On April 5th, Trinity College Dublin is sponsoring a panel event, ‘Ten Days That Shook the World: The International Impact of the Russian Revolution,’ featuring historian of the U.S. Christopher Phelps.
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Alan Taylor, University of Virginia Professor and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, will deliver the Annual Lecture in U.S. History on Thursday 30 March at 7pm at Trinity on ‘Transforming North America: Natives, Settlers, Empires, and Republics in the Wake of Revoltion.’
Grainne McEvoy (Trinity College Dublin) and Pete Cajka (Boston College) are organizing a series of public events on ‘The Trump Presidency: The History of a Political Movement’ starting this week in Newry.
The Annual General Meeting of the IAAS will take place at 3.45pm at Ulster University, Belfast on Saturday, April 29th. All members are encouraged to attend if possible as your input helps to shape the future direction of the Association. A number of positions on the Executive Committee will be open for election at this year’s AGM. We encourage nominations from members who have not yet had an opportunity to serve on the committee. You can view the agenda for the AGM here.
A brief EGM is scheduled for 3.30pm on Friday, April 28th. At this EGM, the following amendment to the IAAS Constitution will be put to a vote of the membership:
It is proposed to make the following changes to Section 4 (c) of the Constitution of the Irish Association for American Studies, and amend all subsequent references to these roles throughout the Constitution:
(c) The Executive Committee shall be:
(i) The Chair
(ii) The Vice Chair
(iii) The Secretary & Membership Secretary
(iv) The Treasurer
(v) The Postgraduate Representative
(vi) The Early Career Representative
(vii) The IAAS representative to the European Association for American Studies
(viii) Two Ordinary members.***
A copy of the Association’s Constitution can be found here.
(i) The Chair
(ii) The Vice Chair
(iii) The Secretary & Membership Secretary
(iv) The Treasurer
(v) The Postgraduate Representative
(vi) The Early Career Representative
(vii) The IAAS representative to the European Association for American Studies
(viii) Two Ordinary members.***
A copy of the Association’s Constitution can be found here.
As a result of this amendment, the following positions will be open for election at the AGM:
- Chair
- Secretary & Membership Secretary
- Postgraduate Representative
- Early Career Representative
Other positions may become vacant as a result of these elections. If you are interested in serving on the Committee you must be a fully paid-up member of the Association before submitting your nomination. If you would like to nominate another member of the Association for any of these positions, you must have their written permission to do so.
Nominations should be emailed to the Secretary (dalyj5@tcd.ie) by 6pm on April 28th.
Notice of nominations received will be posted on the IAAS website, as well as at the conference venue. Should more than one nomination be received for any position, an election will be held during the AGM. Only members present at the AGM will be able to vote.
The minutes from last year’s AGM are posted on the IAAS website here. If you have any items you would like discussed at the AGM please contact the Secretary by April 20th.
Robert Lowell and Ireland: A Centenary Symposium
3-5 March 2017
Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute
Robert Lowell (1917-77) was a major American poet whose work continues to influence writers today. In the 1970s Lowell spent time living at Castletown House with his third wife, the writer Caroline Blackwood. During this time he was also friendly with a number of Irish poets, including Seamus Heaney. To celebrate Lowell’s connections with Castletown House and Ireland, a symposium will take place at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. The final day of the programme of events will bring together four contemporary Irish poets who will read from his work and their own: Gerald Dawe, Paul Muldoon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Julie O’Callaghan.
The symposium is free and open to the public, but advance booking for the final reading at Castletown House is essential. More information about reserving your place can be found here.
This event is presented in partnership with the School of English and the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, the Irish Association for American Studies, the OPW, and Poetry Ireland.
