Category: call for participation

CFP: Building the Anti-racist University (University of Leeds conference, Oct. 2013)

Annual Black History Month Conference, October, 18th 2013, The University of Leeds
Building the Antiracist University (BAU): Next Steps

The introduction of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 for the first time placed a statutory duty on HEIs in the UK to eliminate racial discrimination and promote racial equality. In many institutions there was a knowledge vacuum and little guidance on how to move forward. Stimulating institutional change towards the construction of the Antiracist University was the aim of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) toolkit, which was concerned to develop a maximal, transformative approach to institutional change, rather than a minimal meeting of legal obligations. Over 300 HEIs established racial equality schemes by 2008 and improved experiences and opportunities in this sector, particularly for black and minority ethnic students are evident (National Students Survey 2002-2012, HEFCE 2012). However, progress in this field has slowed and a focus on the goals of eliminating racial discrimination, promoting racial equality and engendering change in organisational culture as well as approaches to curriculum and pedagogy has dissipated so that building the antiracist university remains urgent in 2013.
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CFP: Photography as Witness: Power and Politics, the charged landscape of the 21st century

EXTENDED DEADLINE EXTENDED DEADLINE
NEW DEADLINE: DECEMBER 14, 2012

Call for Participation in a Juried Exhibition

Photography as Witness: Power and Politics, the charged landscape of the 21st century

Exhibition: January 25 through March 9, 2013

This exhibition seeks artists whose photographic practice interrogates contemporary issues, and documents our global conditions and challenges. Technology has extended our awareness of events taking place around the world from the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement to the ongoing poverty caused by corporate greed, corrupt governments, criminal organizations, and religious and tribal violence. These challenges affect the two-third of the world, emergent nations and under-reported regions of the West. It is the witnessing of the devastation of humanity and the environment that moves us to action.

For submission guidelines go to: http://www.geneseo.edu/galleries/photography-witness-juried-exhibition

CFP: “Mapping: Geography, Power, and the Imagination in the Art of the Americas” @ Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Institute of Fine Arts at New York University

March 7 – 9, 2013

Deadline: December 7, 2012

Symposium – “Mapping: Geography, Power, and the Imagination in the Art of the Americas”

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Institute of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the upcoming graduate student conference, “Mapping: Geography, Power, and the Imagination in the Art of the Americas,” which will include keynote lectures by Jennifer Roberts (Harvard University) and Irene Small (Princeton University).

This international graduate student symposium will focus on the North and South American landscape in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and seeks to explore mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice from a hemispheric perspective. How can the “map” as an intellectual model both unite diverse cultures and modes of knowledge as well as highlight their differences?

Whether considering mapping as a traditional cartographic system representing the land or as a contemporary scientific approach to visualizing the body, maps allow for the unique diagramming of relationships between people and spaces, objects and time, vision and knowledge. As the scholar Donna Haraway contends, “maps are models of worlds crafted through and for specific practices of intervening and ways of life.” The conference will use this concept of map-making as “world-making” in order to examine the ways in which power, place, and cultural traditions intersect and come into conflict. Though maps are often taken as straightforward, objective configurations, they can also expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance.

Speakers are encouraged to address not only more traditional forms of landscape art, but also non-traditional approaches and media. Subjects may include European artists depicting the North or South American landscape, or artists from the Americas confronting their own geography. Mapping may engage with ideological issues (imperialism and nationality), representational paradigms (realism and abstraction), or questions of the body (sexuality, ethnicity, mortality).

Possible topics might include:

–       indigenous cartography

–       traveler artists and explorers

–       survey or aerial photography

–       nineteenth-century panoramas

–       abstraction and the landscape

–       American WPA projects

–       Mexican muralists

–       ethnographic photography

–       art and Caribbean mercantilism

–       site-specific land art

–       genetic/chromosonal mapping

–       natural history and botanical illustration

–       neuroaesthetics

–       performance art

With generous funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the conference will provide a significant opportunity for the exchange of ideas between emerging scholars from around the world who would not otherwise have the chance to share their work. The deadline for the submission of a 20-minute presentation proposal is Friday, December 7, 2012. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by Friday, January 18, 2013. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. Papers will be given in English but may be made available in other languages through the conference website. Current graduate students as well as recent graduates are encouraged to apply. Funds for travel and accommodations are available. Please send an abstract and CV to ifaMapping@gmail.com.  In your application please indicate your current institutional affiliation and from where you would be traveling.

