Deadline August 31, 2015

The Society of Architectural Historians is accepting applications for the 2016 SAH International Travel Grant Program. In 2015, SAH will award between 14 and 16 grants to practicing professionals of the built environment to attend the SAH 2016 Annual International Conference in Pasadena/Los Angeles, CA, April 6-10. The grants are reserved for professionals from countries that have traditionally been underrepresented at the SAH conference. Generously funded by the Getty Foundation, these grants will allow recipients to participate in the conference and build upon their professional network. SAH invites applications from heritage conservation specialists, academics, and museum professionals who work with the history of the built environment.

The award covers the following:

• Travel expenses to/from SAH 2016 Annual International Conference
• Hotel accommodations
• Per Diem
• Conference registration
• Two years of membership in SAH

The application deadline is August 31, 2015. For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.sah.org/jobs-and-careers/sah-fellowships-and-grants/sah-international-travel-grants.

The full application is available at http://www.collegeart.org/CAA-GettyInternationalProgram/

The College Art Association is seeking applicants for its 2016 CAA-Getty International Program, which provides funding to fifteen art historians, museum curators, and artists who teach art history to attend its 104th Annual Conference, taking place February 3-6, 2016, in Washington D.C. The goal of the program is to foster international collaborations in the visual arts. Generously funded by the Getty Foundation, the grant covers travel expenses, hotel accommodations, per diems, conference registrations, and one-year CAA memberships. The program will include a one-day preconference colloquium on international issues in art history on February 2, at which grant recipients will present and discuss their common professional interests and issues.

How to Apply For eligibility requirements, visit the website above. Review the application specifications and complete the application form. If you have questions about the process, please email Janet Landay, project director of the CAA-Getty International Program.

Applications should include:

• A completed application form
• A two-page version of the applicant’s CV
• A letter of recommendation from the chair, dean, or director of the applicant’s school, department, or museum

Please send all application materials as Word or PDF files to Janet Landay. All application materials must be received by Monday, August 17, 2015. CAA will notify applicants on Wednesday, September 30, 2015.

Bač, Serbia, August 22 - 31, 2015
Deadline: Aug 5, 2015

Summer school of Architecture Bač 2015
Construction of the Elements of Earthen Architecture: Oven Building.
Maintenance and Restoration. Energy Monitoring Traditional Architecture.

Official language: English

• Application for 2 subsidized places (half price - 100 EUR): July 20th, 2015 (results will be published on July 25th)
• Early bird registration: July 20th 2015
• Registration deadline: August 5th 2015

Organizers: Group of Architects (Belgrade, Serbia) and rese arch (Pieštany, Slovakia) | Co-organizer: Earth & Crafts | Support: Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic | Partner: Institute of History of Art, Building Archaeology and Restoration, Faculty of Architecture and Planning - Vienna University of Technology

The program is encouraging multidisciplinary international collaboration, dealing with the issues of implementation and monitoring of projects of heritage protection within the local, regional, and European framework.

PROGRAMME

The Summer School will take place from Saturday, August 22nd, and last until August 31st. The workdays are beginning at 10:00 AM lasting until 07:00 PM (including 1 hour lunch break). The program of the School is divided into two modules. Both modules are focusing on earth architecture of Vojvodina - the adobe and rammed earth.

MODULE 1 - CONSTRUCTION OF THE ELEMENTS OF EARTHEN ARCHITECTURE: OVEN BUILDING. MAINTENANCE AND RESTORATION
This module will begin on 22th of August and will last for four days. The goal of the module is to build the traditional bread oven in the household in the town. The lectures and the workshops, provided by the team of the Earth and Crafts Centre for Earthen Architecture, will focus on the process of material search, testing and preparation, the preservation actions and crafts expertise. MODULE 1 will include preparation works, mud tests, introduction to basic earth building techniques and building a bread oven, followed with the series of lectures on heritage protection and good practices.

The necessary expertise for the heritage protection will be provided by the Institute of History of Art, Building Archaeology and Restoration, Faculty of Architecture and Planning - Vienna University of Technology

MODULE 2 - ENERGY MONITORING IN CULTURAL HERITAGE
This module will begin on 28nd of August and will last for four days. The goal of the module lectures and workshops is to develop the fitting method for the energy survey, monitoring and management for protected areas. The module will build on the data, harvested from the equipment deployed on site during the previous school, as well as the research done by the team of the Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade & Nekoliko arhitekata design studio, developed for the project of National typology of residential architecture in Serbia.

