Category: conferences & symposia

CFP: Black (Inter)Nationalism, Identity, and Art @ ASA 2012

Black (Inter)Nationalism, Identity, and Art at ASA 2012

The ASA’s 2012 annual meeting will be held November 15-18 in San Juan,
Puerto Rico. We are seeking PANELISTS and a CHAIRPERSON/COMMENTER to join
in an exploration of the manner in which arts, letters, and activism have
communicated various ideas of black identity across global/local
trajectories. In keeping with the American Studies Association’s 2012
theme, “Dimensions of Empire and Resistance,” we wish to probe the use of
cultural production and racial identity toward political ends—whether to
project regional racial issues onto the global stage on the one hand or to
harness transnational racial identities to local struggles on the other.
Through this conversation, we hope to further an investigation of the role
of art and race in both perpetuating and resisting manifestations of
empire, capitalism, and white supremacy at the global and local levels.
This call is open to projects which explore black self-fashioning of racial
identity as well as investigations of the manner in which others have
sought to thrust identity upon black Americans. We invite submissions
examining art, cultural production/practice, and all modes of
expression—whether aural, visual, or written. Additionally, while we are
particularly interested in the global/local transmission of racial identity
during the Jim Crow-era, we are open to projects dealing with any
historical time period.

Panelists: please send a 1 page CV and brief project proposal by December
27, 2011.
Chairperson/Commenter: please send a 1 page CV by December 27, 2011.
All proposals and inquiries should be sent to Robert Hawkins at
rlhawkins@bradley.edu
Notifications will be made before the 1st of the year.

CFP: Visual Culture Studies, American Studies Association

Call for Participation: Visual Culture Studies, American Studies Association

Deadline: January 10, 2012

The Visual Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association (ASA) invites
individuals and groups to participate in the 2012 ASA meeting on November
15-18, 2012 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

For paper abstracts and session proposals sent by January 10, the
Programming Committee of the Visual Culture Caucus can offer critical
feedback and facilitate networking among scholars who are looking for
session participants, chairs, or commentators. The committee will
subsequently select complete session(s) from those accepted by ASA for
official caucus sponsorship.

Session proposals should explore historical, theoretical, and/or
methodological issues in American visual culture, which includes (but is
not limited to) prints, photography, painting, sculpture, comics/graphic
novels, illustrated books, film, television, digital media, and a wide
range of practices of looking.  They must address the 2012 meeting theme,
"Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future (see <
http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/page/submitting_a_proposal/>).

We encourage scholars to submit their proposals for meeting participation
to our new Works in Progress webpage, accessible through our caucus blog (
http://www.theasa.net/caucus_visual/). Any ASA member may join the caucus
by clicking on the registration column on the blog homepage (requires ASA
username and password).

Individuals wishing feedback or networking assistance for their abstracts
and session proposals  may also contact Robin Veder, Vice-Chair of the
Visual Culture Caucus, and co-chair of the Visual Culture Caucus
Programming Committee, at rmv10@psu.edu.

SMYP: Webcast – Encuentros: Artistic Exchange between the U.S. and Latin America

Symposium – Encuentros: Artistic Exchange between the U.S. and Latin America

This symposium examines artistic encounters between Latin America and the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. Speakers include, among others: Deborah Cullen of El Museo del Barrio; Katherine Manthorne of the City University of New York Graduate Center; Edward Sullivan of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University; independent scholar Itala Schmelz; Valerie Fraser of the University of Essex; and artist Luis Camnitzer.

View the full program, speakers’ abstracts and bios, and archived webcasts of all eighteen lectures from the October 5 & 6, 2011, symposium online at www.americanart.si.edu/research/symposia/2011/webcast.

We also welcome your feedback on the symposium! You can add your comments to the discussion board on our webcast page or email us directly at AmericanArtSymposium@si.edu.

Encuentros: Artistic Exchange between the U.S. and Latin America is the third of five Terra Symposia on American Art in a Global Context, which are supported by a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

SYMP: Cultural Mobility and Transcultural Confrontations: Winold Reiss as a Paradigm of Transnational Studies @ Berlin, Germany

The international symposium brings together scholars of the humanities – from both sides of the Atlantic – for the first-ever conference dedicated to the art of Winold Reiss (1886-1953) honoring the 125th anniversary of his birth. This extremely versatile German-American painter, designer, and teacher had once been celebrated by Du Pont Magazine (March 1931) as a “modern Cellini.” In the 1920s and 1930s, Reiss emerged as an influential figure in transatlantic encounters and modernist aesthetics. Recognized for his portraiture and commercial-design work, he was also much in demand for the elaborate mosaics he created for restaurants and other public buildings, including the Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio. Reiss collaborated with leading artists and intellectuals including Alain Locke, Katherine Anne Porter, Paul Kellogg, Miguel Covarrubias, and Langston Hughes. Among his students was Aaron Douglas, the key African-American figure in the visual Harlem Renaissance. Reiss was also the main contributor to the visual narrative of the anthology The New Negro (1925).

