Conferences & Lectures

IAS/Kress Lecture Series
On May 26, 2010, the IAS held the inaugural IAS/Kress Lecture in Italy:
Herbert L. Kessler, Johns Hopkins University
“Visione e immagine. Bifocal seeing in Medieval Italian Art”
Archivio di Stato di Roma, Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza Complex
Additional Information

Calls for Papers for IAS-Sponsored Sessions
2011 International Congress on Medieval Studies; deadline September 15, 2010
The IAS is sponsoring four linked sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, to be held in May 2011 in Kalamazoo, MI.  This year’s theme is “The Study of the Art and Architecture of Italy: A Reassessment of the Discipline,” and the IAS is seeking papers that address the impact of seminal figures on the shape of Italian art studies of the long Middle Ages, the geographic and temporal limits of what might be called medieval Italian art, and the position of urban studies within the history of art and architecture.  More information.

Other Conferences/Calls for Papers
There are no current calls for papers for other conferences. Please check back next month!

IAS Travel Grants
The IAS provides grants to support graduate students, recent Ph.D. recipients, and international scholars presenting on Italian topics at select conferences.  Please see the IAS Travel Grant page for more information.

Call for Session Proposals
The Program Committee welcomes proposals for IAS-sponsored sessions at the annual meetings of the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo), the Renaissance Society of America, the Sixteenth Century Society, and the College Art Association. Members are encouraged to send suggestions for sessions via e-mail or U.S.P.S. to the Program Committee Chair: Felicity Ratte, Dean of Faculty, Marlboro College, PO Box A, Marlboro, VT 05344, (802) 258-9234.

IAS-Sponsored Conference Sessions
IAS at CAA
IAS at Kalamazoo
IAS at RSA
IAS at Sixteenth Century Society & Conference

Other Conferences
Conference on Trecento Art in Memory of Andrew Ladis, University of Georgia–Athens, November 11–13, 2010.  The Georgia Museum of Art and the University of Georgia are sponsoring a symposium addressing the impact of, artistic exchange within, or presumed hegemony of Italian art within the Mediterranean basin, ca. 1260–1453. Additional information.