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AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD funding for UK/EU applicants
The Department of History of Art at the University of Warwick is inviting applications for the AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities PhD from students whose research interests connect with our fields of expertise. Deadline is noon on 14 January 2020.
For full details of eligibility, funding, research supervision areas and CDA projects, and for dates of our November application writing workshops, please visit: https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/ or contact enquiries@midlands4cities.ac.uk
PhD studentship on the Responses to the Medieval in Art, Architecture and Heritage
Applications are invited for a full-time PhD (via MPhil route) studentship on the following topic: The Responses to the Medieval in art, architecture and heritage from the early- to mid-twentieth centuries in the interpretation of medieval heritage in Coventry, c. 1900-c.1960.
The deadline for applications is December 13, 2019.
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PhD studentship on the history & contribution of Coventry School of Art.
Applications are invited for a full-time PhD (via MPhil route) studentship on the following topic: College, City and Beyond: the History and Contribution of Coventry School of Art & Design from 1843 onwards.
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Midlands4Cities. New funding opportunities for art history doctoral research!
Warwick University has joined the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership which will offer 100s of studentships for subjects in the Arts and Humanities, including support for engagement with cultural, creative & heritage organisations. See the University of Warwick news item.
Dr Olga Smith announced as History of Art WIRL-COFUND Research Fellow.
We are very pleased to announce Olga Smith's arrival in September as a WIRL-COFUND Research (Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Leadership Programme) Fellow. For this prestigious two-year award Olga will develop her project on the politics and aesthetics of photographic representations of landscape in Europe in the contemporary period.
CADRE funding success for three History of Art research students.
Congratulations to Matteo Carpiniello, Fabio Franz and Delia Moldovan on securing CADRE funding for their PhD studies.
Student Studying Abroad Opportunities for 2016.
The Study Abroad Team will be holding four open information sessions this term. Places are limited to 150. To find out more about the sessions and book a seat go to the Study Abroad Events Calendar.
New PhD by Research Scholarship for Venetian Renaissance Painting.
Closing date: 1st May 2015.
For more information see:
- The project website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/arthistory/research/projects/nationalgallery
- The advertisement on jobs.ac.uk: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AKV966/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-studentship-with-the-national-gallery-navigating-the-canals-making-and-moving-venetian-renaissance-paintings/
Professor Paul Smith has been awarded a Clark Institute summer fellowship.
Professor Paul Smith has been awarded a summer fellowship at the Clark Institute in Williamstown to pursue research into pictorial syntax, or how we construct the immaterial, virtual image in a picture from the material marks on its surface.
Congratulations: MA student wins Cini Foundation Scholarship.
Congratulations to Philip Zidarov, an MA student in the department, who has won a scholarship from the Cini Foundation in Venice to pursue research at the Vittore Branca International Center for Studies of Italian Culture. Philip’s project, Visual Documents of Two Volcanic Eruptions: The Journeys of Images, examines the use and re-use of images of Etna and Vesuvius by artists, engravers, and printers through the 17th and 18th centuries.