Calls for papers
We often hold conferences on a wide range of sculpture topics at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, Henry Moore Studios and Gardens in Hertfordshire, or with external partner venues.
We do not have any active calls for papers at this time.
Recent calls for papers
You can see examples of of the types of conferences and open calls we hold below.
New Approaches to Herbert Read
Leeds University
Wednesday 2 November 2022
Call for participants for a one-day workshop for PhD and Early Career Researchers on the work of Herbert Read.
Deadline to apply:
Wednesday 7 September 2022, 17:00
Details
This workshop will mark the beginning of the Henry Moore Institute’s 2022-23 research season dedicated to Herbert Read. Building on the foundation of scholarship that reassessed Read in the 1990s, it asks how his legacy has shifted into the twenty-first century.
We welcome proposals for short, 5-10 minute papers intended to simulate discussion and introduce new research or creative interpretation of Read’s work. Topics may include:
- New research into any area of Read’s writing
- Read as curator, editor, or translator
- New perspectives on Read’s influence over modern and contemporary sculpture
- Read and the nineteenth century
- Read and the Anthropocene
- Read and the ethnographic artifact
- Read’s anarchism and his political context
- Read’s position within the New Modernist Studies
- Read at home: the North Riding, Leeds, Hampstead, Stonegrave
- Read’s role at the ICA
- Word, image, ekphrasis
- Read beyond the canon
- Read and imperialism
- Read and popular culture
- Read and landscape