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21. Dada and Surrealism in Play (AAH Glasgow, 15-17 April 10)
    Sesión de la Conferencia Anual de Historiadores de Arte en la Universidad de Glasgow, 15-17 abril del 2010, dirigida por David Hopkins y Debbie Lewer. This session seeks to explore the relationship between Dada, Surrealism and their legacies and notions of the infantile, the child-like and the adolescent. As is well known, both Dada and Surrealism generated objects that were toy-like and strategies that were game-like, but comparatively little work has been carried out on these aspects of the movements. We welcome papers that deal with "transitional" objects’ and babble, with rhymes and rituals, with toys and children’s games, with puppets and dolls, with playing cards and puzzles, with tall-tales and make-believe, with jokes and ruses, with bluffs and disguises. We are similarly interested in related artistic strategies that are playful, humorous, roguish, regressive, badly behaved, transgressive and so on. The role of toylike objects and play in a critical politics of dissent is an area of special interest. Particularly welcome are papers which trace paths out of the Dada and Surrealist traditions into the present; whether via Fluxus games or the rudery of the yBas. The session aims to produce a different conception of its topic than one afforded simply by an appreciation of the influence of child art’ or the veneration of the spontaneity of childhood. We are more interested in how and why artists and theorists in the Dada and Surrealist vein sought to return to child-like states and conditions or to re-animate the paraphernalia of childhood, in ways which were often perverse or recalcitrant, and not necessarily nostalgic. Dada, Surrealism and their legacies are increasingly made to appear as "serious", morally worthy and grown-up when in fact these attitudes were frequently anathema to them. We hope, then, to put Dada, Surrealism and their legacies back into play. Please refer to the AAH website for full details of the conference of which this one-day session is a part: www.aah.org.uk. As detailed on the website, if you would like to offer a paper, please submit your proposal of no more than 250 words, including your name, contact details and institutional affiliation by no later than 9 November 2009 to BOTH session convenors: David Hopkins, University of Glasgow d.hopkins@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk Debbie Lewer, University of Glasgow d.lewer@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk
22. CFP - Alternative Publics in the Middle East and North Africa
    Submission Instructions Candidates should go online and submit the following: • A filled out online application form (http://www.rscas.org/medform.asp), including the paper proposal of 500 – 1000 words, in English. • A curriculum vitae of max 5 pages. For more information, contact Noor Al-Qasimi (nooralqasimi@mac.com) or Kevin W. Gray (kevin-william.gray.1@ulaval.ca).
23. WHAT IS THE COMMON? An International Conference
    Keynotes (The list of keynotes will be extended) Jacques Rancière David Harvey Submission Guidelines We are welcoming papers from all disciplines regardless academic affiliation or other background. All Interested researchers are required to submit an abstract of no more than 500 words, not later than September 5. The common refers not only to primary resources, such as water or ecological conditions on a planetary level, but it is at the same time a political force that traverses diverse fields of tension such as art and culture, law and gender relations. The question "What is the Common?" is addressed as a real agenda that conditions the thought. The conference is a program that extends over 4 years. Each year will treat two themes. The conference 2009 will welcome papers related to the following two axes: 1. The Common and the Economy Which are the specific emerging forms of the common today and what defines its relation to the material conditions of production of values in contemporary capitalism? Under this axis, both theoretical discussions and case-specific investigations in areas such as autonomous popular organisations, regional movements or global changes in one specific economic sector are welcome. 2. The Philosophical Understanding of what the Common Is The common has since Plato's Republic been a central question for the philosophical thinking. What is the relation or non-relation between the common and the totality of social relations? In which form and based upon what ontological or existential categories does it emerge? What is the difference between the common as the name of a real movement and the nostalgies of the return to a simple life?
24. Multiple Ways to Design Research
    Conferencia sobre "Múltiples formas de diseñar la investigación" en Suiza 6 Abril 2009 - Fecha límite para la presentación de abstractos. Abstracts Written abstracts should not exceed 7'500 characters plus references. The abstract should indicate the context of the research including the main findings and conclusions. Detailed instructions on the format and the submission procedure will be available on the symposium web site soon.
