2024 news
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Art, Visual Culture and HIV/AIDS: Local, Regional and Transnational Perspectives Conference
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.
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Launch of major new book
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.
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New issue of the Open Arts Journal edited by Emerita Professor Helen Hills
Issue 11 covers the theme Dwelling on the everyday: houses, ghosts, ellipses and was co-edited by Open University Professor Alice E Sanger.
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History of Art, Architecture and Design at York ranks 8th in the Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2025
The Department of History of Art has placed 8th in the Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2025 for the subjects of history of art, architecture and design. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities they provide to our students.
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Mina’i Ware - A Reassessment and Comprehensive Study of Iranian Polychrome Overglaze Wares through Sherds
After ten years, Richard McClary’s new monograph has just been published by Edinburgh University Press.
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Dr Erhan Tamur's PhD thesis wins dissertation prize
Dr Erhan Tamur's PhD thesis (Columbia University, 2022) won The Donny George Youkhana Dissertation Prize of the The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII).
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Dr Erhan Tamur featured on the latest episode of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's podcast Immaterial.
This podcast examines materials used in art and what they can reveal about history, humanity, and the world at large
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New for 2024/25: York Art Gallery Bursary with Internship
We are delighted to announce an MA bursary and internship for 2024/25, generously supported by the Friends of York Art Gallery.
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New article: Natural Calamities, Litany, and Banners: The Intercession of the Virgin and Christ in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Florence
This new article, by Jessica N. Richardson, explores the performativity of images and script in late medieval Florence.
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6th in the UK: Complete University Guide 2025
History of Art at York is ranked 6th in the UK according to the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2025).
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Adam Sammut on Radio 3 Podcast
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Adam Sammut appeared on the Arts & Ideas podcast on Radio 3 last month.
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Call for Applications: British & Irish Furniture Makers Online and Furniture History Society digital research project
Applications are invited from MA students to engage in one of several possible exciting digital research projects involving the collections and furnishings of three prestigious historic British houses: Castle Howard, Raby Castle and Holkham Hall.
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Call for Papers: Monuments in Conversation Westminster Abbey in the 18th Century
We are pleased to announce that Monuments in Conversation: Westminster Abbey in the Eighteenth Century will be the first event held in the newly renovated conference facilities at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
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Book prize for Prof Kate Giles
We are delighted to share that Prof Kate Giles has been awarded a Historians of British Art Book Prize!