“The Scramble for Persian Art: Pope and His Rivals”
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2010
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
10:30 - 10:45 Registration
10:45 - 11:00 Welcome
James Cuno (President and Director of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Harvey B. Plotnick (Trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago and
Collector of
Medieval Islamic Ceramics)
ARTHUR UPHAM POPE: LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENTS
11:00 - 11:30
Jonathan M. Bloom (Boston College)
“Arthur Upham Pope: His Life and Times”
11:30 - 12:00
Donald Whitcomb (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
“Archaeology in Iran and the Experience of Arthur Upham Pope”
12:00 - 12:30
Bernard O'Kane (American University in Cairo)
“Arthur Upham Pope and the Study of Persian Islamic Architecture”
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
ARTHUR UPHAM POPE: CURATORS, COLLECTORS, AND ART DEALERS
14:00 - 14:30
Lindsay Allen (King’s College, University of London)
“Arthur Upham Pope and Placing Persepolis in 'Persian' Art:
His Creation of 'Persian Art' as a Collectable Genre”
14:30 - 15:00
Yuka Kadoi (Art Institute of Chicago)
“Toward a Foundation of Persian Islamic Art Connoisseurship:
Arthur Upham Pope and Early 20th-century Chicago”
ARTHUR UPHAM POPE: HIS LEGACY
15:00 - 15:30
Sheila S. Blair (Boston College)
“Surveying Persian Art after Pope's Survey”
15:30 -16:00 Discussion
16:00 - Exhibition viewing
AIC EXHIBITIONS:
Arthur Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art
July 17 – October 3, 2010
Regenstein Hall
HIAA SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION
Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C., 21-23 October 2010.
The Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) would like to remind all H-ISLAMART subscribers that registration remains open for its Second Biennial Symposium, on the theme of Objects, Collections and Cultures, to be held at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C., 21-23 October 2010. The conference will begin on Thursday evening, 21 October, with an opening address by FSG director Julian Raby, followed by a reception. HIAA is also pleased to confirm that a special exhibition -- "The Shahnama: 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings" -- curated by FSG curator and symposium program co-chair Massumeh Farhad, will be on view at the Sackler Gallery during the conference. Besides the activities at the Freer and Sackler, there will be a second reception on Friday evening, 22 October at The Textile Museum, to include a tour by curator Sumru Krody of the special exhibition "Colors of the Oasis:
Central Asian Ikats." HIAA is grateful to The Textile Museum for hosting and co-sponsoring this additional symposium event.
The full symposium program, current as of 1 July, and registration form are available on the HIAA website: http://www.historiansofislamicart.org/portal/default.asp?cat=sym
Please note that the program includes simultaneous workshops, focused on individual works of art in the Freer and Sackler collections. Space at these sessions is limited, and attendance will be on a first-come (i.e. first sign-up), first-served basis, using the symposium registration form. So be sure to REGISTER NOW!
“Tying the Rainbow: Reexamining Central Asian Ikats,”
The Textile Museum’s 2010 Fall Textile Symposium
October 15-17, 2010 Washington, D. C.
Registration is open. For further information and registration, please visit http://www.textilemuseum.org/symposium.htm.
The Textile Museum is also offering 10 scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students in a textile-related field of study. The scholarship application is available to download at the above website.
Drawing inspiration from The Textile Museum’s fall exhibition, Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats, this weekend conference will explore the unparalleled tradition of Central Asian ikats past and present.
12th International Academic Conference on Islamic Jerusalem Studies
SOAS, University of London, 6 November 2010.
Deadline: 23 July 2010.
The theme for this year is "Orientalist Approaches to Islamic Jerusalem". This one-day conference will be looking into the religious and political agendas of the Orientalist approaches towards Islamic Jerusalem and its Studies. It will bring into focus not only the importance of this topic in the study of classical Orientalists, but also, the way this has been taken forward by neo-orientalist and Israeli Academics.
We welcome papers stemming from classical Orientalist approaches to contemporary ones. Topics for discussion may include (but are not limited to):
- Theoretical Framework of Orientalist Approaches
- Relationship between Knowledge and Power
- The Developments and legacy of Islamic Jerusalem terminology and studies
- The depiction of Islam and Muslims in Orientalist Art
- The Significance of Islamic Jerusalem as understood by Orientalist and Israeli Academic (eg. Night Journey, Quranic & Hadith references, Umar’s visit …)
- Case Studies of Orientalist works
- Case Studies of Israeli Academics
- Stereotypes and Oriental Myths
Abstracts of no more than 250 words, for 20 minutes presentations, should be submitted to conference organisers, the Academy for Islamic Jerusalem Studies, by 23 July 2010.
Professor Abd al-Fattah El-Awaisi
Email: info@isra.org.uk
Visit the website at http://www.isra.org.uk
Constructing Memory in Medieval Spain
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 15-16 July 2011
Deadline: 1 September 2010
This two-day international conference brings together scholars of medieval Spain to discuss how memories of the sacred and secular past could be articulated, constructed and revised in words, objects and performances. Spain is here understood in its broadest sense to include all confessional communities from the Iberian peninsula and dependent islands, and the theme of memory encompasses both attitudes to the past and also the arts of memory. In drawing on scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds the conference aims to investigate common strategies or alternative practices in the construction of memory in different forms and media, and the extent to which these may depend on contemporary theories of memory. Twenty-five minute papers (in English) may address any topic relevant to the period 1085-1492, though those focusing on the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries are especially encouraged.
Papers may consider but are not limited to the following issues:
• the use of spolia, or the reuse and adaptation of texts
• biography and historiography
• commemoration of people and events; nostalgia and narratives of the past
• the arts of memory
• performed memory in processions, plays and pageants
• false memory, fakes and forgeries
• archaicism in objects, buildings or texts
Abstracts (max. 250 words) should be sent to Tom Nickson by 1 September 2010. Send to tn530@york.ac.uk or Dr Tom Nickson, Department of History of Art, Vanbrugh College, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK. The conference will be held at the Centre of Medieval Studies in the King’s Manor, in the heart of the medieval city of York. For the benefit of international scholars the conference is timed to follow the International Medieval Congress in nearby Leeds (11-14 July 2011).
Complutense Sessions at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds 2011
Deadline: before the 15th of September 2010
The research group La imagen medieval: Espacio, forma y contenido from the department of Medieval Art History from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid is organizing three sessions for the 18th International Medieval Congress to take place at the University of Leeds (England) from the 11th to the 14th of July, 2011. The general topic of the congress is “Rich...Poor.”
We are looking for 20-minute presentations on the following topics:
1. Al-Andalus and the Perception of Luxury in Medieval Spain.
2. Liturgical Treasure and Courtly Treasure in the Middle Ages.
3. Material Culture and Popular Art in the Middle Ages.
Please send a 500-word proposal before the 15th of September 2010 to
Mónica A. Walker Vadillo (mawalk01@ghis.ucm.es) and Irene González Hernando (irgonzal@ghis.ucm.es). The accepted proposals will be presented at the 18th International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds.
Monica A. Walker Vadillo
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Avda. Profesor Aranguren s/n, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Ciudad
Universitaria, Madrid, 28040
Email: mawalk01@ghis.ucm.es
Animals and Otherness in the Middle Ages
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), 7th -8th of February 2011.
Deadline: ?
Otherness in medieval society could be defined in many ways, typically by outward signs of difference. In a society where animals were polysemous and good to think with, it is unsurprising to find them regularly deployed in constructions of otherness. This meeting of the Medieval Animal Data Network (MAD) aims to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to consider the diverse use of animals in constructions of otherness. It encompasses not only conceptualized difference, but also physical societal differences expressed in the varied treatment of real and imagined animals. The meeting also encompasses the use of animals to emphasise contrast more broadly, such as the juxtaposition between good and evil, or positive and negative features.
Key topics include, but are not restricted to:
• Animals as paradigms for the known and unknown.
• Animals used to define the normative and the forbidden/deviant.
• Animals used in defining alternative world views.
• Breaching and enforcing societal boundaries through specific forms of animal exploitation (e.g. the consumption of horses and dogs in
Christian contexts; the consumption of pork in Jewish and Muslim contexts).
• Animals as symbols of oppressors and the persecuted.
Data and approaches may come from analyses of medieval art, material culture (zooarchaeology) and texts. The aim of the conference is to create an interesting cross-discipline forum for exploring a fundamental dimension of medieval European society.
Please email proposed paper titles and abstracts of 200 words, with
accompanying name and institution details, to either Mónica A. Walker Vadillo (mawalk01@ghis.ucm.es) or Alice Choyke (choyke@ceu.hu).
Monica A. Walker Vadillo
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Avda. Profesor Aranguren s/n, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Ciudad
Universitaria, Madrid, 28040
Spain
Email: mawalk01@ghis.ucm.es
Visit the website at http://www.beasts-in-the-woods.org/madrid.html
Landscape History Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians, Symposium April 13, 2011, preceding the Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, New Orleans, Louisiana
Deadline: September 15, 2010
Landscape Architecture and Economics
Sonja Duempelmann, University of Maryland, and Marc Treib (University of California, Berkeley, ret.)
As commissioned projects-and even those self-generated-all landscape architecture reflects the workings and influence of one or more economic systems. Whether propelled or limited by the resources of the client, by the intended use of the landscape, or the financial status of those who will use it, designed landscapes are rooted inherently in finance, overtly or covertly. The 2011 Landscape History Chapter symposium welcomes submissions that investigate the subject of the designed landscape and economics from a variety of perspectives, from all periods in history, and from all cultures. However, primary emphasis should be placed on designed landscapes rather than cultural landscapes or planning projects.
Subjects might include (offered only to illustrate the range of potential topics): What was the role of forest production in the making of the English landscape garden or in other garden traditions? How did labor figure in the making of landmark gardens, parks, and suburbs? How have particular designed landscapes served colonial industries or in the making of company towns? How were/are landscape architects' offices organized and what is the effect of that structure on the making of designed landscape? How does "branded" landscape architecture achieve an identity? How have superannuated industrial processes and their landscapes influenced the course of their redevelopment as landscapes for leisure? How have parks and gardens been cast as tourist destinations in and of themselves, either as ephemeral garden shows or expositions, or on a more permanent basis? Of course, these are only a few suggestions.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words no later than
September 15th to both Sonja Duempelmann at sduempel@umd.edu and Marc Treib at mtreib@socrates.berkeley.edu. Accepted speakers will be notified by October 1, 2010, with drafts of the full papers (maximum of 2,000 words) due January 15, 2011.
PROPOSE A SESSION FOR THE 2012 CAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
February 22-25, 2012, Los Angeles
Deadline: September 1, 2010; no late applications are accepted
CAA invites individual members to propose a session for the 2012 Annual Conference, taking place February 22-25, 2012, in Los Angeles.
Proposals should cover the breadth of current thought and research in art, art and architectural history, theory and criticism, pedagogical issues, museum and curatorial practice, conservation, and developments in technology. The Los Angeles conference closes CAA's Centennial year, which will begin at the New York meeting in February 2011.
The Annual Conference Committee welcomes session proposals from established artists and scholars, along with younger scholars, emerging and midcareer artists, and graduate students. Particularly welcome are those proposals that highlight interdisciplinary work. Artists are especially encouraged to propose sessions appropriate to dialogue and information exchange relevant to artists.
Proposals are only accepted online; paper forms and postal mailings are not required. To set up an account in CAA's content management system, please email Lauren Stark, CAA manager of programs, who will register your email address and provide you with a password. For full details on the submission process, please visit Chair a Conference Session.
College Art Association (CAA)
275 Seventh Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001 | T:
212-691-1051 | F: 212-627-2381 | nyoffice@collegeart.org http://www.collegeart.org/
Intersections: Architecture and Poetry
Date: 2011-01-31
Description: We cover the universe with drawings we have lived Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, 1958. Poetry and architecture, brought together by Gaston Bachelard in his seminal investigation of lived-in space, are art-forms that nevertheless continue critically to be considered broadly apart from one an ...
