22nd December 2025
Updated: 2 February 2026 Wednesday 8 April All Day 08.30-onwards: Registration 10.00-17.30: Bookfair 10.00-12.00: Morning Sessions AI and the Artworld: Art History and the Generative Imagination Art History Warmed up? Art Writing: Beyond the Crisis? Beyond Barbie: Queer, Crip, Feminist... Read More...
18th December 2025
8–10 April 2026 University of Cambridge The 2026 conference will be hosted in partnership with the History of Art department at the University of Cambridge in April. The conference will be held across Churchill College, and Murray Edwards College and... Read More...
12th March 2025
This programme is your digital, interactive and downloadable guide to our Annual Conference, which will take place at the University of York on 9-11 April 2025. Read More...
7th February 2025
Wednesday 9th April All Day 09.00-onwards: Registration 10.00-17.30: Bookfair Morning Sessions: 10.30-12.30 After Turner (pt 1) Architecture’s Unsung Institutions (pt 1) Art Histories of the Urban (pt 1) Attention in Pre-Modern Art and Visual Culture (pt 1) Community and Activism... Read More...9th September 2024
9–11 April 2025 University of York The 2025 conference will be held in partnership with the History of Art department at the University of York, in their jubilee year. The Association for Art History’s Annual Conference brings together international research... Read More...6th March 2024
This programme is your digital, interactive and downloadable guide to our 50th Annual Conference, which will take place in-person at the University of Bristol on 3-5 April. #ForArtHistory2024 is a wonderful opportunity to keep up to date with the latest... Read More...
11th January 2024
Wednesday 3rd April All Day 09.00-17.30 Registration 09.00-17.30 BookFair Morning 10.30-12.30 Sessions Beyond the AAH: Groups, Organisations, and Collectives since the 1970s (pt 1) Curating 'Women Artists' (pt 1) 'Queer Photography' Now (pt 1) Shifting Grounds: Landscape and Cultural Practice... Read More...27th September 2023
3-5 April 2024 University of Bristol Booking now open! 2024 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Association for Art History. We are delighted to announce that our 50th annual conference will be held in collaboration with the History of... Read More...16th March 2023
This brochure is your digital, interactive and downloadable guide to our 49th Annual Conference, which will take place in-person at University College London on 12-14 April. #ForArtHistory2023 is a wonderful opportunity to keep up to date with the latest research,... Read More...
10th February 2023
Wednesday 12th April All Day 09.00-17.00 Registration 09.00-17.30 BookFair Morning 10.30-12.30 Sessions Art, Empire & Nation (pt 1) Queer Medievalisms in British Art (pt 1) Matter Matters: The Aesthetics and Politics of Soil (pt 1) Mongol Bling: From Xanadu to... Read More...
19th October 2022
12-14 APRIL 2023 University College London Welcome! We are delighted to welcome you to our 49th Annual Conference taking place in-person over three engaging days at University College London. #ForArtHistory2023 is an opportunity to keep up to date with new... Read More...
2nd February 2021
6 – 8 April 2022 Digital The Association for Art History’s 48th Annual Conference brings together international research and critical debate about art, art history and visual cultures. This key annual event for art history is an opportunity to keep... Read More...
4th February 2020
Online Event 14 - 17 April 2021 Thanks to everyone who participated in and attended #forarthistory2021 our first online Annual Conference. You will find recordings of 2021 keynotes and Fringe over in Latest News. The 2021 Annual Conference will take... Read More...
28th September 2018
1 - 3 April 2020 Newcastle University & Northumbria University Keynote Speakers: Lynda Nead, Pevsner Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London Read and watch online Bert Hardy: Exercises with Photography and Film. A recent project by Lynda Nead... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Fae Brauer, University of East London Centre for Cultural Studies Research Serena Keshavjee, University of Winnipeg Cultural Studies Program Session Abstract Faced with ‘a queasy sickening feeling that all was not right’, by the fin-de-siècle many Modernists in... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Mary Ikoniadou, Manchester Metropolitan University Zeina Maasri, University of Brighton Session Abstract This session examines the often side-lined, post-1945 histories, trajectories and methodologies of visual production and circulation that express and constitute relations of solidarity. It builds on... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Ralph Ghoche, Barnard College, Columbia University Ignacio G. Galán, Barnard College, Columbia University Session Abstract Cities tend to be chronicled by the achievements of the dominant cultures that were responsible for their rise. Often lost in these narratives,... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenor Greg Salter, University of Birmingham Session Abstract In the UK in 2017, the fiftieth anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales was marked with celebratory media coverage, academic publications, and high-profile exhibitions (including Tate’s... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenor Nathan J Timpano, University of Miami Session Abstract Writing in the 1840s, the celebrated American Gothic author Edgar Allan Poe coined the term ‘graphicality’ to describe the manner in which his short stories could ‘paint’ striking, or even... Read More...21st June 2018
Session Convenors Lucia Farinati, Kingston University, London Jennifer Thatcher, University of Edinburgh Session Abstract There is no history of the artist interview as a critical genre in its own right. Rather, it has been underplayed as a journalistic tool, or... Read More...Copyright 2026. All Rights Reserved