Category: call for participation

CFP: African and its diasporas @ n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal

CALL FOR PAPERS
n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal
Volume 31: Africa and its diasporas (Jan 2013)
Guest Editor: Bisi Silva, independent curator and Director CCA, Lagos
(Copy deadline: 15 October 2012, to be published Jan 2013)

In the last two decades, there has been an exponential growth in the visibility of a new generation of women visual artists on or from the continent of Africa as well as a diversification not only in the medium but also in the breadth and complexity of the themes and issues with which they engage, which include the body, sexuality as well as questions of history, culture, patriarchy and post-colonialism. The aim of the volume is to look at women artists’ production across the over 50 countries that make up the continent of Africa as well as at African women artists working in Europe, South and North America and the Caribbean.  The African diaspora is diverse stretching across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, the Americas and across Europe.

Women artists from Africa, and of African descent, have been producing work which questions and challenges both their contemporary situation and their complex histories. This special volume will publish work which addresses these concerns and focuses on the cultural production of women artists who define themselves as black/African/Afro-Caribbean/Afro-American across the globe as well as first/second/third/and even fourth generations of immigrants in different countries. Contributions about contemporary art produced by women which reflect on the effects of the migration of African people around the world – during and after slavery – during and after Colonialism –pre- and post-1960s Independence – will be welcomed.

Critical essays as well as in-depth interviews offering a pan- or trans-African perspective on contemporary women artists (visual arts only, post-1970) will be welcomed from women artists or writers (art historians, critics and curators). We invite 300-400 words abstract by the 11th of June 2012 (Final contributions by Oct 15th 2012)

For more information about how to contribute please email Bisi Silva labisi22@gmail.com

About n.paradoxa
international feminist art journal
Founded in 1998, n.paradoxa publishes scholarly and critical articles written by women critics, art historians and artists on the work of contemporary women artists post-1970 (visual arts only) working anywhere in the world. Each thematic volume in print contains artists and authors from more than 10 countries in the world and explores their work in relation to feminist theory.

n.paradoxa is published bi-annually (January and July) in print as volume numbers (ISSN: 1461-0424). n.paradoxa is now available for sale in print and electronic forms by subscription. KT press is the publisher of n.paradoxa and operates as a not-for-profit publishing company whose aim is to promote understanding of women artists and their work.
Website: www.ktpress.co.uk

CFP: Subaltern Rising: Racialization and Visual Culture in the Wake of Independence @ CAA/ACRAH 2013

CFP: Subaltern Rising: Racialization and Visual Culture in the Wake of Independence
Association for Critical Race Art History (ACRAH) Sponsored Session
College Art Association Annual Conference
New York, February 13-16, 2013

Chair: José Esteban Muñoz, New York University

The years 2012 and 2013 mark fifty years of independence for dozens of former colonies across the globe. This panel is dedicated to the consideration of art and other forms of expressive culture at the moment of historical transition, especially as it was evident in the reconfigured  racialization of citizens, economies, geographies, and political systems.

Key regions of post-coloniality include the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Commissioned public monuments and state architecture; redrawn cities, renamed streets and other public spaces; and the establishment of cultural institutions—including national museums and libraries—were acts of autonomy in newly independent Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Algeria, and Western Samoa (all 1962), and elsewhere.

How was the burst of creativity among artists producing work for the state, reorganized marketplaces and other commercial venues, performance, and national pageants inevitably informed by the preceding colonial order? Which post-colonial strategies reflect symbolic and stylistic borrowings from the language of European modernism in general?

What comparisons and contrasts can be made with post-colonial art produced earlier in short India and Pakistan (1947); Sri Lanka (1948); Laos (1949); Cambodia (1953); Tunisia, Morocco, Ghana, and Sudan (1956)? How do all these mid-twentieth century breaks from colonial and imperial rule influence subsequent visual and cultural programs in the Bahamas (1971), Suriname (1973), Papua New Guinea (1975), the Panama Canal Zone (1979), Australia and New Zealand (1986), and Eritrea (1993)?

Please submit a 350-word preliminary abstract and short CV (2 page maximum) in one MSWord or PDF file attachment to: acrah@ymail.com by May 11, 2012. Email submissions with one attachment only.

CAA membership is NOT required to participate in or attend the session.

CFP: African-American Popular Culture Area @ MPCA/ACA Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS
AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE AREA CALL:

The African-American Popular Culture Area of the Midwest Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association is seeking panel sessions,
papers, and proposals examining historical and/or contemporary aspects
of African-American popular culture including African American
stereotypes, icons, personas, artifacts, rituals, genres, holidays,
art forms (music, orature, dance, literature, visual art, television,
film, comic art, etc.), festivals, foodways, folklore and folklife,
practices, religion, and etc.

The 2012 MPCA/ACA Conference will be held in Columbus, Ohio
Friday, October 12 through Sunday, October 14, 2012 at the Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel

PROPOSAL INFORMATION: Submissions should be made electronically via
our online submission system at <http://mpcaaca.org/columbus-2012/2012-cfp/>.

