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CFP: The Archival Art Historian, an ICMA-Sponsored Panel at CAA, February 2026
Submission deadline August 29, 2025
This panel is sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA). If your paper is accepted and you are not already a member of the ICMA, you will be required to join by February 2026. Some funding to assist with the cost of attending the conference may be available to speakers through the ICMA Kress Travel Grant Fund. Contributing panellists will have the opportunity to submit their paper for publication in a special issue of the open-access journal Different Visions, titled ‘Points of Friction’, and co-edited by Dr Millie Horton-Insch and Dr Lauren Rozenberg.
Call for Papers: 51st Annual Cleveland Symposium, November 14, 2025 - DEADLINE EXTENDED
Submission deadline August 1, 2025
Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Expressions of romantic love and desire
- Platonic love and tenderness
- Depictions of heartbreak and lovesickness
- Visualizations of passion, emotion, and devotion
- Self-love and inner desires
- Divine love and the significance of love and desire in religious devotion
- Nudity, sexuality, eroticism, and the body
- Gendered and queer love
- Power dynamics in the experience of love and desire
- The tactile and sensuous quality of media
Current and recent graduate students in art history and related disciplines are invited to submit an abstract of up to 350 words and a CV to clevelandsymposium@gmail.com by Friday, August 1, 2025. Selected participants will be notified by mid-August. Presentations should be between 15–18 minutes in length. The symposium is planned as an in-person event. Speakers will be responsible for their own travel, but lodging with CWRU graduate students will be arranged for interested participants. Please send any questions to Claudia Haines and Rachel Sweeney at clevelandsymposium@gmail.com.
Call for Papers: FSU Literatures & Linguistics Interdisciplinary Conference, March 5 & 6, 2026
Submission deadline October 17, 2025
LINC 2026 Graduate Conference, titled “Beyond Fracture: Reimagining Futures through Divergence and Convergence,” will be held on March 5–6, 2026, at Florida State University.
LINC is an interdisciplinary conference organized primarily by graduate students in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, with collaboration from other departments across FSU, that invites participation from undergraduate, graduate students, and faculty working in literature, linguistics, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, the arts, education, and related fields. We welcome proposals from diverse disciplinary perspectives and are eager to foster conversations across the Humanities.
The deadline to submit proposals is October 17, 2025, and we would be grateful if you could share the attached CFP with faculty and students in your department.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please feel free to contact us at my contact djc18cq@fsu.edu, Emil Asanov at ea24h@fsu.edu, or the Organized Committee at mllgradconference@gmail.com
Ancient Mediterranean Art History Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Baylor University
POSITION OPENS June 6, 2025
Baylor University seeks to fill a tenure-track position within the Department of Art & Art History at the Assistant Professor rank in Ancient Mediterranean Art History starting in the Fall of 2026. The Department of Art & Art History prioritizes faculty success at all levels. Candidate should be comfortable with undergraduate education in a studio environment.
To learn more about the above position and apply, please visit: apply.interfolio.com/168224
Baylor University https://www.baylor.edu/
College of Arts & Sciences www.baylor.edu/artsandsciences
Department of Art & Art History https://art.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/
With a main campus located in Waco, Texas, Baylor University is the oldest college in Texas. With a population of 21,000 diverse students, Baylor is one of the top universities in the nation, having been named an R1 institution by the Carnegie Classification in January 2022. Baylor is also on the honor roll of the “Great Colleges to Work For” from The Chronicle of Higher Education; Baylor offers competitive salaries and benefits while allowing faculty and staff to live in one of the fastest-growing parts of the state. Our strategic plan guides the University as we continue to live up to Baylor’s mission of educating men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and Christian commitment within a caring community.
Baylor University, a private not-for-profit university affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, is committed to compliance with all applicable anti-discrimination laws, including those regarding age, race, color, sex, national origin, military service, genetic information, and disability. Baylor complies with statutory Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity requirements. Baylor’s full official Notice of Non-Discrimination may be read online.
2026 Davidson Family Fellowship at the Amon Carter Museum
Apply by June 27, 2025
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art invites applications for the 2025–2026 Davidson Family Fellowship. The Fellowship provides support for scholars holding a PhD (or equivalent) or PhD candidates to work on research projects in American art that advance scholarship by connecting with objects in the Carter’s permanent collection. The stipend rate is $5,000 per month for a minimum one-month to a maximum four-month period of full-time research at the Museum. During their stay, fellows will actively participate in the scholarly life of the Museum, and at the end of their appointment they are asked to present research progress in the form of a lecture or roundtable discussion.
