Call for Papers: Portraiture Conference

Portraiture as Interaction: The Spaces and Interfaces of the British Portrait

The Huntington, San Marino, California, 11–12 December 2015
Proposals due by 7 November 2014

A symposium jointly organized by the Yale Center for British Art, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the Huntington

This symposium has been inspired by the important collections of British portraits at the Huntington Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, and by an upsurge of scholarly interest in the interactive nature of portraiture—both in its intrinsic character and as a curatorial construct.

Call for papers: Portraiture Panel at ISECS 2015

Pictures in Motion: Portraiture around the World during the Long Eighteenth Century

14th Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Opening Markets, Trade and Commerce in the Eighteenth Century.

Rotterdam, 26-31 July 2015.

Proposals due by 12 January 2014 (earlier submissions are encouraged)

Melbourne Portrait Group Seminar | Callum Reid: The Uffizi Self-Portrait Collection

Francesco Marchissi, ‘Sala dei Pittori’ (detail), c. 1760. Vienna, Nationalbibliothek

Callum Reid, ‘Semper rectus, semper idem: The Uffizi Self Portrait Collection’

Monday 13 October, 6:30pm.

Conversations | Face Talk: conversations with Archibald Prize finalists | Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

Juan Ford, ‘Channelling WC Piguenit, startled by a spectacular sunset viewed through a canopy’ (Image courtesy of Art Gallery of NSW © the artist)

The Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery is hosting a series of talks about portraiture to accompany its current exhibition of 2014 Archibald Prize finalists. The conversations will be moderated by Dr Vivien Gaston, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and the National Gallery of Victoria.

All talks will be held at the MPRG – see below for dates and times of individual events. The cost of each event is $45 (members) $50 (general), this includes drinks and nibbles 6pm–6.30pm, conversation 6.30pm–7.30pm, Archibald Prize 2014 viewing 7.30pm–8.30pm.

Seating is limited and bookings are essential – book via the MPRG website: http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au/EVENTS