Contact: ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk URL:www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2010/summer/feb11_ArchitecturePoetry.shtml
Announcement ID: 177551 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=177551
What is New About Neo-Liberal Urbanism? Middle Eastern Cities in Comparative Perspective, Workshop,
Florence, Italy, 6 to 9 April 2011
Deadline: proposal is due July 15, 2010; application is due September 1, 2010
The Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Mediterranean Research Meeting
ORGANIZERS: Najib B. Hourani, PhD and Mona Fawaz, PhD
Anthropology Faculty of Engineering and Architecture; Global Urban Studies Program; Graduate Urban Planning and Design, Michigan State University; American
University of Beirut houranin@msu.edu[1] and mf05@aub.edu.lb[2]
ABSTRACT
Since the 1980s, Middle Eastern cities have hosted several experiments in market-driven, or "neo-liberal" urbanism, yet they remain off Urban Studies? disciplinary map. This workshop seeks to place regional cities squarely within contemporary debates about the nature of neo-liberal urbanism through historical and comparative studies of urban transformation.
We seek to evaluate two dominant approaches to urban transformations
-- that derived from 'structuralist' accounts of the shift from state to market in the management of urban affairs, and the account rooted in the growing literature on 'governmentality' – through historically-grounded case studies of transformations of Middle Eastern cities. How has market urbanism been adapted and adopted in the region? What local, regional and global structures facilitated or imposed the process? How have they reconfigured politico-economic institutions and practices, and so, the urban structure and fabric of regional cities? How does the region's urban experience confirm, re-orient or undermine these currently dominant theorizations of market urbanism as drawn from western accounts?
Participants will evaluate dominant paradigms through a contemporary or historical episode of structural transformation or governmentalization of a regional city. In addition to contemporary cases, we suggest three historical moments that provide fertile terrain for the evaluation of dominant paradigms: a) late Ottoman modernization of urban administration and economy, b) colonial state formation, and c) the shift to Keynesianism and economic nationalism in the era of independence. Through concrete case studies, authors are asked to attend to the structures, institutions, technologies and strategies introduced, the problems they meant to address and the politico-economic forces that benefited from, resisted or were produced by them. The organizers hope that, in evaluating how the cases or comparisons confirm, redirect or contradict either or both of the dominant formulations discussed above, the panel will not only develop more rigorous understandings of neo-liberal urbanism in the Middle East, but to do so in such a way as to ensure the Middle East has a central place in the production of urban theory.
THE COMPLETE WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION CAN BE VIEWED AT: http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Med/mrm2011/
PLEASE FIND BELOW IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
15 JULY 2010: PAPER PROPOSALS DUE
Applications must be submitted on-line. The electronic application form is available at http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Med/mrm2011/
1 SEPTEMBER 2010: Announcement of selected workshop participants.
15 FEBRUARY 2011: FINAL VERSIONS OF PAPERS_ due.
Najib B. Hourani
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Global Urban Studies
Michigan State University
354 Baker Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
The Curatorial Intensive: Fall 2010
Location: New York, United States
Deadline: August 13, 2010
Program Dates: October 25-November 1, 2010
This October in New York ICI is organizing The Curatorial Intensive for emerging curators internationally who want to learn about curating in the public realm. From an open competition, 10-14 individuals will be selected to study with some of today’s leading practitioners working within the rapidly growing field known as public practice.
Teachers and advisors for this program include Nicholas Baume (Director and Chief Curator, Public Art Fund); Claire Bishop (Associate Professor, Ph.D. Program in Art History, CUNY); Dan Cameron (Founding Director, Prospect New Orleans); Kate Fowle (Executive Director, ICI); Mary Jane Jacob (Professor and Executive Director of Exhibitions, SAIC); Richard Marshall (Curator, Lever House); Anne Pasternak
(President and Artistic Director, Creative Time); and Nato Thompson (Chief Curator, Creative Time).
Participating in a rigorous schedule of workshops, discussions, critiques, and individual advisement sessions, as well as visits to local institutions and conversations with artists, participants will be trained to develop their ideas into full proposals. Topics discussed will include logistical issues such as commissioning, producing, and installing projects in public space, as well as concepts ranging from site-specificity to social and political engagement.
For more information visit ICI's website: www.ici-exhibitions.org
Chelsea Haines
Independent Curators International
799 Broadway, Suite 205
New York, NY 10003
212-254-8200
212-477-4781
Email: education@ici-exhibitions.org
Visit the website at http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/index.php/ci/posts/curatorial_intensive_2/
"Retrospective and Prospects: Reflections on the Study of the Qajar Era"
Oxford, August 11-13, 2010.
A conference honoring the work of Prof. Hafez Farmayan and celebrating ten years of the work of IQSA. The conference will be held in Oxford from Wednesday 11th to Friday 13th August 2010.
For further details, check the link below:http://www.qajarstudies.org/IQSATOC.html
The conference program is available at: http://www.qajarstudies.org/programoxford2010.html
Society of Architectural Historians, 64th Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana, April 13-17, 2011
Session: ARCHITECTURE AND GASTRONOMY
Deadline: 14 August 2010
Architecture and food have long held analogies. Both can be characterized by words such as 'tasteful', 'bland', and most prominently in recent years - 'organic'. Their synergy is embodied by the Latin word colere ('to till, tend'), which is also the root of our modern term 'to cultivate'. Importantly, cultivation can reference both pragmatic and symbolic phenomena. Cicero notably fused the concrete and figurative inflections of the term, proposing that the human mind must be cultivated in order 'to fruit'. During the Enlightenment this analogy was widened into architectural theory when J.F. Blondel defined 'taste' as the 'fruit of reasoning'. Just as chefs designed recipes for fine cuisine, architectural theorists began to devise rules for good architecture. While both architecture and gastronomy are disciplines that espouse fundamental principles and standards, neither can be wholly controlled by absolute prescriptions or rigid formulae. They rely on a combination of intuition, inventiveness, and even wonder. This session aims to illuminate and clarify the reciprocity between building and eating, paying particular attention to the role of gastronomy in the expression and interpretation of architecture. Proposals can be from diverse approaches, and those that reassess the metaphorical relationship between taste and architecture are particularly welcome. Speakers may also wish to present case studies that address how the built environment, including landscape, participates in the experience of a meal. Possible questions to explore might include:
What is the underlying significance of the terms like 'setting' and 'service' within architectural discourse? How do food markets contribute to the character of a city? In what ways does architecture structure certain forms of dining, such as ritual meals and communal feasts? How can tastes and smells help define the memory of particular places? The session is also open to presentations that examine emerging dialogues between building and eating, such as how vernacular architecture and regionalism have been aligned with contemporary movements like Slow Food and Edible Schoolyards.
The deadline for receipt of paper proposals is 14 August 2010.
Please submit proposals to the session chair: Dr Samantha
Martin-McAuliffe, University College Dublin School of Architecture,
Richview, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, Republic of Ireland. +353.1.716.2757
samantha.martinmcauliffe@ucd.ie
Any questions about the session can also be sent directly to the chair.
Further details about the conference and requirements for submitting a proposal are available on the SAH website:
http://www.sah.org/index.php?src=news&srctype=detail&category=News&refno=83
LEISURE, PLEASURE AND THE URBAN SPECTACLE
Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK
Deadline: for proposals for sessions and papers is 29 October 2010
This conference theme broadly explores the pursuit of pleasure in the context of the history of towns and cities. The conference organizers are interested in investigating the significance of specifically urban forms of pleasure and leisure for understanding the historical dynamics of social, economic and cultural relationships. Towns and cities have historically offered an array of pleasures to cater for ever larger concentrations of people. The types of leisure activities available to urban populations have never remained static; indeed, changing social and economic conditions have transformed popular leisure patterns over time as well as across urban space. The pursuit of pleasure, both licit and illicit, has adapted with the changing relationship between work and leisure. As working hours became increasingly rigid during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, so too did leisure time. The lack of free time was further exacerbated by growing pressures on land use. Thus, the pursuit of pleasure was increasingly set aside for specific buildings (inns, brothels, theatres, music halls and, more recently, fitness centres) or clearly delineated spaces (botanical gardens, public parks, public walks, gated communities and even the internet) where access could, in theory, be carefully managed. Cities, seaside towns and holiday resorts were also developed to specifically cater for a variety of tastes and pleasures. Once it was recognised that there was money to be made out of the pursuit of pleasure, cities became intertwined with the business of leisure and began to market themselves as centres of tourism, heritage and culture.
Some issues that the conference seeks to consider include:
• What do we understand by the terms ‘pleasure’ and ‘leisure’ in an urban context?
• How has the pursuit of pleasure differed between towns and cities, across national borders and over time?
• How has leisure been regulated, managed and delivered to urban citizens? How has regulation and service delivery differed between public and private authorities?
• How has urban pleasure been produced, marketed and consumed? How has this changed in light of the rise of mass tourism and the heritage industry?
• What is the relationship between leisure and place identity? In what ways have specific leisure activities (organised sport, for example) strengthened local identities where others might have weakened them?
• How have urban identities been conditioned by their relationship with defined pleasurable spaces and/or communities? To what extent has access to these spaces led to the exclusion of particular social groups or minorities?
• What contribution has the business of pleasure made to the spectacle of urban modernity?
• In what ways can the pursuit of pleasure be theorised in an urban historical context?
• How has urban leisure been represented culturally (through literature, film, television, etc.)? Has this influenced the diffusion of specific types of leisure internationally?
The conference committee invites proposals for individual papers as well as for individual sessions of up to three papers. Sessions that seek to draw comparisons across one or more countries, or open up new vistas for original research, are particularly encouraged. Abstracts of up to 500 words, including a title, name, affiliation and contact details should be submitted to the honorary conference organiser and should indicate clearly how the content of the paper addresses the conference theme outlined above. Those wishing to propose sessions should provide a brief statement that identifies the ways in which the session will address the conference theme, a list of speakers and paper abstracts. The final deadline for proposals for sessions and papers is 29 October 2010.
In addition, the conference will again host its new researchers’ forum.
This is aimed primarily at those who are at an early stage in a research project and who wish primarily to discuss ideas rather than present findings. New and current postgraduates working on topics unrelated to the main theme, as well as those just embarking on new research, are particularly encouraged to submit short papers for this forum. Graduate students can obtain a bursary to offset some of the expenses associated with attending the conference. Please send an e mail application to Prof. Richard Rodger at Richard.Rodger@ed.ac.uk and ask your PhD supervisor to also send a message confirming your status as a registered PhD student. The Urban History Group would like to acknowledge the Economic History Society for its support for these bursaries.
For further details please contact:
Dr. Shane Ewen (hon. conference organiser)
School of Cultural Studies
Leeds Metropolitan University
Broadcasting Place
Woodhouse Lane
LEEDS LS2 9EN
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 113 812 3340
Fax: +44 (0) 113 812 3112
Email: s.ewen@leedsmet.ac.uk
1500-1600. Entre Islam et Nouveaux Mondes: les réformes dans un contexte global.
Galerie Colbert, Salle Walter Benjamin, 2, rue Vivienne, Paris, 9 juillet 2010
De quelles manières les cultures et les religions non-européennes s'immiscent-elles dans les débats sur l'idolâtrie qui marquent la Réforme européenne au 16e siècle? Par exemple, quel est le rôle joué par les termes tels que « Musulman » (ou « Sarrazins ») ou « Juif », ou « Indien », dans ces débats ? Quel statut ont-ils? Comment les oeuvres d'art issues de ces parties du monde sont-elles reçues dans le cadre de ces controverses? Comment les tensions de civilisation et les projets
politiques participent-ils à celles-ci ? Comment le concept de « croisade » peut-il aider à comprendre les bouleversements religieux et comment cette question affecte-t-elle en particulier les débats sur les images? Quel rôle ont joué les Juifs et les Musulmans résidant en Europe dans ces polémiques?
Au regard de sa polarisation nord-sud, le débat intra-européen peut-il être perçu comme une reprise de la rhétorique prosélyte, telle qu'elle est pratiquée dans le discours des croisades, mais encore dans celui qui accompagne la conquête du Nouveau Monde? Un des enjeux principaux sera de contextualiser plus largement les textes et les images bien connus de la Réforme. Dans cette perspective, il semble pertinent de reconsidérer le problème des « imprimés » de la Réforme, en se demandant s'il est possible de concevoir un public plus large réceptif à ces débats.