25. Revisiting/Revising the Avant-Garde
    The concept of the avant-garde is arguably the most important and influential one in the history of modern art, but it is a notion often left unexamined. We are prompted to ask - which avant-garde? In the context of the recent popularity of a return to the issues of modernism within contemporary art and criticism, this conference proposes a critical re-engagement with the theory, histories and politics of the avant-garde. Keynote speakers include Nicholas Bourriaud, Sylvère Lotringer and Franco 'Bifo' Berardi. Please send 200 word abstracts to G.Grindon@kingston.ac.uk by Wed 18th April 2009.
26. SocialEast Seminar on Foreign Experience in Post-89 Art
    This seminar asks what attracted foreign artists and curators to the capitals of Central and Eastern Europe in the wake of the political changes of 1989 and what is their contribution to national art discourses and the idea of post-national contemporary art. What drew artists to cities such as Ljubljana, Budapest, Prague or Vilnius, and how did they participate in making the national art scenes more open and international. This Call for Papers is aimed at art historians, theorists, curators and artists, who are encouraged to take an auto-ethnographic approach to the foreign experience in post-1989 art. To suggest a paper for the SocialEast Seminar on Foreign Experience in Post-89 Art, please send a 200 word proposal and biographical note to Dr. Reuben Fowkes by email to info@socialeast.org
27. Photography, Archive and Memory
    Call for papers: Recent debates about photography and the archive are currently being reformulated in relation to 'memory' resulting in a critical challenge to more traditional formulations of the history of photography and notions of 'archive'. Through 'memory' the archive becomes open to new interpretations, uses and new formulations; the social material relations, the materiality of the medium and the institutional nature of the archive are potentially revealed and contested. The symposium will aim to map this emerging body of work from practitioners, theorists, historians and curators and critically reflect on the theoretical and methodological implications of the use of 'memory' as a conceptual category within photography. ENVIAR ABSTRACTOS DE 250 PALABRAS Y BREVE BIOGRAFÍA A Julia Peck Y Karen Cross aphotoarchive@roehampton.ac.uk FECHA LÍMITE 30 MARZO DEL 2009
28. Solicitud de artículos, enciclopedia de historia mundial
    ABC-CLIO, a leading publisher of academic reference works, is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volume Encyclopedia of World History. We are looking for interested scholars to prepare 500-1500 word articles with a global perspective in the area of Art History. Compensation: contributors will have their names associated with the entries they contribute,and receive access to the e-book version of the entire encyclopedia for personal use. Contributors assigned 3,000 words or more will also receive a credit of $300 towards purchase of ABC-CLIO/Greenwood/Praeger books. In order to meet review standards, we do require that contributors hold a Ph.D., ABD, be currently enrolled in a doctoral program, or have recognized expertise in the field. If you are interested in writing 1 or more of the entries listed below, please send a c.v. to Fred Nadis (Project Editor) and/or Jeanie Azizian (Project Coordinator): FNadis@abc-clio.com JAzizian@abc-clio.com
29. Call for Papers Dialogues with Others: A Symposium with Hubert Damisch University of Amsterdam, 28-29 May 2009
    Scholars are invited to present papers in which they reflect upon Hubert Damisch's ideas in relation to their own research. The contributions will be followed by a panel discussion enabling Hubert Damisch to respond to these interpretations of his thought. Please send your proposal (no more than 300 words) for a 20-minute paper and a short biography to Sophie Berrebi (berrebi@uva.nl) or Eric de Bruyn (E.C.H.de.Bruyn@rug.nl). Please include 'Damisch' in the subject-heading of your email. Deadline: 16 March 2009 Sophie Berrebi Art History Institute University of Amsterdam Herengracht 286 1016 BX Amsterdam The Netherlands berrebi@uva.nl
30. Call for Papers South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2009
    The annual SAVAH conference will be hosted by the Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, from 10 - 11 July 2009. The theme of the conference is: THE POLITICS OF CHANGE: Looking backwards and forwards Abstracts should be between 200 and 300 words in length (Times New Roman, font 11, single spaced) and must include the following: . Title of paper . Theme to which it belongs . Author/s . Affiliation/s . Contact details. Please forward abstracts to savah2009@up.ac.za by 27 February 2009. You will be notified as soon as possible after this whether your proposal has been accepted. Full details regarding the conference will be made available in February 2009.
