The Association of Print Scholars invites submissions for its sponsored sessions at the Renaissance Society of America conference, to be held in San Francisco from 19-21 February 2026.

APS-sponsored session proposals may be related to any theme of Renaissance and Early Modern printmaking, or any aspect of print scholarship for the era 1300–1700. RSA is a multidisciplinary society, and we especially welcome session proposals that transcend geographic and disciplinary boundaries, as well as those that engage current theoretical interests in historiography, materialism, archival theory, bibliographic studies, or social history.

Series of sessions in honor or in memory of an individual scholar are limited to two sessions per honoree. Co-organized sessions are welcome; junior and senior scholars are encouraged to collaborate. Organizers may act as chair(s), or they may elect another scholar to serve this position, as per RSA guidelines.

You do not need to be a member of RSA to submit a session proposal to APS, but all accepted participants must become RSA members for 2025-2026 and register for the conference. Please note that proposing a session or a paper indicates your commitment to attend.

Organizers, chairs, and/or co-organizers or co-chairs must be members of APS, however, please note that those currently serving as APS officers, whether elected or appointed, may not submit conference proposals for panels sponsored by the organization during their tenure, although are welcome to participate in the selected panel.

How to submit a session proposal for APS sponsorship:
To propose an APS-sponsored session, please submit your session title (15-word maximum) along with a maximum 300-word abstract describing the topics and issues of printmaking that your session will address. Applicants do not need to propose a full panel of presenters in order to submit a session proposal. Submissions should include a two-page CV for each organizer. In the subject line, please indicate “APS-Sponsored session proposal RSA 2026” and send to Dr Talitha M. G. Schepers at rsacoordinator@printscholars.org

DEADLINE:
Submission deadline for all session proposals is:
25 June 2025


Acceptance decisions will be communicated to submitters by 30 June 2025.

APS-sponsored Session Proposal, RSA 2025
Organized by by Dr. Ulrike Keuper (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich) and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Hui Luan Tran (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz)

Every artwork is subject to decay and is therefore involved in a metabolic process. Due to
the printing process printmaking also bears the natural decay of the plate or the
woodblock and each printed sheet. This can be seen as a characteristic of this technique,
just as the division of labour: Pre-drawing, transferring, cutting/engraving/etching and
printing are steps in a working process executed by one or more actors. In material terms,
this means that metal was mined, paper was produced using water, black pigments and
solvents should not be forgotten and in the case of etching, acid came into play. From
the perspective of environmental history, resources were processed whose availability was
unstable and potentially exhaustible and waste materials were generated which were
harmful to the environment. One step further in the production process, the question of
reuse or recycling arises. Was there an afterlife of plates and woodblocks? Were they
reused? How was paper recycled and how did printed sheets find new purposes in
different contexts? And was there an ecological consciousness or urge for sustainability?
The ecological footprint of early modern printmaking is out of proportion to today's
climate crisis. Nevertheless, the situation demands our responsibility as scholars of a
historical discipline. Indeed, printmaking as a medium of reproduction can be seen as a
proto-industrial technique and a medium of capitalism. Besides an ecocritical view of
printmaking, the session hopes to provide a deeper insight to the technique by
questioning its materials, their circumstances of extraction and utilisation.

Please send your full name, current affiliation, paper title (15-word maximum), abstract (200-word maximum), PhD completion date (past or expected), keywords, and a 1-page non-narrative curriculum vitae to the organizers: Ulrike Keuper (Ulrike.keuper@kunstgeschichte.uni-muenchen.de) and Hui Luan Tran (hl.tran@uni-mainz.de).

APS-sponsored Session Proposal, RSA 2025

Organizers: Katherine Calvin (Assistant Professor of Art History, Kenyon College) and Elizabeth Rice Mattison (Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College)

The creation of money and the making of prints were closely aligned, both materially and conceptually, in the early modern period. Not only did the production of coins and prints share reproductive technologies, but the ready circulation of both objects connected vast geographies through trade and exchange. Coins, along with medals, emblems, and seals, were replicated in illustrated books, inflecting their creation, use, and worth for scholarly and elite audiences. While early modern coins were often modeled on classical precedents, prints became a key medium for developing notions of ancient architecture and ornament. Further, reproducibility provoked anxiety about the authenticity, originality, and value of both currency and prints. Although scholars have recently reexamined the social and cultural dimensions of money, the shared dialogue between printmaking and coinage has been overlooked in art historical literature. This panel invites submissions for 20-minute papers that examine the intersection of printmaking and money across geographies, raising new methodological and topical approaches to numismatics and print studies. In focusing new attention on the relationship between currency and printmaking, this panel aims to illuminate early modern considerations of value, worth, and exchange.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

The production and reception of numismatic books
Notions of value as they relate to prints and money
Questions about authenticity and security of prints and money
The shared imagery of prints and coins
Collecting practices of prints and currency
Prints and coins as stores of value
Technologies of making prints and money

https://www.rsa.org/forms/FormResponseView.asp?id=FE620981-26CC-40F6-9494-58C35F578EAB

From Trendy to Extinction. The Identity of North Italian Renaissance Printmaking in the British Museum's Graphic Collection.