The conference is organized by Dr. Jennifer Raab, Kara Fiedorek, and Lizzie Frasco, and is supported by grants from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

For further information or with any questions, please contact ifaMapping@gmail.com.

See also: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/research/mellon/mellon-mapping.htm

CFP: Museums & Social Issues

Museums & Social Issues

A Journal of Reflective Discourse

Museums & Social Issues (MSI), a peer-reviewed journal published by Left
Coast Press, Inc., is pleased to announce a change in format that will
allow researchers, museum practitioners, theorists, social scientists, and
others to submit articles on any topic related to the engagement of museums
in the enduring and complex issues facing our society.

Since its inaugural issue in 2006, MSI has been a theme-based journal,
addressing topics such as race, immigration, incarceration, connection with
nature and other topics. The new format will maintain the focus on
compelling issues but will provide more flexibility and the ability to
respond to dynamic and contemporary topics by featuring theoretical,
philosophical, and practical pieces that discuss museums in relation to a
range of contemporary issues, rather than limited to a specific theme.

We are particularly interested in articles that present either a synthesis
of a body of research or current and innovative research or programming
related to the questions society faces. Topics might address:

Enduring and emerging social problems such as homelessness, war, poverty,
climate change, privacy, mental health.

Contemporary aspirations or perspectives on improving quality of life such
as life/work balance, happiness initiatives, advocacy movements, play,
spirituality.

Thoughtful responses and analysis of current and emerging trends that
relate to the well-being of communities and individuals, such as political
movements, emerging technologies, music, leisure time pursuits, etc.

Exhibit, Book or Program Reviews: The journal is also soliciting reviews of
products that address questions or issues of concern to society.

For more information, contact Editor, Kris Morrissey msiuw@uw.edu or
submit an inquiry through the journals online submission process at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/msi

All manuscripts are subject to anonymous peer review by knowledgeable
scholars and professional practitioners and, if accepted, may be subject to
revision. Materials submitted to MSI should not be under consideration by
other publishers, nor should they be previously published in any form.

Back issues available at www.LCoastPress.com

CFP: Annual Graduate Student Conference in African-American History @ UMemphis

The Graduate Association for African-American History (GAAAH) at The
University of Memphis invites graduate students at all levels to submit
proposals for its 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference in
African-American History, to be held October 31-November 2, 2012, in
Memphis, Tennessee. We welcome the submission of individual papers,
complete sessions, workshops, and roundtables on all topics relating to the
scholarship and teaching of African-American/African Diaspora histories and
cultures. We encourage the participation of graduate students who represent
a broad range of disciplinary and methodological approaches.

Individual paper proposals should include a 300-word abstract, including a
paper title; author contact information; postal address and e-mail address;
and a brief curriculum vitae. The organizers of complete sessions should
send, in a single submission, abstracts and cvs for each of the paper
presenters; 200-word description of the session; and contact information
for all participants. Please list audio-visual requirements, if any.

This year’s conference will feature a keynote address from Dr. Deborah Gray
White, Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of Ar’n’t
I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985 and 1999), the
groundbreaking gendered analysis of the institution of slavery.
Additionally, she is the author of Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in
Defense of Themselves, 1984-1994 (1999) and Let My People Go:
African-Americans, 1804-1860 (1996).  Professors from area institutions
will serve as panel commentators and participate in a workshop on
professional development and the job market.

The submission deadline for proposals is September 22, 2012. A committee
of University of Memphis professors will consider all papers for the
“Memphis State Eight Paper Prize” which is awarded to the conference’s best
paper. The first place prize includes a monetary award. Second and third place
papers will also receive recognition.

