Tag: Conferences

LECTURE SERIES: To Mind and to Mend/Collective for Anti-Racist Art History (CARAH), University of Zurich

ACRAH’s co-directors Jacqueline Francis and Camara Holloway will be presenting as a part of this series. See below.

https://www.khist.uzh.ch/de/chairs/moderne/events/To-Mind-and-to-Mend–Antirassistische-Praktiken-in-der-Kunstgeschichte.html

REGISTER: https://www.khist.uzh.ch/de/institut/registration.html

Focusing on Europe, where anti-racist initiatives and practices are still little established within universities and cultural institutions, this lecture series discusses how art history can assume a more self-critical stance to actively counter racism in all its forms. In what ways can anti-racist and decolonial efforts be fostered through art historical research and teaching, as well as the contextualisation of artworks or collections? What are necessary interventions or existing best practices within the discipline of art history in order to critically engage with racist representations or historical attributions? To what extent can the use of appropriate language prevent the entrenchment of stereotypes and prejudices? And how can debates on inclusion and diversity be sustainably incorporated within academia, museums and art academies? These and other questions will be addressed in the course of the lecture series by art historians, curators, art critics and art educators.

Programme: 

03.10.: Is Art History Racist?

Anne Lafont (Professor in art history and créolités, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)

[English]

10.10.: Working Towards a Critical Race Art History

Association for Critical Race Art History (ACRAH) – Jacqueline Francis (Dean, Humanities & Sciences Division, California College of the Arts, San Francisco) & Camara Dia Holloway (Project Manager, Romare Bearden Digital Catalogue Raisonné, Wildenstein Plattner Institute, New York)

[English]

*Online

31.10.: «Gastarbeiter» aus der Türkei und die Immobilität der weissen Kunstgeschichte Westdeutschlands

Gürsoy Doğtaş (Kunsthistoriker und Kurator, Forschungsstipendiat 2024/25 für Curatorial Studies, Städelschule und Goethe Universität, Frankfurt a.M.)

[Deutsch]

07.11.: Cause and Effect: On the Audience of Andrea Fraser at Luma Westbau

Brit Barton (artist and art writer, Zürich/Chicago)

[English]

21.11.: Antirassistische Strategien in Museen und kulturellen Institutionen

Gespräch mit Tasnim Baghdadi (Co-Leiterin Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich), Eric Otieno Sumba (Autor und Forscher, Redakteur am Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin), Marilyn Umurungi (Kunst- und Kulturforscherin, Co-Kuratorin Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Zürich)

[Deutsch]

*Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich

05.12.: Documenting Colonial Toxicity

Samia Henni (Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies, McGill University, Montreal)

[English]

*Online

12.12.: Invisible Man. Race und Fototheorie

Christopher Nixon (Philosoph und Komparatist, Hamburg)

[Deutsch]

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Konzept und Organisation / Concept and organization

CARAH – Collective for Anti-Racist Art History

Daniel Berndt, Nadine Helm, Nadine Jirka, Charlotte Matter, Rosa Sancarlo

Weitere informationen / Further information

www.khist.uzh.ch/de/research/projects/carah.html

Die Vortragsreihe ist kostenlos und öffentlich zugänglich. Die einzelnen Vorträge werden auf Deutsch oder Englisch gehalten (siehe Programm). Einige Sitzungen finden virtuell statt. Alle Vorträge werden online mit Untertitelung übertragen. Für Fragen und Bedürfnisse zur Barrierefreiheit, sowie für die Anmeldung zur Online-Teilnahme schreiben Sie bitte an CARAH: antirassismus@khist.uzh.ch

The lecture series is free and open to the public. Individual sessions will be held in German or English (see program). Some sessions will take place online. All lectures will be streamed online with subtitles. For questions and accessibility needs, and to register for online participation, please write to CARAH: antirassismus@khist.uzh.ch

Mit der Unterstützung von / With the support of:

  • Kunsthistorisches Institut UZH
  • Lehrstuhl für Moderne und Zeitgenössische Kunst und Lehrstuhl Geschichte der bildenden Kunst
  • Graduate Campus UZH
  • Graduiertenschule der Philosophischen Fakultät UZH
  • Dr. Carlo Fleischmann Stiftung

CFP: African American Open Session @ MAHS Conference 2017

The 2017 Annual Conference of the Midwest Art History Society will be hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and Case Western Reserve University from April 6–8. Panels held during the first two days will take place at the museum. The final day of the conference will take place at Oberlin College in the Allen Memorial Art Museum.

Proposals for the African American Art Open Session can be sent to David Hart at  dhart@cia.edu. Proposals of no more than 250 words and a two-page CV should be emailed (preferably as Word documents).

The deadline has been extended to December 31, 2016.

See https://www.mahsonline.org/conference/ for additional details.

CFP: African American Expression in Print and Digital Culture @ University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 2014

“In Their Own Images: Visual Culture in African American Periodicals”

African American periodicals such as the Indianapolis Freeman, Colored American, Crisis, Opportunity, and The Black Panther emphasize the impact of images, as well as the printed word, in enabling black Americans’ self-expression and empowerment. Such periodicals often have been the primary venues for showcasing and supporting the work of black visual artists, including Aaron Douglas, Black Panther illustrator Emory Douglas, and political cartoonist Garfield Haywood. This interdisciplinary panel seeks papers that address the production, history, and aesthetics of black periodical art in a range of forms: mastheads and stock images, cover art, comics, sketches, political cartoons, and other illustrations. Papers may address any twentieth- or twentieth-first century African American periodical art or artist(s). Submissions that focus on the New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights era, and Black Arts and Black Power Movement are especially welcome.

This panel is proposed for the conference “African American Expression in Print and Digital Culture,” to be held on September 19 – 21, 2014: http://www.slis.wisc.edu/chpcconf.htm.

Submit a 250-word abstract and a one-page c.v. by December 15, 2013 to Andreá N. Williams, Department of English, The Ohio State University, williams.2941@osu.edu. Please list “AFAM visual culture panel” in the subject line of your email submission.