Day of the activity: Friday 14th June.
Time: From 11:00 to 12:30.

The visit, organized on the occasion of the biennial congress of the Society for Italian Studies, is a unique opportunity to access the interior of the iconic Print and Drawing study room to see a selection of Italian prints and drawings from the 1460s to 1500.
During the visit, a selection of works by the main authors of this period such as Antonio Pollaiuolo and Andrea Mantegna, will be on display. Complemented by works of Albert Dürer and Raphael, artists particularly relevance to the development of the identity of Italian printmaking in the Cinquecento.

Due to the special characteristics of the space and the security and conservation measures, a limited number of places will be offered and will be assigned according to the order in which the activity is requested.

*** To reserve a place please contact Javier Jurado García by email: jajurado@ucm.es

Association of Print Scholars
CALL FOR APS-SPONSORED SESSION PROPOSALS
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA
20-22 March 2025
Boston
The Association of Print Scholars invites submissions for its sponsored sessions at the Renaissance Society of America conference, to be held in Boston from 20-22 March 2025.
APS-sponsored session proposals may be related to any theme of Renaissance and Early Modern printmaking, or any aspect of print scholarship for the era 1300–1700. RSA is a multidisciplinary society, and we especially welcome session proposals that transcend geographic and disciplinary boundaries, as well as those that engage current theoretical interests in historiography, materialism, archival theory, bibliographic studies, or social history.
Series of sessions in honor or in memory of an individual scholar are limited to two sessions per honoree. Co-organized sessions are welcome; junior and senior scholars are encouraged to collaborate. Organizers may act as chair(s), or they may elect another scholar to serve this position, as per RSA guidelines.
You do not need to be a member of RSA to submit a session proposal to APS, but all accepted participants must become RSA members for 2024-2025 and register for the conference. Please note that proposing a session or a paper indicates your commitment to attend.
Organizers, chairs, and/or co-organizers or co-chairs must be members of APS, however, please note that those currently serving as APS officers, whether elected or appointed, may not submit conference proposals for panels sponsored by the organization during their tenure, although are welcome to participate in the selected panel.
How to submit a session proposal for APS sponsorship:
To propose an APS-sponsored session, please submit your session title along with a 250-word abstract describing the topics and issues of printmaking that your session will address. Applicants do not need to propose a full panel of presenters in order to submit a session proposal. Submissions should include a two-page CV for each organizer. In the subject line, please indicate “APS-Sponsored session proposal RSA 2025” and send to Braden Scott
at rsacoordinator@printscholars.org

Submissions due: 15 May 2024
Acceptance decisions will be communicated to submitters by 1 June 2024.

The Association of Print Scholars invites thematic proposals for its sponsored session at the 2021 College Art Association (CAA) annual conference to be held in New York City, February 10-13, 2021.

The APS-sponsored session may be related to any period, theme, or aspect of print scholarship. We encourage proposals that transcend chronological or geographic boundaries, as well as those that engage current theoretical interests in materialism, archival theory, bibliographic studies, history of ideas, or social history, including feminisms and critical race studies.

If you are interested in chairing the panel, please submit a title and 250-word abstract that describes the subject of your session. Co-chaired sessions are welcome. Once the theme and chair of the panel are selected, this session will solicit contributors through CAA’s open call. Chair or co-chairs must be members in good standing of APS and CAA.

Submissions should include a CV and should be sent to Cabelle Ahn at: caacoordinator@printscholars.org

The deadline for consideration is April 15, 2020.

The Association of Print Scholars invites submissions for its sponsored sessions at the 65th annual Renaissance Society of America conference, to be held in Toronto, Canada, 17–19 March 2019.

APS-sponsored session proposals may be related to any theme of Renaissance and Early Modern printmaking, or any aspect of print scholarship for the era 1300–1700. Because RSA is a multidisciplinary society, we especially welcome session proposals that transcend geographic and disciplinary boundaries, as well as those that engage current theoretical interests in Renaissance printmaking’s historiography, materialism, archival theory, bibliographic studies, or social history.

Series of sessions in honor or in memory of an individual scholar are limited to two sessions per honoree. Co-chaired sessions are welcome; junior and senior scholars are encouraged to collaborate. Chair or co-chairs must be members of APS. You do not need to be an RSA member to submit a session proposal to APS, but all accepted participants must become RSA members for 2019 and register for the conference. Please note that proposing a session or a paper indicates your commitment to attend.

