Ashgate Petition

The petition will be open for a few more days: please sign, if you haven't already.  Ashgate was very active in publishing art history, especially after a number of presses closed their art history lists.  Art history cannot afford to lose this list. 

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Celtic Revivals: Authenticity and Identity Conference

Leading art and design historians, archaeologists and curators will present the Celtic Revival as a rewriting, recreation and reimagining of the past. Central to these discussions will be the themes of national and cultural heritage and identities, authenticity and innovation, and the network of ‘Celtic’ connections that span across time, space, media, disciplines and national/cultural borders

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Job opening

The Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (CLABS) at Koç University invites applications for a full-time faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor (beginning September 2016).

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Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2016-2017

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce its 2016-2017 grant competition. Our grants reflect the Mary Jaharis Center’s commitment to fostering the field of Byzantine studies through the support of graduate students and early career researchers and faculty.

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Textile Museum of Lyon is threatened with closure

The Textile Museum of Lyon is one of the most prestigious and important (if not most) institution in the world dedicated to textiles in terms of quality as quantity. It represents the textile heritage of France and is an inexhaustible source for research as well as a place of inspiration for the current textile design.

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NEH Public Scholar Program

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications for the 2016 round of the Public Scholar Program, which is intended to support well-researched books in the humanities that have been conceived and written to reach a broad readership. 

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Camargo Foundation

The Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, founded by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill more than 40 years ago, is a residential center offering programming in the arts and humanities

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Fellowship at North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University is pleased to announce that it will be participating in the Council on Library and Information Resource's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Curation for Medieval Studies program, under which we will be hiring a fellow for the 2016-18 academic years.

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Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies is offering post-doctoral Fellowships to be used for research at the Institute in the medieval field of the holder's choice. The Mellon Fellowships are intended for young medievalists of exceptional promise who have completed their doctoral work within the previous five years, including those who are starting their professional academic careers. 

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Binchois Consort at the Cloisters

Including the “Agincourt carol,” music written for the coronations of the Lancaster House, and music written by Henry V himself for John of Bridlington (the last Englishman to be canonized before the Reformation), the program portrays a nuanced picture of Henry V and 15c England politically, dynastically, and religiously. 

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Tenure-Track Position: Medieval Art History

Qualifications include a Ph.D. in Art History with an emphasis in European medieval art at the time of appointment, and a strong record of excellence in research and teaching in the discipline. A secondary specialization in Islamic art of the Mediterranean world (8th-12th c.) is highly desired. Additional museum, archaeology, cultural preservation or architectural history experience is preferred, but not required. 

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