Cultural Mobility and Transcultural Confrontations: Winold Reiss as a Paradigm of Transnational Studies will rethink Reiss’ role in the visual representation of ethnic American identities during the first half of the 20th century. A German element is woven into the fabric of his complex engagement with American ethnicity and with racial conflicts – the European artistic background he brought to the American scene demands a specifially interdisciplinary and international perspective. The symposium will examine this perspective, exploring aspects and processes of international exchange,  intercultural translation, and transcultural confrontations.

http://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/v/winold-reiss/

CONF: African Studies Association (ASA) Museum Day – pre-ASA Conference

African Studies Association (ASA) Museum Day
Workshops on Sharing Cultural Knowledge
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
950 Independence Avenue, SW
Take Metro to Smithsonian Station

If you have already registered for ASA and would still like to register for the pre-conference workshop at the National Museum of African Art, it’s not too late!  Please click on the link to a doodle poll that will allow you to select all or specific events taking place on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 (pre-conference day):  http://doodle.com/rr3pzh5c655vzqrx.  Registration is required by November 10, so we have an accurate count for catering.  The itinerary follows:

ASA Museum Day is a day-long series of workshops, archives and gallery tours, and guided collection storage visits at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA).  Space is limited to 40 for workshops; 20 for the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives tour.  Collection storage visits are by appointment only and limited to 5 per section (20 total).

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SYMP: A MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM FOR PROF. MARLENE S. PARK

A MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM FOR PROF. MARLENE S. PARK (1931-2010)
Friday, October 21, 2011, 1:00-6:00 P.M. in Segal Theater (1st floor)
The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
212-817-8035 / Ph.D. Program in Art History
www.gc.cuny.edu

The Ph.D. Program in Art History at the Graduate School of the City University of New York is sponsoring a symposium to honor the life, scholarship, and mentoring of Prof. Marlene S. Park (1931-2010). Prof. Park was an art historian who specialized in 20th-century American art and was particularly known for her work on American art of the 1930s, art of the New Deal, and public art. She taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY for over thirty years and was a member of the faculty of the CUNY Ph.D. Program in Art History for over twenty of those years. As a member of the CUNY Art History doctoral faculty, she taught a variety of courses and mentored and advised countless students, many of whom have emerged as important scholars, educators, and curators in their own right.

The symposium will feature a dozen presenters, all of them former graduate students who studied with Prof. Park. The speakers will include Mary Abell, Michele Cohen, Russell Flinchum, Ilene Susan Fort, Valerie Ann Leeds, Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., Ruth Pasquine, R. Sarah Richardson, Will South, Susan Valdes-Dapena, and James Wechsler. Gerald Markowitz, Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and William H. Gerdts, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the CUNY Graduate School, were good friends and close colleagues of Prof. Park and will also speak at the symposium.

For more information, please contact co-organizers Michele Cohen at mcohen.art@gmail.com or Herb Hartel at hartel70@aol.com. More information is available at the web site of the CUNY Ph.D. Program in Art History at http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/arthi/.

Schedule of the conference:

1:00-1:30 P.M. Welcoming remarks

Kevin Murphy, Professor of Art History and Chair of the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center

Gerald Markowitz, Distinguished Professor of History, John Jay College, CUNY

William H. Gerdts, Professor Emeritus of Art History in the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center

Michele Cohen, Co-organizer of the Memorial Symposium

1:30-3:10 P.M. Early Modernism in America

Valerie Ann Leeds, independent curator, “At the Brink of Modernism: Robert Henri and Ireland”

Will South, Chief Curator, Dayton Art Institute, “”Synchromism and Synaesthesia: A Not-So-Lucky Strike””

Ruth Pasquine, independent scholar, “The Theosophical Paintings of Emil Bisttram”

Russell Flinchum, Archivist at The Century Association, “Why Teague Matters”

Mary Abell, Chair of the Department of Art, Dowling College, “The Teaching and Critical Reception of Edwin Dickinson”

3:20 -4:20 P.M. American Art during the 1930s

R. Sarah Richardson, Hollis Taggart Galleries, “Historic America and the Precisionist Impulse”

Ilene Susan Fort, Curator of American Painting and Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “The United States Education of a Mexican Surrealist: Bridget Tichenor”

James Wechsler, independent scholar, “Reddening the Record: Revolutionary Art Between the World Wars”

4:30-5:30 P.M, Issues in Public Art

Susan Valdes-Dapena, independent scholar, “‘Painting Section’ in Black and White: Ethel Magafan’s ‘Cotton Pickers'”

Michele Cohen, independent scholar and public art consultant, “Civilization: Its Rise and Fall in New Deal Murals”

Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., John Jay College, CUNY, “The Sculptural Paintings of Abraham Joel Tobias: The Shaped Canvas in 1930s New York”

5:30 P.M. Closing remarks

 

The Dominican Republic to Host Meeting of African and Caribbean Filmmakers

Forthcoming Symposium: “Puerto Rican Studies for a New Century”