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Karen J Lloyd
@Karen_J_Lloyd
Art historian early mod. Italy | Asst. Prof. SBU | Author: Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome | Series Editor, Visual Culture in Early Modernity
Joined May 2022
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CAA2023 is fast approaching! I’ll be there presenting and chairing on Friday morning (talking about “Bernini’s Braids”) and meeting with authors for the Visual Culture in Early Modernity series. If you have an ms, a proposal, or an idea get in touch! Let’s talk!
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It’s a pleasure and a privilege to hear author Dacia Maraini talk about her work tonight at SBU’s Center for Italian Studies.
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Very excited that I’ll be joining friends and colleagues in San Juan for #RSA2023! Join , Allie Terry-Fritsch and me for “Making Sense of Skin in Early Modern Europe: Memory, Resonance, and Display”. It’ll be a bit creepy and a lot fascinating!
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If anyone is willing to take a trip out to Long Island, I will be having a conversation about my book with Xavier Salomon at SBU’s Humanities Institute on Nov. 3, 4:30-6:00pm. I’m so grateful and excited to chat with Xavier and to share my book with colleagues and friends!
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It’s here! My own ‘Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome’ is the newest addition to #visualcultureinearlymodernity. Thank you for your hard work and and co. for the gorgeous cover colour! Buona fortuna, caro libriccino mio!
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Utrecht University is offering three full time PhD positions in art history, part of the new project 'The Dutch Global Age.' hnanews.org/full-time-phd-
The deadline for applications is SEPTEMBER 23, 2022.
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We are delighted to invite doctoral and post-doctoral scholars to our second photo-historical seminar, organized by and — next March in Rome. Please share our call on “Archival Absences. An Incomplete History of Photography.”
foto.folkwang-uni.de/de/journal/new
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The Getty acquires a painting on copper of the Wedding Feast at Cana by Lavinia Fontana, painted about 1575-1580, adding to its growing collection of works by women lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2022/08/getty-
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Great news for everyone working on med/Ren Siena! (Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati) has just shared hundreds of mss & early prints online, all digitized in compliance with —and this is only the beginning! Explore here: bds.comune.siena.it/it/165/collezi
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Folks out there working on architecture. Material culture. Interiors. Costumes and textiles. Submit those articles to the Art Bulletin!!
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Publication day for the newest book in Visual Culture in Early Modernity! Check out Tamara Smithers’s ‘The Cults of Raphael and Michelangelo’ for skulls (real), hands (metaphorical and not), and the creation of artistic fame. routledge.com/The-Cults-of-R
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#Job alert!
We're on the lookout for two Research Assistants to support 4-year funded project 'Greek manuscripts in Renaissance Venice: the library of Guillaume Pellicier and its contribution to Europe’s intellectual heritage.'
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/job-oppor #RenTwitter
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I am chairing a session at CAA next year on the topic of craft and colonialism. Please consider participating and spread the word!
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🇫🇷🇮🇹 @DFKParis and solicit applications for the six-month Paris x Rome Fellowship for the academic year 2022/23. Pre- and Postdocs working on transnational perspectives of art history in France and Italy are invited to apply by September 30.
bit.ly/3odj92U
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I should say that the proposal was very much a group effort! I’m down as organizer, but the conception of the panel was the result of an already-enjoyable discussion!
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Very excited that the session I proposed for CAA2023 has been accepted! Come to NYC to hear Shawon Kinew, Carolina Mangone, Lucia Simonato and myself speak on topics exploring “Limits and Limitlessness in Early Modern Italian Sculpture”.
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Calling all graduate students presenting at SCSC 2022 in Minneapolis (October 27-30, 2022)! Don't forget to apply for the SCSC Graduate Student Travel Stipend (before August 1st), via this Google form: forms.gle/eGryVBtb7Y72r8. See you in the Twin Cities!
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Art historians 🚨🚨🚨
If you're interested in the ecology of early modern art, please consider submitting an abstract to the panel I'm co-organizing for 2023 in San Juan, "Seasonality and the Ecology of Early Modern Art". Description here: rsa.org/blogpost/20166
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Renaissance scholars, please help spread the word! We seek volunteers to serve on the RSA Graduate Student Advisory Committee for a two-year term beginning on September 1, 2022. Apply by August 5th.
rsa.org/news/news.asp?
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A fantastic CFP and sure to be a fascinating conference.
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CFP: Wastework (Rome, 15-17 Mar 23) ift.tt/GzIQeC9
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Call for Papers
‘Cruzando las Américas:
Arte e ideas en movimiento (1500-1800)’
Cusco, 19-21 de julio de 2023 organizado por Escardiel González Estévez y Kate Mills: propuestas (500 palabras) junto con un CV abreviado (200 palabras) a:
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12 July 2022, 6pm
Florence + online
The next lecture in our series "Alberti Revisited" will be given by Caspar Pearson on "Alberti in Florence: Painting and the Machinery of the State"
Register here 
t1p.de/6vlhr
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Spread the word! 1 PhD position with grant for 4 years
within the project "The Italian Scientific Heritage: History, Rules, Management", with the Museo Scienza e Tecnologia, Milano and the Museo Galileo, Firenze. Deadline 4th August 2022 unipd.it/en/phd-scholar
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I’m not going to make it to England or Europe this summer, so will have to content myself with the #imaginaryearlymodern London of Miniature World in Victoria B.C. (Thanks for the rec !) Some details to follow…
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Excited to share news of a new book series with University of Nebraska: "Histories of Health, Environment, and Medicine in Latin America and the Caribbean." Please share widely! The picture on the flyer is from a 2002 protest in Bolivia against the Free Trade Area of the Americas
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Please circulate the Newberry sponsored session that Maria Vittoria Spissu and I have coorganized for the upcoming RSA San Juan 2023: Ambivalent Harmonies: Representing Peace at War in the Early Modern Habsburg Worlds. Abstracts due by July 31.👇👇 📅
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Historians of 18th C Art Conference 2023 looking for proposals from scholars working on Asia & Africa!! Call for Panel Proposals | HECAA at 30 | Enfilade
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I’m thrilled to share that I am taking up the position of Series Editor for Routledge’s Visual Culture in Early Modernity. I can’t wait to hear about new projects and proposals and to carry forward the strong work of the series. Reach out to me, I look forward to chatting!
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#JobAlert Do you want to work in Venice? Associate Professor in History of Art, , , , specialised in art and/or architecture of the period 1300-1700 CE, full-time, permanent, £51,799 to £60,022 per annum. Apply by 3 July 2022. jobs.ac.uk/job/CQM341/ass
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Conference on artist's biographies in Naples, July 5-6, online participation possible: "Biografie e autobiografie di artisti nella tradizione letteraria italiana". Apart from expectable papers on the 16th/17th c., a focus on 18th and 19th centuries!
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Back on here to promote the CFP for "Ecologies of Early Modern Art" (online, 22-24.11.22), due 30.6. The event will explore the expanding universe of ecocritical methods for researching art history within and beyond early modern Europe:
arthist.net/archive/36608
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Francis Haskell Memorial Fund – 2022 Scholarships
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Another day devoted to that true treasure of early modern natural history that is the 'Tesoro messicano'.
'Paper Heritage Making: Mexican Treasury and Baroque Rome', today at the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma
Programme: academia.edu/80729954/Paper
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