention. Organized by the Bosch Research and Conservation Project and the Jheronimus Bosch Art Center, the conference Jheronimus Bosch; his patrons and his public aims to continue this discourse. Proposals are invited for 20-minute presentations that fit the conference theme, but other topics might also be considered.
The organizing committee consists of Willeke Cornelissen-van de Steeg, Eric De Bruyn, Matthijs Ilsink, Jos Koldeweij, and Ron Spronk. Please send your proposal by email to spronkr@queensu.ca by February 1, 2012.
Journals
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA)
The Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (www.jhna.org) announces its next submission deadline, March 1, 2012. Please consult the journal's Submission Guidelines.
JHNA is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published twice per year. Articles focus on art produced in the Netherlands (north and south) during the early modern period (c. 1400-c.1750), and in other countries and later periods as they relate to this earlier art. This includes studies of painting, sculpture, graphic arts, tapestry, architecture, and decoration, from the perspectives of art history, art conservation, museum studies, historiography, technical studies, and collecting history. Book and exhibition reviews, however, will continue to be published in the HNA Newsletter.
The deadline for submission of articles is March 1, 2012.
Alison M. Kettering, Editor-in-Chief
Molly Faries, Associate Editor
Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Associate Editor
Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies
We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit original articles via the journal’s submissions tracking system. All submissions are blindly peer-reviewed and modifications may be required. Contributions should be in English, be accompanied by a 300 word abstract and provide translations of quotations in Dutch. The journal’s styleguide, full editorial policy and a cumulative index of all articles from 1977–2009 are available on the journal’s website.
We are also planning to launch special theme issues of Dutch Crossing from 2010 onwards, when the journal’s publication frequency will be raised to three issues per year. Apart from history, art history, literature and language we are interested in such topics as philosophy, visual arts, socio-linguistics, and popular culture. Proposals for themed issues may be sent to the editors: editors@dutchcrossing.org. Past thematic issues have been produced on such topics as Anglo-Dutch relations in the 17th Century; Williamite Scotland and the Dutch Republic; contemporary Dutch women writers; Frisian culture; Landscape Painting; and Literary Translation and Medieval Drama.
Information on Subscription
Since 2009, Dutch Crossing is published by Maney Publishing (London, Leeds, Cambridge, Mass.) and is available both online (via IngentaConnect) and in print (ISSN 0309-6564). It is indexed and abstracted by a growing number of international indexing and abstracting services, including the Periodicals Index Online and the British Humanities Index (ProQuest), Current Abstracts and TOC Premier (both Ebsco) and the Modern Language Association (MLA). Some free content is available on IngentaConnect.
Individuals can subscribe to the journal at preferential rates by becoming a member of the Association for Low Countries Studies (ALCS) whose journal Dutch Crossing has become in 1997. Current membership fees, including subscription to Dutch Crossing are £31 (UK), $55 (US) or €40 (EU). Membership requests can be sent to A.C.Evans@sheffield.ac.uk. A recommendation letter to libraries is available on Maney’s website.
Call for Research in Progress and Dissertations
Early Modern Architecture
Early Modern Architecture (http://earlymodernarchitecture.com) is a new initiative that explores global, interdisciplinary frameworks for the architecture (design, theory, and practice) of Europe and its colonies, 1400-1800. We are particularly interested in fostering discussion about innovative issues, areas of inquiry, and approaches across both research and education. A major component of this initiative, therefore, will be encouraging a rigorous network of exchange among scholars and professionals.
As a step toward this exchange, we are now compiling two international lists: one of research projects in progress and one of Ph.D. dissertations -- both from any discipline and on any aspect of this field. We will post these lists on our website once we have gathered a substantial number of entries. The lists, we hope, will become an ongoing means for scholars to learn about up and coming research as well as to locate others who share their geographical and/or methodological concerns.
If you have a research project in progress or are writing a dissertation that is in progress or was completed during the 2010-2011 school year, please email us at emalistserv@gmail.com with the author's (and supervisor's) name, the working title, and the names of your department as well as institution. We will then add your information to our lists. We appreciate your contribution to this component of the Early Modern Architecture initiative.