WORKSHOP
Workshop of structure surveying will follow MODULE 2, demonstrating the available tooling for the purpose of heritage preservation.

STUDY TRIP
Prior to Module 2, a study trip will be organized, for the purpose of visiting an example of good practice in sustainable built.

A detailed certificate will be provided by the organizer for the purpose of obtaining ECTS credits.

ELIGIBILITY
We are inviting international participants: professionals and students of architecture, technology, civil engineering, sustainable building, building physics, architectural conservation and art history, as well as the enthusiasts.

COSTS AND FEES
The early bird registration fee is 200 EUR (100 EUR per module, 25 EUR per day) and includes costs of tuition (workshops + lectures), working material and boarding (three meals per day + accommodation). We provide accommodation in near-by boarding house (mostly dormitory-style). Fees do not include travel costs.

Given the hands-on character of the Summer School, it is mandatory to bring your own laptop. Internet connection will be provided by the organizer. The installation of required (free) software will be communicated in a timely manner.

The early bird prices are available until the July 20th 2015.

The full price is 250 EUR for entire 10 days course (workshop and fieldtrip included) of 120 EUR per 4 days module. It is possible to attend daily program as well, paying the price of 30 EUR per day.

APPLICATION
Your application should include:

• submitting the application form https://goo.gl/JsLrbD;
• a short CV (2 pages maximum)

ONLY FOR STUDENTS COMPETING FOR TWO SUBSIDIZED PLACES (half price 100 EUR):

• submitting the application form https://goo.gl/JsLrbD;
• a short CV (2 pages maximum);
• a letter of motivation (2 pages maximum)

Exchanging the subsidy for money is not possible. Please e-mail your application documents to grupaarhitekata@gmail.com or info@grupaarhitekata.org.

The Malevich Society is pleased to announce its call for 2015 grant applications.
Based in New York, the Malevich Society is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the knowledge about the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich and his work.
In the belief that Malevich was a pioneer of modern art who should be recognized for his key contributions to the history of Modernism, the Society awards grants to encourage research, writing, and other activities related to his history and memory.
The Society welcomes applications from scholars of any nationality and at various stages of their career. Graduate students are welcome to apply after completing at least one year of dissertation research. Proposed projects should increase the understanding of Malevich and his work, or augment historical, biographical, or artistic information about Malevich and/or his artistic legacy. The Society also supports translations and the publication of relevant texts.
Application forms and instructions may be requested by telephone at 1-718-980-1805, by e-mail at info@malevichsociety.org, or may be downloaded from the Society’s website: www.malevichsociety.org.
Applications and all supporting documents should be submitted via e-mail to applications@malevichsociety.org.
Deadline: September 30, 2015.

Universität Heidelberg, July 26 - 31, 2015
The deadline has been extended until June 14, 2015
For further details of the programme and how to apply, visit the Summer School website: http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/summerschool

Summer School “Walking the line - Art of border zones in times of crisis”

The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” welcomes applications for the Summer School “Walking the line - Art of border zones in times of crisis.” It will take place from July 26 to 31, 2015 at Heidelberg University in Germany.

The summer school will engage with the production, circulation and the disruption of art and visual practices as they navigate the (thin) line between creative and destructive impulses in times when wars, struggles for national independence and conflicting ideologies result in border contestations and territorial partitions. These crises produce both immediate and enduring physical, economic and political consequences for persons living within affected regions, including flight from one’s homeland, traumatic histories left unprocessed between generations, and the elaboration of repressive political systems and surveillance. Art might be used as a propaganda weapon that affirms and enforces demarcations or it could be a creative path to transgress contested borders, a space to envision alternatives. The notion of the border will be explored both as a divisive force and as a zone of crossing by discussing larger questions about the complex and often seemingly contradictory relation between trauma and visual/aesthetic practices on the one hand, and complex issues of space and politics that (in-) form these practices on the other.

The summer school is organised around three themes dealing with Partitions, Art and Civil Society, and Trauma and Memory. In particular, it will examine narrative modes and structures which emerge when the raw history that inhabits subjects is transformed into representation, or its refusal. While artistic articulations in conflicted border zones often explicitly reflect upon collective as well as individual experiences, they might equally be marked by the attempt to gloss over the existence of wounds and political and social divides. Artistic strategies become necessary as expressions in/on border zones. The complex spatial dimensions involved call on disciplines such as art history and anthropology to develop critical approaches for analyzing these artistic negotiations as striking aesthetic and cultural practices. Eschewing an understanding of art as a looking glass to view cultures in terms of geo-political units, the discussions will encourage critical ways of locating transregional and transcultural relationships within a discursive field of knowledge production and disciplinary practice.