Ce séminaire se déroulera en présence de:
Olivier CHRISTIN, professeur, université de Neufchâtel
Barry F. FLOOD, professeur, New York University
Naïma GHERMANI, maître de conférences, université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble
Jérémy KOERING, chargé de recherche au Centre Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art
Alexander NAGEL, professeur, New York University
Dominic OLARIU, professeur, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Alessandra RUSSO, professeur, Columbia University
Organisé dans le cadre du programme " Histoire sociale de l'art, histoire artistique du social " sous la direction de Philippe Bordes. Programme d'accueil, de réflexion et de rencontre, 2008-2010 INHA - Fondation de France
Lien avec la rubrique agenda du site de l'INHA dévolu à la rencontre : http://www.inha.fr/spip.php?article3204
Lien avec la présentation du programme Fondation de France : http://www.inha.fr/spip.php?rubrique351
Vendredi 9 juillet 2010
14h-18h30
Galerie Colbert
Salle Walter Benjamin
2, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
accès : 6, rue des Petits-Champs
Pour plus de renseignements, merci de vous mettre en relation avec :
Constance Moréteau
Chargée de documentation Fondation de France à l'INHA constance.moreteau@inha.fr <http://spip.php?article3204#>
01 47 03 85 20
VAF 2011 Annual Meeting in Falmouth, Jamaica, May 31 - June 4, 2011
Deadline: September 13, 2010
The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper proposals for its Annual Meeting in Falmouth Jamaica May 31 - June 4, 2011. Papers may address vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide. Submissions on all vernacular topics are welcome, but we encourage papers that explore topics related to the conference themes of heritage tourism as the new colonialism; climate and vernacular design; creolization, hybridity, acculturation and other models for cultural engagement; and race, slavery, and place. Papers should be twenty-minutes in length, although proposals for complete sessions, roundtable discussions, or other innovative means that facilitate scholarly discourse are also welcome.
Proposals must be one-page, fewer than 400 words, and include paper title, author's name, and email address. Please state clearly the argument of the paper and explain the methodology and content. Papers should be theoretical or analytical in nature, rather than descriptive. Attach a one-page CV to your proposal submission. The deadline for proposals is September 13, 2010. Presenters must deliver their papers in person and be VAF members at the time of the conference. Speakers who do not register for the conference by April 1, 2010 will be withdrawn. Please do not submit an abstract if you are not committed to attending the papers session on June 4. Presenter Fellowships to offset registration costs are available to students and recent graduates. For more information on Presenter Fellowships see http://www.vafweb.org/awards/presenter.html.
Electronic submissions of proposals and CVs in Word format are preferred. Please send email proposals to Andrew Dolkart at <asd3@columbia.edu> or hard copies to: Andrew Dolkart:
Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
413 Avery Hall
New York, NY 10027
For general information about the Jamaica meeting contact Louis Nelson
at <ln6n@virginia.edu>mailto:mmc@gwu.edu.
Bodies of Art, Dec. 2-3, 2010, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Deadline: September 10, 2010
Featured Speakers:
Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and Orlan, Internationally Acclaimed Artist
The Center for Body, Mind and Culture and the Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies invite proposals for papers to be presented at a 2-day conference, Dec. 2nd and 3rd, 2010, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
Conference themes, with a focus on art and visual culture, may include: the embodied artist, concerning issues of maker and material, inscriptions of the self, or the somatic experience of the creative process; the body in pieces (pace Nochlin), considering the fragment, the crop, dismemberment, or erasure; the en-gendered object, how gender and sexuality are expressed, represented or suppressed; the corpus, or other bodily metaphors for the oeuvre, canon or process of creation; and finally the body as art, in all its manifestations.
Abstracts of 250 words, and a current cv, should be sent electronically as attachments, no later than September 10, 2010, to Richard Shusterman at bodymindculture@fau.edu
Please direct conference inquiries to the same address. Further conference information will be made available at
<http://www.fau.edu/bodymindculture/>, where you can consult the programs of our prior international conferences. Participants will be notified by October 8, 2010.
Modern Arab Art: Objects, Histories, and Methodologies
Doha, Qatar, December 8-11 2010
Deadline: July 20, 2010
The Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World,
Iran, and Turkey (AMCA) is now accepting abstracts for AMCA's first international conference, "Modern Arab Art: Objects, Histories, and Methodologies." This two-day conference will be hosted in collaboration with Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, and will take place in conjunction with the Museum's inaugural events from December 8-11 2010.
The Museum's aim is to use their preeminent collection of modern and contemporary Arab art as a catalyst for critical and creative exchanges across diverse audiences. This conference will bring together both established and emerging scholars working throughout the world, in order to interrogate potent issues of concern that continue to define and shape the field of modern Arab art today. It aims to historicize and contextualize the production of modern Arab art and modernity-- and by extension the contemporary-- through thematic and historiographic inquiries into the field.
Panels Include:
Producing the Modern Artist: Education and the Fine Arts
Picturing the Individual and the Nation: Portraiture and Landscape
Writing about Art: Art Criticism and Its Various Practices
3 panels dedicated to Research in Progress
To be considered to present a paper in the one of the above panels, please submit a 250-word abstract to info@amcainternational.org by July 30 2010. Final papers will be submitted to panel discussants and chairs by November 1 2010. Travel and accommodations to be covered by the Museum. Select papers may be published.
The Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA) is a private, non-profit, non-political, international organization. An affiliate organization of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and College Art Association (CAA), AMCA aims to advance the study of this emerging field through the creation of a network of interested scholars and organizations. We will facilitate communication and cooperation among those in the field by sponsoring conferences, holding meetings, and exchanging information via a newsletter and website: http://www.amcainternational.org.
THE MATERIAL IMAGINATION from Antiquity to Modernity
School of Art History, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 5-6 November 2010
Deadline: 10 September 2010
As the term materiality gains ever more currency, its critical meaning continues to recede. The purpose of this conference is to investigate an engagement with materials that goes beyond such familiar tropes as ? conspicuous consumption? or ?truth to materials?. One valuable approach was provided by the philosopher of science Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), who coined the term ? the material imagination? To mean an insight into substance that preceded intellectual apprehension. We now live in a world ruled by the Periodic Table, but Bachelard dwelt on the Aristotelian essence of Nature, the Four Elements and their limitless permutations at the hands of the Four Humours. In terms of artistic practice, the ?material imagination? poses the more immediate media(tions) between making and perceiving, before elemental evocations and poetic analogies were distanced by the post-enlightenment emphasis on empirical properties, before industrial manufacture removed the material from the realm of nature and myth to the domain of market and product. However, is Bachelard the only point of reference for art historians and artists committed to mining the implications of materials? Bachelard?s interest in the images that substance evokes is exclusively limited to literature, especially poetry. We are interested in all stages of artistic production, from prospecting raw materials, to forming compounds (from alloys to assemblages), to the range of tensions between the aims of facture and the potential of materials, between the metamorphic and the essential.
We welcome papers in all fields that discuss such topics as durability versus transience, immanence versus transcendence, figuration versus aniconism, craft versus manufacture, ?the natural? versus the synthetic, or any single theme, such as dematerialisation, the virtual environment, ?medium specificity? and fetishism. Papers on all media are welcome, from rock crystal to Bakelite, from steel to vapour.
Organisers: Fabio Barry, Alistair Rider
further information: Fabio Barry, Alistair Rider, material.imagination@gmail.com
Please send proposals of ca. 300-500 words for thirty minute papers to material.imagination@gmail.com by 10 September 2010
Sponsored by the Henry Moore Foundation in association with the European Architectural History Network.
MediterráneoS: International Conference of Junior Researchers in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
CCHS-CSIC, Madrid, December 13-15, 2010
Deadline: July 12, 2010
Institute of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (ILC)
Throughout history, different cultural traditions, all of them with a considerable linguistic diversity, have flourished and converged in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. The International Conference of Junior Researchers in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures seeks to provide a transverse and interdisciplinary framework of discussion and reflection on the intellectual and cultural production of the Mediterranean and the Near East, from its earliest stages to the present. More precisely, this meeting pursues the analysis of the different political, religious and social trends of thought, material culture and artistic, literary and linguistic expressions brought together in this geographical area, highlighting the scope of this blend of traditions within different space-time surroundings.
We warmly welcome proposals regarding the following topics and guidelines:
1. Commercial and economic activity: cultural exchanges generated by trade, mint coin production and currency fluctuations; state control systems: taxation, charity and other bodies.
2. Orthodoxies and heterodoxies: philosophical, religious, magic and superstitious practices and ideas; millenarian and apocalyptic movements; power and religious legitimation.
3. Artistic expressions and material culture as means of transmission and evidence for religious, political and cultural ideologies; tradition and innovation, assimilation and influence.
4. Political processes and theory: effective execution of powers, authoritarian figures, methods of government, hierarchical relations within intra-state and supra-state structures.
5. Language, literature, textual criticism, hermeneutics: critical editions, modern research technologies and methods.
6. Transmission of knowledge and history of science: processes of reception, cultural exchange and transfer among societies in contact.
We encourage junior researchers in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as recent PhD´s (with thesis completed within 5 years prior to event) to participate. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes and may be read in Spanish or English.
Please submit abstracts (300-500 words maximum, including keywords and
reference to chosen topic in mail subject), and a brief CV to mediterraneos.abstracts@gmail.com, no later than July 12, 2010.
Conference Committee:
Comisión de jóvenes investigadores del Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas
del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo, CCHS-CSIC, Madrid.
Conference Location: Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC.
C/ Albasanz, 26-28. 28037 Madrid, Spain.
Marta García Novo
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas C/ Albasanz, 26-28
28037 Madrid marta.garcianovo@cchs.csic.es lucero.marta@gmail.com
The Place of the Image: Global Connections, Local Affiliations
The Department of History of Art & Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh is pleased to announce its 2010 graduate student symposium entitled “The Place of the Image: Global Connections, Local Affiliations.” This symposium aims to explore the relationship between image and place across different time periods and geographic locations. We encourage paper submissions from graduate students working on visual culture at all stages of their studies. We also encourage MFA students to present art projects related to the symposium theme.
Robert Bailey
104 FKART
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Email: theplaceoftheimage@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://theplaceoftheimage.blogspot.com/
HIAA Majlis, February 12, 2011, in conjunction with the CAA 99th
Annual Conference, Hunter College of the City University of New York
Deadline: August 31, 2010
Professor Ülkü Ü. Bates is pleased to host the members and guests of HIAA at the 2011 majlis to be held in conjunction with the CAA 99th Annual Conference in February 2011 at Hunter College of the City University of New York located on 68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues. The majlis will take place on Saturday Feb. 12th,during the CAA Conference, either in the morning or afternoon. (Hours are still to be finalized.) At the majlis, four papers will be presented to be followed with a
question and answer period directed to individual papers and a general discussion. The annual meeting of HIAA members with reports from the executive board will follow the refreshment break.
Proposals for 20-minute papers are requested from advanced graduate students and young scholars on a subject of their choice, preferably on current research that is near completion for a dissertation, article, or book. The proposal should contain a tentative title and a detailed abstract (not to exceed two pages). Also, please complete the information requested below.
Send abstracts of your proposed presentations to:
Prof. Ülkü Ü. Bates
Department of Art, Hunter College
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
The deadline for the submission of majlis proposals is August 31, 2010.
The majlis speakers will be announced on October 15, 2010.
HISTORIANS OF ISLAMIC ART
2011 MAJLIS
SATURDAY, 12 FEBRUARY 2011
ART DEPARTMENT
HUNTER COLLEGE, CUNY
Applicant’s Information (please fill and return)
Name:
Mailing Address:
Phone(s):
E-mail address:
Current Academic/Professional Status & Institution:
Education:
Paper Title:
Reminder: Participation in the majlis program is open to HIAA members only. Those invited to participate will be asked to confirm their membership status.
Hegemony and the Image Conference
Klagenfurt University, 20 – 21 May 2011
Deadline: October 15, 2010
The conference investigates the way political hegemony emerges via visual culture. It assumes that in an age of a disruption of handed-down traditions of conceptualising the world, of "globalisation" and of a wide dissemination of media such as film, TV, video and the internet such a contingent "chaining" of images, perceptions and actions assume particular importance. Images hold in place the certainties that guide our lives as gendered beings but also define relationships between cultures and classes. Nevertheless, in investigating of how political power emerges in a contingent way between a plurality of social actors, most theories of hegemony so far have been involved with linguistic approaches. In contrast to this, the conference Hegemony and the Image concentrates on linking the concept of hegemony closely to an investigation of the visual imaginary and of image worlds.
