Biography

The Director's Essay Prize

Established in 2019, the Director’s Essay Prize fosters leading research in the field of visual biography and American portraiture. The award includes a cash prize of $3,000 for the author of a published essay that explores and enriches the interdisciplinary nature of American art, biography, history, and cultural identity. The recipient will be asked to present a paper on their essay topic at the National Portrait Gallery during an award ceremony in Fall 2022.

THE HAROLD HOLZER LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE

CALL FOR PAPERS

One day colloquium: Centre for the History of Childhood with the National Trust Partnership, Oxford University

This colloquium will take place in Oxford and online on Friday 1st July 2022.

We welcome papers that consider the theme of ‘Children and Heritage’ from a wide variety of perspectives. Areas that papers might explore include: 

José María Mora, Napoleon Sarony, and the Migrant Surround in American Portrait Photography

Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 5 p.m.

Online via Zoom

Free—Registration required

Closed Captioning provided.

Dear all fellow scholars,

There will be an international online/on-site conference on March 19-20 March, 2022 in Thailand on the topic Buddhism and New Global Trends: The Footprints of Khruba Sriwichai towards Contemporary Civilization, hosted by Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University and Lamphun Buddhist College. Academic articles on Buddhism to be internationally published are welcome (8000 words maximum) with a wide range of Buddhist interest including the following five topics:

1) Buddhism and New Global Trends

The Popular Culture Association will be holding its annual conference virtually  April 13-16, 2022.

The Biographies Area is soliciting papers that examine the connections between biography and popular culture. Papers and full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography are encouraged. Potential topics might include:

This seminar focuses on Spanish exiled women in art and literature. It is an interdisciplinary seminar, where scholars from differents countries participate. The main goal of this seminar is to offer a global view on the activities of these women who had to flee to other countries after the Spanish civil war. "Salirse del camino" -"Leave the path"- is a verse from the artist Manuela Ballester, who -in the thirties- wrote a poem about the difficulties for women to achieve goals not aligned with patriarchy and Spanish society at the time.

A two-part Workshop co-organized by PluriCourts - Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order (University of Oslo), CEMES - Centre for Modern European Studies (University of Copenhagen), and Hans Blix Centre for the History of International Relations (Stockholm University). 

The Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and the John Carter Brown Library invite applications for the Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship, a unique research and writing fellowship.