We welcome advanced graduate students and junior researchers to apply and present their research on the relation between art and border/political/societal conflicts or crises. The summer school provides a unique opportunity for learning through participant-oriented discussions and a hands-on approach to writing. Instruction will be delivered through individual lectures, a plenary forum and interactive afternoon sessions consisting of guided group workshops. Participants will bring their own written and visual material for dialogue with an international community of peers and distinguished scholars present at the summer school, with the objective of developing individual visual essays relevant to the participants’ research project or new trajectories for future work.

The keynote address will be delivered by Iftikhar Dadi - art historian, artist and curator (Cornell University) - who has extensively researched Islamic Modernism and is currently investigating new avenues of civic participation among emergent urban publics in South Asia.

Confirmed guests include art historian and independent curator Eckhart Gillen who will discuss the impact of the East-West division on art production in post-War Germany, Raminder Kaur (University of Sussex) who will focus on issues of censorship and cultural regulation in South Asia, Friederike Wappler (Ruhr University Bochum) who will question the productive use of trauma as a concept for analyzing modern and contemporary art, and Patricia Spyer (University of Leiden) who will elaborate on the circulation of Muslim jihad VCDs in Indonesia in the 2000s. Contributing scholars from Heidelberg include Christiane Brosius and Cathrine Bublatzky (Visual and Media Anthropology), and Monica Juneja and Franziska Koch (Global Art History).

Deadline: May 31, 2015

Open call for Nida Doctoral School residency and courses: “Smoke and Mirrors—Staged Arguments and the Legitimation of Artistic Research”

If science is a fairytale that is hard to disbelieve (Bruno Latour), then scientific research is nothing but scripting fiction. What’s more, the latter is the domain of art. Be it truthful deceit, legitimate hocus-pocus, or real fiction, such a story requires a great deal of creativity and knowledge in carrying out such a persuasion. The persuasion will be carried out at the residencies, inaugural courses and opening forum of the Nida Doctoral School by artists, curators, professors (featuring Anthony Dunne, Timothy Ingold and Fiona Raby, among others) and doctoral students.

Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA) and Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Aalto University) are starting a partnership by establishing Nida Doctoral School. It is a non-degree doctoral program at Nida Art Colony (NAC), Neringa, Lithuania.

Nida Doctoral School is happy to announce two open calls for:
–Three eight-week residencies for doctoral students at Nida Art Colony, in September and October 2015;
–Seven participants in one-week-long doctoral courses (with credits) “Smoke and Mirrors: Staged Arguments and the Legitimation of Artistic Research” October 15 to 25.

Both programmes are thematically connected, and selected residents are expected to take part in, as well as to contribute to the courses and the opening forum “Smoke and Mirrors.” Both programmes will culminate in the opening forum of the Nida Doctoral School, which foresees artistic performances, performative lectures, screenings, etc. October 23 to 25.

Three selected residents will be offered Nordic Culture Point grants. The grants will cover: tuition for the courses “Smoke and Mirrors”; participation in the opening forum of Nida Doctoral School; travel expenses to/from NAC (up to 300 EUR); accommodation costs; and provide a stipend of 500 EUR/month.

Seven selected course participants will be offered NAC grants. These grants will cover tuition, participation in the opening forum of Nida Doctoral School, travel expenses to/from NAC (up to 300 EUR), accommodation costs and catering.

Nordic and Baltic residents currently involved in academic doctoral or post-doctoral studies in art, art history, curating, design, media, architecture and related fields are eligible to apply.

Doctoral or postdoctoral students who are residents of other countries are welcome to apply only for the “Smoke and Mirrors” courses on 15–25 October.

For more information please consult http://nidacolony.lt/en/nida-doctoral-school/smoke-and-mirrors-2015.

For any further queries, please contact Juste Kostikovaite, curator of Nida Doctoral School.