Friedrich Schlegel stated somewhat wryly that words often understand themselves better than those who use them. Something similar can be said in relation to images and the production of visual culture in general: the effects of images cannot be controlled by those who put them in circulation. Even if images are produced with a specific intention, this intention - even if it does not thus become unimportant or secondary - cannot control the effects it has set in motion in the way some image producers would have us believe. Such non-calculable stories of fascination, through which images are so deeply entangled in the emergence of political hegemony will be investigated in this conference. We are thus proposing a "translation" between political theory and image sciences (aesthetics, art history, visual culture). Important reference points for such a "translation" are the methodological contributions of influential precursors of cultural studies such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Cornelius Castoriadis. The aim of the conference is to initiate an exchange between scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds that relate to these authors and to develop innovative approaches to clarify the relation between the image and political hegemony.
As input-givers are invited:
Astrid Deuber-Mankovsky (Ruhr-Universität/ Bochum),
Dieter Mersch (Universität Potsdam/D),
Peter Osborne (Middlesex University London/ UK).
Everyone is cordially invited to offer a paper. Please send
an abstract of max. 1 page via email to both of the organizers: Alice.Pechriggl@uni-klu.ac.at annamaria.schober@univr.it
Deadline for sending an abstract is: October 15, 2010.
Workshop on Language, Literacy, and the Social Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies
Stanford University, March 3-4, 2011
Deadline: 09/01/2010
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University invites submission of paper abstracts for a workshop on Language, Literacy, and the Social Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies. The workshop will take place on March 3-4 2011 in Stanford (California, USA) and is a joint project of the Abbasi Program and the Middle East –Mediterranean Studies Program at Sciences Po in Paris. Travel and lodging arrangements for the workshop participants will be provided. The workshop will focus on the processes underlying the social construction of authority in Islamic societies and the way those processes have been affected by issues of language and the development of literacy from 17th century and onwards in the context of peripheries as well as the core regions (specifically, West Africa, the Caucasus, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East). Particular topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- issues concerning print, manuscript and oral tradition
- rise of new media (such as internet) and language
- the ulama's retention of authority through reassertion or, in some cases, reinvention of their relationships to classical discourses
- the emergence of new spheres of religious authority beyond the ulama, and how this is related to evolutions in language and literacy
- the production of Modern Standard Arabic out of classical literary Arabic and its relationship to rise in literacy and consequent devolution of religious authority
- the politics of languages of education in West Africa, between Arabic and vernaculars
- the fate of Arabic as a the universal Islamic language more generally across various regions
- the rise of English, French, and Russian as authoritative languages of Muslim discourse in colonial and post-colonial settings
- the development of Urdu as the lingua franca of Muslim communication in India and its relationship to reformist madrasas in north India
- relationships between nationalisms, languages, and universal versus local religious communities
Please submit a brief abstract (not to exceed 300 words) by September 1st 2010 via the online secure form available at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/islamic_studies/socconst.fb . The abstract
should specify the proposed paper topic, major argument(s) of the paper
and the methodology used. Participants will be notified by September 30th
2010. Complete papers are to be submitted by January 14th 2011.
A copy of this CfP is available online at http://islamicstudies.stanford.edu/CfP0311.pdf . For questions, please
contact Dr. Burcak Keskin-Kozat at burcak@stanford.edu
Dr. Burcak Keskin-Kozat, Associate Director
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies
Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies
Stanford University
Email: burcak@stanford.edu
Website: http://islamicstudies.stanford.edu
Interdisziplinäre Tagung
Authentizität / Wiederholung: Künstlerische und kulturelle Manifestationen eines Paradoxes, Freie Universität Berlin, 2-4 Dezember 2010
Deadline: July 25, 2010
Der in der Diskussion um die so genannte Postmoderne in Misskredit geratene Begriff der Authentizität erlebt seit einiger Zeit erneute Aufmerksamkeit. Die Sehnsucht nach unmittelbaren und einzigartigen Erfahrungen wird umso stärker, je mehr die
wahrhaftige Repräsentation des Wirklichen durch digitale Medien bezweifelt wird. Wiederholung wiederum galt in seinen verschiedenen Varianten als einer der gefeierten Schlüsselbegriffe in der postmodernen Debatte. Aneignungen, Kopien und 'Fakes' ersetzten die fortwährende Suche nach Einzigartigkeit und erklärten sie zur Illusion. Authentizität und Wiederholung erscheinen also zunächst als unvereinbare Begriffe. Das Authentische impliziert Wahrhaftigkeit, Originalität, Einmaligkeit und Echtheit. Wiederholung dagegen wird gerade mit dem Verlust eben dieser Eigenschaften verbunden. Die Tagung nähert sich in zwei Schritten diesem Paradox von Authentizität und Wiederholung. Als erstes soll strukturell an das Problem von Authentizität und Wiederholung herangegangen werden, wie es sich in unterschiedlicher Weise in den Künsten zeigt. In den aufführenden Künsten ist Authentizität oft an den 'live'-Charakter der jeweiligen Veranstaltung gebunden. Aber wie authentisch wird der Ausdruck der Schauspieler oder Musiker nach wiederholter
Aufführung noch vermittelt? Kann Authentizität bei wiederholten Präsentations- und Rezeptionsakten noch gewährleistet sein? Welchen Einfluss haben unterschiedliche Aufführungskontexte und Übertragungsmedien auf die Authentizität des Erlebten? Die Diskussion um Authentizität und Wiederholung in den bildenden Künsten zeigt sich beispielsweise an Fragen der Autorschaft und Urheberschaft. Welche Rolle spielt heute noch die Original/Reproduktionsdebatte? Wie hat die Aneignungskunst die
Diskussion um Authentizität und Wiederholung verändert? Besonderes Interesse gilt dabei den fotografischen Medien. Diese haben durch ihre scheinbare Transparenz einen vermeintlich stärkeren Bezug zur Realität als andere Medien. Zwar wurde dieser 'Realitätseffekt' (Barthes) und die Faktizität des fotografischen Bildes durch die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten der Bildmanipulation, insbesondere durch technologische Innovation, längst in Frage gestellt; doch bleibt immer noch stärker als in anderen Medien der Eindruck des 'Dagewesenen' in den fotografischen Medien bestehen. Welche Mittel und Strategien verwenden Fotografen und Filmemacher, um beim Betrachter ein Gefühl von Authentizität hervorzurufen? Warum und von wem wird etwas als echt aufgefasst? Im zweiten Teil wird sich die Tagung intensiv mit Aufführungen von Geschichte auseinandersetzen. In aktuellen künstlerischen, filmischen und soziokulturellen Praktiken, die geschichtliche Ereignisse aufführen oder nachstellen, kreuzen sich die Begriffe von Authentizität und Wiederholung. Die Wiederholung geht hier oft mit einer Sehnsucht nach authentischer Erfahrung einher. Der zweite Teil der Tagung liegt daher auf der Untersuchung unterschiedlicher Formen dieser Authentizität-suchenden Aufführung von Geschichte: 'live'-Praktiken des Reenactment und der Living History ('gelebte Geschichte') sollen ebenso auf ihre Erzeugung von Authentizität hin beleuchtet werden wie Nachstellungen historischer Ereignisse in Dokumentarfilm und –fotografie.
Im populärkulturellen Reenactment wird ein spezifisches historisches Ereignis akribisch rekonstruiert, die Beteiligten streben dabei nach größtmöglicher Authentizität in der Darstellung des Gewesenen. In den letzten Jahren treten vermehrt auch künstlerische Formen des Reenactment auf. Hier werden meist
jüngere historische Ereignisse auf ihre Bedeutung für die Gegenwart hin befragt und vom Betrachter in der Position des Zeugen erlebt. Während aber populärkulturelle Reenactments lediglich als affirmativ betriebene Freizeitaktivitäten belächelt werden, wird ihrer künstlerischen Variante oft ein kritischer Impetus unterstellt. Dieser vermeintliche Gegensatz ist auf seine Richtigkeit hin zu prüfen: Welche Potentiale bieten populärkulturelle Wiederaufführungen historischer Ereignisse und worin bestehen die Grenzen künstlerischer Reenactments? Welche Rolle spielt Authentizität in beiden Praktiken? Was für ein 'Ausschnitt' von Geschichte wird jeweils gewählt und welche Funktion erfüllt seine Aufführung?
Die interdisziplinäre Tagung richtet sich an Wissenschaftler
der Fächer Kunstgeschichte, Kultur-, Literatur-, Theater-,
Musik-, Medien-, und Filmwissenschaft, Geschichte, Soziologie,
Philosophie, Anthropologie und Ethnologie. Vortragsdauer:
25-30 Minuten. Eine Auswahl der Beiträge soll im Anschluss an die Tagung in
einer Publikation versammelt werden. Vorschläge in Form eines Abstracts (max. 300 Wörter) können zusammen mit einer Kurzbiographie und Kontaktdaten per Email
oder Post an die unten angegebenen Adressen bis zum 25. Juli 2010 eingereicht werden.
Konzeption: Dr. Uta Daur
Organisation und Durchführung: Dr. Uta Daur,
Dr. Dietmar Kammerer
Kontakt:
Internationales Graduiertenkolleg "InterArt"
Freie Universität Berlin
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft
Grunewaldstraße 34
12165 Berlin interart@zedat.fu-berlin.de www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/v/interart
PUBLIC #44: Art and Civic Spectacle
Deadline: September 15, 2010
With the rise of all-night events such as Nuit Blanche in cities worldwide, large-scale performance and art interventions have gained prominence in the urban context. This special issue of Public will analyze the dynamics and significance of these popular mass events. How do the monumental artworks of city-wide exhibitions relate to the diverse histories of spectacle? Which formal and ideological continuities and discontinuities can be discerned? What are the opportunities and challenges of such events? When audience levels reach into the hundreds of thousands, what issues are raised about spectatorship and participation? The texts in this issue will explore the aesthetic, social and political implications of civic spectacles for contemporary art, audiences and the city. Interdisciplinary perspectives and artists' projects are welcome.
Potential topics:
- Nuit Blanche (Paris, Toronto, Brussels, Rome, etc.)
- historical precedents to Nuit Blanche
- city-sponsored art events (e.g., art at the Olympic games, city centennials)
- the potentials and problems of civic spectacle
- mass audiences for art
- aesthetics and the public sphere
- nocturnal flânerie and psychogeography
- civic boosterism and tourism
- public art and urban regeneration
- interventions and spatial politics
- participatory art and democracy/citizenship
- temporary architectures and projections in the cityscape
- the role of art in the urban experience
- curatorial practice and large-scale events
- notable artistic examples of monumental artworks/performances
Proposal deadline (250 words): September 15, 2010
Text and project deadline (3-6,000 words): February 1, 2011
Edited by Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick
Please send proposal, c.v. and bio to:
jefish@yorku.ca and jim@displaycult.com
Jennifer Fisher is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Curatorial Studies in the Department of Visual Art at York University, Toronto. She is the editor of Technologies of Intuition (2006). Jim Drobnick is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto. His books include the anthologies Aural Cultures (2004) and The Smell Culture Reader (2006). Fisher and Drobnick form the curatorial collaborative DisplayCult, which curated Zone B in Toronto's 2009 Nuit Blanche
(www.displaycult.com).
Public is a peer-reviewed journal that explores the intersection of visual culture and critical studies. Since 1988, it has served as an intellectual and creative forum that focuses on how aesthetic, theoretical and critical issues intermix.
In each themed issue, Public encourages a broad range of dialogue by bringing together artists, theorists, curators, philosophers, creative writers and historians. For further information, visit www.publicjournal.ca.
Fabricating the Body: Textiles and human health in historical perspective
Pasold Research Fund Conference
Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
6 – 8 April, 2011
Deadline: 15 July 2010
This conference aims to bring together historians of textiles and clothing, and of health, with scholars of social, medical, cultural, and economic history to examine the rich connections between textiles, human health and welfare, environmental issues, and self-expression (including ‘sunlight seekers’ and ‘body culture’ movements of the past 150 years).
The conference welcomes papers that will address four main themes:
•Early modern and modern textiles manufacturing and the association of benign and malign influences in the growth of industry and the impact on the labour force, land and water use.
•The modern environmental costs of textiles production, from soil utilisation (and erosion) to the chemical manufacture of man-made fibres and the consequences of toxic minerals and chemicals for both workers and the wider community.
•The animal world and the costs of textile and skin production: hunting, farming, and human-animal health concerns. The rise of a new politics of health around animal utilisation.
