H-Italy

Network 'Comedy as Cultural Studies/Das Komische als Kulturwissenschaft' (15th August 2023)

Submission of project outlines: 15 August 2023

Kick-off event at KWI Essen: 24-25 November 2023

Satirical poems and humorous prints, comedies and vaudevilles, stand-up, witty adverts and memes: to elicit responses from an audience, funny artefacts must draw upon cultural knowledge and invoke conventionalised expectations, only to subsequently disavow or thwart them, at times spectacularly. On the one hand, this renders social constructions and conflicts visible, such as the inclusion/exclusion dynamics

Please join us in Venice (or online) for the upcoming Twelfth Annual IAS/Lecture, which will be held on Friday, June 30, at the Fondazione Cini in Venice.

We are looking forward to the lecture by this year’s speaker, Jodi Cranston, Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University and author of Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice (Penn State University Press 2019). Cranston’s lecture, “The Worn Animal: Furs and Perfume in Early Modern Venetian Art” (delivered in English), is related to research undertaken for a forthcoming book entitled Animal Sightings: Art

General Information
Each year the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) awards multiple Fellowships to support research on and the study of Italian modern and contemporary art for doctoral and post-doctoral scholars. Citizens of all nationalities are eligible. CIMA offers a unique experience to its fellows: its exhibition program serves as a hub for scholars from different academic backgrounds to share—with each other and with the public—research that speaks to the artworks on view. The fellowship has two main components: 1) research conducted through close examination of the artworks and

Award Submission Deadline July 1, 2023
https://ncsaweb.net/

Submissions to the Emerging Scholars Award and the Article Prize are due July 1, 2023. Winners will each receive a cash award of $500 to be presented at the Annual NCSA Conference (more information about the conference: https://ncsaweb.net/2024-conference-information/ . 

EMERGING SCHOLARS AWARD

The work of emerging scholars represents the promise and long-term future of interdisciplinary scholarship in nineteenth-century studies. In recognition of the excellent publications of this constituency of emerging scholars, this award recognizes