The application deadline is June 27, 2025, for a fellowship to begin on or after October 1, 2025, and end by September 30, 2026. Housing and travel expenses are to be managed and funded by the fellow.
Full Description & Application Form
VAP Position in Art History at University of Florida
Apply by May 5, 2025
The School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida, College of the Arts invites applicants for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History to teach undergraduate courses, including a survey of ancient through late medieval art in Europe, the Near East, and Mediterranean basin; a General Education course on protection of cultural heritage that is called “Art Crime”; and an upper-level course in field of specialty. A syllabus and materials will be provided for the survey and the Art Crime course to aid in setting up the courses, and the instructor will be able to adjust readings and case studies.
2025 KU History of Art Graduate Student Symposium
Submission deadline June 30, 2025
Call for Papers:
2025 KU History of Art Graduate Student Symposium
The Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas
Symbiosis: Art and Ecologies in Global Perspectives
Symposium Dates: November 7-8, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sugata Ray, University of California, Berkeley
Deadline for Submission: June 30, 2025
Symbiosis, from the Greek meaning ìliving together,î refers to long-term, close physical interactions between two or more different organisms. In a broader sense, symbiosis can be used to describe the relationships between not only human and non-human agents in ecological systems but also individuals and communities with diverse identities, cultures, and backgrounds. Highlighting relationality rather than separation, mutuality rather than individuality, interaction rather than isolation, this symposium explores the role of art and visual culture in shaping, negotiating, and disguising intimacies in ecological, communal, and social relationships. How does art construct and contest the networks among humans, non-human entities, and environments? How does art reveal and/or repress these entanglements across time and region while also envisioning a sustainable future?
We invite proposals for 20-minute in-person presentations exploring the ways in which art and visual culture engage with the conference theme. We welcome proposals from current M.A. and Ph.D. students that address topics from a wide range of time periods and geographical areas, as well as object-oriented and theoretical approaches.
Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:
Art and Activism
Artist Communities
Art in the Anthropocene
Art Museums and Environmentalism
Art of Science and Science of Art
Climate Change and Art
Ecocriticism and Eco Art History
Environmental Justice and Ethics
Geoaesthetics
Human-Nature Relations in Art
Multiculturalism
Planetarianism
Post-Humanism
Postcolonialism and Decolonization
Please submit an abstract of 250–300 words and a CV to kusymposium@gmail.com by June 30, 2025. Selected applicants will be notified by mid-July.
Internship Opportunities at the John G. Riley Center & Museum for African American History & Culture
Apply by April 25
The John G. Riley Center & Museum, a premier cultural institution dedicated to preserving African American history and culture in Tallahassee, invites applications for internships in Summer and Fall 2025.
These non-paid internships are ideal for graduate students seeking academic credit and valuable professional experience, as well as undergraduate students looking to gain hands-on experience in museum practices. We welcome highly motivated and detail-oriented individuals to join our team, particularly those with a strong work ethic, research interests, and a passion for collections management, cultural heritage, and local histories.
Successful candidates will have the opportunity to contribute to our mission to educate and empower the community, while gaining invaluable insights into the inner workings of a dynamic museum environment.
Contact Ileana Olmos at ileana.olmos@talgov.com for more information.
2025 Summer Internships at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Apply by March 17, 2025
The Ringling offers paid, full-time summer internships for eight weeks: June 2 – July 25, 2025. Ringling summer internships provide hands-on, skill-building professional experiences while working on one or more projects within a specific department. All Ringling interns gain exposure to many aspects of The Ringling’s operations including professional development and cultural enrichment activities.
Remaining Summer Internship Opportunities:
– Archives
– Curatorial
– Education
– Performing Arts (Technical Theater and Box Office)
To learn more and apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/RinglingSummerInternships.
Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Research, Travel, and Creative Works Grant
FSU’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Center strives to support student research and artistic activity that focuses on and engages with Native American and Indigenous communities across the globe. Towards that end, this grant fund provides students with reimbursable funding to assist in research, travel, and creative works that are focused on creating and/or developing knowledge with Native and Indigenous partners and/or to support travel related to disseminating knowledge at conferences, meetings, and/or workshops. Creative works and activities associated with Indigenous nations are also encouraged.
COMPLETE DETAILS & APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS