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Call for Session Proposals: College Art Association 2019 Annual Conference

The Italian Art Society (IAS) is now accepting proposals for one sponsored session (1.5 hrs) at the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference 2019. Members interested in putting together a panel on any topic of Italian art (broadly conceived) should send a brief abstract (250 words maximum), session title, a short list of potential or desired speakers (they need not be confirmed), the name of the chair(s) with email addresses and affiliation, and a one-page CV. 

Call For IAS-Sponsored Session Proposals: Leeds International Medieval Congress

The Italian Art Society is seeking complete session proposals (including confirmed speakers) for the 2018 meeting of the Leeds International Medieval Congress, to be held in Leeds 2-5 July 2018. The theme of the 25th-anniversary 2018 congress is 'Memory', and proposals may touch on all areas of the theme. For a list of suggestions and prompts see the LIMC website. 

Call for Papers: Venice, Materiality, and the Byzantine World

Session Sponsored by the Italian Art Society at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies 10-13 May 2018, Western Michigan University

The Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposium leading to the 2010 publication of San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice introduced new perspectives on Byzantine and Venetian visual and material culture that extended Otto Demus’s survey of Saint Mark’s basilica. The authors’ application of more recent approaches—such as the social function of spolia, the act of display, the construction of identity, and cultural hybridity—brought fresh analyses to a complex and richly decorated monument. 

This panel seeks to expand this methodological discourse by taking into account questions related to materials, materiality, and intermediality between Venice and Byzantium. The arrival of material culture from the Byzantine world to Venice as gifts, spoils, or ephemera during the centuries surrounding the Fourth Crusade allowed for both appropriation and conceptual transformation of material culture. In light of the renewal in interest of Venice’s Byzantine heritage, this panel seeks to reflect on the interaction of material culture between la Serenissima and the Byzantine world, especially during the eleventh through fifteenth centuries. 

Topics may be wide-ranging, including, but not limited to: issues of reception and cultural translation; changing concepts of preciousness; different valuation of materials between Venice and Byzantium; the fluctuating simulation of material visual effects; the transformation of Byzantine objects incorporated into Venetian frames; intermedial dialogue between Byzantine and Venetian art; and the process and technique of manufacture of works between Byzantium and Venice. Some points of departure may include: the building of San Marco itself; Byzantine objects in the Treasury; Byzantine manuscripts included as part of the Cardinal Bessarion gift to the Republic; the monuments on Torcello; or issues raised as a result of recent conservation projects. New cross-cultural methodologies from art historical, anthropological, or sociological fields are welcome.

Please submit a 300-word abstract and a completed Participant Information Form  by 15 September 15 to the session organizers, Brad Hosteler (Kenyon College) and Joseph Kopta (Pratt Institute).

IAS-SPONSORED SESSION PROPOSALS FOR SCSC 2017 IN MILWAUKEE DUE 17 MARCH

Each year, the Italian Art Society (IAS) seeks session proposals that address any issue relevant to Italian art and architecture during the long sixteenth century. The Sixteenth Century Society & Conference (SCSC) was founded to promote scholarship on the early modern era (c.1450-1600), actively encourages the participation of international scholars as well as the integration of younger colleagues into the academic community. 

IAS members interested in putting together a panel or linked panels (even roundtables are possible) should send a brief abstract (250 words max), session title, a short list of potential or desired speakers (they need not be confirmed), the name of the chair(s) with email addresses and affiliation, and a one-page CV to the IAS Program Committee Chair. The conference this year will be held 26-29 October, 2017. 

Mark Your Calendar: Upcoming Italian Art Society Events

With the annual conference of the College Art Association rapidly approaching, please save the dates for these IAS activities at the conference as you are making your plans. Our sponsored session "Italianità diversa: Diversity and Multiculturalism in Italian Art," chaired by Jennifer Griffiths will take place on Friday, 17 February, from 1:30pm to 3:00pm in Gramercy A/West on the 2nd floor of the New York Hilton Midtown.

Call for Session Proposals: IAS-Sponsored SCSC Sessions

Sixteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference Albuquerque, New Mexico 1-4 November 2018

IAS Deadline: 18 March 2018

The IAS is seeking session proposals that address any issue relevant to Italian art and architecture during the long sixteenth century. The Sixteenth Century Society & Conference (SCSC) was founded to promote scholarship on the early modern era (c.1450-1600), and actively encourages the participation of international scholars as well as the integration of younger colleagues into the academic community. 

IAS members interested in putting together a panel or linked panels should send a brief abstract (250 words max.), session title, a short list of potential or desired speakers (they need not be confirmed), the name of the chair(s) with email addresses and affiliation, and a one-page CV to the IAS Program Committee Chair.

The deadline for submissions of session proposals to IAS is 18 March 2018. Completed panels are due to SCSC by 15 April 2018.

Session Proposals for the 2017 Sixteenth Century Society Conference Due 17 March

Sixteenth Century Society Conference  Milwaukee, Wisconsin  26-29 October 2017

The Italian Art Society is currently seeking proposals for IAS-sponsored sessions at the 2017 Sixteenth Century Society Conference (SCSC). Each year, the IAS seeks session proposals that address any issue relevant to Italian art and architecture during the long sixteenth century. The SCSC was founded to promote scholarship on the early modern era (c.1450-1600), actively encourages the participation of international scholars as well as the integration of younger colleagues into the academic community. 

IAS members interested in putting together a panel or linked panels (even roundtables are possible) should send a brief abstract (250 words max), session title, a short list of potential or desired speakers (they need not be confirmed), the name of the chair(s) with email addresses and affiliation, and a one-page CV to the IAS Program Committee Chair. The conference this year will be held 26-29 October 2017 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The deadline for submissions of session proposals to IAS is 17 March 2017.