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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

JOB: Curator of Latin American Art @ Blanton Museum of Art (UT Austin)

Curator of Latin American Art – Blanton Museum of Art (UT Austin)

Required Application Materials

A Resume is required in order to apply
A Letter of Interest is required in order to apply.
A List of 3 References is required in order to apply.

Additional Information

Purpose

The curator is responsible for overseeing the Blanton Museum of Art’s collection of Latin American art, which is considered to be among the foremost public collections of modern and contemporary Latin American art in the U.S.

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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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University of Texas-Austin Seeks Assistant Professor in Photography

The Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin seeks an exceptional artist with extensive knowledge of both film based and digital photographic processes. Applications are being accepted for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Photography with an anticipated start date of Fall 2013. Applicants should have a significant record of exhibition and be conversant in photographic history and critical/media theory. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to work in an integrated studio and lecture environment, teaching a range of undergraduate and graduate courses as assigned.

The Photography program is part of the Studio Art division in the Department of Art and Art History. The Department of Art and Art History is comprised of four divisions: Design, Art History, Visual Art Studies and Studio Art. The University of Texas at Austin is a flagship Tier One research institution, situated in a city known for its quality of life and active engagement with the arts.

The Photography curriculum offers students both the technical skills, and creative fluency, needed to create resonant visual images. Courses focus on the interrelation of photography and art, providing a stimulus that challenges students to overcome preconceptions about photography. With course offerings in wet black & white and digital photography, the curriculum provides a multifaceted approach to the medium that includes traditional forms of image making and conceptually oriented practices. Applicants must be able to develop, refine and teach courses in wet black & white and digital photography ranging from non-majors to majors and freshman through graduate level.

Teaching will be at all levels, with a typical faculty load of 2/2 based on an active research schedule. Service to the community of the department in addition to official college and university business is required. As a Tier One research institution, the University of Texas at Austin expects this faculty member to actively pursue original research with a mandate to significantly contribute to their field through publication, exhibition, or other venues central to their discipline. Salary is commensurate with experience.

Applications should include a statement of interest, current curriculum vitae, the names of three professional references (with phone and email contact information), and documentation of teaching and research history. Please organize the documentation within a single PDF file and email to photosearch@austin.utexas.edu. For other media that isn’t easily accommodated by this format, please embed links within the PDF. Review of applications will begin February 25th, 2013 and continue until the position is filled.

The University of Texas at Austin is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer. The University of Texas at Austin maintains a strong commitment to equity and diversity. Given its continued efforts to achieve a diverse and equitable work environment and campus community, the University of Texas at Austin encourages all interested candidates to apply.
For further information, please visit http://www.utexas.edu/finearts/aah.

Timbuktu: It’s like a library has burned

Gregory Mann's avatarAfrica is a Country (Old Site)


News came yesterday, violent, rotten news. It’s been a steady rhythm from Mali, a country that has already suffered too much. But there’s something brutal in the news that Salafist fighters burned hundreds of rare manuscripts, some of them unique and centuries old, before leaving Timbuktu to French paratroopers.

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JOB: Tenure-track position in Photo History @ CA College of the Arts

Full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of photographic history, theory, and criticism. The successful applicant will hold a Ph.D. in art history or visual culture, with a specialty, publication record, and research program in any area of the history of photography. We seek a candidate with experience teaching global, historical surveys of the medium, as well as seminars on contemporary photography. Demonstrated interest in issues of race, gender, ethnicity, or other categories of difference will be privileged in the selection process.

Course load is 5 courses per academic year (typically 2/3); active participation in program assessment/development and committee service is required. Instructors in the Visual Studies program participate in the teaching of the program’s required and elective courses, including introductory historical surveys, 200-level electives, and 300-level seminars. Successful candidates will also have the interest in teaching at the graduate level.

For more information: http://www.cca.edu/about/jobs/60538

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

blackatlanticresource's avatarBlack Atlantic Resource Debate

Kentridge in Context: an evening with Derek Attridge.

Professor Attridge discusses Kentridge’s work in relation to

contemporary South African literature

on

Thursday 24 January 6pm

A Universal Archive – William Kentridge as Printmaker

Exhibition continues until Sunday 3 February, 2013.  Open 10am-6pm daily. Free.

One of South Africa’s greatest contemporary artists, William Kentridge is acclaimed worldwide for his films, drawings, theatre and opera productions.  He is also an innovative and prolific printmaker who studied etching at the Johannesburg Art Foundation.

Over the past 25 years Kentridge has produced more than 300 etchings, engravings, aquatints, silkscreens, linocuts and lithographs, experimenting with formats and combining techniques.  Often the social and political themes explored in his prints end up in a piece of theatre or animated film.  This exhibition includes over 100 prints in all media from 1988 to the present, with a focus on experimental and serial works, ranging in scale from intimate…

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