IV Art, Power and Gender Conference Women and Portraiture in the Renaissance. Uses, Functions and Ways of Displaying

Dates: 29-30 April 2021 Event type: Online Organizers: Department of Art History, University of Murcia, Spain Director: Noelia García Pérez Coordinators: Melania Soler Moratón and Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón Website: https://www.um.es/en/web/jornadas-artepoderygenero/ Registration dates: 1 January 2021 to 22 April 2021 Registration link: https://casiopea.um.es/cursospe//artepoderiv.f Deadline for papers: 31 March 2021 Paper submission email: artepoderygenero@um.es Many uses and functions have been attributed to Renaissance portraiture -sentimental, documental, devotional or legitimatizing- becoming a quintessential genre in this period. These functions were condensed in portrait galleries that, alongside Wunderkammers and studiolos, where the new storage and exhibition spaces developed in this period. The IV…
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Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 (UK) Bursary

Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 is offering a bursary of £750 to an early career researcher*, independent scholar or PhD student who is a member of the WSG. The bursary is intended to support research in any aspect of women’s studies in the period 1558-1837 for new or continuing interdisciplinary or single-discipline projects. The deadline for bursary applications is 30 November 2022, and the successful applicant will be announced in January 2020. For further information, and to apply, please download the application form from the WSG website. Applications are considered by the WSG committee. The money will normally be paid on…
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FOLGER INSTITUTE LONG-TERM FELLOWSHIPS FOR 2023-2024

FOLGER INSTITUTE LONG-TERM FELLOWSHIPS FOR 2023-2024 www.folger.edu/institute/fellowships/long-term Each year the Folger Institute awards research fellowships to create a high-powered, multidisciplinary community of inquiry. This community of researchers may come from different fields, and their projects may find different kinds of expression. But our researchers share cognate interests in the history and literature, art and performance, philosophy, religion, and politics of the early modern world. The Folger Institute will offer five, semi-residential long-term fellowships at $70,000 for the 2023-2024 academic year (approximately $7,777 per month, for a standard period of 9 months). These fellowships are designed to support full-time scholarly work…
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