Premodern Women Artists and Patrons: A Global Bibliography: a bibliography on women artists and patrons, with sections on Asia, the Americas, Islamic Cultures, and Europe from antiquity–c. 1700, individual women, topics like “Textiles and Needlework,” and online and teaching resources. Additions, corrections, and feedback on its structure (from new entries to Sub-Saharan Africa) are welcome via Comments on the Google Doc. Submitted by Pat Simons (University of Michigan) and Tracy Chapman Hamilton (Virginia Commonwealth University, Affiliate).
A Statement of Solidarity and Action
A Statement of Solidarity and Action
June 5, 2020
We add our voices to the chorus of scholarly and cultural institutions standing in solidarity with the tens of thousands of people who are protesting the systemic racism manifest in the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, David McAtee, Tony McDade, and countless other Black individuals in recent months and over the 400-year history of what has become the United States. We offer a full-throated commitment to the declaration that Black Lives Matter.
In this moment of national and international crisis, we also wish to recognize the local impacts of both racism and the current pandemic, which in many cases intertwine. The ICMA’s headquarters is at The Cloisters, located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan, and the surrounding neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood have been ravaged by COVID-19. Despite the challenges of the day, on Sunday, May 29, roughly 1,500 members of the community came out for a vigil against police brutality held on the Cloisters Lawn. That gathering brought solace and redoubled commitment to productive change and healing.
In the same spirit, we encourage our members to undertake self-reflection and action, and to that end, we direct you toward this document of anti-Racism resources. It is beyond our capacity at this moment to review and vouch for every one of the links included; so please recognize that our aim in sharing this collection is to stimulate your own engagement and discernment. We also direct your attention to suggestions for Expanding the Discourse of Medieval Art, compiled by Andrea Achi (ICMA Board Member and Assistant Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Meseret Oldjira (PhD Student, Princeton), which appeared in ICMA News (winter 2017) and inspired initiatives of our Advocacy and Programs & Lectures committees. That document will continue to guide us as we move forward with our work aiming to highlight issues of race and social justice as they pertain to the study and exhibition of medieval culture. We welcome input that will help us expand the resources available on the section of the ICMA website dedicated to Teaching a Global Middle Ages, and we are eager to undertake new initiatives supporting inclusive practices in pedagogy and scholarship. Please be in touch with your ideas.
The International Center of Medieval Art is in a moment of transformation, with the recent confirmation of a new mission statement that articulates our commitment to supporting research of the visual and material cultures of “every corner of the medieval world,” broadening the definition of our field. Moreover, we have initiated programs proactively aimed at nurturing scholars identified with groups traditionally excluded from the academy. The panel “Expanding the Medieval World,” held at the ICMA Annual Meeting during CAA in February in Chicago; the workshop on “Considering Race in the Classroom,” co-organized with the Material Collective, to be held at the ICMS at Kalamazoo in May 2021; and research by many members of the ICMA community that increasingly expands our knowledge of interconnected medieval communities, including work on various facets of medieval Africa, the museological presentation of African-American experiences, and modern racist appropriations of the medieval past exemplify productive directions in our discipline.
As historians of art and architecture, we are particularly attuned to the ways in which images and structures can bolster assertions of authority, and we understand that the creative work of artists equally can shine a light on ugly truths. Though most in our community specialize in the culture of the distant past, we can use our expertise and critical skills to educate and inspire as we analyze the photographs and videos documenting the demonstrations, memorial gatherings, marches, and clashes of the past weeks.
We in the leadership of the ICMA hope that you will join us as we continue to promote and pursue projects being advanced worldwide aimed at education and social justice.
Executive Committee of the ICMA
Nina Rowe, President
Stephen Perkinson, Vice President
Warren Woodfin, Treasurer
Richard Leson, Secretary
Board of Directors of the ICMA
Andrea Achi
Kirk Ambrose
Jennifer Borland
Paroma Chatterjee
Jennifer Feltman
Cathleen Fleck
Holly Flora
Shirin Fozi
Heidi Gearhart
Tracy Chapman Hamilton
Anne Heath
Anne D. Hedeman
Joan Holladay
Erik Inglis
Bryan Keene
Beatrice Kitzinger
Asa Mittman
Linda Safran
Sasha Suda
Thelma K. Thomas
Nancy Wu
Executive Director of the ICMA
Ryan Frisinger
Nominations for Board of Directors, Associates, and Nominating Committee due June 26, 2020
Dear Fellow ICMA Members,
In these difficult days, it is especially important to think about fashioning the future. I write to remind you that the deadline to propose candidates for nomination to ICMA leadership positions is June 26. The Nominating Committee is eager to hear from you.
