Named after the small red sticker that once guided scholars through legacy 35mm slides, The Red Dot is here to help you navigate the ever-evolving landscape of visual and material research. While rooted in the University of California, Santa Barbara community, our posts are open to all.
At MIRL, we engage with art history, digital humanities, and material culture through hands-on research and archival projects. Guided by our core principles—critical engagement with visual and material culture, ethical stewardship of images and data, and innovative approaches to research and pedagogy—we work at the intersection of technology and the humanities. We are especially interested in how digital tools can expand the study of images, objects, and spaces.
Here, we’ll share insights on Digital Art History and Architectural History, highlight new image and data resources, discuss copyright and ethical considerations, and spotlight events that shape our field.
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DH Monday: MORE CFP – Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference (San Juan, Puerto Rico / March 9-11, 2023)
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 9-11, 2023 Additional Call for Papers for the following sessions: 3. “New Perspectives on Italian Art,” Submission Deadline: Monday, August 1, 2022: This session aims to create a space for emerging scholars (recent Ph.D.s or Ph.D. candidates) of Italian art to present their work.… Read more
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DH Monday: Summer School: Transmissions (Rome, September 5-11, 2022)
Summer School “Tran(s)missions: how multimediality shapes interdisciplinary research in the field of Italian and Visual Culture Studies, ” Rome – Università degli Studi di Roma Tre (in collaboration with University College London), Sep 5–11, 2022 Pre-Application Deadline: July 31, 2022 The “digital revolution” forces us both to rethink the correspondences between art and science and… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference (San Juan, Puerto Rico / March 9-11, 2023)
Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 9-11, 2023 Call for Papers for the following two sessions: 1. “New Technologies and Renaissance Studies,” Submission Deadline: before Sunday, July 31, 2022. 2. “Grappling with Imperialism and Colonialism in the Early Modern Art History Classroom,” Submission Deadline: August 1, 2022: Given the roles… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – (Non-)Digital Discourse Analytical Approaches (IIT Roorkee, India / February 20-26, 2023)
3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference) & 3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India, 20.‒26.02.2023, Onsite conference hosted by Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee, India) Session Call for Papers: “How Modality Matters? Learning from the Multiplicity of (Non-)Digital Discourse Analytical Approaches” Submission Deadline: July 15, 2022 Digital… Read more
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DH Monday: Digital Humanities in Architectural History – Mentoring Program Virtual Roundtable
“Digital Humanities in Architectural History,” is a free event to be held Tuesday, June 28, from 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CDT / 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST / 9:00 – 10:30 AM PDT. This is a second collaborative project of SAH WiA AG and Carlton University | Art & Architectural History, and with SAH Archipedia, organized by Dr. Gül… Read more
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DH Monday: The Future of the Virtual Past (Cambridge/online, June 27, 2022)
The Future of the Virtual Past – New Directions and Shared Standards in the Reconstruction of the Medieval-Renaissance Built Environment Online (Zoom) /Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, University of Cambridge – 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (BST) / 2:00 am – 10:00 am (PDT) An international interdisciplinary conference organized by Donal Cooper (University of Cambridge) and… Read more