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Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @decrarthistory.bsky.social · 1d

📅 Nov. 13 2025 | 💻 Online
🎤 Keynote: Prof. Emilie Sitzia (@uva.nl / @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social)

Full Program & infos : tinyurl.com/3avsz2xa

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Global New Voices 2025 - For Art History

Identity and the Construction of Space Thursday, 13 November 2025 Online via Zoom Attendance free with advance booking BOOK NOW Understanding the complex relationship between space and identity has be...

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Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @decrarthistory.bsky.social · 1d

✨ Registrations are OPEN for Global New Voices!

This year’s theme, “Identity and the Construction of Space,” explores how spaces shape selfhood and community, while revealing the often unseen power relations that structure spatial environments.

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Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @decrarthistory.bsky.social · 1d

Our symposium starts today! Join us for a day of discussions, ideas, and encounters around the full body in British Art ✨

Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @decrarthistory.bsky.social · 12d

✨ Bookings are now OPEN for the 2025 #DECRSymposium! ✨
Beyond The Visual: Full Body in British Art History — Past, Present & Future

📅 Tuesday 7 October
📍 The Gallery, 70 Cowcross St, London EC1M 6EJ
🎤 Keynote: Christina Bradstreet (@forarthistory.org.uk)

🔗 Full program & info: tinyurl.com/nhbm5798

AUTUMN SYMPOSIUM 2025 - For Art History

BEYOND THE VISUAL: FULL BODY IN BRITISH ART HISTORY – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Tuesday, 7 October 2025, 10am-6pm Tickets: £12 for members, £15 for non-members Lunch is provided The Gallery, 70 Cowcros...

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Chrissie Bradstreet @chrissiebradstreet.bsky.social · 15d

I'll be giving the keynote talk at our DECR Autumn Symposium on art and the senses. I'll be talking about my research methodology for Scented Visions: Smell in Art, 1850-1914 and how I turned my PhD thesis into a monograph and then a touring exhibition. Book Now for October 7th!

Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · 15d

Autumn Symposium 2025: Beyond the Visual: Full Body in British Art History – Past, Present and Future

How can art be experienced beyond the gaze? Join us for a full-day conference exploring the complex interplay between the senses in the creation and experience of art, ⬇️

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · 15d

Autumn Symposium 2025: Beyond the Visual: Full Body in British Art History – Past, Present and Future

How can art be experienced beyond the gaze? Join us for a full-day conference exploring the complex interplay between the senses in the creation and experience of art, ⬇️

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · 14d

Now that the Art History Festival 2025 has wrapped, we wanted to share a memorable session from this year’s festival - Hew Locke in Conversation with Will Gompertz, exploring themes of migration, identity, and empire in contemporary artistic practice.

#ArtHistoryFestival2025

📸 Brian Benson

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Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @decrarthistory.bsky.social · 12d

✨ Bookings are now OPEN for the 2025 #DECRSymposium! ✨
Beyond The Visual: Full Body in British Art History — Past, Present & Future

📅 Tuesday 7 October
📍 The Gallery, 70 Cowcross St, London EC1M 6EJ
🎤 Keynote: Christina Bradstreet (@forarthistory.org.uk)

🔗 Full program & info: tinyurl.com/nhbm5798

AUTUMN SYMPOSIUM 2025 - For Art History

BEYOND THE VISUAL: FULL BODY IN BRITISH ART HISTORY – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Tuesday, 7 October 2025, 10am-6pm Tickets: £12 for members, £15 for non-members Lunch is provided The Gallery, 70 Cowcros...

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Sep 2

Deadline reminder: Call for Papers 2025 Autumn Symposium for PhD and Early Career Researchers

📅 Apply by Friday 5 Sept
🎤 Symposium: 7 Oct, 10am–6pm
📍 The Gallery, Cowcross Street, London
💡 Open to PhD students & early career researchers

Full details and how to apply: https://loom.ly/nB9UMyo

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Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @decrarthistory.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @decrarthistory.bsky.social · Aug 27

Don’t miss the #DECRSymposium 2025!
´Beyond the Visual: Full Body in British Art History – Past, Present & Future’

We invite 12-min papers exploring art history beyond the gaze through touch, sound, smell & taste ✨

📅 CFP deadline: Sept. 5, 2025
🔗 Apply: tinyurl.com/CFPlinn

#CFP #ArtHistory

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Jun 30

Just 24 hours to submit your session proposals for the 2026 AAH Conference!