Freek Schmidt (Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam); Kimberley Skelton (independent scholar)
Artists on the Move. Sculptors from the Low Countries in Europe 1450-1650
The Low Countries are by no means generally considered to be the motherland of sculpture. However, at close sight it can be noticed that Early Modern
sculptors from the Northern and Southern Netherlands contributed considerably to the development of European sculpture, especially in the period
between 1550 and 1650. The most important works, though, are to be found outside the Low Countries, which seems to be one of the reasons why they have
seldom attracted scholarly attention so far. The marked mobility of Netherlandish sculptors of the 16th and 17th centuries was one of the most
important reasons for their success and their impact on the artistic development of their time. Most of them travelled far from their homelands and
worked in various countries and regions from Sweden to Spain, and from England to nowadays Ukraine. And of course, a large number of these sculptors
visited Rome, the Mekka of sculpture study in the Early Modern Era.
The diaspora of Netherlandish sculptors in the mentioned time span has not yet been systematically explored. The research project is about to dedicate
itself to this challenge. As a starting point of further investigation we envisage to set up a database, the aim of which will be to collect and
systematise biographical, geographical and chronological data of the migrating sculptors. For this purpose the documentation system of the Rijksbureau
voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD) in The Hague will be employed and adjusted to the specific needs of the project with the help of experts at
the University of Wroclaw. This kind of documentation will be instrumental in the cognition and analysis of structures and patterns within artist’s
migration and careers and could result in a ‘collective biography’. It is expected that by taking the perspective of the artist’s mobility as a
starting point, a new light could be thrown on the stylistic development of European sculpture and a new chapter could be added to the historiography
of artistic relations between the Low Countries and the rest of Europe.
If you are interested in the project please do not hesitate to contact one of the persons below.
In Amsterdam: Arjan de Koomen (Universiteit van Amsterdam) A.R.deKoomen@uva.nl
Frits Scholten (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) f.scholten@rijksmuseum.nl
In Bamberg: Eveliina Juntunen (Universität Bamberg) eveliina.juntunen@uni-bamberg.de
In Wroclaw: Aleksandra Lipinska (Uniwersytet Wroclawski) aleksandra.lipinska@o2.pl
Fellowships, Prizes and Jobs
Bader Postdoctoral Fellowship in Baroque Art
Queen's University
Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, seeks applicants for the Bader Postdoctoral Fellowship in Baroque Art. All aspects of the field will be
considered, but scholars with research concentrations in Dutch, Italian, Spanish, or Latin American art or architecture are especially encouraged to
apply. The fellowship is awarded without regard to age or nationality of applicants. Candidates should have received the Ph.D. within the past five
years.
Postdoctoral fellows at Queen's are free to pursue their own research and writing while participating in the scholarly life of the university. The
Department of Art maintains a strong commitment to research in the arts of the early modern world, with several faculty working in this field. Further
information is available on the website: www.queensu.ca/art. Library resources at Queen's are especially strong in early modern art, and the campus is
home to the Bader Collection of European Paintings at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (www.aeac.ca). Kingston is
located within three hours of several major urban centres, with access to resources such as the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Art Gallery of
Ontario (Toronto), and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal).
The duration of the fellowship is two years, September 1, 2012-August 31, 2014. The annual stipend is CDN $35,000 plus benefits and an allowance of CDN
$1500 for travel and research expenses. The fellow will have the opportunity to teach at least one undergraduate course (compensation paid separately
at the standard adjunct rate), and will be asked to give a public lecture on the topic of his/her research. The fellow is expected to be actively
engaged on campus during the academic year (September-April).
Queen's University is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, visible minorities,
aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. The academic staff at Queen's are governed by a
collective agreement between the Queen's University Faculty Association (QUFA) and the University which is posted at http://www.queensu.ca/qufa. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.
