Category: call for participation

CFP: “Life in My City Photo Africa” Photography Contest @ Life In My City Art Festival, Enugu, Nigeria

INTERNATIONAL PHOTO CONTEST: LIFE IN MY CITY PHOTO AFRICA

Life In My City Art Festival, Enugu, Nigeria, hereby invites entries for Life in My City Photo Africa as part of the 2013 Life In My City Art Festival holding in October 2013.

Photo Africa is an international photo contest for African photographers who will be not more than 35 years of age by October 12th, 2013, living and working in Africa.

Submitted works are expected to portray interesting current living conditions in the African city as seen through the lens of photographer, bearing in mind that one of the aims of the Life In My City Art Festival is to provide a platform for young artists to make meaningful statements about their environment.

Rules available at website www.lifeinmycityartsfestival.com

ACRAH Update | Website Launch: www.acrah.org

ACRAH has a new web address: www.acrah.org

We have registered acrah.org as our domain and are working on expanding our website. The Grapevine blog is still live and we hope that you will continue to visit, follow, and share information with us. See our submissions guidelines to share your CRAH related news.

We are seeking contributors who are interested in reviewing exhibitions and publications and/or blogging a column on a regular basis (monthly?). Share your expertise and thoughts about art and race matters. Interested? Send an email to acrah@ymail.com

Bear with us as we continue to update the site and let us know how you like the new features as they appear. Anything that you would like to see in the future?

Thank you all for your continued interest and support of ACRAH.

Call for Papers: New Voices – Art and Decolonization

Looks like our CAA panel, “Subaltern Rising,” was very timely. Here is an event exploring similar themes.

CFP: Feminist Art History Conference @ American University, November 2013

Announcing the Fourth Annual FEMINIST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE at American University in Washington DC
Friday-Sunday, November 8-10, 2013

Keynote speaker:
Professor Patricia Simons, University of Michigan
Sessions and keynote will be held on the campus of American University

CALL FOR PAPERS
This fourth annual conference continues to build on the legacy of feminist art-historical scholarship and pedagogy initiated by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard at American University. To further the inclusive spirit of their groundbreaking anthologies, we invite papers on subjects spanning the chronological spectrum, from the ancient world through the present, to foster a broad dialogue on feminist art-historical practice. Papers may address such topics as: artists, movements, and works of art and architecture; cultural institutions and critical discourses; practices of collecting, patronage, and display; the gendering of objects, spaces, and media; the reception of images; and issues of power, agency, gender, and sexuality within visual cultures. Submissions on under-represented art-historical fields, geographic areas, national traditions, and issues of race and ethnicity are encouraged.
To be considered for participation, please provide a single document in Microsoft Word (title the document [last name]-proposal.doc or .docx) comprising a one-page, single-spaced proposal of no more than 500 words for a 20-minute presentation, followed by a curriculum vita of up to two pages.

Submit materials by May 15, 2013 to: fahc4papers@gmail.com
Accepted proposals will be notified by July 1, 2013.

Please direct inquiries to: fahc4papers@gmail.com.

Sponsored by the Art History Program, Department of Art, College of Arts and Sciences at American University

Organizing committee: Kathe Albrecht, Juliet Bellow, Norma Broude, Kim Butler, Mary D. Garrard, Namiko Kunimoto, Helen Langa, and Andrea Pearson

CFP: “Gendering Native Modernisms” Panel @ Native American Art Studies Association Conference

I am seeking submissions for my panel on Gendering Native Modernisms at the biannual conference of the Native American Art Studies Association.  The conference will be held in October in Denver.  For more information on the conference go to:  http://nativearts.org/ The deadline for submission is just around the corner.  If you are interested but might need a little time, please do email me.

Gendering Native Modernisms
Chair: Cynthia Fowler, Emmanuel College

Recent scholarship on Native Modernisms has revealed the far more complex ways in which Native artists have actively defined and shaped Modernist art movements than has been previously recognized when relying solely on the lens of primitivism. In this scholarship, the agency of Native artists in defining modernism on their own terms has been recognized and relationships between Native and non-Native artists and collectors are now being more comprehensively understood through the lens of transcultural exchange. But the role that gender plays in these new narratives about modernism needs further exploration. To what extent are Native women artists included in these new narratives? To what extent do the gender biases of art museums influence the construction of these new narratives as art historians rely on existing collections in constructing them? How did gender constructions in Native communities affect the creation and distribution of Native modern art and how do they continue to influence these new narratives today? Overall, the panel will attempt to consider the impact of historical and contemporary gender constructions on emerging narratives about Native Modernisms.

Submit 100-word abstract for session Gendering Native Modernisms, by May 15, 2013 directly to: fowlecy@emmanuel.edu

CFP: “Italian American?” @ Italian American Studies Association Conference

The 2013 conference of the Italian American Studies Association (October
3-5, New Orleans) examines the politics of the identifying term “Italian
American” from multiple perspectives and in different time periods. What
are the social conditions in which the ever-changing narratives of
collective identity are formulated and perpetuated? How are ethnic symbols
and practices mustered and re-invented at the service of “Italian
American?” And ultimately, how do competing politics reveal and engender
intragroup tensions but possibly also productive dialogue, both of which
might re-configure understandings and enactments of the very term “Italian
American?”  The conference is open to scholars in different disciplines,
creative writers (novelists, poets, and memoirists), and visual and media
artists.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JUNE 15, 2013.

Abstracts for scholarly papers (up to 500 words, plus a note on technical
requirements) and a brief, narrative biography should be emailed as
attached documents, by June 15, 2013, to
iasa2013conf@italianamericanstudies.net to whom other inquiries may also be
addressed.

Prospective presenters may expect to be advised of their acceptance or
otherwise by August 1, 2013. All presenters, respondents, and discussants
must be members in good standing of the Italian American Studies
Association by September 15, 2013.

Conference Committee: Bénédicte Deschamps, Michael Eula, Laura E. Ruberto,
Joseph Sciorra, chair

CFP: Native American Art Studies Association Conference @ Denver

The Native American Art Studies Association’s 2013 conference will be in Denver, October 16-19th. The Call for Papers can be found in their latest newsletter (19.2) at NAASA’s website – http://nativearts.org/conferences/

Paper proposals are due May 15, 2013.

CFP: “Visualizing the Riot” an ACRAH-Sponsored Session @ CAA 2014

Visualizing the Riot

2014 College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Il.
Chairs Eddie Chambers and Rose Salseda, University of Texas at Austin

Please submit proposals to eddiechambers@austin.utexas.edu and rsalseda@gmail.com

DUE MAY 6, 2013

Session Abstract:

Throughout the twentieth century, riots have been an intermittent yet pronounced aspect of urban history. Primarily due to the violence they embody, riots draw particular types of attention from mainstream media and arguably pass into history, as well as the popular imagination, in various skewed and problematic ways. In contrast, many artists have made fascinating, sophisticated works that reference specific episodes of rioting. Surprisingly, given the power of the artworks and the devastating effects of rioting, scant curatorial and scholarly attention is paid to how artists visualize riots. Therefore, this session seeks to address some of these seldom-considered issues. The co-chairs seek proposals from art historians, curators, and artists who have explored the visualization of riots. In addition, they hope to secure contributions that critically examine the dominant tropes of rioting, such as burning buildings, looting, and so on, that have become a familiar aspect of mainstream reportage.
See the official 2014 CFP at http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2014CallforParticipation.pdf (listed on page six).

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