We seek nominees (and self-nominees) for the following posts:
-7 seats on the Board of Directors (3-year term, 2021-24)
-5 seats on next year’s Nominating Committee (1-year term, 2021-22)
-4 seats as Associates (usually based outside of North America; 3-year term, 2021-24)
Duties of and qualifications for ICMA positions are outlined in the organization bylaws and can be downloaded at: https://www.medievalart.org/s/ICMA-Bylaws.pdf
Our goal is to foster the continued vitality of ICMA by including among its leaders colleagues at every career stage, with a broad range of research specialties, and from diverse professional and geographic origins. In addition to traditional research strengths, we also seek nominees who query the “edges” of our discipline and the boundaries around research topics, who engage in the theorization of our methods and objects of study, and who might help us build a broad and inclusive membership in the future.
To achieve that diversity through a robust pool of candidates, we need your help.
Please share your ideas for candidates with me by June 26. And please take a moment to consider adding your own name: self-nominations are welcome.
For the sake of convenience, we have created two online forms for nominations and self-nominations, which you can access using the links below. In either case, I would also be happy to hear your ideas and answer any questions via e-mail (eshortell@massart.edu).
Nominations: click here
Self-nominations: click here
Should you want to speak about potential nominations, please feel free to contact me or, if you prefer, any of my fellow committee members:
Joseph Salvatore Ackley jackley@wesleyan.edu
Sonja Drimmer sdrimmer@arthist.umass.edu
Elina Gertsman exg152@case.edu
Eva Hoffman Eva.Hoffman@tufts.edu
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ellen Shortell
Chair, ICMA Nominating Commitee 2020-21
Professor Emeritus, History of Art
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
We Mourn the Passing of Walter Cahn, President of the ICMA, 1990-93
The ICMA Community mourns the passing of Walter Cahn.
Walter Benedict (Baruch ben Otto) Cahn
September 24, 1933-May 29, 2020
Walter Benedict (Baruch ben Otto) Cahn died on May 29, 2020, at his home in Hamden, CT, USA, at the age of 87.
Walter was born on September 24, 1933, in hospital in Karlsruhe, Germany. He was the second son of Otto and Frieda [b. Kahn] Cahn of R?lzheim (Rheinland Palatinate), his older brother being Norbert Simon Cahn (later Mason), born on February 10, 1930. The family had a history of many centuries in the Rhineland.
In the days following the events of 10 November 1938 (Reichspogromnacht), the family home was seized and the family expelled from R?lzheim, moving to a flat at 166 Kaiserstrasse in Karlsruhe.
In the immediate wake of Germany's invasion of France in October 1940, the Cahns were expelled, together with a number of thousands of other Rhineland Jews into what subsequently became Vichy France. They were placed in an internment camp at Gurs, near Oloron (Pyrenées-Atlantiques) in southwest France, and subsequently transferred to another camp, at Rivesaltes (Pyrenées-Orientales) near Perpignan.
In 1941, Walter and his brother Norbert were placed for reasons of safety with the children's home of the Éclaireurs Israëlites de France at 18 rue du Port, Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne). Walter attended the École Saint-Benoît primary school. The two brothers remained in Moissac until 1943.
On September 11, 1942, Walter and Norbert's parents Otto and Frieda Cahn were deported from Rivesaltes to Drancy, and presumably on to Auschwitz, where they were killed. Otto and Frieda Cahn are officially listed as "Verschollen" ("lost").
During the period 1943-1945, Walter and his brother lived in hiding places provided by the French resistance at Le Sappey (Isère) near Grenoble, La Grave (Hautes-Alpes), and the Duplan family farm at Poët-Laval (Drôme). They fitfully attended local primary schools.