Association Française d’Etudes Américaines (AFEA) / French Association for American Studies
Call for Presentations
The French Association for American Studies invites doctoral students in American studies to take part in the Graduate Symposium (“Doctoriales”) specifically organized on their behalf during its annual conference. This year’s workshops will be held on Tuesday, June 6, 2017 (9am-5pm) at University of Strasbourg (France). The conference will take place on June 7 to 9, 2017. For further information, please check our website: http://www.afea.fr
Since 2008, the AFEA has been encouraging the internationalization of its Graduate Student Symposium by offering grants (up to 500 euros each) for a maximum of ten European candidates (other than French) to help cover their travel expenses. All students are, in addition, invited to attend the whole conference free of registration charges. The symposium provides an opportunity for PhD students to present their research in a less formal session than that of a full conference panel, and present it to that of other European scholars. Doctoral students may be at an early or more advanced stage of their research. The proposals will be responded to by professors specializing in related fields. Candidates are invited to give their presentations in English within one of the two workshops offered: 1) American literature, or 2) American “civilization” (history, sociology, political science…). Proposals relevant to both fields (film studies, visual arts or music, for instance), or to another field (such as translation studies or linguistics) can be sent to either of the co-chairs.
Applications
Candidates must send a Curriculum Vitae and a 500-word abstract summarizing their dissertation proposal, plus an estimated budget of traveling expenses and funding otherwise available to them. They must mention when they began their PhD, and the name and affiliation of their advisor.
– Proposals in civilization must be sent electronically to Professor Romain Huret (Romain.Huret@ehess.fr).
– Proposals in literature must be sent electronically to both Professors Françoise palleau-papin (francoise.palleau@wanadoo.fr) and Mathieu Duplay (mduplay@club-internet.fr)
Deadline for application : February 15, 2017. The symposium organizers will respond to all applicants by March 15, 2017.
The Art History Festival, 7th Edition
Fontainebleau, France
June 2-3-4, 2017.
The 7th edition of the Festival de l’histoire de l’art will take place from Friday, June 2nd to Sunday, June 4th, 2017, in the town of Fontainebleau, in the park, at the château and on several sites in and around the city.
The Festival is a three-day entirely free international event that provides a crossroads between the world of professional art history and the public. Organized in collaboration by the ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) and the Château de Fontainebleau, with the support of the ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, its goal is to reach the broadest audience possible and offer a fascinating visual and contextualized experience of art. The Festival addresses a wide array of visual arts: from ancient to contemporary, painting to photography, performance to decorative arts; it also considers architecture and digital arts. During the three days of the Festival, more than 350 conferences, debates, tours, concerts, exhibitions, films, lectures, and workshops are offered to the public – free of charge and without reservation. The Festival invites 300 professionals of the art world (artists, professors, curators, art dealers, art publishers, students etc.) to present their expertise to a large audience in a scholarly yet passionate and accessible way. It goes beyond the usual academic borders, periods, and methods, providing an opportunity for the speakers to compare different practices in the domains of art history, heritage and culture. It also offers those professionals a chance to meet, discuss and interact together on a large scale. Every year, the Festival focuses on two main topics (a theme and a guest country). This year, the theme selected by the scientific committee is Nature and the country the United States of America. The program consists of events around its annual theme, Nature, and guest country, the United States, as well as a film festival (Art & Caméra), a book fair, international student sessions and workshops for secondary teachers called the Spring University. It also offers tours, concerts, theater, and family activities. In 2017, the Festival focuses on the subject of Nature. Specialists will present their research, ranging from the relations mankind develops with his surroundings to representation of different natural worlds in art (fauna, flora, vegetation, sea life), the symbolism of nature, and the art of gardening to the question of ecology. We will consider the history of landscapes from their representation in ancient Greece to Land Art. The presence of gardens and forests around Fontainebleau will set the stage and allow a personal experience of this broad subject. The Festival has chosen to honor the United States as its guest country for the 2017 edition. Thanks to the financial help of the Getty, the Terra, and the Annenberg Foundations, the Festival invites American lecturers to present the state of the current research in art history in the United States as well as introduce American art to a French audience. Some of the lectures and panels will be held in English. We will focus on the particularities of American art and American research themes: the political commitment of American artists, the identities of minorities and the question of safe zones, ancient Native American art, the link between American and French art and the rise and hegemony of American art in the second half of the twentieth century in relation to its European heritage. The Festival will also address the subjects of American photography, architecture and finally Land Art – a connection to the 2017 theme: Nature.
