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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 22h

🎨 Image Credit:
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923), Farm-House, Alcira (Alquería de Alcira), 1903, Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas

#ASPHS #CallForPapers #SpanishHistory #PortugueseHistory #HistoryConference #DiasporaStudies #MobilityAndMemory #GraduateResearch #ArtHistory #ScholarlyConference

Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 22h

🗓️Deadline: October 15, 2025
✅Acceptance notifications: November 2, 2025

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The Politics of Home: Mobility, Memory, and Belonging in the Portuguese and Spanish Worlds | SIGA

The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS) invites papers for its 55th Annual Conference taking place at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada in April 2026.

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 22h

💰 Grants & Support:
$300 travel grants for graduate students presenting for the first time
Childcare grants available to support conference participation

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 22h

The conference organizers welcome proposals from historians and researchers in related fields, including studies of diasporas, in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Participants are encouraged to explore themes of home, memory, movement, and belonging across the Portuguese and Spanish worlds.

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 22h

📢Call for Papers: “The Politics of Home: Mobility, Memory, and Belonging in the Portuguese and Spanish Worlds”

The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS) invites scholars to submit papers for its conference in April 2026 at York University, Toronto, Canada:

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 3d

Image: Mariano Moreno García, Sala de Américas, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, before 1928?, collotype postcard by Hauser and Menet.

#CallForPapers #MexicanArt #ArtHistory #TransatlanticArt #CulturalExchange #CFP #GlobalArtHistory

Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 3d

🖋️ Abstracts (max 300 words) and bios (max 150 words) due 31 October 2025.
📅 Notification: 15 November 2025 | 📝 Full papers due: 28 February 2026 | 📧 In English

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 3d

Contributors are especially encouraged to address Central and Eastern Europe as crucial yet often overlooked sites of collecting, exhibiting, and engaging with Mexican art.

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 3d

Building on discussions from the 2025 conference of the same name, the book seeks to illuminate the artistic, cultural, and political networks that have shaped Mexican art’s European trajectories.

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 3d

This forthcoming edited volume explores how Mexican art has been collected, displayed, and reinterpreted across Europe—from the 16th century to the present.

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 3d

🎨 Call for Papers: Mexican Art and Its Collections in Europe (16th–21st Centuries): Interwoven Histories

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 6d

#ArtHistory #LatinAmericanArt #AfricanArt #IndigenousArt #ArtandGlobalization #AcademicJobs #FacultyPosition #HistoryofArt #VisualCulture #TheCooperUnion #NewYorkAcademia #ArtandHumanities #ArtHistoryJob #HSS

Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 6d

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🖼️ Image: Our Lady of Valvanera, Unknown Cuzco Artist, Peru, ca. 1770–80, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at The Cooper Union | SIGA

The Cooper Union seeks applicants for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor or Advanced Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Art specializing in the arts and vi...

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 6d

📍 Location: New York, NY
💼 Rank: Assistant or Advanced Assistant Professor
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2025
💰 Salary range: $92,000–$95,000
📧 Apply by sending materials to: [email protected]

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 6d

The successful candidate will specialize in the arts and visual cultures of Africa and its global connections, Latin America, and/or the Indigenous Americas, from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 6d

📣 Faculty Opportunity: Assistant Professor in History and Theory of Art

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor or Advanced Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Art.

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 8d

🖼️ Image credit:
Agonia de San Francisco Javier; Death of a Priest, Juan Correa, mid-17th–early 18th century, Gilcrease Museum

#JobAlert #GilcreaseMuseum #LatinAmericanArt #ArtHistoryJobs #CuratorialCareers #MuseumJobs #Tulsa #ArtHistory #CuratorialPractice

Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 8d

🗓️ Apply by October 26
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Assistant Curator of Latin American Art and Culture at Gilcrease Museum | SIGA

Gilcrease Museum, which houses an interdisciplinary collection representing the diverse heritage of the Americas, seeks an intellectually curious, creative, and self-motivated individual to serve as i...

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 8d

The role will also build community connections and spotlight Latin American art on a national and international stage. 🌎✨

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 8d

This curator will help shape exhibitions, research, and acquisitions across Gilcrease’s world-class collections—from Spanish colonial masterpieces to works by Rivera, Orozco, Izquierdo, Tamayo, and more.

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 8d

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
The Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa, OK) is hiring its first-ever Assistant Curator of Latin American Art and Culture! 🎉

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 10d

🖼️ Carta ejecutoria de Hidalguía a Pedimiento Alonso Diaz de Palencia Garavito vecino de la Ciudad de Granada (Granada, 1572). Image courtesy of the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance, Johns Hopkins University.

Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 10d

Applications are due October 24, 2025.
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Early Modern Iberian Critical Race Studies Workshop | SIGA

In this collaborative workshop, scholars of Early Modern Iberia will explore new frontiers in Premodern Critical Race Studies.

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 10d

This two-part workshop will begin at the College of the Holy Cross (March 5–8, 2026) with roundtable discussions of works-in-progress, followed by a second meeting at Johns Hopkins University (Fall 2026) featuring keynote speakers and more developed research.

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 10d

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨

The Early Modern Iberian Critical Race Studies Workshop invites scholars from all disciplines and career stages to explore how race functioned in Spanish and Portuguese contexts—through concepts like limpieza de sangre, empire, and colonial encounters.

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