(1) Complete/key-in your Contact Information as requested

followed by a (2) full Title.

(3) Select the African-American Popular Culture area
from the drop-down menu.

(4) Key-in (or cut-and-paste) a 250-word (or less) Abstract in the space provided. You may also attach a document with the .doc, .pdf, or .rtf extensions, if desired.

(5) You must indicate if you need a TV/DVD player for your presentation.

Also, if necessary, you may (6) indicate dates or times you are UNABLE to present.

NOTE: (a) The only audio-visual equipment available from the
Association will be a DVD player and monitor, and you must ask for it
at the time you submit your proposal. With appropriate preparation, a
DVD player can play audio, video, and still images.

(b) You must include the name, affiliation, and email address of each
author/participant.

(c) If you do not include an email address, you must include a postal address.

(d) If you wish your presentation to be listed as MACA (rather than MPCA), please include this request with your submission.

Deadline for receipt of proposals is Monday, April 30, 2012.

REGISTRATION AND MEMBERSHIP: All conference participants must be
members of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American
Culture Association.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Conference panel sessions will run at the
following approximate times:
–Friday 2:30pm-7:30pm
–Saturday 8:30am-6:15pm
–Sunday 8:00am-1:00pm.

(The conference may begin at 12:45pm on Friday, if demand so dictates).

Special events will include two featured speakers and a cash-bar reception on Friday, October 12 and a luncheon which is scheduled on Saturday, October 13 from 12:00pm–1:30pm. These events, plus continental breakfast on Saturday and Sunday, will be free for conference registrants.

CFP: 2012 MESDA CONFERENCE on American Material Culture

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2012 MESDA CONFERENCE on American Material Culture
Deadline: May 15, 2012

The seventh biennial MESDA Conference for recent research in the field of early American material culture and decorative arts will take place on October 25-27, 2012 at the East Tennessee Historical Society in Knoxville, Tennessee. The conference provides the only major forum for scholarly presentation and interaction on American material culture and decorative arts with specific emphasis on the South. The MESDA Conference includes the Gordon Seminar, a day of presentations on a variety of topics in American material culture. The conference also includes a day of field trips to regional material culture sites and decorative arts collections in east Tennessee. Scholars and graduate students in American studies, southern studies, decorative arts and other fields as they relate to early southern material culture are invited to submit proposals. Papers are to be twenty minutes in length. Subjects with an interdisciplinary approach and with emphasis on the study of southern decorative arts and material culture are highly encouraged.

Proposals will be accepted for individual papers or for panel sessions. Paper proposals must include the author’s name, the paper title, a one‐page abstract, and the author’s curriculum vitae. Session proposals must include a chair, list of presenters, cover letter, a one‐page summary of the session theme, presenter curriculum vitae, and abstracts for all papers.

Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2012

Notification of acceptance will be received by June 15, 2012.

Accepted papers must be submitted in full by September 15, 2010.

Electronic submission in Word format is preferred. Submit emailed proposals to Sally Gant : sgant@oldsalem.org

Or send hard copies to:
Sally Gant, MESDA Conference
924 South Main Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101

Phone: 336-721-7361 Fax: 336-721-7367

For conference information, visit MESDA.org/conference

Conference registrar Martha Ashley: 336-721-7360 or email MESDAPrograms@oldsalem.org

CFP: Feminist Art History Conference @ American University

Announcing the Third Annual
FEMINIST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE
at American University in Washington DC

Friday-Sunday, November 9-11, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS: please submit via email a one-page, single-spaced proposal and two-page curriculum vita by May 15, 2012 to fahc3.cfp@gmail.com. 

Notification of acceptance by July 1, 2012

This conference builds 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 and geographic spectrum to foster a broad dialogue on feminist art-historical practice. Speakers 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. 

Keynote address:
“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Feminism, Art History and the Story of a Book”
Whitney Chadwick, Professor Emerita of Art History
San Francisco State University

 Sessions and keynote will be held on AU’s campus

with additional events at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

in conjunction with its 25th Anniversary celebration

 

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: Extended Deadline for Proposals for AHAA-sponsored session @ CAA 2014

DEADLINE REMINDER: Proposals for the AHAA-sponsored scholarly session at CAA 2014 are due April 1. Because April 1 is Sunday, proposals will be accepted through Monday, April 2.

As an affiliated society of CAA, AHAA (Association of Historians of American Art) sponsors two sessions at the CAA annual conference: a one-and-a-half-hour professional session and a two-and-a-half-hour scholarly session.

AHAA-sponsored scholarly sessions are similar to the scholarly sessions generally held at CAA, although sometimes more topical issues are addressed. Scholarly session proposals should be sent by email to Katherine Smith, AHAA Sessions Coordinator (kasmith at agnesscott.edu). Successful chairs will be notified by June 1, 2012.

AHAA seeks to include new voices, and younger scholars are encouraged to make submissions. Chairs of AHAA-sponsored sessions must be current members of both AHAA and CAA. Proposals should include a title for, and short description of, the session along with the proposer’s c.v. and a statement of expertise on the topic or area proposed. For examples of appropriate topics, see the list of past AHAA-sponsored CAA sessions at ahaaonline.org.