The Festival also offers recurrent main events:
CURRENT EVENTS FORUM
What’s new in the Art world? The Forum de l’Actualité presents the latest news in the world of the arts. It opens the floor to topics that are under discussion at the time of the Festival, from new exhibitions to debates about the attribution of newly discovered masterpieces or the destruction of heritage in the Middle East.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS SESSIONS
They provide opportunities for the next generation of art historians in France, the USA and the EU to meet informally with established professionals and to share their research with the public. This initiative was started in 2012 and is financed in part by the Fondation Hippocrène. Approximately 60 Master and PhD students in art, art history, cinema history and restoration are guests of the Festival and are given a privileged access to the event. This year, a partnership with French Heritage Society and Annenberg Foundation will allow us to bring dedicated students in art history from all over the United States and to include them in these sessions. By inviting to Fontainebleau the experts they need to meet for their research, the Festival creates a precious moment of contact between two generations of scholars, but it also contributes to connect the future international community of art historians. Call for applications till March 15.
ART & CAMÉRA
This film festival’s intent is to draw attention to cinema as an artistic medium. It features films on art that re-mediate art history and create a bridge between art historians and a broader audience. It also designs a program that highlights the Festival’s theme and the guest country. This year’s series will include a tribute to American art filmmakers.
Art & Caméra presents more than a hundred films in their original format, screens silent films accompanied by live musicians – an occasion for the Festival to commission a new composition, and to present two awards. The Prix Art & Caméra turns a project of a film on art into a finished work of art with the help of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC), l’Académie de France à Rome-Villa Medici, Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains and the patronage of Carlo Perrone. The second award, the Prix Jeune Critique, allows high school students to become jury members of a film festival and learn analysis techniques.
This year, the tribute to American art filmmakers will include a retrospective on the films on art by Frederick Wiseman (National gallery, La danse, ballet de l’opéra de Paris, La comédie française ou l’amour joué, Ballet). It will underline the lucidity with which this documentary filmmaker – one of the best of our time – describes the American system. We will invite Larry Keith, who is restorer at the National Gallery (London) and a protagonist of Wiseman’s film.
American filmmakers have a strong connection to nature. A lecture by Émilie Vergé will investigate how Stan Brakhage, American director of experimental films, has been using nature as the very material of his pictures, apposing tree leaves directly onto the film for instance. Documentary films on Land artists such as Robert Smithson and films with an interest for American iconic landscapes such as Terrence Malik’s Days of Heaven or John Ford’s Stagecoach will also be presented. Among the lectures proposed, Jean Mottet (emeritus professor EHESS) will analyze how painting and cinema have treated landscapes, while another will showcase the links between Edward Hopper and Alfred Hitchcock.
ART BOOK FAIR
It allows roughly 80 publishers and book dealers specializing in art to display their publications. Signing sessions or lectures by the authors will take place during this most important meeting of the year for the profession in France. Around 25 lectures will be given by authors on their latest books.
THE FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL
A meeting place for students, associations and professionals of the art world is organized by the Amis du Festival de l’histoire de l’art (AFHI-art) in an informal environment. The Festival is particularly attentive to creating opportunities for the art history students. It offers them professionalizing workshops and a new award this year to help them synthetize their research presentation in 180 seconds (call for applications here).
TOURS, SHOWS AND FAMILY ACTIVITIES
Activities are created for children and teenagers (with their schools or families) to introduce them to art through workshops, age-appropriate films, and visits. Countless events are offered: concerts, theater, tours in the château, the gardens and the town of Fontainebleau. Come and listen to the musicians of the Conservatoire de Parisor the actors of the Comédie Française. The students at École du Louvre will be at the ready in the castle, happy to share their knowledge on classical orders of architecture or the secret meaning of the Galerie François Ier, adapting their discourse to the degree of knowledge in art history of their audience.
