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Dear all, I'm an european student in the humanities and I got my paper accepted at a conference at an Ivy League University which is very famous. I was surprised to be accepted and now I have one week to decide if I will fly from Europe just for that conference in September or if I should simply decline the invitation. My institution can not almost certainly provide fundings for the cost of the travel and the hosting instituion might be able to offer some fundings but there is no certainity. I would like to ask if it's worth the trip/time/cost to take part to a conference in the U.S just to put on your cv this, besides the scientifc advantages of the conference in itself.

Of course I put on my Cv only conferences where I gave a speech. The conferences to which I applied so far are: one international conference of 3 days. one conference organized by a postgraduate student journal but not restricted to student. Let's see if I manage to give another paper, so maybe my cv won't be that impressive and big, but ut'd show that I have an interest and ambition.

I totally agree with you, in fact I try to choose conference in departements which I think share similar perspective on my field of research. Also I don't think that if I write on my cv that I gave 3 paper on this topic it sounds like I just want to travel, it would maybe show that I'm ambitious and so on. When I look at cv's of young professors they list even minor conferences, and in my case it is better to show that I did something aside writing my ma dissertation, so I can claim, if not a growing expertise on a topic, at least the will to research. Also, my academic cv is empty, I mean, I never gave a paper and never published anything, but in Europe is pretty normal at the ma level. Maybe I'm too idealistic and I of course think that is better to publish an article than to give a paper, but why not refine ideas for an article with the feedback received at a conference?

Hallo everybody, I'm finishing my Ma in Art History in Germany and now I feel a little bit more confident about my qualities as a student. I sent an abstract to an international conference entirely dedicated only to an author (let's pretend like you want to be an expert on Oscar Wilde and the conference is just on him). and I was pretty surprised because my paper was accepted. The conference will be this summer. Now I'm planning to take part in let's say another 1 or 2 conference for this year, in order to put something on my cv and maybe use the feedback I receive on those paper to work out a possible idea for a Ph.d. My main concern is wether I should go in Ma-organised conference with just one keynote speaker or it would be just a waste of time. Most of those conference are held in Uk and I don't have fundings for my Ma, so I would have to pay for the plane and the stay. I sent only another abstract for a conference in Uk and now I'm waiting for the result. My question is: do you distinguish on your cv if it was a graduate student conference or a normal one? How do you distinguish those two by looking on the call for papers? I mean, there are conference organized by ma students but they are sponsored by other institutions or things like that. With graduate students conference do you guys mean those conference held each year at the end of the semester? thanks for your answer

yes, now I'm here, I have been suffering of depression while I was doing my master and lived in a room of 2 square meter (the size of a bed) in a house of seven people, with no table at all neither in the kitchen, these two factors had a strong negative influence on my marks. now I'm in Berlin and don't know if I should study more in this ma or not. On the one hand I think that it would be useful for my future to handle perfectly three languages (english,italian and german) and most of the phd deadlines already expired this yearm on the other I don't know if I'm ready to stand the stress of another master knowing that the reward would be a title which I already have. But when I look at my marks I'm afraid that nobody is going to admit me in any program..

Hi, thansk for your answer. Yes 73 is like an A- according to the Uk grading system, but look at my other marks, they are not so high. I have to say I´m still looking around because I also still need to decide on which precise aspect of art history/aesthetics to focus. I have been interested in Aby Warburg and Renaissance Art but also Aby Warburg´s Mnemosyne Atlas in relation to Benjamin´s arcade project. I know these are topics that have been already widely researched that´s why I was thinking to shift to something more specific/new. For what concerns the schools in which I´m interested I don´t know yet which have focus on my interest/future interest, I was looking at Brown, Yale, Harvard pages yesterday, just out of curiosity. Also don´t know if I should finish the master I´m doing here in Berlin or concentrate on application for phds.

Hallo, I´m brand new in this forum and would like to ask a couple of questions about application for an art history phd program. I´m 24 and just graduated in aesthetics and art theory ma at Crmep - Kingston University London with a commendation, the equivalent of a merit. I´m pretty disappointed in what should I do and a little bit negatively upset because of my marks, I´m in a certain sense scared that I won´t be able to take part in any phd program because of my transcript of records: 57, 66, 68, 71 and the dissertation was judged 73. I did my bachelor in Venice at the Iuav University and it ended up with a first. (110/110 cum laude according to the italian grading system). For the fact that I wasn´t so sure about my ma marks I decided to enrol in the ma of art history at Humboldt University in Berlin which I´m attending now. I´m on one hand happy because I´m studying in Germany and like a lot Berlin but don´t know if I should just apply for a phd with the marks I got from my Uk ma or keep studying here and hoping for the best/gettin better grades. Any advice is really welcome, cheers!