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Six Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2011: Art, Space and Mobility in the Early Ages of Globalization. The Mediterranean, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent (MeCAIS) 400-1650, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence.

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence (Max-Planck-Institute) is pleased to announce the start of the second year of the research program Art, Space and Mobility in the Early Ages of Globalization: The Mediterranean, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent (MeCAIS) 400-1650, sponsored by the Getty Foundation. It offers up to six non-residential doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships, beginning January 1, 2011. The project rethinks the postcolonial agenda through a study of premodern world orders and historical concepts of space and mobility with special attention to artistic objects, monuments and heritage.

The fellowship program is intended for young scholars who are working towards a Ph.D., as well as those candidates who already possess a Ph.D. (obtained no earlier than 2005). The fellowships are mainly open to archaeologists, art historians, and, in exceptional cases, to scholars of related fields like anthropology, history, philology and religious studies. The program especially welcomes applications from young scholars of Mediterranean countries and Asia. We seek projects with a broad appeal grounded in a thorough study of objects, and fellows whose interests focus on intercultural and interartistic agency; the mobility of ideas, artists and works of arts; and the creation or transformation of spaces within the chronological and topographical framework of the program. Applicants should be interested in premodern models of globalization while adopting an interdisciplinary perspective in their study of artistic objects, images and/or texts. Participants are invited to take part in the creation of a research network that will connect specialists in Western, Islamic, Byzantine, Indian, Central and East Asian art.

Projects may consider one of the following questions according to the thematic focuses of the program:
* (Trans)formation of Topographies
* Spaces of Power and Religion
* Borderlines between Nature and Culture
* Visual Culture and Systems of Knowledge
* Transforming Artistic Languages
* Making, Remaking and Exchanging: Art and its Techniques
* Historiographies and Narratives.

The fellowships are non-residential. Research could primarily be conducted at the fellows’ home institutions. At the same time, fellows will participate in a series of workshops in Berlin and Florence as well as in summer schools and seminars to be held in countries of the MeCAIS region. The working language is English. Fellowships are for one year. Their amount follows international standards and varies according to the specific conditions of the applicants and their research environment.

The deadline for application is 15 September 2010. Results will be announced in early October 2010. Applicants should send a C.V., a research proposal, one substantial writing sample or a portfolio, and two letters of recommendation to:

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf
Director
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Via Giuseppe Giusti 44
50121 Firenze
Italy

The envelope should be marked “Art Space and Mobility”. Applications by e-mail are particularly welcome; these and questions concerning the program should be sent to the following address: dirwolf@khi.fi.it

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PhD Studentship: ‘Re-framing the Italian Renaissance at the National Gallery’, AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, University College London - Department of History of Art.

The UCL Department of History of Art in collaboration with the National Gallery, London is seeking to award a fully-funded PhD studentship from October 2010.  The studentship, which will support three years of full-time study, is funded through the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Awards Scheme. The studentship is for a doctoral research project that aims to expand knowledge, understanding and awareness of the important collection of  Renaissance (late 14th to 16th-century) and Neo-Renaissance frames acquired, adapted and sometimes produced specifically for the National Gallery, London.

The thesis will research the social and artistic contexts in which the frames were made, acquired, adapted or removed, addressing early period artistic and patronal issues, the art market, changes in taste and the activities of individuals and bodies working for the Gallery in the 19th and 20th centuries. The thesis will aim to establish the history of the development of this diverse and complex collection over time and the factors, aesthetic, practical, political and sometimes accidental, that affected this development. The research will involve case studies in the framing history of particular works, sacred and secular, drawing strongly on the documentary and technical resources of the National Gallery as well as the Gallery’s collection of historic frames. The aim will be to understand and interpret the collection within institutional, national and international contexts and address the way Gallery and individual practice or policy continues to affect public perception of Renaissance paintings.

The student will contribute to activities both at UCL and the National Gallery, including the formulation of a small NG exhibition and provision of web-based material. The student will benefit from insight into and experience of museological and curatorial practice in Britain’s leading museum for Renaissance paintings. We are looking for a candidate with a background in history of art, the history of taste and collecting, museum studies or related fields. Italian language skills are required and some experience of documentary research is desirable. The successful applicant will need to meet the AHRC’s academic criteria for doctoral study and demonstrate the potential to develop advanced research skills. Candidates must also meet the AHRC’s requirements for UK/EU residency. Standard tuition fees and (for UK students only) a maintenance grant will be paid by the AHRC for three years.Research will be supervised jointly by Dr Alison Wright of the Department of History of Art, UCL and Dr Susanna Avery-Quash, Research Curator for the History of Collecting at the National Gallery, London.

For informal enquiries and further details, please contact Dr Alison Wright.  See also the Research Department for further information on Collaborative Doctoral Awards.

Applications should be made through UCL and candidates should send two complete sets of the application form (Downloadable Application Form (pdf) only), including references, transcripts and a statement outlining your suitability for and interest in this research proposal.  One is to be directed to Admissions (The Registry, UCL, Gower Street, London  WC1E 6BT), and the other copy is to be sent to Lori Williams (UCL Department of History of Art, Gower Street, London  WC1E 6BT). Closing date for application:  1 June 2010. Interviews will take place at the National Gallery on Monday, 21 June 2010.

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The University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences Announces New Postdoctoral Fellowships.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences is now offering up to eight postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and social sciences to begin in January 2011. The fellowships are for one year and are renewable for an additional year. Fellows will teach two courses per year, complete scholarly work, and participate in the academic and intellectual community of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Department with which they are affiliated. The annual stipend will be $45,000.

We invite applications from qualified candidates in the humanities and social sciences who have received the PhD between December 1, 2007 and November 1, 2010.  Applicants who do not have the PhD in hand at the time of application must provide a letter from the Department Chair or the Advisor stating that the PhD will be conferred before the term of the fellowship begins. Applications are due 1 June 2010. Contact: postdoc office.

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Francis Haskell Memorial Fund, The Burlington Magazine Foundation Scholarships 2010.

Grants of up to £2000 will be awarded from the Francis Haskell Memorial Fund each year to enable scholars tospend time in libraries or archives carrying out advanced research in the history of western art. Preference may be given to candidates in the early stages of their careers; to subjects related to the commissioning, collecting or interpretation of works of art made before 1914; and to research carried out outside the applicant’s country of residence. Scholars from any country may apply. An additional award may be made by the Trustees of The Burlington Magazine Foundation in conjunction with the Francis Haskell Trustees.

Applications, including a two-page proposal, a C.V. and a budget, should be sent by email to carolineelam@yahoo.co.uk - please label all attachments with surname of applicant - or by post to Caroline Elam, 531 Caledonian Road, London N7 9RH, by 1st June 2010. There is no application form. Applicants should ask two referees to write separately to the same address by the same deadline in support of their proposals. Awards will be made by 15th July 2010.

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