CFP: Exhibition Complex: Displaying People, Identity, and Culture @ Carnegie Museum of Art

Exhibition Complex: Displaying People, Identity, and Culture
October 18 2012 (All day) – October 20 2012 (All day) Carnegie Museum of Art

History of Art and Architecture Department at the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce the call for proposals for its Graduate Student Symposium, “Exhibition Complex: Displaying People, Identity, and Culture.” The symposium will be held October 18-20, 2012.

This year’s symposium sets out to analyze the many modes of display, types of artistic production, and built and existing structures that constitute ephemeral exhibition spaces. Organized in collaboration with the Carnegie Museum of Art, our topic is inspired by the museum’s fall 2012 exhibition, Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851–1939. We are interested in projects that explore temporary exhibitions displaying people, identity, and culture in any geographical location or time period, within and beyond the modern history of Western display. The keynote address will be delivered by Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor of Art History at UCLA and author of the book India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display (2007), and co-editor of the forthcoming No Touching, Spitting, Praying: Modalities of the Museum in South Asia (2012).

We encourage paper submissions from graduate and MFA students at all stages of their studies.
Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Please email an abstract or description of artistic
intervention no longer than 300 words, and a brief CV to symposium organizers at
pittgradsymposium@gmail.com by April 27, 2012. Selected speakers will be notified by May 15, 2012.

http://www.haa.pitt.edu/news-events/exhibition-complex-displaying-people-identity-and-culture?ct=t%28November_3_201110_28_2011%29

CFP: Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia

CALL FOR AUTHORS: Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia

Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia presents state-of-the-art
research, ready-to-use facts, and multimedia pedagogy. The approximately 950
signed entries (with cross-references and further readings) will cover
issues in historical and contemporary ethnic and multicultural studies. The
print 4 volumes and the online edition with 100 videos will include
information relevant to the following academic disciplinary contexts: the
demographic and cultural balance of the United States today and tomorrow;
arts and media; business and economics; criminal justice; education; family
studies; health; media; military; politics; science and technology; sports;
and religion. From A-to-Z, this work covers the spectrum of defining and
illuminating multiculturalism. The goals of this encyclopedia are to help
readers gain a better understanding of:

* the historical development of multicultural America.
* the contemporary American multicultural mosaic.
* the possible future trajectories of American multiculturalism.

In writing, contributors should consider their entries’ contribution to
these three goals. Where appropriate, entries should include data from and
references to the 2010 United States census.

This comprehensive project will be published by SAGE Reference in 2013 and
will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital
product available to students via the library’s electronic services. The
General Editor, who will be reviewing each submission to the project, is Dr.
Carlos E. Cortés, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California,
Riverside.

We are currently making new assignments with a deadline for submissions of
August 1, 2012.

If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it is
a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature,
redefining sociological issues in today’s terms. Moreover, it can be a
notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing
credits. SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book
credits for smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product for
contributions totaling 10,000 words or more.

The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we
will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select
topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and
Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.

If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference
with Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia, please contact me by
the e-mail information below. Please provide a brief summary of your
academic/publishing credentials in related disciplines.

Thanks very much,

Lisbeth Rogers
Author Manager
multicultural@golsonmedia.com

CFP: Between the Literary and the Visual: Inter-Artistic Approaches to African-American Art History @ MACAA 2012

Call for Papers (Deadline April 10, 2012)
Between the Literary and the Visual: Inter-Artistic Approaches to African-American Art History
Session Chair: Jennifer J. Marshall, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Email: marsh590@umn.edu

A stubborn truism vexes African-American art history: the canon of black American literature is viewed as more established and robust than that of black American visual arts. This misconception has more to do with conventional disciplinary divisions, than it does with either the quantity or quality of black visual expression. Segregating the “literary” from the “visual”–and assigning these to English and Art History departments, respectively–has obscured the originally inter-artistic nature of much black cultural expression as well as the terms of its early reception and critique.

African-American artists have repeatedly worked in black literary contexts–from Aaron Douglas’s illustrations for Alain Locke’s The New Negro to Glenn Ligon’s painted excerpts from Ralph Ellison and Richard Pryor. At the same time, many (nonblack) literary critics have been enthusiastic interpreters of black visual arts. Theater critic and novelist Carl Van Vechten promoted the painters of the Harlem Renaissance; Sidney Hirsch, one of Vanderbilt University’s influential literary modernists, “discovered” black folk sculptor William Edmondson; and French poststructuralist Roland Barthes famously used a photograph by James Van Der Zee to explain his concept of the photographic punctum.

This panel seeks papers that take stock of this prodigious overlap between the literary and the visual arts. Participants are invited to address how literature and literary criticism may productively inform African-American art history, to recount the specific historical circumstances that compel this approach, and to consider broadly how attention to inter-artistic histories might helpfully reform both approaches to and canons of black cultural expression.

http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/macaa2012/