Following liberation, during 1945-1947, orphaned, the brothers returned to Moissac children's home, re-established at the Hôtel du Vieux Moulin. They attended the Collège de Moissac (secondary school), and with the assistance of the Red Cross made contact with family in the United States who had succeeded in fleeing Germany before it had become impossible.
In January 1947, Walter and Norbert immigrated to the United States. He lived at 141 Rogers Avenue, Brooklyn, home of Siegmund and Paula Kallmann (b. Cahn), Paula being one of his father's sisters. He also stayed during summers with Louis and Lucie Willstätter (b. Cahn), one of his father's sisters, in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he held summer jobs at a local movie theater and department store.
From 1947-1948, Walter attended P.S. 138 in Brooklyn, NY, and then from 1948-1952, he attended the School of Industrial Arts (now School of Art and Design) in New York. Walter held part-time jobs at a second hand bookstore on Fourth Avenue, the Ted Moskowitz art studio, and other commercial art studios. He graduated as Valedictorian from the School of Industrial Arts in May 1952. He was admitted to Cooper Union and Pratt Institute with a full scholarship, and he attended Pratt from 1952-1956.
During the 1950s, concurrently with his studies, Walter worked at Emet Advertising, as a packaging designer for Norbert Jay, Empire State Building (1953); as a part-time designer at William Douglas McAdams Advertising Agency (1955-1956); and as a part-time designer at William Douglas McAdams (1958-1960).
From 1956-1958, Walter served in the United States Army Medical Corps, stationed at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC.
Following the end of his military service, during the period 1958-1962, Walter undertook graduate study in Art History, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1961, and a Ph.D. in Medieval Art History in 1967. His doctoral dissertation was published in 1976 as The Romanesque Wooden Doors of Auvergne.
Walter's professional career was spent primarily at Yale University where he rose from Acting Instructor (1965-1967) to Assistant Professor (1967-1968) to Associate Professor (1968-1976) to Professor (1976- 1986). In 1986, he was named Carnegie Professor of the History of Art, a position he held until 2002. He several times served as Chair of the Yale Art History Department. Walter retired from active teaching in 2002, but continued to serve as Emeritus, including continuing to publish and advise the work of younger professionals.
Walter served as editor or on the editorial boards of publications including Gesta, Art Bulletin and Arte medieval, including a term as Editor-in-Chief of Art Bulletin (1988-1991). He also acted as scientific adviser to the journal Histoire de l'art (1997-2002).
During the course of his career Walter also undertook Fulbright Fellowship in Paris (1962-1963); was Senior lecturer at Ravensbourne College of Art, Bromley, Kent (England) (1963-1965); Visiting Associate Professor, Columbia University (1974); John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1981); and Lecturer, Centre d'Études Romanes, University of Poitiers (1981).
Among high honors, in 1989, Walter was elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. An exhibition at Yale's Beinecke Library was held in 2003 to in his honor. In 2014, Walter was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Walter was widely published. His works include comprehensive studies in his field of expertise such as Romanesque Bible Illumination (1982) (also published as Die Bibel in der Romantik and as La Bible romane), as well as theoretical explorations into the Philosophy of Art, most notably Masterpieces: Chapters in the History of an Idea (1988). Throughout his life he remained relentlessly both curious and whimsical, exploring the fringes of artistic interpretation, once for example lecturing on the symbolism of the Starbuck's logo. In later life, he increasingly explored Jewish themes, including both in medieval art, as well as ranging out of exclusively medieval themes, undertaking research for example on the modernist German Jewish painter Max Liebermann (2007). He also paid extensive tribute in writing to his intellectual forebears such as Henri Focillon, as well as contemporaries such as Jonathan Alexander and James Marrow.
Walter was twice a widower: he married Annabelle Simon on May 29, 1960. Walter died on their 60th wedding anniversary.
Walter and Annabelle had one son – Claude – born on April 7, 1968. Walter and Annabelle remained married until her death in January 1996. Walter married Brenda Lee Danet in 2001, and remained married to her until her death in 2008. At the time of his death, Walter was romantically involved with Rosalyn Muskovits (nee Bloomfield), whom he first met while attending Pratt Institute in the 1950s. Walter's brother Norbert predeceased him in 2017.
Walter is survived by his son Claude Cahn and grandchildren Sarah Kali Cahn (b. March 25, 2008) and Johannah Shai Cahn (b. December 26, 2009), the children of Claude and his wife Cosmina Novacovici. His grandchildren knew him as "Papo Dude".
Private Funeral Services for Immediate Family only will be held at Mishkan Israel cemetery in New Haven, CT, in a plot adjoining his second wife, Brenda Lee Danet. A memorial service for Walter will be held in the Spring or Summer of 2021. The Robert E. Shure & Son Funeral Home, New Haven is in care of Arrangements. To sign an online registry book or to leave a message of condolence, please visit; www.shurefuneralhome.com.
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Call for applications - ICMA Viewpoints Series Editor(s), due 15 July 2020
ICMA Viewpoints
Call for applications - ICMA Viewpoints Series Editor(s)
Applications due July 15, 2020, for position beginning January 1, 2021
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) invites applications for the position of Series Editor(s) for our recently-established book series, Viewpoints, co-published with the Pennsylvania State University Press. The Viewpoints series aims to instigate new conversations and engage with fresh perspectives on medieval art and visual-material culture. (Please see the description below.) The new Series Editor(s) will collaborate closely with Eleanor H. Goodman, editor at the Pennsylvania State University Press. The successful Series Editor(s) will be effective, efficient, and driven; they should share the established vision for this book series and have the energy and time to commission thought-provoking contributions that engage with current debates in the fields of medieval studies and art history. We underscore that Viewpoints breaks with traditional modes for the scholarly monograph. Books in the series will be short and idea driven and will not be heavily illustrated. Viewpoints volumes should be attuned to the social and historiographical stakes of scholarship (bound, for instance to issues of race, gender, or power dynamics) and address both the original functions and modern re-uses of medieval material.
We seek applications from individuals or teams of two, and we are particularly eager to work with scholars who identify with groups that historically have been underrepresented in the academy. Applications consist of a CV and a cover letter. The cover letter should explain your vision for the series, including ideas for particular volumes, and delineate your editorial experience and/or why you are well-suited to an editorial appointment. The position is unpaid, but you will have the satisfaction of making an important mark on the field. Please email requested materials to Amanda Luyster, Chair of the ICMA Publications Committee (aluyster@holycross.edu), and Nina Rowe, President of the ICMA (nrowe@fordham.edu).
The International Center of Medieval Art and the Pennsylvania State University Press announce a new book series: ICMA Books—Viewpoints. This series aims to engage with and instigate new conversations, debates, and perspectives not only about medieval art and visual-material culture, but also in relation to the critical practices employed by medieval art historians. Books will typically be data-rich, issue-driven, and even polemical. The range of potential subjects is broad and varied, and each title will tackle a significant and timely problem in the field of medieval art and visual-material culture. The Viewpoints series is interdisciplinary and actively involved in providing a forum for current critical developments in art historical methodology, the structure of scholarly writing, and/or the use of evidence. Books in the ICMA Books—Viewpoints series will be short: ca. 45,000–75,000 words, illustrated by no more than 20–30 black-and-white images, and will be written to engage specialists and students alike.
Gesta Volume 59, Number 1 is now available online!
Gesta v59n1 is now available online!
Inside:
Racetrack to Salvation: The Circus, the Basilica, and the Martyr
Lynda L. Coon and Kim Sexton
Suger and the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, 1144–51
Elizabeth A. R. Brown
The Font of the Interdict: Reconsidering the Function of Ornament on the Baptismal Font of San Giovanni in Pisa
Isabelle Dolezalek
ICMA membership provides exclusive online access to the full run of Gesta in full text, PDF, and e-Book editions – at no additional charge. Print editions should arrive in your mailbox soon. Not a member yet? Join here
To access your members-only journal subscription, log in to the ICMA site here with your username and password. If you have any questions, please email icma@medievalart.org
#AskGetty - opportunity for anyone anywhere to ask questions related to the history of art
The Getty has launched #AskGetty, a social media opportunity for anyone anywhere to ask questions about anything related to the history of art.