•The textile sector in relation to future environmental degradation, bio-health and sustainability
To apply, please forward a 300 word abstract of the proposed paper,
together with a one page CV, to: Professor Jo Melling (j.l.melling
@exeter.ac.uk), Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter,
Rennes Drive, EX4 4RJ
The closing date for proposals is 15 July 2010.
Professor Jo Melling
University of Exeter
Centre for Medical History
Rennes Drive
Exeter
EX4 4RJ
+44(0)1392 263289
Email: j.l.melling@exeter.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/medhist/
WORD / IMAGE / CULTURE, 25th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the
Humanities sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures of the University of West Georgia from November 11 - 13,
2010.
Deadline: July 15, 2010
The Call for Papers can be found at http://www.westga.edu/forlangconf/.
Proposals are due by July 15, 2010 and may be in English, French,
German or Spanish.
Please direct questions to landerso@westga.edu.
Dr. Lynn Anderson
University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA 30118
Phone: 678-839-5958
Fax: 678-839-5931
Email: landerso@westga.edu
Visit the website at http://www.westga.edu/forlangconf/
Symposium on Cultural Interaction in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
The symposium on “Cultural Interaction in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey” organized by the International Hrant Dink Foundation will take place on June 12-13 at Istanbul Bilgi University Dolapdere Campus. The symposium will focus on several thematic clusters such as performing and visual arts, architecture and decorative arts, cultural politics, language and literature, everyday life etc. with the participation of numerous academicians and researchers from Turkey and abroad. Simultaneous translation will be provided in Turkish and English. The symposium will shed light on the mutual influences, cultural and artistic exchanges in the works and achievements of the Anatolian masters, artists and craftsmen of the Ottoman and modern era and will facilitate discussions on the existence, form and continuity of this interaction. The ideas and questions raised during the symposium will provide new horizons and directions for further research.
For detailed information and the program of talks, please contact:
Hermine Sayan
Tel: 0212 240 33 61-62
Fax: 0212 240 33 94
E-Mail: info@hrantdink.org
Call for Proposals (visual and/or textual):
"Postcolonial Perspectives, Photography and Contemporary Art"
Deadline: June 30, 2010
UNFIXED is a project that explores the relation between photography, postcolonial perspectives and contemporary art. It includes an exhibition, symposium, workshop, artist commission-residency, and a resulting publication. The title refers to the unfixed nature of photography. It explores the elusive "truth" of photography and its relationship to ideas of ethnicity, culture and identity in contemporary art.
Participating artists: Charif Benhelima (BE), Otobong Nkanga (FR),
Keith Piper (UK), Naro Snackey (NL), Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (USA) and
Hank Willis Thomas (USA). Keynote speaker and essayist: Kobena Mercer
(UK).
We invite scholars, artists, writers and professionals to submit proposals for visual and/or textual presentations or papers on topics relating to UNFIXED. We will consider all proposals for symposium presentations and/or publication contributions. Focus point: Unfixing photography’s fixed representations of cultural heritage, ethnicity and identity. UNFIXED is initiated and developed by curators Asmara Pelupessy and Sara Blokland (Stichting UNFIXED Projects). It is organized in cooperation with Centrum Beeldende Kunst (Center for Contemporary Art), Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
In recent decades, artist and theorists around the world have critically reflected on photography’s role in colonial, migrant and diasporic histories. They have unfixed photography, questioning the process of production, who is looking, whose history is represented and what the photographic image is staging. In this line, UNFIXED proposes an encounter with photography’s own reflective history, looking back while looking forward, continuing to dissolve ideas of photographic truth and cultural identity as essential and unchanging through photographic practices that are innovative, self-reflexive and critical.
UNFIXED aims to contribute to the Netherlands’ relatively young discussion about postcolonialism’s relation to photography. The project will bring together an international group of contemporary artists and scholars with personal relations to migration, colonial history and cultural diaspora, researching and reflecting on photographic histories, as well as constructing new ones. UNFIXED avoids imposing narratives about the past and future onto the project’s artworks, presentations and essays. Instead, we embrace the narratives and strategies proposed in the works as points of departure. In the same fashion as many of the invited artists, UNFIXED hopes to blur the lines between art practice, scholarly research and cultural activism.
Proposals could approach the themes of UNFIXED through a broad range of topics concerning photographic practice, history and/or archives. Proposals could deal with deconstruction, reconstruction, collage, appropriation, politics, regionalism and location, subjectivity and/or authorship within photography. They could also concern photography’s relationship to other media, vernacular photography, found photography, documentary photography and/or visual culture. Some key theoretical points that strongly relate to the project include cultural hybridity and transculture. Proposals could also consider current political discussions about culture (assimilation and integration) as they relate to visual culture and photography. We hope to receive proposals that look at the inventive aspects of photography.
- We welcome proposals for both or either platform (publication/symposium)
- Next to ‘traditional’ essays we welcome proposals for visual essays, which can include vernacular or found photography, and/or photo-works made by applicants, etc.
- We encourage proposals for essays or presentations with innovative formats (performance-based presentations, multimedia projects etc.)
Please find a detailed Call for Proposals on our website www.unfixedprojects.org. Questions and proposals can be emailed to unfixedprojects@gmail.com with the subject line - CFP.
The deadline for proposals is 30 June 2010. Successful applicants will be notified by 15 July 2010. Full papers/presentations should be submitted by 15 September 2010.
A small financial contribution is available for travel and accommodation for those invited to present at the symposium. This will be distributed according to distance and need.
Exhibition: 23 October – 4 December 2010
Symposium: 16 November 2010
Workshop: 15 November 2010
Publication: December 2010
Asmara Pelupessy
0031 (0) 622142028
Email: unfixedprojects@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.unfixedprojects.org
"The Global Renaissance Revisited"
Renaissance Society of America annual conference
Montreal, Quebec, 24-26 March 2011
Deadline: June 5, 2010
Fifteen years after the publication of Claire Farago's groundbreaking volume, Reframing the Renaissance, art history still struggles with the concept of a "Global Renaissance" as well as with how to handle art created outside of Western Europe. At this moment, when we are moving beyond the geographical confines of traditional Renaissance art history, it is necessary to re-evaluate our methods of analysis and
discussion, by finding new strategies for conceptualizing processes of transmission and reconfiguration when the Renaissance crossed borders. What are some commonalities among global art of the early modern period? This session seeks papers exploring case studies of art from around the world, outside of Western Europe.
Please send a current CV and abstract of no longer than 150 words to christairwin1@gmail.com by June 5.
Christa Irwin
Email: cristairwin1@gmail.com
Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images
University of Toronto, March 17 - 19, 2011
Deadline: September 10, 2010
Keynote Address by Carol Mavor (Manchester) (others to be confirmed)
The 22nd annual conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the
University of Toronto in March 2011 will focus on the idea of Iconoclasm, the breaking of images and the making of icons. The word 'iconoclasm' is weighted with a long history of religious significance, from the Byzantine war on religious icons of the 8th- and 9th-centuries and the Protestant reformation in the 16th century, to the
Taliban's destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan in the 21st century. But the idea of destroying or defacing images, especially images that convey aspects of cultural dominance or, conversely, pose a threat to that dominance, is as often political as religious: think of the Chinese Cultural Revolution or graffiti moustaches. Political iconoclasm, unlike religious iconoclasm, does not object to representation as such but rather to certain images that have been granted the status of icons. However, any act of desecrating symbols of authority itself often takes on iconic status: take, for example, photos of the pulling down of statues from Romania to Iraq. Iconoclasm need not be visual and material and can also take abstract and intellectual forms. Subversive, transgressive, blasphemous writing is also iconoclastic in inspiration and function. Moreover, the power associated with images in general and iconic images in particular has often inspired writers to subdue the power of images or to wrest it for themselves. The ekphrastic contest between literature, or verbal representation, and images, or visual representation, is very often iconoclastic in nature. Contemporary media culture floods us with images and alters their impact, creating ever more sophisticated organized cults around them, such as celebrity, high art, advertising, the news, etc. Just as the word 'icon' has acquired new meanings, ranging from signs for computer applications to logos and celebrity, so, too, iconoclasm, the urge to deface, destroy, or alter images, takes on wholly new meanings. We wish to examine a wide range of iconoclastic moments in order to understand the political, ethical, and aesthetic stakes involved in challenging the signifying power of the iconic image. Is there a tradition of iconoclasm or is the modern icon and thus modern iconoclasm something new? Is iconoclasm even possible, or does it always participate in the forces of iconicity, creating, in effect, iconoclastic icons?
Subjects that are of interest to us include but are in no way limited to:
o Classical/Antiquity (pre-5th century CE)
o Idol Worship and Biblical Images
o Mythology: Symbols, Images of Gods, Heroes, etc.
o Epic Narratives and the Performance of Lyric Poetry
o Ekphrastic imaginings
? Medieval (5th - 15th centuries)
o Theories of the Imagination and Images; representations of other worlds
o Sight/Insight
o Iconography; religious iconoclasms and iconoclasts
o Mystery/Miracle plays
? Early Modern (15th - 17th centuries)
o The Politics of Appropriation, Assimilation, Domination in Conquest and Colonial documents
o Man and his God: The Vatican; The Reformation; the Council of Trent;
o Staging the World: early modern drama
o Iconic Genres: The 'invention' of the Novel; Poetry and the re-telling of myth and religion
? 18th and 19th centuries
o Innovations in Media and Technology
o Ignitions of the Enlightenment
o The rise of Decolonisation and Postcolonialism
o The turn to Revolution, the pull of Evolution
o The Gothic, the Sublime, and Romance
? 20th century to present:
o Iconoclastic genres: The reinvention of the novel (re-imagining the novel-as-icon); Poetry's Image/Imagination (Dadaism, Futurism, Concrete Poetry, etc.)
o Magical Realism, Surrealism, Realism, the Fantastic
o Iconography, Fetish Images, Pop Culture, Film
o Trauma, Terrorism, Disasters, Ruins
o Icons in the Digital Age
? Theoretical Concerns
o Negative Dialectics; the question of the Negative
o The Epistemology of the Iconic Closet: Queer Icons and the Reinvention of Tradition
o Moving through and beyond Ekphrasis
o Benjaminian Auras
o Unstaging the World: 'poor theatre'; 'theatre of cruelty'; 'holy theatre'; postdramatic performance art; Theatre of the Oppressed, etc.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by September 10, 2010 to
[ mailto:iconoclasm.2011@gmail.com ]iconoclasm.2011@gmail.com. Include
full name, email, affiliation, status (student, faculty, independent
scholar), a 50-word bio, and AV requirements.
Please check our website for updates: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/complitstudents/complitconference
Spaces of Alterity: Conceptualising Counter-Hegemonic Sites, Practices and Narratives, University of Nottingham, UK, 28th-29th April 2011
Deadline: November 3, 2010
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
China Miéville and Dr. Alberto Toscano
This two day international conference for postgraduate and early career researchers explores interdisciplinary conceptions and representations of radical, counter-hegemonic space. As concerns grow over such issues as spatial privatisation,
commodification and homogenisation, surveillance, extra-legal spaces, social and political ‘non-spaces’, and the loss of common or public spaces, so too a plethora of interventions—across genre and disciplinary boundaries—have been launched in opposition to these trends. Examples are diverse, and can be found, for example, in literary studies of estranging narratives in contemporary fiction; spatial representations in film, TV and new media; the creation of critical spaces of alterity in political activism (such as semi-autonomous zones); psychogeographical spatial strategies, and philosophical and theoretical conceptions of counter-hegemonic space.
We invite proposals for papers of 20 minutes from candidates across the arts and humanities, welcoming individual papers as well as group panels that respond to these and other conceptions of counter-hegemonic “Spaces of Alterity”. Possible research questions include, but are not limited to:
What estranging utopian, dystopian, post-apocalyptic and science fiction spaces of alterity are being utilised in contemporary aesthetic and cultural productions, e.g. film, literature, TV, art, computer games?
How do these narratives travel across media and what changes occur when they are adapted, reworked and transformed? What research questions are raised by such collaborations, transmissions and intermedial dialogues?
How can we approach traditionally-understood print and audio-visual texts in relation to virtual spaces of alterity, such as fan-based communities, social networking sites and other sites developed through user-generated content (UGC)?
What are the relationships between textual spaces of alterity and non-textual forums, communities and dialogues?
What physical spaces of alterity are being constructed in contemporary urban environments?
How are such spaces critical, oppositional or subversive and how do they draw on the contributions of local communities and organisations?
