Author: Camara Dia Holloway

I am the Project Manager for the Romare Bearden Digital Catalogue Raisonné at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute. I earned my PhD at Yale University in the History of Art Department and specialize in twentieth century American art with a particular focus on the history of photography, race and representation, and transatlantic modernist networks. I also serve as a Founding Co-Director of the Association for Critical Race Art History (ACRAH).

CFP: African Photography issue of Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies

Call for papers for a special issue of Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies

African Photography: Realism and After

The place and meaning of photographs in Africa has shifted dramatically
over time, from colonial and ethnographic practices to radical new forms
of contemporary representation. Photographs circulate as documents, as
remnants in the aftermath of violence and dislocation, as both public
and private records of celebration, kinship and dwelling, and as
artworks. Photography offers a suggestive surface for engagements with
questions of both the imaginary and the real. This special issue of
Social Dynamics invites papers that explore the history, theory and
practice of photography across the continent.

Topics might include:

The role of portraits and family albums
Photographs of public figures
Photography and the history and memory of slavery
African photography and postcolonial modernity
Reading photographs as colonial documents
Photography and liberation struggles
Photography and national history
Local histories of photography
Art photography and imaginative transformation

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words by the 22 February 2013 to:
kyliethomas.south@gmail.com

Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies is a peer-reviewed journal
that is published three times a year by Taylor & Francis in electronic
and print format.  The journal is based at the Centre for African
Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and is edited by
Louise Green and Kylie Thomas.

For more information about the journal see:
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsdy20/current

NEH Summer Institute on American Material Culture

American Material Culture: Nineteenth-Century New York
NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers

At the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
New York City, July 1-26, 2013

Objects matter. Material culture scholars use artifactual evidence
such as consumer goods, architecture, clothing, landscape, decorative
arts, and many other types of material.

The Bard Graduate Center will host a four-week NEH Summer Institute on
American Material Culture. The institute will focus on the material
culture of the nineteenth century and use New York as its case study
because of its role as a national center for fashioning cultural
commodities and promoting consumer tastes. We will study significant
texts in the scholarship of material culture together as well as in
tandem with visiting some of the wonderful collections in and around
New York City for our hands-on work with artifacts. The city will be
our laboratory to explore some of the important issues of broad impact
that go well beyond New York.

We welcome applications from college teachers and other scholars with
some experience doing object-based work, as well as those who have
never taught or studied material culture. Application materials and
other information about content, qualifications, stipends, housing,
etc. is available at http://bgc.bard.edu/neh-institute.

The application deadline is March 4, 2013.

David Jaffee, Project Director
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture

For more information, please contact:

Katrina London
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
38 West 86th Street
New York, NY 10024
212.501.3026 / nehinstitute@bgc.bard.edu

JOB: Curator of Latin American Art @ Blanton Museum of Art (UT Austin)

Curator of Latin American Art – Blanton Museum of Art (UT Austin)

Required Application Materials

A Resume is required in order to apply
A Letter of Interest is required in order to apply.
A List of 3 References is required in order to apply.

Additional Information

Purpose

The curator is responsible for overseeing the Blanton Museum of Art’s collection of Latin American art, which is considered to be among the foremost public collections of modern and contemporary Latin American art in the U.S.

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Timbuktu: It’s like a library has burned

Gregory Mann's avatarAfrica is a Country (Old Site)


News came yesterday, violent, rotten news. It’s been a steady rhythm from Mali, a country that has already suffered too much. But there’s something brutal in the news that Salafist fighters burned hundreds of rare manuscripts, some of them unique and centuries old, before leaving Timbuktu to French paratroopers.