They can be about anything—your favorite painting, how to preserve mosaics, who painted the first unicorn, how do you keep sculptures from falling in an earthquake?
You send The Getty your questions, they’ll find the right Getty specialist who can weigh in. Once a week they will answer a question, on video, on social media.
Click here for more info.
With Libraries Closed, Try ICMA's Scholarship Sharing
If you’re looking for a resource that you cannot access because of library closures, please consult the ICMA Scholarship Sharing plan (many thanks to Sarah Guérin and Richard Plant!), an active Google Spreadsheet that members of our community. In this challenging time without library access, you can regularly consult the spreadsheet in the coming months to either (a) request yourself or (b) fulfill colleagues' requests for PDF'd texts and high-resolution images of artworks.
ICMA's Resources for Online Teaching →
Many of us are suddenly facing the challenges of online teaching. We recognize that this shift can be disorienting, and we want to do what we can to offer support.
So, on the ICMA website, we have compiled resources in the hope that they help clarify the issues and provide useful information and guidance.
Click this link. Or visit our site, medievalart.org, go to RESOURCES on the menu bar, and in the dropdown you will find RESOURCES FOR ONLINE TEACHING.
We hope all of you are managing okay during this period of upheaval.
LAST CHANCE - ICMA Annual Book Prize, submit your title by 31 May 2020
The ICMA Book Prize
deadline: 31 May 2020
The ICMA invites submissions for the annual prize for best single- or dual-authored book on any topic in medieval art. To be eligible for the 2020 competition, books must have been printed in 2019. No special issues of journals or anthologies or exhibition catalogues can be considered.
The competition is international and open to all ICMA members. To join or renew, click here.
Languages of publication: English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish
Jury (2019-2021): Eric Ramirez-Weaver (chair), Péter Bokody, Till-Holger Borchert, Dorothy Glass, Julie Harris
Prize: US $1,000 to a single author, or $500 each to two co-authors
Submission of books: only printed books with one or two authors are eligible for the prize. A statement of current ICMA membership must accompany each submission.
Presses and self-nominations: books must be sent directly to the jury members. Please fill out this form here. After the form is submitted, an email with addresses will be sent.
Note: Deadline for the submission form is 31 May. Shipment will be coordinated separately; books do not need to be received by 31 May.
Email icma@medievalart.org with any questions.
ICMA News, Spring 2020 now available online
ICMA News
Spring 2020
Melanie Hanan, Editor
Click here to read.
Also available on www.medievalart.org
INSIDE
Commemorations
David Jacoby, 1928 – 2018
Danielle Valin Johnson, 1938 – 2019
Martin Warnke, 1937 – 2019
Georgia Wright, 1937 – 2019
Reflection
HBK Symposium and Doha Museum Review, by Tracy Chapman Hamilton
Resources
Creation of Gothic Architecture, the site, by John James
Exhibition Review
Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution, by Joseph R. Kopta
Events and Opportunities
The deadline for the summer issue of ICMA News is 15 June 2020. Please send information to newsletter@medievalart.org
If you would like your upcoming conference, CFP, or exhibition included in the newsletter please email the information to EventsExhibitions@medievalart.org.
CFPs due 10 May 2020: ICMA at the 6th Forum Medieval Art (Forum Kunst Des Mittelalters), Frankfurt
ICMA AT 6th Forum Medieval Art (Forum Kunst Des Mittelalters): Senses
Frankfurt am Main, Sept 29 – Oct 2, 2021
Call for Sessions (due 10 May 2020)
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2021 at the 6th Forum Medieval Art, which will take place in Frankfurt. Intended as an open colloquium occurring biennially at rotating sites and organized by the Deutsche Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V, the Forum seeks to bring together research and researchers on different fields, regions and periods and to serve—as its name suggests—as a forum for ideas pertaining to the study of medieval art.
The 6th Forum will focus on the theme of the senses or sensual perception (full description here).
Proposals for ICMA sponsorship should include the following:
Title
Abstract
CV of the organizer(s).
