Queen Charlotte (detail; 1771), Johan Joseph Zoffany. Royal Collection Trust, UK.
First up this week, this Apollo Magazine review of Yale Centre for British Art‘s exhibition Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the Shaping of the Modern World, which runs until April 30th (frustratingly, just one day before I arrive there as a visiting scholar!).
Secondly, I read Alice Kelly’s article ‘How to make writing in the humanities less lonely‘, which discusses TORCH’s writing group with interest, as the group was a crucial source of inspiration for our own version in Edinburgh.
I thoroughly enjoyed this post from the National Museum of Scotland on Owen Jones’ Grammar of Ornament, which is an important object within the museum’s newly curated art and design galleries.
The Storifys for each day of the three days of the War Through Other Stuff conference are now available here. I’ll be posting some thoughts from the conference in an upcoming blog post next week.
I was also captivated by this Victoria and Albert Museum video ‘Garnitures: Vase Sets from National Trust Houses‘, which examines rare surviving examples of vase sets and ceramic ornaments from National Trust houses being displayed on furniture and in period rooms at the V&A.
I was excited to see that the special inaugural issue of the Journal of Romanticism, on Romanticism and mysticism, is now available for purchase.
Finally, I saw a reminder this week that all of the University of Cambridge Things sessions are available as podcasts online – I must catch up asap!
The following CFPs, conferences and CFAs also caught my attention this week:
CFP: Evidence of Power in the Ruler Portrait, 14th – 18th Centuries (1-2 Dec 17)
CFP: Material Histories of Time: Objects and Practices, 14th-18th centuries (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Musée international d’horlogerie, November 30 – December 1, 2017)
CFP: “Hawthorne and Things” MLA 2018
CONF: Dress and Diplomacy (Copenhagen, 22 Mar 17)
CFP: AAH Summer Symposium: Re/presenting the Body (Glasgow, 6-7 Jul 17)
CFP: Collections – Scholars – Interpretations (Tbilisi, 2-3 May 17)
CONF: Graduate Student Symposium – History of 19th-Century Art (New York, 26 Mar 17)
CFP: Special issue of Southern Cultures: Southern Things (Material Culture)
CFA: The Pre-Raphaelites and Antiquity (Special Issue Open Cultural Studies)
CFA: On Uses of Black Camp (Special Issue Open Cultural Studies)
CFA: Materiality, Objects and Objecthood (Special Issue Open Cultural Studies)
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