Participants will be notified of acceptance by October 1, 2012, and
completed 10-12 page papers must be received no later than October 15,
2012.

Please submit all proposals by e-mail to GAAAH President Micki Kaleta.
gaaah.memphis@gmail.com or mykaleta@memphis.edu.

For questions, you also may call Ms. Kaleta at (901) 678-3395 or contact
GAAAH faculty advisors Dr. Arvin Smallwood at (901) 678-3869 and
asmallwd@memphis.edu or Dr. Ernestine Jenkins at
eljenkins@memphis.edu and ( 901) 678-3450.

CFP: The Last Generation of Black People @ The Liberator Magazine

 

http://weblog.liberatormagazine.com/2012/06/call-for-rigorous-pieces-that-are-or.html

CFP: Blk Art Group Research Project 30th Anniversary Conference @ Wolverhampton University

Blk Art Group Research Project

30th Anniversary Conference

Wolverhampton University

Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th October 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference aims to enable and share scholarship and research into the ‘Black Art Movement’, it’s core debates, precursors and legacies.

By bringing together artists, curators, historians and scholars we hope to add to the pool of knowledge surrounding the ‘black art movement’; to encourage those scholars already active in this field to further develop and share their work and to uncover work that may have gone unpublished or remain obscured.

This is a call for papers that contribute to the debate through the detailed and critical examination of a single work, body of work or group of works.  Whilst the conference aims to focus on the 80s, papers may include works that were produced prior to the 80s or later as long as there is a clear rationale for their consideration in this context.

Finished papers should be suitable for a presentation of approximately 20 minutes. We ask that abstracts of up to 300 words and a brief biography should reach us at blkartgroupresearchproject@gmail.com by Friday 20th July.

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CFP: Journal of Art Historiography Special Issue on African Art

The *Journal of Art Historiography*, a peer reviewed journal (http://arthistoriography.wordpress.com),
is interested in producing a special issue on African art.

The discursive practice of African art history is at a crucial juncture, in which rising interest in African art from a global perspective intersects with a possible fragmentation of the field into divergent disciplines each with its own focus. The historiography of African visual arts itself confronts an cross-disciplinary problem identified by *Journal of Art Historiography* as a concern that “contemporary scholarship will forget its earlier legacy and neglect the urgency and rigour with which those early debates were conducted. The journal is therefore committed to studying art historical scholarship, in its institutional and conceptual foundations, from the past to the present in all areas and all periods”.

African art history is particularly in need of this historiographical examination, given the increasing distance between early scholarship and contemporary discourses. The last significant historiography of the field was carried out by the venerable Monni Adams in a classical essay titled “African Visual Arts from an Art Historical Perspective (*African Studies Review*, 32/2, 1989: 55-103), which formed a two part overview of African Studies published in journal, the other written by Paula Ben Amos.

Although African Arts has engaged the issue of African art’s discourse in various presentations in the journal to date, the kind of comprehensive analysis carried out by Monni Adams has largely been absent and is in dire need of
being updated, given how much has happened in the field in the two and half decades since the article was published. The *Journal of Historiography*’s special issue on African arts therefore provides a unique opportunity to revisit the history of art writing on the subject of African visual culture and create a critical dialogue between various generations of African art historians, which will ideally allow foundational research and writing to be subjected to contemporary knowledge practices.

I have been asked to serve as guest editor this proposed issue. I will like to invite proposals for articles on the subject and also appeal to the field to suggest important texts and documents that might be included in this special issue. Previous editions of the journal can be viewed on its website (http://arthistoriography.wordpress.com) for guidance on the Journal of Art Historiography’s focus and submission guidelines.