SPRING UNIVERSITY
Supported by the ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, it provides training in art history for high school teachers (sessions and workshops).
The program will be made public around March, 2017 on the website and the app of the Festival. The paper program will be available in May. Save the date June 2-4, 2017. We are expecting you in Fontainebleau!
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UCD Clinton Auditorium
15th September 2016, 5.30pm
The UCD Clinton Institute in association with IUSA, the Ireland United States Alumni Association, will host a talk on Media and the US Presidential Election 2016 by Professor Alan Schroeder, an Emmy-winning journalist and author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail. Prof. Schroeder is a Professor in the School of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston, where he teaches primarily in the area of visual journalism. Schroeder has written about a variety of media-related topics for such outlets as the New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, Politico, Boston Globe, Huffington Post, New York Daily News, and The Guardian. In 2012 he was named among “The Best 300 Professors” in the United States by the Princeton Review.
To reserve your place, RSVP to Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie by September 10th.
Hybrid Republicanism: Italy and American Art, 1840-1918 is an international conference that will consider the shared notions of republicanism and tyranny that animated American and Italian politics and visual culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The program will take into account significant historical events that linked Italy and the United States, such as the Italian wars of independence, the American Civil War, the founding of the Italian nation with Rome as its capital, the rise and decline of progressive reform in Italy and the United States, and Italian and American participation in World War I. The event will take place on October 6-7, 2016 and is sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the American Academy in Rome, and the Centro Studi Americani, Rome with assistance from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, American Embassy in Rome, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Università di Macerata, Purchase College, the State University of New York, and Kenyon College. A sister conference, “The Course of Empire: American Fascination with Classical and Renaissance Italy, 1760-1970,” will occur at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC on October 20-21, 2017.
Keynote Address and Reception: October 6, 2016, 6:00pm-8:30pm at the Centro Studi Americani, Palazzo Mattei, Rome.
Don H. Doyle, McCausland Professor of History, University of South Carolina, and Director of ARENA, the Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalisms in America, “The Republican Experiment: America, Italy, and the Perils of Self-Government”
Conference Schedule: October 7, 2016, 9:30am-1:00pm, 2:30pm-6:00pm, at the American Academy in Rome, Via Angelo Masina 5, Rome.
All events are free and open to the public. For entry to the AAR, please show ID; no backpacks allowed.
Speakers:
Daniele Fiorentino, Professor of U. S. History, Department of Political Science, Università degli Studi Roma Tre and conference co-organizer, Welcome and Introductions
Leonardo Buonomo, Professor of American Literature, Department of Humanities, Università degli Studi di Trieste, “Past Glories, Present Miseries: Reading Italy through Art in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home”
Melissa Dabakis, Professor and Chair of Art History, Kenyon College and conference co-organizer, “Thomas Nast, Garibaldi, and I Mille: The Making of an Icon in the American Press”
Paul Kaplan, Professor of Art History, Purchase College, State University of New York and conference co-organizer, “Monuments to Tyranny: Issues of Race and Power in Nineteenth-Century Responses to Italian Public Sculpture”
Adam M. Thomas, Curator of American Art, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, “Racial Hybridity and National Prophecy in Elihu Vedder’s The Cumean Sibyl”
Adrienne Baxter Bell, Associate Professor of Art History, Marymount Manhattan College, “A Reluctant Revolutionary: Elihu Vedder in the Circle of the Macchiaioli”
Marina Camboni, Professor Emerita of American Literature and Honorary President, Center for Italian American Studies, Università di Macerata, “American Artists and Enrico Nencioni’s Role as Mediator, Interpreter, and Translator in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century”
Maria Saveria Ruga, Lecturer, Accademia di Belle Arti di Catanzaro, “The Progress of America (1880) by Andrea Cefaly: Social Reform in Italy and the United States”
Lindsay Harris, Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge, School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome, “Capital ‘Wastelands’: Photography in Rome and Washington, DC at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Andrea Mariani, Professor Emeritus, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Università G. D’Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara, “Statues in Rome: Political Allegories and Cultural Archetypes”