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New Book: “Horrofílmico—Aproximaciones al cine de terror en Latinoamérica y el Caribe”

PUB: n. p a r a d o x a, issue, “Africa and Its Diasporas”

 n. p a r a d o x a: Volume 31, Jan 2013, Africa and Its Diasporas

Full Contents Listing:

Guest Edited by Bisi Silva (curator and Director of CCA, Lagos)

Giulia Lamoni  ‘African masks, family photographs and open suitcases: Rosana Paulino, Mónica de Miranda and Maimuna Adam’
Julie Crenn ‘Michèle Magéma – Without Echo, there is no Meeting’
Nontobeko Ntombela  ‘Silent Toyi-Toyis in the work of Donna Kukama and Reshma Chhiba’
Monique Kerman ‘Cut to the Chase: The Work of Mary Evans’
Rachida Triki  ‘Contemporary women artists in Tunisia’
Cheryl Thompson ‘Contesting the Aunt Jemima Trademark through Feminist Art:  Why is She Still Smiling?’
Solange Farkas ‘From “ferramentaria” to trance: Symbolism, concept and religiosity in the work of Eneida Sanches’
Peju Layiwola ‘From Footnote to Main Text: Re/Framing Women Artists from Nigeria’
Zehra Jumabhoy ‘Betwixt and In-Between: Reading Zarina Bhimji’
Artists’ Statements on recent works from Taiye Idahor, Ato Malinda, Adwoa Admoah, Maimuna Adam and Mary Sibande

Artist’s Pages by Ayana V. Jackson; Pinar Yolacan; Angèle Etounde Essamba

This volume is financially supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.

n.paradoxa is published two times a year (Jan and July) and its content is available in print and electronic form.

Order online at www.ktpress.co.uk

blackatlanticresource's avatarBlack Atlantic Resource Debate

Kentridge in Context: an evening with Derek Attridge.

Professor Attridge discusses Kentridge’s work in relation to

contemporary South African literature

on

Thursday 24 January 6pm

A Universal Archive – William Kentridge as Printmaker

Exhibition continues until Sunday 3 February, 2013.  Open 10am-6pm daily. Free.

One of South Africa’s greatest contemporary artists, William Kentridge is acclaimed worldwide for his films, drawings, theatre and opera productions.  He is also an innovative and prolific printmaker who studied etching at the Johannesburg Art Foundation.

Over the past 25 years Kentridge has produced more than 300 etchings, engravings, aquatints, silkscreens, linocuts and lithographs, experimenting with formats and combining techniques.  Often the social and political themes explored in his prints end up in a piece of theatre or animated film.  This exhibition includes over 100 prints in all media from 1988 to the present, with a focus on experimental and serial works, ranging in scale from intimate…

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FEL: The Center for Jewish History Dissertation Fellowships

The Center for Jewish History offers fellowships to doctoral
candidates to support original research using the collections at the
Center. Preference is given to those candidates who draw on the
library and archival resources of more than one partner institution.
Fellowships carry a stipend of up to $15,000 for a period of one
academic year. Applicants for the fellowship must have completed all
requirements (coursework, exams, dissertation proposal) for the
doctoral degree except for the dissertation. It is required that each
fellow spend a minimum of 3 days/week in residence in the Lillian
Goldman Reading Room using the archival and library resources. Fellows
must also participate in the Center for Jewish History Fellowship
Seminar Program and deliver a minimum of one lecture based on research
at the Center and the collections used. The fellowship is open to
qualified doctoral candidates from accredited domestic and
international institutions. All application material, including
letters of reference, must be received by February 4, 2013 for full
consideration.

Application Requirements:
1.  Cover letter stating area of interest, knowledge of relevant
languages, and how the project relates to the general mission of the
Center for Jewish History
2.  Research proposal of no more than four pages double-spaced,
including specific reference to the collections at the
Center<http://catalog.cjh.org> and clearly stated goals for research
during the period of the fellowship
3.  A one-page bibliography of important secondary sources for the project
4.  Curriculum Vitae, including contact information, education,
publications, award/fellowships received, scholarly and/or museum
activities, teaching experience, and any other relevant work
experience
5.  Official graduate school transcript
6.  Three letters of recommendation, one of which must be from the
candidate’s adviser, which address the significance of the candidate’s
work for his or her field, as well as the candidate’s ability to
fulfill the proposed work
7.  Letters should be sent under separate cover – or via a separate
email – to the address below. All of the other application materials
should be sent together electronically as one continuous PDF document

Applications are to be submitted to:
Judith C. Siegel
Director of Academic and Public Programs
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
United States of America
Email: <fellowships@cjh.org>