Please send proposals and suggestions to:

Prof. Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie
ogbechie@gmail.com
Guest Editor, *Journal of Art Historiography* Special Issue on African art

CFP: (In)appropriated Bodies Graduate Student Symposium @ Cornell

(In)appropriated Bodies
Cornell University Annual History of Art Graduate Student Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Amelia Jones, Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University
November 16-17, 2012
Ithaca, New York
Merriam-Webster defines appropriation as taking exclusive possession of something; setting it apart; assigning it to a particular purpose or use; and taking or making use of it without authority or right. This definition begs the question of whether it is inappropriate to appropriate, particularly when it comes to bodies.
This symposium aims to address how bodies have been appropriated in seemingly inappropriate ways. We are interested in improper, incorrect, perverse, and unsuitable uses of bodies that figure as unexpectedly apt creative strategies and political interventions. Artists have appropriated bodies, visual and corporeal, as a strategy to subvert established norms and meanings. Curators have categorized, displayed, and reconfigured imagery of bodies.  Furthermore, scholars have appropriated concepts of race, gender, nation or culture onto bodies to develop the socio-political discourses that surround them. In all of these cases, questions of inappropriateness often arise. However, these (in)appropriations also reveal themselves to be alternative forms of inquiry or representation that encourage new ways of seeing and speaking about bodies.
We invite graduate students of all disciplines to present papers on the appropriation of bodies by artists, curators, scholars which have been (or could be) considered inappropriate, and how this aspect of their work proves useful in expanding the ways we look at art and understand its significance and purpose in culture, society, politics and history. Possible approaches to the topic include, but are not limited to:
● Negotiation of identities (race, gender, class, and so on) through appropriation
● Subversion of power dynamics by appropriating identities
● Grafting of theoretical approaches on to bodies
● Past or present collections and displays of bodies
● Loss or theft of corporeal identity, ownership or originality
● Reenactments and portrayals of bodies in film, dance, video and performance
● Caricatures, stereotypes, and other visual misrepresentations in art or performance
● Reuse/revision of ignored, avoided or dismissed theoretical approaches to bodies
● Mimicry, quotation, or allusion as a creative strategy or concept
● Political and governmental co-optation of figural forms
Presentations for this two-day conference should be in English and 20 minutes in length. For those interested in participating, please email a 200-300 word abstract and c.v. by August 15, 2012 to cornellgradsymposium@gmail.com.

CFP: Inaugural Issue: Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies

“Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies”
The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies (JCMRS) is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS). Launched in 2011, it is the first academic journal explicitly focused on Critical Mixed Race Studies. Sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s Sociology Department, JCMRS is hosted on the eScholarship Repository, which is part of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library. JCMRS functions as an open-access forum for critical mixed race studies scholars and will be available without cost to anyone with access to the Internet.
JCMRS is transracial, transdisciplinary, and transnational in focus and emphasizes the critical analysis of the institutionalization of social, cultural, and political orders based on dominant conceptions and constructions of race.
JCMRS emphasizes the constructed nature and thus mutability of race and the porosity of racial boundaries in order to critique processes of racialization and social stratification based on race. JCMRS addresses local and global systemic injustices rooted in systems of racialization.
Some questions to consider:
• Why Critical Mixed Race Studies rather than mixed ethnicity or mixed heritage?
• How does CMRS transform Ethnic Studies?
• What does CMRS mean in transnational contexts?
• What are some ways that CMRS can be institutionalized?
• How do foundational articles or books in CMRS resonate today?
• How does CMRS relate to the Multiracial Movement or social activism around mixed heritage identities?
• How does post-racial discourse factor into the development of CMRS?
• How is CMRS transdisciplinary or interdisciplinary?
Papers that were presented at the Inaugural Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference in 2010 are invited for revision and submission. JCMRS encourages both established and emerging scholars to submit articles throughout the year. Articles will be considered for publication on the basis of their contributions to important and current discussions in mixed race studies, and their scholarly competence and originality.
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2012
Submission Guidelines: Article manuscripts should range between 15-30 double-spaced pages, Times New Roman 12-point font, including notes and works cited, must follow the Chicago Manual of Style, and include an abstract (not to exceed 250 words).
Visit our website for complete submission guidelines and to submit an article:
http://escholarship.org/uc/ucsb_soc_jcmrs
Please address all inquiries to: socjcmrs@soc.ucsb.edu