Please upload all session proposals seeking ICMA sponsorship in a single Word doc or PDF with name in the title by 10 May 2020 here.
The organizer(s) will have until 1 June 2020 to send their approved proposals to mail@mittelalterkongress.de.
The Forum will send out a Call for Papers once the selection of sessions has been made. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members. Thanks to a generous grant from the Kress Foundation, funds may be available to defray travel costs of sponsored session speakers.
For inquiries, contact the Chair of the ICMA Programs and Lectures Committee: Bryan C. Keene, Getty Museum, bkeene@getty.edu
(Deadline Extended!) Call for Proposals: ICMA at CAA 2021, due 10 May 2020
ICMA AT COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
New York City, 10-13 February 2021
Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals
due 10 May 2020
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2021 at the annual meeting of the College Art Association. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members.
The 2021 CAA conference will focus on the CLIMATE CRISIS and we encourage submissions related to the theme and which address a global Middle Ages. Possible topics might include (but are not limited to): The “medieval warm period” of the 10th-13th centuries, which were followed by cooling temperatures beginning around 1300; catastrophes, such as storms and earthquakes; regional climatic differences; issues of patrimony, preservation, and climate change as it affects medieval monuments globally, including architecture, sculpture, painting, manuscripts, etc.
Proposals must include the following in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title:
Session abstract
CV of the organizer(s)
Session organizers may also include a list of potential speakers
Please upload all session proposals as a single DOC or PDF by 10 May 2020 here.
The organizer(s) will have until 19 May 2020 to upload their approved proposals on the CAA website here.
For inquiries, contact the Chair of the ICMA Programs and Lectures Committee: Bryan C. Keene, Getty Museum, bkeene@getty.edu
A note about the ICMA-Kress Travel Awards
Thanks to a generous grant from the Kress Foundation, funds may be available to defray travel costs of speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions up to a maximum of $600 for domestic travel and of $1200 for international travel. If available, the Kress funds are allocated for travel and hotel only. Speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions will be refunded only after the conference, against travel receipts. In addition to speakers, session organizers delivering papers as an integral part of the session (i.e. with a specific title listed in the program) are now also eligible to receive travel funding.
Visit: http://www.medievalart.org/kress-travel-grant/
(ICMA Advocacy) ICMA signs “Call to Higher Education Administrators Regarding Student Educational Progress During COVID-19”
The ICMA recently signed “Call to Higher Education Administrators Regarding Student Educational Progress During COVID-19” from the American Sociological Association.
Full statement: click here.
COVID-19 News for Scholars
Please check back here for up-to-date COVID-19 news specifically relevant for the scholarly community.
If you would like to add a posting, please email gbryda@barnard.edu.
List updated April 7, 2020
Guidance from The University of California provides key insights on equity & inclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tufts University published a handbook with practical teaching advice for faculty facing challenges with inclusion in the learning environment.
The UK-based Joint Information Systems Committee shares best practices for ensuring online teaching materials are accessible
The Chronicle of Higher Education reflects on how faculty can include principles of humanity in syllabi adjusted for digital learning.
Scholars have a new focus for teaching and research: confronting coronavirus-related racism.
Online Zoom classes were disrupted by individuals spewing racist, misogynistic or vulgar content. To address this, experts say professors should familiarize themselves with Zoom's settings.
For many graduate students, the COVID-19 crisis is highlighting inequities.
Index of Medieval Art Goes Open-Access until June 1, 2020
In recognition of the challenges faced by students, faculty, and researchers now working on line in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University has made its online database open-access until June 1, 2020.
As always, the database can be accessed at https://theindex.princeton.edu/.
Index staff will continue to respond to research inquiries sent via our home page at https://ima.princeton.edu/research-inquiries/. We hope that this modest change will support researchers both old and new as they navigate teaching, learning, and scholarship during this trying time.
(EXTENDED!) Due 20 April 2020: WHITING FOUNDATION 2021–22 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT GRANTS
ICMA NOMINATIONS FOR THE WHITING FOUNDATION 2021–22 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT GRANTS
ICMA deadline for summary proposals: April 20, 2020
As a nominating body for the Whiting Foundation's Public Engagement Programs in the humanities, the ICMA calls for proposals in public-facing scholarship to submit for the 2020–21 competition cycle (for funding in 2021–22). The foundation describes these funding opportunities as "designed to celebrate and empower humanities faculty who embrace public engagement" at an early-career stage, "to infuse the depth, historical richness, and nuance of the humanities into public life."