31. Interior Spaces in Other Places
    Call for Papers Interior Spaces in Other Places An IDEA (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association) Symposium 3-5 February 2010 Hosted and convened by the Interior Design program, School of Design, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Guidelines for submission of Abstracts Submitted in Microsoft Word document (max 300 words). Please provide the abstract on the first page and on the second page include your name, institutional affiliation, contact details and a brief biographical statement of 100 words or less. Deadlines Abstract: 30 March 2009 Submit Abstracts to ideasymposium@qut.edu.au Notification of Acceptance of Abstracts: 1 May 2009 Submission of Full papers: 30 September 2009 Return of Referees Report: 11 November 2009 Final date for submission of revised papers: 21 December 2009 Proceedings: To be published as CD Rom, and papers uploaded to IDEA
32. Globalisation and European integration: 'the nature of the beast'
    Friday 5th and Saturday 6th June 2009. The conference invites specialists from the fields of politics, international relations, international political economy and sociology to build on their experience of applying historical materialist theories in empirical settings related to global governance and regional integration, with an emphasis on the European Union (EU). Working papers designed to stimulate dialogue between invited speakers, Warwick research staff and postgraduate students will introduce workshops in this two-day event. With Claes Belfrage; Andreas Bieler; Hans-Jürgen Bieling; Werner Bonefeld; Peter Burnham; José Caballero; Alan Cafruny; Guglielmo Carchedi; Ben Clift; Jan Drahokoupil; Otto Holman; Bob Jessop; Huw Macartney; Henk Overbeek; Magnus Ryner; Vivien A. Schmidt; Stuart Shields; Kees Van Der Pijl. Abstracts should: Be no more than 250 words for a 20 minute presentation. Include your name, institution, level of study, department and paper title Address an interdisciplinary audience Be submitted by March 15th electronically to globeuropeconferencejune2009@googlemail.com
33. CFP: German Studies Association Annual Conference October 8 - 11, 2009, Washington, DC; "Munich's Modernism: Visual Culture at the Turn of the 20th Century"
    This panel seeks to focus attention on Munich as a site of modern visual culture between approximately 1890 and 1914. Although Munich was a lively and significant center for the visual arts during these years, on the whole, Munich has received less critical attention than cities like Berlin and Vienna from scholars working in art history and other disciplines. For this panel, visual culture is conceived broadly as including not only painting, sculpture, prints and architecture, but theater design, urban space, fashion, advertising etc. In addition, both art historical examinations of specific works of art are sought, as well as studies of the institutional and societal fabric within which these objects were produced. Although proposals on works by single, canonical artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc are of course welcome, those which address lesser known artists, non-traditional media, issues of patronage and reception, exhibition spaces, or the material conditions of production are particularly encouraged. Please send one-page abstracts (300 words) and a brief CV to Kimberly Smith by Friday, February 6.
34. Call for papers para futuros números de n.paradoxa
    Call for Papers for future volumes. n.paradoxa publishes the work of women writers, curators, artists and critics of contemporary art (post-1970) who write about the work of contemporary women artists and its relationship to feminist theory: located anywhere in the world. n.paradoxa is bi-annual and published in English. Please write to the editor: k.deepwell@ukonline.co.uk with a one-page proposal and information about yourself as author. Volume 24 (July 2009) of n.paradoxa is on the theme of Material Histories. The theme of this journal calls for any papers from women writers, artists or curators working on theories/histories of materials, historical materialism, alternative histories or marginal histories of feminist art practices. After 40 years, feminist art practices have a wide range of legacies and histories in different parts of the world and this volume - with international contributors - will reflect new approaches to histories of contemporary art. Dialectical and reflective approaches are welcome as are readings of the material/dematerialised/immaterial=virtual art objects produced by women artists. Deadline for copy is May 15, 2009. Volume 25 (Jan 2010) of n.paradoxa is on the theme of Pleasure. Have feminist art practices proposed new models of pleasure? Do they challenge ideas about women's pleasures or reinforce them? While women artists have challenged the assumptions embedded within the male gaze, have they shifted the object position for women in representation as something-to-be-looked-at? Is there a focus on the different kinds of visual, aural, sensual, or tactile pleasures in women's contemporary art work produced in the last 40 years? Articles on the subject of pleasure or pleasures - visual, aural, sensual, physical or in terms of other forms of pleasure/pain producing sensations - are welcome.
35. Resorting to the Coast: Tourism, Heritage and Cultures of the Seaside
    25-29 June 2009 Blackpool, United Kingdom organised by Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change & Institute of Northern Studies Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom www.tourism-culture.com Globally, coastlines are arguably the most important sites for tourist activity and tourism development. The various combinations of sea and shore have become highly popular and successful attractions, and a majority of the world's leisure tourists cling to these liminal spaces at the margins of the land. The lure of the 'seaside', the beach, and the resorts which have evolved to service and entertain tourists, is immensely powerful, reflecting a long standing but ever-changing relationship between humans and the oceans. The dominance of coastal tourism within the modern period has generated a wealth of issues which this conference seeks to address, including: The patterns and trends in how tourists mobilise the resources of sea, sand and shore; Ways in which coastal communities have adapted to tourism; Environmental degradation and regeneration of coastal regions and marine ecologies; The historical forms, structures and aesthetics of 'seaside' resorts; Regeneration of 'historic' resorts; Continuing multi-national development of 'pristine' coastlines; Inclusivities and exclusivities in coastal resorts; Changing beach and seaside holiday 'traditions'. In addressing such issues this major international and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to promote dialogue across disciplinary boundaries on a global stage. We therefore welcome papers from: anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art and design history, cultural geography, cultural studies, ethnology and folklore, history, heritage studies, landscape studies, linguistics, museum studies, political science, sociology, tourism studies and urban/spatial planning. The event will seek to draw upon ideas, cases and best practice from international scholars and help develop new understandings of the relationships between tourism and the coast. It will also provide a major networking opportunity for international scholars, policy makers and professionals. Key themes of interest to the conference include: * Histories of coastal tourism developments and resorts; * Regeneration of coastal economies; * Social and environmental impacts of coastal developments; * Representations of seaside holidays in popular culture; * Worker migrations to coastal sites; * Beach behaviours and traditions; * Myths of the sea and coastal communities; * Coastal resort art and architecture; * Tourist coastal colonies. Please submit a 300 word abstract including title and full contact details as an electronic file to the conference manager Daniela Carl (ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk). You may submit your abstract as soon as possible but no later than 2nd February 2009.
36. The Heritage Theater. The dynamics of cultural heritage in a globalizing world
    The Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of History and Arts, Erasmus University Rotterdam. We invite researchers on globalization and cultural heritage to send us abstracts for papers to present at this conference. Abstracts (max. 300 words) can be send until February 2, 2009 to halbertsma@fhk.eur.nl .
37. “Visualizing the Urban Jungle and the Urban Oasis: City Space and the American Environmental Imaginary,”
    Panel for the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., November 5-8, 2009. Paper topics for this panel may include (but are not limited to): · Surveillance and social control as a mode of urban “sustainability” · Rooftop gardens, urban farming, and the greening of urban space · Urban architecture as a metaphor for the natural world, and vice versa · Social Darwinism, class difference, and species difference · The City Beautiful movement · Natural rehabilitation of urban spaces in public art and urban design (e.g. NYC’s High Line project, urban “earth art”) · Urban ruins · Suburbia and New Urbanism · Lawns and other domesticated landscapes · Urban interspecies encounters and the spaces that frame them (e.g. zoos, dog parks) · Natural history museums and botanical gardens · Trans-species disease (e.g. avian flu, mad cow) and the global city Enviar un abstracto de no más de 500 páginas a la dirección de mail indicada arriba antes del 1 de enero del 2009.
38. 1st Global Conference Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment
    Conferencia sobre culturas de videojuegos y el futuro del entretenimiento electrónico en Oxford. Fecha límite para entregar abstractos, 6 de febrero 09.
39. Mediterranean Worlds, Cultures of Interpretation (Chipre)
    Conferencia que prepara la Faculty of Arts and Science, Eastern Mediterranean University Famagusta (Chipre), sobre la cultura mediterránea. Fecha límite para presentar abstractos, 15 de enero del 09
40. Photography into Contemporary Art
    Conferencia sobre fotografía y arte contemporáneo. Se cubren gastos de viaje y alojamiento para los participantes aceptados desde fuera del Reino Unido. Fecha límite para presentar abstractos, 31 de enero 09. Abierto sólo a estudiantes de postgrado o doctorados que hayan presentado su tesis recientemente. (sólo en inglés)