AAH News & Events
This page contains information about current and forthcoming AAH news and events. Please check External News and Events for all other art history related information.
AAH Membership
New membership options for 2009 will be available online and appear in Bulletin in October.
Intersections
35th AAH Annual Conference and Bookfair 2009 - call for papers
2- 4 April 2009, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
Paper submissions are now invited for the Academic Sessions taking place at the 2009 AAH annual conference. Paper proposal deadline 10 November.
AAH Publications
New - downloadloable versions of publications: Teaching Students with Disabilities and 21st-Century Art History:Global Reception now available online by clicking on above link. There is also a new issue of AAH e-Bulletin
The current issue of Art History is, issue 31.3 June. The current issue of The Art Book is, issue 15.3, August.
New Voices: AAH Student Conferences
Art & Authenticity - Call for Papers
1 November 2008, University of Cambridge, Newnham College
To find out more about this event or to propose a paper please click and dowload the following New Voices November 2008 flyer (pdf format)
Ways of Seeing; Schools Conferences
7 November 2008, Tate Britain, London
The annual one-day conference for A/As-Level students and teachers of Art History and Visual Culture will take place again at Tate Britain. Information and online booking will be available from end of September.
AAH Voluntary Work Fund
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students studying within UK universities and colleges can apply for up to £500 towards expenses for study-related internships and voluntary work (applications must have been received before 31 May).
Successful applicants for 2008 will be informed before 27 June 2008
John Fleming Travel Award 2008
Laurence King Publishing offer this awar of £2000 annual in memory of the art historian John Fleming. This award is designed to enable students to travel as a means of assisting or furthering their research.
The AAH is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2008 award is Francois Tainturier, SOAS, for her proposal to travel to research The Burmese Art of Making Cities: Founding and Building Mandaly (1857-1885). Francois will travel to Burma to undertake a second fieldtrip in October-November 2008 to focus on the survey and mapping component of research.
To find out more about the John Fleming Travel Award visit the AAH student pages
The Art Book Award 2007
The Editorial Board of The Art Book and the Association of Art Historians are pleased to announced the winner of The Art Book Award 2007, which was given to the Henry Moore Institute for their publication, Antinous: The Face of the Antique . This award was presented at the recent AAH Annual Conference in London.
This award aims to promote and acknowledge the best in art publishing by honouring the contributions and collaboration of the many different people involved. Click on the above link to find out more.
AAH Initiatives Fund
In response to members' feedback, we have developed the AAH Initiatives Fund to make it even more inclusive for members. The AAH Initiatives Fund offers financial support for projects and events that promote and develop art history education. Any paid-up AAH member may apply for the fund. Click on the links to download a copy of the AAH Initiatives Fund Guidelines and AAH Initatives Fund Application Form.
AAH Student Dissertation Prize 2006-2007
The AAH is pleased to announce the winners of the Student Dissertation Prize, which is awarded in collaboration with Thames & Hudson Publishers
Congratulations to BA Dissertation winner , Nicola Sim, University of Nottingham for her essay, Performance and the Document: Reproduction, Recreation and Revision
Congratulations also to MA Dissertation winner, Anthony McGrath, The Open University for his essay, Challenging Hogarth: A Revisionist Account of the Authorship of the Court Room at the Foundling Hospital London
In addition, the following applications were shortlisted:
BA Shortlisted Applications:
Alice Roberts, Liverpool School of Art, John Moores University
Do Cartoons Influence the way that Children Draw People?
Alan Read, Birkbeck College
Stanhope Forbes ‘A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach’ Social Realism & the Authority of the Gaze’
MA Shortlisted Applications:
Per Rumberg, Courtauld Institute of Art
‘La Groppa Verso il Popolo’: Pisanelo and the Motif of the Hourse Seen from Behind
Laura Battle, University of Edinburgh
Discordant Concord: The Influence of Mannerism on Surrealist Artists.