Applications, including a c.v., statement of research plan, and names and contact information for two referees, should be sent to: Dr. Janice Helland,
Head, Department of Art, Ontario Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6 Canada, or by e-mail to: hellandj@queensu.ca Review of applications commences February 1, 2012.
Early Modern Northern European Art, Architecture, Material and/or Visual Culture
The Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Early Modern Northern European Art, Architecture, Material and/or Visual Culture. Preference will be given to candidates whose research focuses on France, Germany or the Netherlands in the early modern period broadly defined. Responsibilities will include teaching a range of survey and topics courses in the early modern at the undergraduate and graduate level. We expect the candidate to contribute to broader introductory survey courses as well. The candidate will also supervise undergraduate theses, M.A. papers, and Ph.D. dissertations in their areas of research specialization. Research and teaching areas of particular interest to the department include: the history of the book and print culture; religious practices; theories of the image; global trade and cultural exchange; cross-influence between science and art (e.g., optics, perspective, botany, mapping, anatomy); the history of collecting, wonder, and the exotic; and the development of vernacular architecture. The ideal candidate would help us achieve our strategic priorities of developing a museum studies track, and play a leading role in global studies on campus. The candidate should also be willing to contribute to broader interdisciplinary programs on campus in which our faculty are involved such as the programs in Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures, early modern studies, German studies, Dutch studies, material culture studies, religious studies, and visual culture studies.
Applications should be submitted via email to the search chair Jill H. Casid, Associate Professor of Visual Culture Studies, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison at jhcasid@wisc.edu. Applications should include the following materials as electronic attachments in PDF format: a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, names of three current references with phone numbers and email addresses, a copy of graduate transcripts, and an article or representative dissertation chapter as a writing sample. To guarantee consideration, complete applications must be received by January 17, 2012. Top candidates will be selected for interviews at the CAA annual meeting in Los Angeles and letters of reference and sample syllabi will be requested at that time.
Required Qualifications: Ph.D. in Early Modern Northern European Art, Architecture, Material Culture or Visual Culture; evidence of innovative research program; evidence of ability to teach at the undergraduate and graduate level.
UW-Madison is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. Employment will require a background check prior to employment.
Announcement for two three-year doctoral positions
at the Institute of Art History, University of Bern, starting April 1, 2012
Two fully-funded doctoral positions are available as part of the structured PhD program “Sites of Mediation” jointly directed by Prof. Susanna Burghartz (University of Basel), Prof. Lucas Burkart (University of Lucerne), and Prof. Christine Göttler (University of Bern). Taking up issues raised in recent theoretical discussions, the aim of the program is to investigate specific areas or fields of tension in early modern and Renaissance Europe, from the angle of ‘connected’ or ‘shared’ histories. “Sites of Mediation” constitutes an area of research shared by History and Art History, connecting different temporal, spatial, methodological, and thematic scopes of investigation. The specific choice of research topics will further allow the PhD program to bring together two currently largely distinct historiographies, in that it combines innovative studies on northern European societies in Flanders and the Upper Rhine in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with research into global issues in the Italian Renaissance.
Starting April 1, 2012, two doctoral positions are available in the research module “‘Inventors of New Things’: Entangled Histories of Art in Early Modern Antwerp”.
Director: Prof. Christine Göttler, University of Bern
Topic 1: Netherlandish “reflexy-const”: Artistic Identity and the Cultural Self-fashioning of the “fiamminghi” in Rome and Naples around 1600
The project investigates paintings on copper by northern European artists. These paintings were, around 1600, eagerly collected by art lovers in Rome, Antwerp, and Haarlem, as well as at various European courts. Contemporary art literature celebrated copper paintings for their depictions of lights and reflections. Taking the example of this relatively new painterly technology as a starting point, the doctoral project addresses questions concerning the construction of “Flemish” or “northern European” artistic identity within the networks of patronage in Rome and Naples and in the interplay of emulation, rivalry, and collaboration. The focus on Rome and Naples will not only reveal a wealth of unknown material, but also lead to a better understanding of the artistic qualities generally associated with the “nederlantsche handelinghe” or “maniera fiamminga” and of the complex interactions between cultures of knowledge and artistic traditions and practices.
Topic 2: Portraits, Faces, Costumes: Art, Global History, and Local Genealogy in Antwerp around 1600
The dissertation project addresses the wide-scale political, cultural, and religious project of renewal and regeneration of the arts in early seventeenth-century Antwerp. New interpretations of local myths, artistic genealogies, and the city’s global history will play decisive roles. Also important will be the attempts made by Antwerp artists, art collectors and patrons of the arts to create local cultural identities that differed from the dominant Florentine model, and which have so far not been fully explored. Various visual and performative media – paintings, drawings, prints, processions, rituals, and masquerades – will be studied as means of self-fashioning and self-representation. The project is expected to make a new contribution to the study of portraiture and forms of self-fashioning in early modern Antwerp. Research may focus on the intersections between Spanish and Flemish forms of portraiture and self-representation, contemporary discussions of sympathy, and preferences of artistic styles as discussed in natural philosophy, moral philosophy, and medicine.
Applicants with outstanding qualifications are encouraged to apply. Candidates should have sufficient (reading) knowledge of Dutch, as well as Italian or Spanish, as appropriate to the projects. The doctoral fellowships are fully funded as set out in the guidelines of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Application materials should be submitted electronically and should include a cv, copies of transcripts or diplomas, a letter giving the candidate’s reasons for applying, and a sample of written work (either M.A. thesis or comparable publication). Please submit the application no later than January 25, 2012 to Tina Asmussen, coordinator of the PhD program “Sites of Mediation” (Tina.Asmussen@unibas.ch).
Applicant interviews will take place on February 15, 2012 in Basel.
For questions about the PhD program more broadly, please contact the coordinator Tina Asmussen or consult the website “Sites of Mediation”: http://www.sitesofmediation.ch/
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe; Director: Prof. Dr. Sven Dupré) announces
three postdoctoral fellowships for up to three months
between July 1 and December 31, 2012. Outstanding junior and senior scholars are invited to apply.
Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science, the history of art, technical art history or related field (with a dissertation topic relevant to the history of knowledge) at the time of application and show evidence of scholarly promise in the form of publications and other achievements.
Research projects should address the history of art and knowledge up to the eighteenth century (with a preference for the period between 1350 and 1750), and may concern any geographical area within Europe, and any object of the visual and decorative arts.
Possible topics include:
- The mediation of the transmission of knowledge in and beyond the artist’s workshop
- The appropriation of other than artisanal bodies of knowledge (such as geometry, optics and alchemy) in the context of the artist’s workshop
- Concepts and typologies of knowledge in early modern art theory and their possible relation to material artistic practices and artisanal knowledge
Also welcome are projects falling within the scope of the history of optics and perspective, the history of alchemy, or the history of collecting (up to 1750), but those relevant to the writing of an epistemic history of art will receive preference.
Visiting fellows are expected to take part in the scientific life of the Institute, to advance their own research project, and to actively contribute to the project of the Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe.
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is an international and interdisciplinary research institute (http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/index.html). The colloquium language is English; it is expected that candidates will be able to present their own work and discuss that of others fluently in that language. Fellowships are endowed with a monthly stipend between 1.900 € and 2.300 € (fellows from abroad) or between 1.468 € and 1.621 € (fellows from Germany), whereas senior scholars receive an honorary commensurate with experience.
The Max Planck Research Group Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe is also accepting proposals for non-funded Visiting Fellowships from one month to a year. These are normally open to junior and senior post-docs who have external funding. For projects highly relevant to the research platform of this Max Planck Research Group, Sven Dupré will support a limited number of applications for funding at organizations such as Fulbright, DAAD, and the Humboldt Society.
Candidates of all nationalities are encouraged to apply; applications from women are especially welcome. The Max Planck Society is committed to promoting handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply.
