Department of History of Art

We are now inviting applications for History of Art Graduate Teaching Positions for the 2025/6 academic year.

How can attention to artistic practices and visual interventions from across the global mosaic of local contexts contribute meaningfully to the decentring of hegemonic narratives and research on art and HIV/AIDS? What new configurations of work from across both global south and north are necessary to re-assess the histories of this epidemic, and intervene in its ongoing present? This conference invites papers that examine the state of the field in the study of art, visual culture and HIV/AIDS, presenting recent or ongoing research projects that seek to complicate understandings of this vast area of contemporary life.

The publication of 'St Stephen's Chapel and the Palace of Westminster', edited by Tim Ayers, J P D Cooper, Elizabeth Hallam Smith and Caroline Shenton, marks the culmination of a major AHRC-funded research project (2013-17), led by scholars in the History and History of Art Departments at the University of York.

Issue 11 covers the theme Dwelling on the everyday: houses, ghosts, ellipses and was co-edited by Open University Professor Alice E Sanger.

In collaboration with the Department of History of Art, the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and the Centre for Modern Studies, we announce the annual Victorian Studies conference, supported by the British Association for Victoria.

How can attention to artistic practices and visual interventions from across the globalmosaic of local contexts contribute meaningfully to the decentring of hegemonic narrativesand research on art and HIV/AIDS?