How do spaces of alterity which are informed by traditionally-understood “texts” function on the Internet and how can they inform our understanding of filmic, visual and literary textual methodologies and approaches?
What forms can counter-hegemonic, avant-garde, or ‘subtractive’ spaces—which can be spatial, but also temporal or conceptual—take?
What political, artistic, or scientific practices can such spaces foster? How does distance from institutions help form alternative political, literary and artistic practices?
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent by email as a Word attachment to spacesofalterity@gmail.com by Wednesday 3rd November 2010 and should include name, affiliation, e-mail address, title of paper and 4 keywords.
Conference website: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cultural-studies/research/conferences.aspx
Speakers:
China Miéville is a distinguished “Weird Fiction” novelist, activist, and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Warwick. His publications include King Rat (1998), Perido Street Staion (2000), and Iron Council (2004). In 2010 he won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for an unprecedented second time with his latest novel, The City and the City (2009).
Alberto Toscano is senior lecturer in Philosophy at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published extensively on social and political subjectivity, biopolitics, and the philosophy of Alain Badiou.
Spaces of Alterity Organising Committee
Department of Cultural Studies
The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
United Kingdom
Email: spacesofalterity@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cultural-studies/research/conferences.aspx
ARTHUR POPE AND A NEW SURVEY OF PERSIAN ART, Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition and International Symposium
Exhibition:
July 17 - October 3, 2010
Regenstein Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
International Symposium:
September 10-11, 2010
Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition Overview: In celebration of the opening of the Art Institute’s newly refurbished permanent installation of the arts of the Islamic world, the museum proudly presents Arthur Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art. This exhibition will highlight our historically important collection of later Persian art, which was developed under the guidance of Arthur Upham Pope (1881–1969).
Symposium: In conjunction with the exhibition, the Art Institute of Chicago will host an international symposium in September 10-11, 2010. This symposium will provide a forum for a roster of international scholars of Persian art to reconsider the life and achievements of Arthur Upham Pope.
Details of the symposium will be announced in late July - early August.
The Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology
6th annual colloquium, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University, Bonn, Germany, July 2-3, 2010
Links to the full program and the abstracts are available at: http://www.ernst-herzfeld-gesellschaft.de/
For further information please contact:
Martina Mueller-Wiener at: muewie@uni-bonn.de
Visual and Performance Arts and the Pursuit of Identity in the Modern Middle East, 3rd Annual Middle East Studies Conference at California State
University, Fresno, California with the general theme:
“Teaching about the Middle East in the 21st Century.” 7-9 October 2010
Deadline: May 31, 2010
This conference explores the constructions and contextualizations of the modern Middle East through artistic, scholarly, economic, political, sociological, historical, and philological works and texts. The proposed panel will explore the culture of the modern Middle East through some of its most vibrant markers: visual, performance and performative arts. The purpose is to call attention to the events, texts, works, performances and images that have shaped, on the one hand, representations of the Middle East in modern and historical art, music, theater and architecture; on the other, the appropriations and adaptations of such rich archive in the construction of a distinct and uniquely identifiable "Middle East" in the modern mind. Topics can address the fields of art, architecture, music, theater/film, media and dance- through themes that include (but should not be limited to):
1. Art and architecture as a means/expressions of power (legitimation, segregation, assimilation, sovereignty, restitution and identity) and/or resistance to it.
2. East-West encounters: Clash and/or dialogue in colonial and post-colonial art and architecture in the Middle East
3. Iconography and Iconoclasm in Middle Eastern art and architecture.
4. The burdens of history and the dialectic of modernization and preservation in the modern Middle East.
5. How visual and performance arts express minor and gendered, subjectivities in/about the Middle East
6. Art and the Public Sphere.
Please submit proposals of 300-400 words to Dr. A. Sameh El kharbawy
(aelkharbawy@csufresno.edu) by May 31, 2010
With your abstract please include:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements
For more information, see the conference website:
http://www.csufresno.edu/mesp/news_events/me_conference/index.shtml
Dr. A. Sameh El Kharbawy
Professor
College of Arts and Humanities
California State University
Fresno CA
Email: aelkharbawy@csufresno.edu
Visit the website at http://www.csufresno.edu/mesp/news_events/me_conference/index.shtml
Call for Papers
IMAGINING EUROPE - Perspectives, Perceptions and Representations
from Antiquity to the Present, Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines, 27 and 28 January 2011
Deadline: 1 November 2010
'Qui parle Europe a tort. Notion géographique'. Otto von Bismarck's elliptic remark, scribbled in the margin of a letter from Alexander Gorchakov in 1876, would go on to become one of the most often-quoted statements about Europe. But was Bismarck right? Is Europe nothing but a geographical notion? Even the briefest glance at history shows that more often than not perceptions and definitions of Europe go beyond the mere geographical demarcation of a continent. In 1919, for instance, Paul Valéry imagined Europe as a living creature, with 'a consciousness acquired through centuries of bearable calamities, by thousands of men of the first rank, from innumerable geographical, ethnic and historical coincidences'. Of course this is only one of a multitude of different representations. Europe has always signified different things to different people in different places - inside Europe as well as outside. Europe meant, for instance, something different to Voltaire, l'aubergiste d'Europe, at Ferney in the 1760s than to Athanasius Kircher in Rome a century earlier or to Barack Obama in Washington today. This conference explores the different ways in which Europe has been imagined and represented, from inside as well as outside Europe and from classical antiquity to the present day. This wide scope reflects the historical range of the LUICD's three research programmes (Classics and Classical Civilization, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Modern and Contemporary Studies) as well as the intercontinental focus of many of the institute's research projects. The conference aims to present a diachronic perspective of some of the many images of Europe, with particular attention to the historical, cultural and economic contexts in which these images were created and the media and genres in which they have been presented. Although the emphasis of the conference lies on different and changing perspectives, perceptions and representations, it also wants to explore the notion of similarity - are there any aspects that keep recurring in the different visions, aspects that might even be said to be intrinsically European?
The conference aims to provide a platform for graduate students in the humanities, from Leiden as well as other universities in the Netherlands and abroad, to present and exchange their ideas in an international and interdisciplinary environment. The organising committee is honoured that Professor Jonathan Israel and Professor Edith Hall have accepted our invitation to act as keynote speakers and participate in discussions during the conference. The LUICD Graduate Conference aims to reflect the institute's interdisciplinary and international character and as such welcomes proposals from graduate students from all disciplines within the humanities, from universities from the Netherlands as well as abroad. The conference wants to present a variety of different perspectives on Europe (from within as well as outside the European continent) and those working in fields related to other continents are particularly encouraged to submit a proposal. Subjects may include historical events, processes and discourses, textual and/or visual representations, literary or art canons, colonial and post-colonial relations, philosophical developments and political issues. Questions that could be raised include: how did (and do) oppositions such as barbarism versus civilization, Christianity versus paganism or old versus new worlds relate to the conceptualization of Europe? What role does (perceived) cultural superiority play in these oppositions? What ideas might be regarded as predecessors of or alternatives to the concept of Europe? In what ways did (and do) forms of universalism and regionalism compete with identity formation on a continental level? How have individual artists represented Europe? How do different (literary) genres, such as travel literature, historiography or letters, construct a particular image of Europe or Europe's relations with other cultures? Is it possible for art collections to imagine Europe or to question existing perceptions of Europe? How do migrant literature and cinema reflect the changing identity of Europe today?
Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) for a 20-minute paper to C.Maas@hum.leidenuniv.nl. The deadline for the proposals is 1 November
2010 - you will be notified whether or not your proposal has been selected before 15 November 2010. After the conference, the proceedings will be published either on-line or in book form. More information on this will follow in due course.
If you have any questions regarding the conference and/or the proposal, please do not hesitate to contact us at the above e-mail address. More information about the conference will be published on the conference webpage, which will go online this summer.
The organizing committee:
Drs. Thera Giezen
Drs. Jacqueline Hylkema
Drs. Coen Maas
EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE BOOK
University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 6-8 November 2010
Deadline: 17 June 2010 http://www.Book-Conference.com
The Book Conference serves as an inclusive forum for examining the past, current and future role of the book. It proceeds from recognition that although the book is an old medium of expression, it embodies thousands of years' experience of recording knowledge. The pervasive influence of this experience continues to shape newer forms of information technology, while at the same time providing a reference point for innovation. St. Gallen is home to the renowned Abbey of St. Gall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its library houses the oldest collection of books and manuscripts in Switzerland, with pieces dating back to the 8th century. All library books are available for public use, and most recently, a virtual library was created to provide access to the medieval codices of the Abbey Library of St. Gallen. The hall itself, designed in classic Rococo style, is considered to be one of the most beautiful, non-sacred, examples of this style in Switzerland and abroad. Conference participants will have the opportunity to tour the library.
This year's conference includes the following speakers:
* Rafael Ball, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
* Jens Bammel, International Publishers Association, Geneva, Switzerland
* Herbert Burkert, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
* Stephanie Jacobs, German Book Museum, Leipzig, Germany
* Lucy Küng, University of Jönköping, Jönköping, Sweden
* Wulf D. von Lucius, Lucius & Lucius Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany
* Eric Merkel-Sobotta, Springer Science+Business Media, Berlin, Germany
* Ernst Tremp, Abbey Library of St. Gallen/University of Freiburg, St.
Gallen, Switzerland
For further information on the Book Conference plenary and panel speakers, please see: http://booksandpublishing.com/conference-2010/plenary-speakers/ .
As well as an impressive line-up of plenary speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in The International Journal of the Book. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication. Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at the conference, we also encourage you to present on the conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the conference website for further details.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 17 June 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the conference website - http://www.Book-Conference.com/
We also invite you to subscribe to our free, monthly email newsletter, and to our Facebook, RSS or Twitter feeds at http://booksandpublishing.com/
The Role and Practice of Artists in Society, California, January 22, 2011
Deadline: 2010-10-25
Description: The Art History Society (AHS) of CSU Los Angeles is seeking submissions for The Role and Practice of Artists in Society Graduate Student Symposium which will be held on January 22, 2011. We welcome papers exploring the character, status, and function of artists in society in European, Islamic, and M...
Contact: ahssymposium@gmail.com
URL: arthistorysociety.wordpress.com/
Announcement ID: 176391 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=176391
Comics and Popular Arts Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-6, 2010
Deadline: 2010-05-30
Description: Institute for Comics Studies Comic Book Convention
Conference Series DRAGON*CON 3rd ANNUAL COMICS & POPULAR ARTS
CONFERENCE Atlanta, Georgia September 3-6, 2010 The Institute for Comic Studies and Dragon*Con present their third annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular art ...
Contact:thehangedman@gmail.com
URL: www.utdallas.edu/~mattbrown/DragonCon.html
Announcement ID: 176337 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=176337
International Conference on Theory at Work: Text, History and Culture Deadline: 2010-08-31
Description: The proposed International Seminar on Theory at Work: Text, History and Culture intends to build up comprehensive and broad-based theoretical and critical approaches to race, gender, nation and culture. It also seeks to generate a
discursive dialogue focusing on the deployment of theories in the stu ...
Contact:theoryatwork@gmail.com
URL: www.bhu.ac.in/seminar/seminar.htm
Announcement ID: 176286 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=176286
Pre-Modern Attachment to Lands in the Islamic Middle East and North Africa, Workshop 14 in the 12th Mediterranean Research Meeting Florence, Italy, 6-9 April 2011
Workshop Directors: Steve Tamari (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA) and Okasha El Daly (Qatar Museums Authority, Qatar) Scholars of nationalism and historians of the modern Middle East and North Africa assume that the countries and national movements of these regions are entirely modern phenomena, the result of European ideas and the colonial partitions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. This workshop is inspired, instead, by a growing body of scholarship that demonstrates the strength of attachments to lands or territories-among them, but not limited to, al-Maghrib (Morocco), Misr (Egypt), Bilad al-Sham (Syria), Filastin (Palestine), and Bilad al-Akrad (Kurdistan)-among peoples of the pre-modern Middle East and North
Africa. The implications of this research are wide ranging and touch upon academic debates about pre-modern and modern loyalties as well as on the nature of the impact of Europe on the creation of the states of the modern Middle East and North Africa in addition to currently contentious issues as the roots of Palestinian and Kurdish nationalisms and the fragmentation of Iraq following the U.S. invasion of 2003. We envision assembling a group of scholars of pre-modern attachments to lands or territories who study Muslim as well as non-Muslims of the "Islamicate" Middle East and North Africa. Our period of interest extends from the 9th century CE to the beginning of the 19th century. Though the majority of scholars invited to participate in this forum will have pre-modern areas of expertise, we are also interested in participants whose focus is modern and who demonstrate an interest in pre-modern antecedents to modern loyalties.
