IAS/Kress Lecture Series

INAUGURAL LECTURE
The Italian Art Society is pleased to announce a new lecture series sponsored jointly with the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The lectures seek to promote intellectual exchanges among art historians of North America and the international community of scholars living or working in Italy.  The first of these lectures was held in May 2010:

The inaugural IAS/Kress Lecture in Italy
Herbert L. Kessler, Johns Hopkins University
“Visione e immagine. Bifocal seeing in Medieval Italian Art”
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010, at 5:00 pm
Archivio di Stato di Roma, Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza Complex
Sala Alessandrina
Corso del Rinascimento 40, 00186 Roma

The 2010 IAS/Kress Lecture in Italy is dedicated to the memory of Philipp and Raina Fehl, great friends of the IAS and Kress Foundation.

For additional information regarding Prof. Kessler’s lecture,  please see the attached IAS-Kress Lecture Flyer or contact Cristiana Filippini.

FUTURE LECTURES
The IAS is actively seeking speakers for future IAS/Kress Lectures in Italy; the 2011 lecture will be held in Florence and the 2012 lecture in Venice.  The proposed lecture may address any period in Italian art, but must be related to the host city or environs. The lecture may be given in Italian or English, should be approximately 45 minutes in length, and may not have been previously published or presented at another conference or venue. The selected presenter will receive an honorarium of $700 and a $500 supplementary lecture allowance, which can be used for travel, lodging, or translation expenses. The presenter must be a current member in the Italian Art Society. Proposals should include a one-page abstract of the paper to be delivered and a current CV.  For consideration for the 2011 lecture, please send these materials as an e-mail attachment to Maria de Prano, Chair of the IAS Travel Committee, by January 1, 2011.