We may nominate one or two proposals by full-time faculty at accredited US institutions of higher learning. To be eligible for the grants, faculty must be tenure-track, tenured in the last five years, or full-time adjunct at a comparable early-career status. The Foundation welcomes proposals including collaborations between faculty and graduate students. Nominees may apply to either of the Whiting's funding programs, depending on the stage of development of their project:
A Fellowship of $50,000 for projects far enough into development or execution to present specific, compelling evidence that they will successfully engage the intended public.
A Seed Grant of up to $10,000 for projects at a somewhat earlier stage of development, where more modest resources are needed to test or pilot a project or to collaborate with partners to finalize the planning for a larger project and begin work.
Detailed guidelines and recommendations for the full proposals required by the Foundation are available online HERE, including the link to the application portal for nominees (see esp. Appendix 2 for proposal components).
The full application for nominees is due on June 29, 2020.
For consideration as an ICMA nominee, please submit a CV, a 2-page summary proposal of your project, and a working budget, to Ryan Frisinger by April 20, 2020. Applicants will be notified by May 1. Comments will include recommendations for preparing the full grant proposal. Click here to submit.
Please contact Beatrice Kitzinger (bkitzinger@princeton.edu) and Nina Rowe (nrowe@fordham.edu) with any questions.
(ICMA Advocacy) ICMA signs statement regarding historians and COVID-19
The ICMA has signed a statement from the American Historical Association regarding historians and COVID-19.
Full statement: HERE
(ICMA Advocacy) ICMA signs statement regarding academic labor and COVID-19
The ICMA has signed a statement from the Modern Language Association (MLA) regarding academic labor and COVID-19.
Full statement: HERE
Call for Proposals: ICMA at AAH 2021, due 17 April 2020
ICMA AT ASSOCIATION FOR ART HISTORY ANNUAL CONFERENCE
University of Birmingham, 14-16 April 2021
Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals
due 17 April 2020
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship at the Association for Art History's 47th Annual Conference to be held 14-16 April 2021 at the University of Birmingham, England.
Proposals to the ICMA must include a session abstract and a CV of the organizer(s).
Please note the following:
The AAH does not require a slate of speakers; the AAH will generate a CFP once sessions have been selected. Therefore the ICMA will not request a slate of speakers.
The ICMA requires the CVs of the session organizers, but the AAH does not.
Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members but are not required to become AAH members. However, AAH members receive a preferential conference rate.
Sessions at the AAH conference are built of 70-minute blocks, with a minimum of two blocks per session, up to four blocks in a day. Each block consists of two papers of 25 minutes plus 10 minutes of questions for each paper. The ICMA seeks to sponsor one session of two 70-minute blocks (four papers).
Please upload all session proposals by 17 April 2020 here.
Please direct all inquiries to the Chair of the Programs and Lectures Committee: Bryan C. Keene, Getty Museum, USA, bkeene@getty.edu
The ICMA Programs and Lectures committee will select a session to sponsor and will notify the successful organizer(s) by 27 April 2020. The organizer(s) will then submit the ICMA-sponsored proposal to the AAH, which will make the final decision. Submit session proposals to the AAH by 1 May 2020 at sessions2021@forarthistory.org.uk following the guidelines posted on the AAH website: https://forarthistory.org.uk/our-work/conference/2021-annual-conference/
A note about the ICMA-Kress Travel Awards
Thanks to a generous grant from the Kress Foundation, funds may be available to defray travel costs of speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions up to a maximum of $600 for domestic travel and of $1200 for international travel. If available, the Kress funds are allocated for travel and hotel only. Speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions will be refunded only after the conference, against travel receipts. In addition to speakers, session organizers delivering papers as an integral part of the session (i.e. with a specific title listed in the program) are now also eligible to receive travel funding.
Visit: http://www.medievalart.org/kress-travel-grant/