Directed by:
Dr. Steve Tamari, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA: stamari@siue.edu
Dr. Okasha El Daly, Qatar Museums Authority, Qatar : oeldaly@qma.org.qa
More information online at: http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/RobertSchumanCentre/Research/Int
ernationalTransnationalRelations/MediterraneanProgramme/MRM/MRM2011/ws14
.aspx
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE IMAGE
University of California, Los Angles, USA, 2-3 December 2010
Deadline: 20 May 2010 http://imageconference.com/
The Image Conference is a forum at which participants will interrogate the nature and functions of image-making and images. The conference has a cross-disciplinary focus, bringing together researchers, teachers and practitioners from areas of interest including: architecture, art, cognitive science, communications, computer science, cultural studies, design, education, film studies, history, linguistics, management, marketing, media studies, museum studies, philosophy, photography, psychology, religious studies, semiotics, and more. As well as a line-up of internationally-known plenary speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. Participants are invited to submit a presentation proposal for a 30-minute paper, 60-minute workshop, or a jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the refereed International Journal of the Image. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication, as well as access to the journal. We also encourage you to present on the conference YouTube Channel.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 20 May 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found on the conference website at http://imageconference.com/.
Phillip Kalantzis-Cope & Tamsyn Gilbert
The New School For Social Research, New York City, USA
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on the Image and The
International Journal of the Image
IMAGES OF THE OTHER IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN TIMES Heidelberg, June 17-19, 2010
Internationale Konferenz / International Conference Karl Jaspers Centre & Institut fuer europaeische Kunstgeschichte, Universitaet Heidelberg
Welche Vorstellungen und Bilder des Anderen prägen das spätmittelalterliche Europa, den Mittelmeerraum und den Nahen Osten? Verändern sich solche Bilder im direkten Kontakt zwischen Christen, Juden, Mamluken, Byzantinern und Persern oder bleiben sie von unmittelbaren Begegnungen unberührt? Diese und weitere Fragen der
wechselseitigen Wahrnehmung fremder Kulturen diskutiert eine Gruppe renommierter Kunsthistoriker, Historiker und Literaturwissenschaftler während einer vom Forschungsprojekt D3 des Exzellenzclusters "Asien und Europa im globalen Kontext" und dem Lehrstuhl für mittelalterliche Kunstgeschichte organisierten Konferenz in Heidelberg. Alle Vortraege finden in englischer Sprache statt.
Weitere Informationen zu den Vorträgen und Rednern finden Sie auf der
Konferenzhomepage //
For more information, please visit the Conference Website: http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/d-historicities- heritage/d3/conference-june-2010.html
AMBIVALENT GEOGRAPHIES, WORKSHOP II
East-West Dialogues in Middle Eastern Urban Experiences and Cultures, May 6-7, Kubbealti, METU Faculty of Architecture
Organizers: Dana Arnold, Elvan Altan Ergut, Belgin Turan Ozkaya
This workshop explores the relations of the British with the Ottoman Empire and the nation-states established in the Middle East from the late eighteenth century onwards with a special emphasis on the changing urban experiences and cultures. The cases to be presented range from the Ottoman Empire (Ali Uzay Peker) to Jordan (Nabil Abu-Dayyeh), Lebanon (Sylvia Shorto), Saudi Arabia (Sumayah Al-Solaiman), and India (Andrew Ballantyne), and the papers will discuss the urban and architectural (trans)formations in these contexts within the frame of the East-West dialogues.
THINGS AND SPIRITS: NEW APPROACHES TO MATERIALITY AND IMMATERIALITY, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 15, 16 and 17 September 2010 http://www.ics.ul.pt/
DEADLINE: 17 May 2010
Please submit a 500 words abstract and a brief bio by email to:
Ricardo Roque: ricardo.roque@ics.ul.pt<mailto:ricardo.roque@ics.ul.pt>
João Vasconcelos: vasconcelos.joao@gmail.com<mailto: vasconcelos.joao@gmail.com>
This conference is aimed at exploring new ways of approaching the tensionaland intimate connections between ‘things’ and ‘spirits’ across distinctpractices and epistemologies. In recent decades, the theme of materialityhas gained wider currency and centrality in social sciences andanthropological theory. A growing number of scholars in the anthropology ofreligion, material culture studies, and history and sociology of science andtechnology have been reexamining the partition between humans, materialobjects, and immaterial entities, along with the ideas of agency, evidence,and materiality itself. A double shift towards (i) a radically generalizedview of agency and (ii) the ontological complexity of things, spirits, and humans is cutting across distinct approaches in the anthropology ofreligion, science studies, and material culture studies. However, althoughthey seem to share a novel attention to the tropes of materiality andagency, they do not necessarily agree with the angles from which these issues should be analyzed. Moreover, the extent to which the themes of immateriality and spirituality should be accorded analytical weight is unequally present throughout these approaches. For example, if it seems clear that “spirits” must have a place in the study of religion it is less obvious how the study of immaterialities would look like in the analysis of scientific and technological artefacts. By bringing these scholarly approaches into closer dialogue, the conference Things and Spirits: New Approaches to Materiality and Immateriality aims at developing new perspectives and finding common ground in the history and ethnography of things, spirits, and their relations to humans. It will provide a timely opportunity for scholars to explore further the synergies between ethnographical and historical methodologies in the analysis of materiality and immateriality. In addition, it expects to offer students of religion, material culture, and science a privileged occasion for mutual engagement and theoretical and methodological cross-fertilizing.
We will take as a point of departure that what counts as “things” and “materiality”, what counts as “spirits” and “immateriality”, and, still, what counts as “agents” are issues to be determined empirically. As such, we invite anthropologists, historians, and students of science, technology, and material culture to analytically address the multiple arrangements of things and spirits by engaging with empirical material.
SUGGESTED TOPICS
Submissions of papers are encouraged that address one or more of the following topics:
• Materiality and immateriality in religious and scientific theories of evidence;
• Plurality of notions and modes of agency across distinct scientific and non-scientific theories and practices;
• Boundaries between material and immaterial;
• “Things”, “spirits” and the dynamics of colonial encounters;
• Iconoclast and iconophile projects of religion building, destruction, or conversion;
• Materiality and immateriality of power;
• Machines, material technologies and their connections to the immaterial.
VENUE
The conference will take place at Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, on 15, 16 and 17 September 2010
(www.ics.ul.pt). The conference is designed as a small meeting so to encourage exchange of ideas and group discussion. Accordingly a limited number of participants will be selected. We expect graduate and post-graduate scholars from the fields of the humanities and social sciences to participate.
Organizers: Ricardo Roque: ricardo.roque@ics.ul.pt<mailto:ricardo.roque@ics.ul.pt>
Research Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
João Vasconcelos: vasconcelos.joao@gmail.com<mailto: vasconcelos.joao@gmail.com> Research Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN SOCIETY, University Center, Chicago, Illinois, 15-17 February, 2011
Deadline: 27 May, 2010 http://www.religion-conference.com
The Religion and Spirituality in Society Conference sets out to describe, analyze, and interpret the role of religion and spirituality in society. The bases of this endeavor are cross-disciplinary. The intellectual project is neutral with respect to the agendas of particular religions or explicit counterpoints to religion such as agnosticism or atheism. The Religion and Spirituality in Society Conference serves as a forum for those interested in the pursuit of scholarly conversation surrounding the key issues that impact the relationship between religion and society. The conference is intended as a space for careful, scholarly reflection and open dialogue while recognizing that a tension exists between the academic conversation and the practice of religious and spiritual traditions. The Religion and Spirituality in Society Conference includes plenary presentations by leading thinkers in the field of religious study, and parallel paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, professions and fields of study. Participants are invited to submit a presentation proposal for a 30-minute paper, 60-minute workshop, or a jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session.
Presenters may also choose to submit their written papers for publication in the peer-refereed International Journal of Religion and Society. Those who are unable to attend the conference in person are welcome to submit a virtual registration, which allows for submission of a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal, as well as an option to upload a video presentation to the conference
YouTube channel.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 27 May, 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website: http://www.religion-conference.com.
2011 International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI, May 12-15, 2011
Deadline: September 15, 2010
New Approaches to Medieval Medical and Scientific Imagery Despite an increasing attention in medieval studies more broadly, medical and scientific images largely remain on the periphery of medieval art history. This session aims to highlight work being done in this underdeveloped field, especially such investigations that display methodological adventurousness. We welcome preliminary explorations and works-in-progress as well as more developed material, and encourage a wide range of approaches, including analyses driven by potentially related fields, such as post-colonialism or disability studies, as well as feminist/gender studies.
Sponsored by the Medieval Feminist Art History Project. Please send paper proposal abstracts (300 words) and a completed Participant Information Form <http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF>to
Jennifer Borland (jennifer.borland@okstate.edu) by September 15, 2010.
Gartenhistorisches Forschungskolloquium 2010
Freitag, 29.10.2010, bis Sonntag, 31.10.2010, TU Berlin
Deadline: 01.08.2010
Das Gartenhistorische Forschungskolloquium ist ein Forum für Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen, die an Forschungsprojekten über gartenhistorische Themen arbeiten oder solche unlaengst abgeschlossen haben. Das Themenfeld ist die Gartengeschichte im weitesten Sinne, es umfasst also auch Arbeiten aus dem
Gebiet der Geschichte des Stadtgruens,gestalteter Landschaften und der Gartendenkmalpflege. Die Veranstaltung bietet Gelegenheit, die Vorhaben und bisherigen Forschungsergebnisse zur Diskussion zu stellen und mit anderen Forscher/innen der Kultur- und Kunstgeschichte von Gaerten und Parks Erfahrungen
auszutauschen. Die Forschungsvorhaben und -ergebnisse koennen mit einem Vortrag
oder einem Poster praesentiert werden. Zum Auftakt des Treffens, am Abend des 29. Oktober 2010, werden die Poster in geselliger Runde erlaeutert. Am Vormittag des 30. Oktober 2010 sollen aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse praesentiert und diskutiert werden, der Nachmittag ist für thematische Gespraechsrunden und
Kurzvortraege abgeschlossener Forschungsarbeiten vorgesehen. Am Sonntag, den 31. Oktober 2010, ist eine halbtaegige Exkursion zu aktuell diskutierten Objekten der Gartendenkmalpflege in Berlin geplant.
Vorlaeufiges Programm:
29.10.2010
19.00 Uhr Eröffnungsvortraege, danach Poster-Promenade
30.10.2010
9.30 Uhr 6-7 Vortraege (je 20 min. + 10 min Diskussion)
14.30 Uhr Gespraechsrunden für Forschende
16.30 Uhr 6-8 Kurzvortraege (je 15 min)
31.10.2010
9.30 Uhr Halbtags-Exkursion zur Gartendenkmalpflege in Berlin
Themenvorschlaege für Vortraege sind zusammen mit einem Abstract im Umfang bis zu einer Seite (als Datei in den Formaten .pdf, .odt, .doc oder .rtf) bis zum 01. August 2010 an die unten stehende TU-Adresse zu richten.
Veranstalter:
Fachgebiet Denkmalpflege, Institut für Stadt- und Regionalplanung,
TU Berlin
Dr.-Ing. Sylvia Butenschoen
Hardenbergstraße 40a, 10623 Berlin
Tel.: 030-31428076, Fax: 030-31428146
Email: s.butenschoen@isr.tu-berlin.de
in Kooperation mit
Lehrgebiet Geschichte der Freiraumplanung, Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur, Leibniz-Universitaet Hannover Prof. Dr. Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Herrenhaeuser Straße 2a, 30419 Hannover
2010 Conference: Art on the Street
The Korean Society of Art Theories, Seoul, KOREA
October 24, 2010
Deadline: July 25, 2010
We seek to build upon the recent discussion on public art and community by investigating specific examples of the practices of contemporary art in particular contexts. We pay attention to the way in which the process of creation, perception, and reception of the artwork relates to the formation of a community. We invite papers on mural projects, site-specific urban planning projects, parks, public monuments, and other types of community-oriented projects. Discussions on a project or network of activities that form relationships among participants and a public are also encouraged. At the same time, we hope to explore artistic practices that resist or negotiate in terms of everyday life, localization, globalization, and social and cultural structures. We also encourage papers that revisit the issue of memory of community. While proposing art as potential means of collective empowerment, we aim to investigate art that invokes or produces a community. All perspectives and methodologies are welcome. Successful applicants who would deliver the paper at the conference will receive USD 1000 to help defray travel expenses. Accommodation at the Guest House on campus will be provided. Since Gwangju Biennale 2010 will be held from September 3 to November 7, it would be a good opportunity to make a journey to Gwangju during the visit to Korea. The speakers are encouraged to submit the paper to the Journal of Art Theory & Practice.
