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History of Art Graduate Teaching Assistant Recruitment

Posted on Thursday 30 November 2023

The History of Art Department are recruiting for Graduate Teaching Assistants for the 2024/5 academic year.

Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships in the Humanities 2024/25

Posted on Monday 13 November 2023

With generous funding from the Wolfson Foundation, the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships fund doctoral research in three areas: History, Literature and Languages.

2024 WRoCAH AHRC Open Competition Studentships

Posted on Monday 13 November 2023

The WRoCAH competition for PhD studentships starting in October 2024 is now open!

History of Art's Marcus Milwright and co-editor Evanthia Baboula win book award

Posted on Thursday 26 October 2023

History of Art's Marcus Milwright and co-editor Evanthia Baboula's book Made for the Eye of One Who Sees, Canadian Contributions to the Study of Islamic Art and Archaeology has been awarded the Inaugural University Art Association of Canada (UAAC-AAUC) book award for best edited collection.

Pamela Enyonu’s @syokereart residence for the @artrightstruth project came to an end this week!

Posted on Thursday 26 October 2023

We enjoyed having her around and were impressed by the range of works she produced during her stay: some of them were participatory, and others used a material close to her heart, paper (including paper towels and napkins from our Campus Kitchen Services and local pubs!).

Call for Papers: Production, Transmission & Interpretation

Posted on Wednesday 18 October 2023

An interdisciplinary conference on Islamic Art, Architecture, History and Archaeology on 14th and 15th March, 2024

Busan Biennale 2024 announces co-artistic directors

Posted on Monday 16 October 2023

Congratulations go to Philippe Pirotte and Vera Mey from the History of Art department, as they have been selected as co-artistic directors of Busan Biennale 2024.

First artist in residence for Art Rights Truth research project

Posted on Monday 16 October 2023

The History of Art Department is delighted to welcome Ugandan artist Pamela Enyonu as the current artist-in-residence for the Art Rights Truth Project, on which our colleague Dr. Ana Bilbao is co-investigator.

History of art at York ranks 6th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024

Posted on Tuesday 19 September 2023

The Department of History of Art has placed 6th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024 for the subject of history of art, architecture and design. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities we provide to our students.

History of Art at York ranks 10th in Guardian University Guide 2024

Posted on Thursday 14 September 2023

The Department of History of Art has placed 10th in the Guardian University Guide 2024 for the subject of History of Art. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities they provide to our students.

The Joint BIAA-BIPS Conference: Jalal al-Din Rumi and his Legacy: Religion, Literature and Culture between Medieval Anatolia and the Persianate World, 13th-14th Centuries.

Posted on Wednesday 30 August 2023

The Joint BIAA-BIPS Conference: Jalal al-Din Rumi and his Legacy: Religion, Literature and Culture between Medieval Anatolia and the Persianate World, 13th-14th Centuries was held on 6th and 7th July 2023 at the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) in Türkiye. This international conference focused on the Sufi poet Rumi, the reception of his work as well as his religious and political legacy.

National Student Survey reveals the strengths of History of Art at York

Posted on Tuesday 15 August 2023

The results of a nationwide survey have revealed that the Department of History of Art is home to some of the happiest students in the category of history of art, architecture and design students in the UK.

York academic and stained glass pioneer to receive prestigious award for conservation

Posted on Monday 31 July 2023

A University of York professor has been awarded a prestigious award in recognition of her significant contribution to stained glass conservation

Award for Alumnus Miguel Gaete

Posted on Wednesday 21 June 2023

We are thrilled to share that Dr Miguel Gaete has won the Klaus Heyne Award 2023 for Research in German Romanticism Studies!

6th in the UK: Complete University Guide 2024

Posted on Thursday 8 June 2023

History of Art at York ranked 6th in the UK according to the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2024).

Events

Wed
6
Dec

The Power of Blue: Didactic Models in Text and Image in Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea

This talk will analyse some of this artist's depictions of the didactic models who are present in the text to reveal his predilection with representing female didactic figures in blue, especially in verses evoking wisdom, chastity, and motherhood.

Wed
13
Dec

Helen Chadwick, Unbound

Chadwick’s disruption of the centrifugal nostalgia of the ‘Artists in National Parks’ project, Dr Gordon will argue, offers a vision of the dissolution of boundaries, realising HIV as a crisis that persists into and pressurises the present moment

Wed
10
Jan

The Poiesis of Drapery in Italian Art 1400-1520

This research seminar foregrounds drapery as a key site through which Italian Renaissance artists conceptualised and materialised the creative process in relation to natural poiesis, or emergence, a coming into being.