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Cerae (Vol. 4): Influence and Appropriation – Call For Papers

Influence and Appropriation

CERAE: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is seeking contributions for its upcoming volume on the theme of “Influence and Appropriation”, to be published in 2017. We are, additionally, delighted to announce a prize of $200 for the best article published in this volume by a graduate student or early career researcher (details below).

Both individuals and entire cultural groups are influenced consciously and subconsciously as part of a receptive process, but they may actively respond to such influences by appropriating them for new purposes. Perhaps human beings cannot escape their influences, but think in terms of them regardless of whether they are taken as right or wrong, useful or otherwise. Such influences may have enduring effects on the lives of people and ideas, and may be co-opted for new social contexts to fit new purposes.
Contributors to this issue may consider some of the following areas:

  • How writers adapt received ideas and novel conceptual frameworks or adapt to them
  • How entire cultural groupings (national, vocational, socio-economic, religious, and so on) may be influenced by contact and exchange
  • The mentorship and authority of ideas and people
  • The use and abuse of old concepts for new polemics
  • The shifting influence of canonical texts across time
  • The way received ideas influence behaviours in specific situations
  • How medieval and early modern ideas are reshaped for use in modern situations

These topics are intended as guides. Any potential contributors who are unsure about the suitability of their idea are encouraged to contact the journal’s editor (Keagan Brewer) at editorcerae@gmail.com.

The deadline for themed submissions is Friday 18 November, 2016. In addition to themed articles, however, we also welcome non-themed submissions, which can be made at any point throughout the year.

SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Articles should be approximately 5000-7000 words. Further details regarding submission, including author guidelines and the journal’s style sheet, can be found online at http://openjournals.arts.uwa.edu.au/index.php/cerae/about/submissions.

PRIZES:

Cerae is delighted to announce a prize of $200 for the best article to be published in Volume 4 by a graduate student or early career researcher (defined as five years out from PhD completion). Cerae is able to offer this prize thanks to the generosity of our sponsors. For a full list of organizations which have supported us in the past, see our sponsorship page. The journal reserves the right not to award a prize in any given year if no articles of sufficiently high standard are submitted.

Private Collecting and Public Display: Art Markets and Museums – Call For Papers

Private Collecting and Public Display: Art Markets and Museums
University of Leeds
30-31 March, 2017

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Susanna Avery-Quash, Senior Research Curator (History of Collecting) at the National Gallery, London

This two-day conference investigates the relationships between ‘private’ collections of art (fine art, decorative art and antiquities), and the changing dynamics of their display in ‘public’ exhibitions and museums. This shift from ‘private’ to ‘public’ involves a complex dialectic of socio-cultural forces, together with an increasing engagement with the art market. The conference aims to explore the relationship between the ‘private’ and ‘public’ spheres of the home and the museum, and to situate this within the scholarship of the histories of the art market and collecting.

Art collections occupy a cultural space which can represent the individual identity of a collector; often as a manifestation of self-expression and social class. Many museums today arose from ‘private’ collections including the Wallace Collection, Musée Nissim de Camondo, the Frick Museum and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Whilst they now exist as ‘public’ spaces, many still signify the residues of the ‘private’ home of a collector. What processes do collections undergo when they move from a ‘private’ sphere to a ‘public’ exhibition space? In what ways are collections viewed differently in these environments?

How and when do ‘private’ collections move into the ‘public’ domain, and what does this tell us about the increasingly porous nature of these boundaries? Whilst the relationship between ‘private’ and ‘public’ art collecting takes on particular forms from the early modern period onwards, it emerged particularly in the latter half of the nineteenth century, with the creation of temporary exhibitions and permanent displays in museums that relied on donations from collectors. Many national museums are indebted to loans made by private individuals. The Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum, the Wrightsman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum, and the John Jones collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, are key examples of the continuity of the private in the public. What are the ‘private’ to ‘public’ dynamics of these exchanges? How have museums negotiated the restrictions proposed by the collector for the display, containment, expansion or reinterpretation of their collection? What is the implication for the status and value of an object when ‘public’ works are sold and re-enter the art market? What meanings are attached to ‘public’ art objects when they begin, once again, to circulate in the art market?

The PGR subcommittee of the Centre for the Study of the Art and Antiques Market welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers which explore these themes or which address any other aspect of the private collecting and public display of collections, from the Early Modern period until the 21st century.

Topics can include but are not limited to:

  • The relationships between ‘private’ and ‘public’ spheres
  • The role and impact of the art market in the ‘public’ and ‘private’ realms
  • The history and role of temporary loan exhibitions
  • The role played by gender in collecting practices and bequests
  • Collecting and loaning objects by minority groups
  • Legacies of the collector
  • Philanthropy vs self-promotion
  • Deaccessioning- public museums selling art back into art market/into private collections
  • The dynamic of contemporary art collecting and public art galleries

To propose a paper: Please send a Word document with your contact information, paper title, an abstract of 300-500 words, and a short biographical note. Full session proposals for a panel
of three papers are also welcomed. Some travel bursaries will be available for accepted speakers.

Proposals should be sent to csaa@leeds.ac.uk by 1 November, 2016.