⏰ Deadline approaching: Submit your session proposal by 1 July 2026.
The AAH Conference 2027 returns 7–9 April 2027 in collaboration with the University of Exeter.
The Annual Conference reflects the Association for Art History’s commitment to a broad and inclusive art history.
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Image credit: Bodhisattva with attendants, wall painting fragment from Mogao Cave 321, Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China, Tang dynasty (618–907 CE). Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, First Fogg Expedition to China (1923–1924).
We welcome proposals from doctoral researchers and early career scholars working across art history, visual studies, practice-based research, and curatorial studies.
More details via loom.ly/2ejE7f4
🗓 Abstract submission deadline: Sunday 5 July 2026 (23:59 BST)
🗓 Symposium: Thursday 13 August 2026, 10:00–18:00
📍 The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ
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We also welcome contributions that examine how fragmentariness is understood within non-Western traditions on their own terms, resisting the assumption that the fragment is primarily a Western art-historical category.
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From broken antiquities to glitch aesthetics, from archival lacunae to AI-generated imagery, the fragment has long occupied a generative tension between loss and possibility, between desire and fear, between the partial and the whole.
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The 2026 symposium will explore the fragment as a critical and creative paradigm across art history, artistic practice, and visual culture. ⬇️
Call for Papers: AAH Summer Symposium 2026 - The Fragment: Form, Method, and Meaning
The Association for Art History's Summer Symposium is a one-day annual event highlighting current postgraduate and early career research.
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