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CFP: Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art (AHAA)

The Association of Historians of American Art is pleased to invite submissions for feature-length articles to appear in the organization’s new peer-reviewed electronic journal of American art, entitled Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art.  The biannual journal, which will debut in fall 2014, will be the first peer-reviewed electronic publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined) from the colonial period to the present day. Panorama is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for disseminating original research and scholarship and for sustaining a lively engagement with the intellectual developments and methodological debates on current practices in art history, visual and material cultural studies, and curatorial work.  It encourages a broad range of perspectives and approaches within an interdisciplinary framework encompassing both local and global contexts. Panorama welcomes submissions that utilize the insights of both traditional and new historical and interpretive approaches to American art.

The e-journal will be accessible and free to all. Panorama will be published twice a year, in the spring and the fall. It will have its own web address, and also will be accessible via a link from the AHAA website ( http://www.ahaaonline.org).  Back issues will be archived on the journal website.  The editors are committed to preserving access to past issues in a variety of electronic venues, including scholarly indices and research databases.

In addition to peer-reviewed scholarly articles, Panorama will include several other regular features. Taking advantage of the speed of online delivery, timely Book Reviews and Exhibition Reviews will offer critical and historiographic perspectives on recent publications and exhibitions. Discoveries/Research Notes will bring the nascent stages of scholarly inquiry (both academic and curatorial) to the attention of readers in short form.

At this time, we seek manuscripts of 7,000–10,000 words (excluding captions and footnotes) to appear in the Fall 2014 number and future issues. Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically to:

Ross Barrett, Executive Editor

journalpanorama@gmail.com 

Manuscripts submitted before December 2013 will be considered for inclusion in the inaugural issue of Panorama. Submissions for future issues will thereafter be accepted throughout the year.

Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies

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Imaginations is an international journal hosted at the University of Alberta in Canada that publishes peer-reviewed articles in original languages as well as translations and commissioned artwork. Imaginations acts as a nexus, or aggregation point, where excellent scholarship informed by different cultures, national histories and linguistic traditions can create a new vocabulary for addressing the notion of the image along with its many avatars, and where academic researchers can also come in contact with visual artists and practitioners reflecting on their approaches. The disciplinary and cultural contacts inspire new dialogues and parallelisms, or even differences and potential frictions, out of which shall necessarily emerge unforeseen insights into the role of the image and visual culture.

Read Imaginations HERE

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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

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

PUB: The Slave in European Art. From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem

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The Slave in European Art: From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem

Edited by prof. Elizabeth McGrath (Warburg Institute) and prof. Jean Michel Massing (University of Cambridge)

Warburg Institute Colloquia, 20

(Editors: Jill Kraye and Charles Burnett)

The Warburg Institute – Nino Aragno Editore (London and Turin, 2012)

This volume explores the imagery of slaves and enslavement – white as well as black – in early modern Europe.

Long before the abolitionist movement took up the theme, European art abounded in images of slaves – chained, subjected, subdued figures. Often these enslaved figures were meant to be symbolic, for slavery was widely invoked as a metaphor in both religious and secular contexts. The ancient Roman iconography of triumphalism, with its trophies and caryatids, provided a crucial impetus to this imagery, particularly for Renaissance artists who developed their own variations. Here the use of classical models had a peculiar force, since nudity…

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JOB/PUB: Inaugural South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) Undergraduate Editorial Board

The South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) is now accepting applications from undergraduate students for its inaugural SAADA Undergraduate Editorial Board!
SAADA is the only independent non-profit organization working systematically to document the rich history of the South Asian American community and ensure that these important stories are more widely known and preserved for future generations. All the materials SAADA collects are freely accessible to the public online at http://www.saadigitalarchive.org