Successful applicants who would be unable to make a trip to Korea and deliver the paper are also encouraged to submit the paper to the Journal of Art Theory & Practice, which will be published in December 2010. JATP is a peer-reviewed journal published twice per year by the Korean Society of Art Theories. Please indicate your preference upon submission of the proposal.
Please send an abstract (about 400 words) and a CV (including institutional affiliation and contact information) by June 25 to artntheory@gmail.com. The conference committee will determine the speakers and reply to all applicants by July 25.
Creating the Holy Dead
Creating the Holy Dead I: Sainthood in the Early Middle Ages
Creating the Holy Dead II: Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages
Western Michigan University, 12-15 May 2011
To be presented at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies on 12-15 May 2011 at Western Michigan University. The panels are sponsored by the Midwest Medieval History Conference. Proposals and accompanying paperwork are due no later than 15 September 2010. Please see the conference website (www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress) for additional details.
Amy K. Bosworth
History Department
Muskingum University
163 Stormont Street
New Concord, OH 43762
740-826-8424 (phone)
740-826-8357 (fax)
Email: bosworth@muskingum.edu
_________________________________________________ Call for Essay and Manuscript Submissions The Historiography of Islamic Art
Journal of Art Historiography
Deadline: 1st October 2010
The study of Islamic art and architecture and its position within the wider disciplines of both Art History and Middle Eastern Studies has been under considerable scrutiny in recent years. An exponential increase in the volume of scholarship being conducted on Middle Eastern visual culture in the last decade in particular has left practitioners and observers alike seeking to understand the history of the discipline in addition to the histories of the objects it propounds. At this juncture, with new publications and dedicated exhibitions seeking to extend the historiographic discourse, the time is right for an interrogation of our field, from the intellectual legacies of earlier scholarship to current strands and future directions.
To this end, the editors are seeking submissions for a dedicated issue of the Journal of Art Historiography, inviting current research that reflects on and engages with the history and present state of the discipline of Islamic art history itself. Research predicated on material from any historical period and geographical area of the
Islamic world is welcomed, provided the study also makes a conscious and sustained engagement with its own parameters.
As the Journal of Art Historiography is published electronically, this issue has the facility to include relevant supplementary documentation. Therefore, in addition to articles, the editors also seek translations of interesting or landmark material into English, documents (meaning vital material that has beenpublished in places that are not easily accessible electronically), topic-related bibliographies, notes, book reviews and suggestions of books for review.
Possible strands for examination include, but are by no means limited to:
Legacies of connoisseurship
The role of the collector
Relationships between academia, museums and the art market
The shifting status of objects and material culture
Hierarchies of arts and the place of the "minor" and "decorative"
Postcolonial studies and the subaltern voice
Problematising the terms "Islamic" and "Art"
Please send abstracts of articles (c. 500 words) and/ or proposals for notes, documents, reviews and translations to Moya Carey and Margaret Graves by 1st October 2010. Following acceptance, full texts (including all images and permissions) are to be submitted by 1st September 2011, for publication in the December 2011 edition of the journal. The editors will act as peer reviewers for the issue and will operate within the Peer Review Guidelines.
Further information for authors, the journal's mission statement, editorial board and previous issues can be found on the website: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/arthistoriography/
Margaret Graves (University of Edinburgh; margaretgraves_36@hotmail.com)
Moya Carey (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; m.carey@vam.ac.uk)
Announcing a new series from Ashgate Publishing Company The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
Series Editor: Michael Yonan, University of Missouri
The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 17001950, provides a forum for the broad study of object acquisition and collecting practices in their global dimensions from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. The series seeks to illuminate the intersections between material culture studies, art history, and the history of collecting. HMCC takes as its starting point the idea that objects both contributed to the formation of knowledge in the past and likewise contribute to our understanding of the past today. The human relationship to objects has proven a rich field of scholarly inquiry, with much recent scholarship either anthropological or sociological rather than art historical in perspective. Underpinning this series is the idea that the physical nature of objects contributes substantially to their social meanings, and therefore that the visual, tactile, and sensual dimensions of objects are critical to their interpretation. HMCC therefore seeks to bridge anthropology and art history, sociology and aesthetics. It encompasses the following areas of concern:
1. Material culture in its broadest dimension, including the high arts of painting and sculpture, the decorative arts (furniture, ceramics, metalwork, etc.), and everyday objects of all kinds.
2. Collecting practices, be they institutionalized activities associated with museums, governmental authorities, and religious entities, or collecting done by individuals and social groups.
3. The role of objects in defining self, community, and difference in an increasingly international and globalized world, with cross-cultural exchange and travel the central modes of object transfer.
4. Objects as constitutive of historical narratives, be they devised by historical figures seeking to understand their past or in the form of modern scholarly narratives.
The series publishes interdisciplinary and comparative research on objects that addresses one or more of these perspectives and includes monographs, thematic studies, and edited volumes of essays.
Proposals should take the form of either:
1. a preliminary letter of inquiry, briefly describing the project; or
2. a formal prospectus including: abstract, brief statement of your critical methodology, table of contents, sample chapter, estimated word count, estimate of the number and type of illustrations to be included, and a c.v.
Please send a copy of either type of proposal to the series editor and to the publisher
Professor Michael Yonan, yonanm@missouri.edu
Meredith Norwich, Commissioning Editor, mnorwich@ashgate.com
New Journal: "City, Culture and Society"
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new, interdisciplinary journal, City, Culture and Society.
The primary goal of City, Culture and Society is to promote pioneering research on cities and to foster the sort of urban administration that has the vision and authority to reinvent cities adapted to the challenges of the 21st century.
For more information and article submission, please visit the journal homepage at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ccs
A supplementary issue to introduce City, Culture and Society has been published in the journal Cities: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5909-2010-999729999.8998-2067736
Collaborative Archaeology
For its November 2011 volume, the Archaeological Review from Cambridge invites contributions on the theme of collaboration in archaeology. Suggested topics/themes for articles include, but are not limited to:
-Does archaeological collaboration allow for archaeology to become a discipline ‘by/with the people for the people’?
-With whom should one collaborate?
-What factors influence the ability/willingness of individuals, groups or communities (including archaeologists) to become actively involved in collaboration? Have political circumstances or social movements influenced approaches?
-The impacts and outcomes of collaboration, both short-term and long-term, on individuals, groups and communities (including archaeologists).
-Personal self-reflection from experience with collaboration; potential and possibilities for extending collaboration in the future.
For further details please visit the Archaeological Review from
Cambridge website listed below.
Dominic Walker
Department of Archaeology
University of Cambridge
Downing Street
Cambridge, UK
CB1
Visit the website at http://www.societies.cam.ac.uk/arc/news.html
"Muslims in American Popular Culture"
Praeger has contracted with us to publish a three-volume reference set titled “Muslims in American Popular Culture” (2010/2011). The first collection of its kind, MIAPC will be marketed mainly to university, public, and secondary school libraries. We are looking for articles of various lengths on a wide variety of topics within the categories of contemporary American Muslim entertainment, communities, social concerns, religious expression, and politics. The first round of articles is due on October 15, 2009, and we will be reviewing abstracts on a rolling basis. Completed articles will be guaranteed a place in the collection based on dates received and accepted. Please send abstracts or questions to aricha31@kennesaw.edu or to iomidvar@spsu.edu.
For a list of possible topics, see below. For information about Praeger, see http://www.praeger.com/greenwood_press.aspx.
Anne Richards, PhD, Department of English, Kennesaw State University, GA
Iraj Omidvar, PhD, Department of English and Technical Communication and Media Arts, Southern Polytechnic State University, GA
POTENTIAL TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED BY “MUSLIMS IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE”
The Entertainment Industry
o Comedy
o Dave Chapelle
o Muslim-American comic group The Arabian Knights
o Muslim-American comedians such as Negin Farsad and Maysoon Zayid,
Dean Obeidallah, Preacher Moss, Mohammed Amer, Azhar Usman
o Music
o Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens
o John Coltrane
o Mos Def/Dante Smith
o Q-Tip/Fareed Kamal/Jonathan Davis
o Erik Schrody (Everlast’s lead)
o Ghostface Killah
o T-Pain
o Nas
o Wu-Tang Clan
o Busta Rhymes and “Arab Money”
o Abdullah Ibn Buhaina/Art Blakey
o Film
o Portrayal of Muslim characters by Jewish and Christian actors, e.g.,
Anthony Quinn
o “Casablanca,” Michael Moore’s “9/11,” “300,” etc.
o Actors and directors such as Shohreh Aghdashlou, Tony Shalhoub, and
Moustapha Akkad
o Cliches such as Persian carpets, deserts, harems, geniis, magic lamps, Baghdad, Bedouins, Oriental despots, the Crusades
o Muslim heroes and heroines such as Scheherezade, Ali Baba, Sinbad
o Anti-Muslim lyrics in “Alladin”
o Popular Literature
o Salman Rushdie (Satanic Verses)
o Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran)
o Khaled Hosseini (The Kiterunner)
o Muslim American women writers such as Maryam Jameela/Margaret Marcus and Dilara Hafiz
o 1001 Nights
o The mystic poetry of Rumi
Communities
o Places of Worship and Religious Accommodations
o U.S. mosques
o Islamic Center of America
o Footbaths and masjids at US airports
o Businesses
o Typical stores within large metro areas
o Famous businesspeople such as Anousheh Ansari (female Iranian space
tourist) and Pierre Omidyar (creator of E-Bay)
o Cities
o “Tehrangeles”
o Muslim communities in Dearborn, Michigan
o Muslim communities in the South End of Boston
o Muslim communities in Quincy, Massachusetts
o Muslim communities in Rose, North Dakota
o Fazlur Khan (structural engineer who designed the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center)
o Clothing and adornment
o Veils, headscarves, burkas, hejabs, etc.
o Henna, harquus
o Food
o Middle Eastern restaurants
o Hookah lounges
o Sports
Individuals
o Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
o Mohammed Ali
o Mike Tyson
o Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf /Chris Jackson
o Forms
o Belly dancing
Stereotypes
o Islamophobia
o Hate crimes against Muslims
o Popular confusions of Jews/Arabs, Arabs/Iranians, Muslims/Sikhs, and
conflation of Arabs and Muslims
Religion
o Nation of Islam
o Louis Farrakhan
o Prison Conversions
o Million Man March
o Elijah Muhammad
o Silis Muhammad
oo Warith Deen Muhammad
o American Society of Muslims
o Traditional Islamic Worship
o Asian American Muslims
o American Wahabis
o Hispanic Muslims
o Women imams
o Tablighi Jamaat
o Islamic Thinker Society
o The Society of the Muslim Brothers
o Hajjs by American Muslims
o Christians
o George W. Bush’s call for a “crusade”
Politics
o U.S. Politicians/Politics
o Barack Obama’s Muslim patrimony
o Keith Ellison
o Zalmay Khalilzad
o The refusal of Tariq Ramadan’s visa and those of other Muslim intellectuals
o Muslim Political Organizations
o Muslim Public Affairs Council
o Muslim Women’s League
o Islamic Society of North America
o Islamic Students Association
o Council on American-Islamic Relations
Anne R. Richards
Kennesaw State University
Department of English
678-797-2038
Iraj Omidvar
Southern Polytechnic University
Department of English, Technical Communication and Media Arts
Email: anne_richards@kennesaw.edu,iomidvar@spsu.edu
Workshops and Special Courses
Title: Introduction to Paleography and Archival Studies
Date: 2010-09-20
Description: Introduction to Paleography and Archival Studies The Medici Archive Project will offer in the 2010 fall semester its second online course in paleography and archival studies. This course is designed to increase access to the wealth of information contained in manuscript historical mat ...
