Events

Events organized by AHNCA

About AHNCA

Founded in 1993, the association today has more than 250 members. AHNCA's goal is to foster communication and collaboration among all who are interested in art and visual culture produced between 1789 and 1914.
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Virtual Salon: The Evolving Archive, Part 1

October 3, 2025 11:00 am
Please join us on Friday, October 3 at 11am Eastern Time for the Virtual Salon, “The Evolving Archive, part 1.” This online event is organized by Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide and is part of a series of online events cosponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/Evolving-Archive.   The nineteenth century is particularly rich in primary texts,...
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Virtual Salon: Gustave Caillebotte

September 4, 2025 7:00 pm
Please join us on Thursday, September 4 at 7 pm Eastern Time for a Virtual Salon on the Gustave Caillebotte exhibition organized by the Musée d’Orsay, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. This online event is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/Gustave-Caillebotte We are fortunate...
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CFP: CAA 2026

Our AHNCA-sponsored session at the 2026 College Art Association meeting in Chicago, “Who’s Afraid of Decorative Art?” will be chaired by Adrienne L. Childs and Ivana Dizdar. The portal for submissions of abstracts will open on Tuesday, July 15, and the deadline to apply is August 29, 2025. Accepted speakers should be members of both CAA and AHNCA; check your AHNCA membership here and...
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The Morality of Pictures

April 25, 2025 12:00 pm
Please join us for the next AHNCA/Dahesh Virtual Salon on Friday, April 25 at noon Eastern! “Art,” Baudelaire wrote, “cannot, except at the price of death or decay, assume the mantle of morality,” but he immediately added that every artwork “naturally and necessarily suggests a moral.” In this Virtual Salon, three distinguished scholars will consider what role, if any, moral...
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Twenty-Second Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art: Second Session

March 16, 2025 1:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. Special thanks to the Dahesh Museum of Art for the Dahesh Museum of Art Prize for Best Paper(s), a gift from the Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation. This event will be held online; advance registration is required: www.tinyurl.com/grad-day2 Second Session: Sunday, March 16, 2025 1:00 pm...
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Twenty-Second Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art: First Session

March 15, 2025 1:30 pm
Co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and the Dahesh Museum of Art. Special thanks to the Dahesh Museum of Art for the Dahesh Museum of Art Prize for Best Paper(s), a gift from the Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation. This event will be held online; advance registration is required: www.tinyurl.com/grad-day1 First Session: Saturday, March 15, 2025 1:30...