History of Art news and events

News

MA Partnership Studentships 2013

Posted on Wednesday 19 June 2013

The Department of History of Art is delighted to invite applications for four partnership studentships, open to full-time MA in History of Art or pathway degree applicants commencing their studies in Autumn 2013.


Two Enterprising Undergraduates Shortlisted for Award

Posted on Friday 14 June 2013

Two Stage 2 students, Alexander Caspari and Jordan Harris, have taken the initative and are starting up their own company/art gallery called 'Encounter Fine Art'.


From 1 July, the Department of History of Art at the University of York will be a partner of the AHRC research project 'The Production and Reading of Music Sources, 1480-1530.

Posted on Friday 14 June 2013

The project is currently advertising a Research Assistantship at the Warburg Institute (University of London)


PhD student awarded Santander International Connections Award

Posted on Friday 24 May 2013

PhD student Lyndsey Smith has won a Santander International Connections Award (2013) for a forthcoming research trip to Germany and Russia.


New Addition to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Online Resource

Posted on Thursday 23 May 2013

The Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick website now includes a new section on conferences edited by Jason Edwards.


White Rose Consortium Network PhD Scholarship: Classical Heroism in War and Peace 1914-24

Posted on Thursday 23 May 2013

The White Rose Consortium is pleased to offer a three-year doctoral scholarship at the University of York, with co-supervision from Classics at the University of Leeds, to begin in October 2013. To commemorate the centenary of the First World War, the scholarship will fund interdisciplinary research on the receptions of classical heroism in the war and its cultural legacies in communities across regional Europe.


Tate Interview with Jason Edwards Published Online

Posted on Tuesday 21 May 2013

Jennifer Mundy, Head of Collection Research at Tate has interviewed Jason about his research into the two sculptures 'The Singer' and 'Applause' by Edward Onslow Ford (see previous news item).


New Online Research Publication by Jason Edwards

Posted on Thursday 16 May 2013

Published by Tate last month, Jason's project focuses on two sculptures by Edward Onslow Ford, The Singer, exhibited 1889 and Applause, 1893.


New publication by Michele Luigi Vescovi

Posted on Thursday 25 April 2013

Michele's new book "'Monferrato' medievale : Crocevia di culture e sperimentazioni" has just been published by Scripta edizioni. ‘Monferrato’ medievale takes issue with traditional study of “local schools” in medieval art, stressing the limits of this category and suggesting a more nuanced analysis on historical geography of Romanesque architecture.


Call for Papers- The Thirteenth York Manuscripts Conference: Cathedral Libraries and Archives of Britain and Ireland 3-5 July 2014

Posted on Wednesday 24 April 2013

This conference is hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York, and is organised by Brian Cummings, Linne Mooney, Bill Sherman and Hanna Vorholt.


Booking is now open for our July Open Day!

Posted on Wednesday 3 April 2013

Thinking about studying with us? Come and have a look around the University and meet some of our staff and students at the Open Day on Wednesday July 3rd. Booking is essential!


York History of Art academics to be guests on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves

Posted on Tuesday 19 March 2013

There will be a special edition of Night Waves at 10pm on Wednesday March 20th, forming part of Radio 3's 'Baroque Spring' season, with contributions from Anthony Geraghty and Helen Hills.


Admissions event

Posted on Monday 18 March 2013

Today Monday 18th March join our online chat session for prospective students!


New Publication by Richard Marks

Posted on Friday 15 March 2013

Pindar Press has just published Studies in the Art and Imagery of the Middle Ages by Richard Marks, Emeritus Professor of History of Art.


ERC-funded PhD studentship in History of Art: ‘Projections of Jerusalem in Europe’

Posted on Monday 4 March 2013

The Department of History of Art is pleased to offer a doctoral studentship, to commence in October 2013, as part of the major research project 'Projections of Jerusalem in Europe: A Monumental Network', funded by the European Research Council.


Events

Wed
19
Jun

Chiome scomposte. Le capigliature nell'Italia del Quattrocento, da Donatello a Botticelli

As part of a series of lectures in Italian on Italian art that is being hosted by Languages for All, Dr Emanuele Lugli examines the significance of hairstyling in artworks of Renaissance Italy.

Fri
21
Jun

History of Art Alumni Event - York

We are delighted to invite History of Art alumni an informal drinks reception at on-campus and student-run Norman Rea Gallery.

Mon
24
Jun

Anti-Happenings/ Anti-Politics: Experimental Art in Late Socialist Central Europe

Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum seminar with Dr Klara Kemp-Welch, Courtauld Institute of Art. Klara's paper traces the passage from a commitment to artistic ‘autonomy’ among unofficial artists of the late 1950s and early 1960s to the development of experimental practices which enabled artists to address the problem of isolation and to explore new forms of ‘contact’ in the 1970s and 80s.

Wed
26
Jun

'Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural Journey'

'Building Fitzwilliam College 1963-2013: an Architectural Journey' curated by Emeritus Professor Richard Marks will be held at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, between 26 June and 11 October.

Sat
29
Jun

3 Graces: Victorian women, visual art and exchange

As part of York Festival of Ideas, Katie Tyreman introduces the often overlooked art of Victorian women with the aid of a virtual exhibition in the 3Sixty Space of the Ron Cooke Hub.

Fri
13
Sep

Religion and Violence

An interdisciplinary colloquium especially for the work of new and emerging scholars.