Resources in Art History for Graduate Students



 



SYMPOSIA OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS



Asian Art History and Related Subjects








ARTS OF CHINA CONSORTIUM




  From New York University.  This is linked to the page for: CALLS FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION; many, 
many other resources also.




ASIAN ART HISTORY IN 
THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY




Held 27-29 April 2006. Annual? Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.




 ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES




Annual. Held 3-6 April, 2008.  Open to areas outside of arthistory; still, with over 200 panels, 
it is the largest annual conference in this area. Please see Web site for information. 




COLLECTING 
"CHINA": OBJECTS, MATERIALITY, AND MULTICULTURAL COLLECTORS INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE




Held 29-30 September, 2006. To be held at U. Delaware and Winterthur Museum. Funded by Chiang 
Ching-kuo Foundation, Department of Art History, University of Delaware, and Winterthur Museum and 
Country Estate. Please see the Web site for more information.





INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS IN EAST ASIA




25-28 February 2009 Part of the 2009 CAA conference, Los Angeles, California. "The phenomenon 
of international exhibitions can be traced back to the nineteenth century when they were initiated to 
support imperialist and nationalist cultures. Since the late twentieth century, however, globalization 
has contributed to the birth of a number of new international exhibitions in East Asia. Taking the 
formats of biennial or triennial, these lately emerged international exhibitions are reconfiguring 
the relations between East/West, Asian/Global, and Self/Other. From the perspective of globalization 
and nationalism, this session concerns these exhibitions within their individual political, cultural, 
and historical frameworks and in the meantime calls for theoretical, historical and even psychoanalytic
investigations of them. We will ask: How is the idea of nation articulated or re-defined through 
international exhibitions? How do these international exhibitions mobilize new artistic expressions 
and cultural identities? How do they transform the art scene of the Asian world? Proposals should 
be sent by May 9, 2008, to:







RETHINKING VISUAL NARRATIVES FROM ASIA: Intercultural and Comparative
Perspectives




8-9 June 2009 Department of Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong. "The conference will 
bring together approximately fifteen scholars presenting new and original research to discuss how 
visual narratives function in different cultures and exploring connections and interactions between 
the arts of Asia and that of Asia and the West. The papers and discussion will consolidate academic 
understanding of visual narrative theories and augment them through analysis of their potential as a 
tool for exploring inter-cultural interactions and questioning cross-cultural assumptions. The focus 
will be on the visual with a cross-cultural dimension and dating to any time period within a broadly 
defined art historical discipline and material culture studies. Possible panel topics include, but 
are not limited to:

    

  1. The place of narrative: architecture and the disposition of imagery

  2. Theories of narration

  3. Word and image: illustration and interpretation

  4. Printed texts and images: semiotic dialogue

  5. The social embeddedness of narrative

  6. Narratology

  7. The role of non-narrative or anti-narrative elements in imagery


Papers will be hosted on the conference Web site by the end of April 2009. It is expected that a 
conference proceedings will be published. Abstracts are due by 5 September 2008 by e-mail to:












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