Warburg Institute, London
Application deadline: July 1, 2015

Research post: “Bilderfahrzeuge: Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology” – International Research Group

The Bilderfahrzeuge Research Group, funded by the German ministry of higher education and science, realised in cooperation with the Max Weber-Stiftung, and situated at the Warburg Institute in London, invites applications for a full-time research post (in principle post-doctoral) based at the Warburg Institute in London for two years in the first instance from October 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The objective of this project is to explore the migration of images, objects, ideas and texts in a broad historical and geographical context. The aim shall be a contribution to the history of images which is based on Aby Warburg’s approach and method, rethinking them in the light of new interdisciplinary, international scholarship. The project will reconstruct and develop a rich scholarly approach which addresses the distinctiveness of images while also studying the language in which ideas about transfers between cultures (including ideas about images) are expressed.

The research post is part of the staff in London that contributes particularly to the overall project of studying the ways in which images and ideas are transferred between cultures and to the project of investigating the role of rhetoric in understanding images, ideas and intercultural relations. The post-holder will conduct own research and contribute to the larger projects. We are particularly interested in applicants with high level research skills in art history, trade between Europe and the Orient, prints and other portable images, rhetoric, anthropology and comparative religion. Applicants will be expected to have a good knowledge of the languages relevant to their field of study and a good speaking and reading knowledge of German and English.

The post-holder will be employed by the Max Weber-Stiftung and paid on German government scales for local positions abroad/Ortskraftvertrag. Place of work is London.

The Max Weber Stiftung is committed to increasing the number of women in academic posts and would therefore particularly welcome applications from women.

Applications should include a letter of application indicating candidates’ interests in and suitability for the projects of the research group, a curriculum vitae and publications list, the names of three referees and a writing sample of around 5,000 words of published or unpublished research. Completed applications must be submitted by Wednesday 1 July.

Interviews will be held in London at the Warburg Institute in the second half of September 2015.

Please email your application to the Project-speaker
Prof. Dr. Andreas Beyer
Kunsthistorisches Seminar
Universität Basel

The editorial board of Quaestio Rossica announces the publication of Issue 1 2015 of the journal. The articles published in this issue are accessible on the journal’s website, http://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/QR

Quaestio Rossica is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal publishing research on the history and culture of Russia, Russian language and literature. The journal aims to look for new approaches and directions in the academic study of Russia, to acquaint specialists in the fields of history, literary studies, linguistics, arts and cultural studies with the study of Russia, and to unite the efforts of scholars in Russian studies from different countries across the world.

The journal was established in 2013 by the Institute of Humanities and Arts of Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The journal publishes articles and reviews in Russian, English, German and French.

All authors are encouraged to submit papers for publication. The journal uses double blind peer-review and guarantees the high quality of all published materials. For an article submission, please use the form on the journal’s website or contact the Editorial board by e-mail.

Also, the journal is interested to receive new books for review and information on conferences and other upcoming scientific events on Russian studies. Please feel free to contact the Editorial Office with any questions or concerns.

Address for correspondence:

Ural Federal University
Quaestio Rossica Editorial Office
51, Lenin av., office 335
620083, Yekaterinburg, Russia
qrossica@gmail.com

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars administers the Fulbright Scholar Program on behalf of the United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Opportunities in the 2016-17 Fulbright Scholar Program include:

Russia Award #6314: All Disciplines
Teach and/or conduct research in any appropriate discipline. Applicants submitting proposals with a teaching component should seek affiliation or indicate flexibility for affiliation outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Please visit the 2016-17 Catalog of Awards to learn more about all the opportunities available in this year’s competition. For most awards, English is sufficient for teaching and foreign language proficiency is only needed to the extent required by the proposed research project.

The Application Guidelines provide helpful tips to reference during the process, and the Council is happy to answer any questions. It also encourages interested scholars to explore and register for one or more of our webinars, which provide more detailed insight into various parts of the Fulbright U.S. Scholar program. A complete schedule of upcoming and archived presentations can be found here.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens and the current competition will close on August 3, 2015.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/calvertjournal/files/News+editor+JD.pdf

Job title: News editor
Reporting to: Deputy editor
Salary: £22,000-24,000 depending on experience
Responsible for: Leading the daily generation and distribution of The Calvert Journal’s news stories.

The Calvert Journal is an online briefing on the new creativity and culture of the new east: the post-Soviet world, the Balkans and the former socialist states of central and eastern Europe. The Calvert Journal delivers daily news and feature stories on art, design, film, fashion, technology and related cultural areas through a mix of reportage, informative analysis and photography. We are looking for a news editor to join a growing, ambitious organisation that puts culture, creativity and international connection at the heart of its activities.

For more information, see the website above

To apply, email a CV and cover letter (maximum 400 words) to jobs@calvert22.org by 5pm, 20 May.