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Jun 26

🔔 Deadline Reminder: Tuesday 1 July 🔔
Call for Sessions: AAH 2026 Annual Conference

Interested in sharing your research with an international community of art historians, curators, and creatives? Submit a session proposal for the 2026 Annual Conference, ⬇️

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Jun 16

Need some Monday motivation for submitting your session proposal for our 2026 Art History Conference? Here you go!

Three reasons why you should submit a session proposal for the Art History 2026 Conference:
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Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @decrarthistory.bsky.social · Jun 18

Don’t miss it! We're online at 5:30pm BST today!

🔗 Details & booking below 👇

Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Jun 18

🚨 Happening today:
Join us online at 5:30pm (BST) for our June Curatorial Conversation: "European Sculpture in the Collection of His Majesty the King".

🎟️ Free to attend online. Book via: 🔗 https://loom.ly/-ETVMgY

Organised by @decrarthistory.bsky.social with @warburginstitute.bsky.social

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · May 19

Are you joining us for our online Curatorial Conversation – V&A East Storehouse today? It's proving extremely popular!

The highly anticipated V&A East Storehouse opens on 31 May. Today, Director of V&A East, Gus Casely- Hayford, will discuss the concept for the new facility, ⬇️

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · May 9

⭐ AAH Curatorial Prizes 2025 ⭐

Alongside our panel discussion (see below) next Friday, will be the formal prize-giving ceremony for this year’s Curatorial Prize. Join us to celebrate the brilliant work of our community.

📆 Friday 16 May, 6pm
📍70 Cowcross Street, EC1M 6EJ
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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · May 5

AAH has a busy month ahead, with several events to look forward to. We'd love for you to join us:

📆 *Curatorial Reflections: Living Art at the Sainsbury Centre | Friday 9 May, 10am - 2pm | Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norfolk Rd, Norwich NR4 7TJ
*(For curators and museum professionals)
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Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @decrarthistory.bsky.social · Apr 14

Hey ECRs 👋 That AAH paper you presented? It could be your next publication!
Art History journal is open for submissions.

More info below ⬇️

Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Apr 14

Did you present your research at this year’s AAH Annual Conference? Are you thinking of developing it for potential publication? The AAH’s peer-reviewed journal, Art History, welcomes submissions from both established and emerging scholars on a rolling basis of essays between 8,000 to 12,000 words⬇️

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Apr 10

We're halfway through our #ForArtHistory2025 conference here at University of York and it's been an inspiring time so far. Swipe 👈 to check out what we've been up to at our Annual Conference.

📸 Athina Dale

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Apr 9

Here we go! Day one of the #ForArtHistory2025 conference at University of York. ☀️

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Apr 8

📣 Call for members: Art History for Art Programmes Network 📣

Our colleagues at The Art History for Art Programmes Network are seeking expressions of interest from colleagues who would like to join the Art History for Art Programmes network. ⬇️

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Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · Apr 7

We're looking forward to returning to the annual
@forarthistory.org.uk conference in York later this week. Find us at the book fair to say hello to the art team & browse our new titles!

If you aren't attending, you can still make the most of our online offer here: yalebooks.co.uk/fah25/

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Mar 31

✨We're hiring ✨

The Association or Art History is looking for a freelance, part-time Conference Coordinator to assist with the planning, preparation delivery and evaluation of the Association’s leading international Annual Conference, which will take place April 12-14, 2026 in partnership with ⬇️

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Apr 1

Over our 3 day Annual Conference, 9 - 11 April, we will be offering several workshops alongside our sessions that delegates can attend.

More details on workshops in our programme: loom.ly/1owNoO4

Ania Ruszkowski, Piles of Reading, acrylic on canvas, 2019.

#ForArtHistory2025

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Mar 12

Less than a month until our Annual Conference ✨

We’re counting down the days to our three day event at University of York, bringing together international research and critical debate about art history and visual culture. ⬇️

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