How to submit a session proposal for APS sponsorship: To propose an APS-sponsored session, please submit a session title and 250-word abstract that describes the topics and issues of printmaking that your session will address. Submissions should include a CV for each chair. Please indicate “APS-Sponsored session proposal RSA 2019 TORONTO” in the subject line, and send to info@printscholars.org.

Submission deadline for all session proposals:
Monday 30 July 2018 at 11:59 p.m. (U.S. Pacific Daylight Time).
Acceptance will be communicated to applicants by Friday 3 August 2018.

This panel seeks to investigate the racialized dimensions of print and printmaking. The medium has played a central role in the ideological founding of “race” and its hierarchies through visual representation. However, print’s materials, processes, and the language we use to describe them interface with conceptions of race in ways that require further study. For example, the term “stereotype” originated in the printing trade but has since evolved to mean an oversimplified general idea, often with pejorative racial connotations; the invention of chromolithography in the nineteenth century offered a more nuanced way of representing skin tones but simultaneously enabled the increased circulation of racist imagery; the rabid appreciation and collection of Japanese prints in the West altered artistic production globally while idealizing Eastern cultures; anthropological sketches and watercolor studies of native peoples were routinely translated to print, widely reproduced, and used as tools of imperialism and colonialism. Contemporary artists have responded to these historical issues: for instance, Glenn Ligon used the trope of a fugitive slave ad in his Runaways series (1993). Inviting papers related to these and other case studies, this session will consider how print and its study has implicitly upheld, revised, or challenged social constructions of race (including whiteness). This panel is geographically and chronologically open and will put mass images, fine prints, and bibliography from all periods in conversation to understand the medium’s material relationship to race on a global, transhistorical scale.

INSTRUCTIONS TO SUBMIT PAPERS/PROJECTS TO SESSION CHAIRS -------

Email the following directly to session chair(s) at miche355@umn.edu:

1. Completed session participation proposal form, (editable PDF, next page). Make sure your name appears EXACTLY as you would like it listed in the conference program and conference
website.
2. Paper/project abstract: maximum 250 words, as a single paragraph MS Word Document. Make sure your title and abstract appear EXACTLY as you would like them published in the conference program, Abstracts 2019, and the CAA website.
3. Email explaining your interest in the session, expertise in the topic, and availability during the conference.
4. A shortened CV (close to 2 pages)
5. (Optional) Documentation of work when appropriate, (as PDF) especially for sessions in which artists might discuss their own practice.

Panel Organizer ------------

Christina Michelon is a Luce /ACLS Fellow in American Art and a PhD Candidate in Art History at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities where she is completing her dissertation “Interior Impressions: Printed Material in the Nineteenth-Century American Home.” Her work has been supported by the Smithsonian Institution, the Winterthur Museum & Library, the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Chipstone Foundation.

*View more information on how to apply via 'External Link' below.

APS is currently seeking new volunteers to act as Subfield Content Editors. Each position will be credited as an APS Officer and is for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal.

Editors are responsible for seeking out and posting content related to their specific subfield of research/profession to the APS website (although editors can certainly post any print related content that they find). We are seeking applicants from a wide range of professions, who can represent a diverse geographical base, focused on four designated specialty areas, including:

- Old Master prints
- 18th and 19th Century prints
- Modern and Contemporary prints
- Artists/Studio Printmakers/Teachers/Other working professionals (freelance authors, gallery, auction, conservation, ...)

Editors are encouraged to actively contribute and share content with the APS network by finding any information related to prints that fits into one of the categories on the website, which include: News, Opportunities, and Scholarship. Potential content can be found via websites, email listservs, and other communities of which they are already a part.

The position requires only a minimal time commitment and a resource guide & training will be provided to new Editors. Editors should post a minimum of 1-2 listings a month, but more posts are always welcome!

Please email Elisa Germán at web@printscholars.org by June 15th if you are interested, and please indicate your field of expertise. Decisions will be made by June 30th.

The Association of Print Scholars invites thematic proposals for its sponsored session at the 2019 CAA conference to be held in New York, February 13-16, 2019.

The APS-sponsored session may be related to any period, theme, or aspect of print scholarship. We encourage proposals that transcend chronological or geographic boundaries, as well as those that engage current theoretical interests in materialism, archival theory, bibliographic studies, history of ideas, or social history, including feminisms and critical race studies.

If you are interested in chairing the panel, please submit a title and 250-word abstract that describes the subject of your session. Once the theme and chair of the panel are selected, this session will solicit contributors through CAA’s open call. Co-chaired sessions are welcome. Submissions should include a CV and should be sent to info@printscholars.org. Chair or co-chairs must be members in good standing of APS and CAA.