Candidates are requested to submit a curriculum vitae (including list of publications), a research proposal on a topic related to the project (750 words maximum), one sample of writing (i.e. article or book chapter), and names and addresses of two referees (including email) who have already been contacted by the applicant to assure their willingness to submit letters of recommendation if requested, to:
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Max Planck Research Group Dupré
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Germany
(Electronic submission is also possible: officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de)
by March 1, 2012. Successful candidates will be notified before the end of March.
For questions concerning the Max Planck Research Group on Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe, please see http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/MRGdupre or contact Sven Dupré (officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de); for administrative questions concerning
the position and the Institute, please contact Claudia Paaß (paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), Head of Administration, or Jochen Schneider (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de), Research Coordinator.
Courses
Rice University
Rice University announces its new doctoral program offering full tuition plus a generous stipend for five years for qualified students. Located in Houston, close to the Museum of Fine Arts and the Menil Foundation, the department at Rice includes two specialists in the field of 15th- and 16th-century northern European art and architecture:
Diane Wolfthal, author of four books and editor of three others, including The Beginnings of Netherlandish Canvas Painting; Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and its Alternatives; In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art (in press, Yale UP); and Corpus of Fifteenth-Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège: Early Netherlandish Paintings in Los Angeles (forthcoming, co-authored with Catherine Metzger, National Gallery of Art).
Linda Neagley, a specialist in fifteenth-century art and architecture and author of Disciplined Exuberance. The Parish Church of Saint-Maclou and Late Gothic Architecture in Rouen; and numerous articles on medieval design theory, visuality and spatial representation in medieval narrative, and late gothic sculpture.
For more information contact either one of these professors, wolfthal@rice.edu or lneagley@rice.edu and see the website http://arthistory.rice.edu/
Amsterdam
MA Dutch Art in European Context
From medieval Netherlandish art to nineteenth-century Romanticism, from seventeenth-century genre painting to the De Stijl movement of the 1920s, the Dutch artistic tradition is as much a product of the interaction, exchange and reception of ideas occurring throughout Europe as it is a reflection of the Dutch themselves. The focus of this one-year MA course is on the historiography of Dutch art and the way this influenced international tendencies in collecting and presenting Dutch art in museums. This Master's program is taught in English and offered jointly by the departments of Art History and Cultural History of Europe of the University of Amsterdam.
For more information, please visit http://www.studeren.uva.nl/ma_dutch_art_in_european_context/
London
A new MA program in Dutch Golden
Age studies is being offered at
University College London,
King's College London and the
Courtauld Institute of Art. It is
an interdisciplinary program
combining art history, history, and
the study of Dutch language and
literature. Its focus is the
history and culture of the Dutch
Republic in the seventeenth
century, but parts of the program
treat the sixteenth century as
well, and the Southern as well as
Northern Netherlands. For further
details: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/admissions/maadmiss/dutchfull.htm
About Dutch History at UCL, see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dutch-history
Nijmegen
Netherlandish Art and Architecture in an International Perspective
In September 2012, Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) starts a new Master's specialisation in Netherlandish Art and Architecture in an
International Perspective. This comprehensive, one-year programme explores the history of painting and sculpture, architecture and the decorative arts
of the Netherlands from the Late Middle Ages to the present. Taught in English, it gives students from different countries the opportunity to
specialise in one of the most fascinating fields in art history.
Prospective students will need a Bachelor's degree in Art History or Cultural Studies, or at least 45 EC points (or equivalent) in art history courses.
In all other cases, portfolio and motivation will determine whether the candidate meets the programme requirements. In addition, students will need
adequate English language skills.
For more information, visit our website www.ru.nl/masters/naa, or contact us at Radboud University's Student Information Desk (T: +31 (0)24 361 2345; E: sid@dsz.ru.nl).
Societies
Werkgroep Zeventiende
Eeuw
Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw concerns
itself with the study of
seventeenth-century Dutch history
and culture from an
interdisciplinary perspective. It
organizes a two-day conference
annually at the end of August,
publishes a journal twice/year
(Uitgeverij Verloren) and offers a
prize annually for an outstanding
original manuscript text (essay or
article).
www.let.uu.nl/nederlands/nlren/werkgroep17
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