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.
[CHINOISERIE]WORLD HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
Held 5-28 June, 2009.
ANANDA COOMARASWAMY'S INFLUENCE ON TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART
10-13 February 2010. College Art Association Conference: 2010 Chicago. "As curator at the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts and a passionate discussant of traditionalist values, Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) is renowned as
the scholar and philosopher who introduced Asian art to a wide American audience in the early 1900s. Less well
known is the wide-ranging influence he has had on 20th-century modern and contemporary discourses in art. Artists,
composers, and art historians who have been influenced by CoomaraswamyÕs writings on Hindu, Buddhist and European
art, promoting art as inseparable from life, include John Cage, Albert Gleizes, Morris Graves, Rockwell Kent, Eric
Gill, Thomas Merton, Isamu Noguchi, Mircea Eliade, Dorothy Norman, Alfonso Ossorio, Ad Reinhardt, Alfred Stieglitz,
Mark Tobey, Bill Viola, and many others. This panel invites papers on Coomaraswamy's influence on artists' working
methods, conceptual ideas, and aesthetic approaches as well as the reception of Coomaraswamy's literature,
exhibitions, and museum installations and his impact on Asian art as a scholarly field. Session organizers:
Dr. Lise Kjaer, City College, CUNY, lkjaer@ccny.cuny.edu
Dr. William Wroth, Independent Scholar, wwroth@kiva.net
Abstracts were due Friday, May 8, 2009 to both organizers at:
(lkjaer@ccny.cuny.edu) and (wwroth@kiva.net), or by mail to:
Lise Kjaer
Art Department
The City College, CUNY
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
"A LONG AND TUMULTUOUS RELATIONSHIP": EAST-WEST INTERCHANGES IN AMERICAN ART
1-2 October 2009 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. "Paper submissions are
invited for this symposium, which will address the complicated interactions between American and
Asian artists and visual traditions from the eighteenth century to the present. Scholars are encouraged
to send in proposals engaging all media of visual art, and including craft, architecture, and the
moving image. Original, innovative scholarship is sought investigating all manner of artistic
nterchanges, including issues of patronage, art markets, and popular culture, and engaging a wide
range of geographic sites where these exchanges took place...Scholarship is invited that complicates
or reimagines the historical meanings of "East" and "West" as well as terms such as "orientalism"
through the prism of multi-directional cultural exchange. The symposium will recognize that the "East"
is made up of a wide variety of countries -- not just Japan and China, whose influence on American art
has been most discussed to date. In addition to high-art visual exchanges, interdisciplinary explorations
of immigration, border cultures, and transnational flows in popular culture are welcome...To submit a
paper, please send a two-page, double-spaced abstract (300-500 words) and a short c.v. to East-West
Symposium, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, Victor Building, MRC 970, Washington D.C.
20013-7012. Proposals to SAAMSymposium@si.edu. were due February 20, 2009. Confirmed speakers will be required to
submit the text of their 20-minute symposium presentations by September 1, 2009. A final text of the essay
with endnotes will be due by January 5, 2010, for possible publication in the symposium proceedings.
The symposium will be available for viewing in a simultaneous and, later, an archived webcast.
MEGACITIES AND FILM: SOUTHEAST ASIA ON FILM
29-30 January 2010. Ludwigsburg Film Conference, University of Education, Germany, Department
of Culture and Media Education. "Southeast Asian filmmaking is still widely unknown outside the subcontinent.
Films emerging from this cultural region rarely find their way to international festivals or cinemas, only
Thailand having begun to establish a worldwide reputation as a film nation. The Ludwigsburg Film Conference
2010 therefore primarily brings productions from Southeast Asia to screen by focusing its debate on the topos of
the city...We welcome submissions with thematic, aesthetic, socio-cultural, narrative, spatial, architectural,
and economic perspectives on megacities in (Southeast) Asian film that, ideally, connect various perspectives.
The conference focuses on Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and
Vietnam. Submissions from researchers working on other Asian countries are also encouraged, particularly if they
address cinematic exchange processes within Asia. Suggestions for film presentations are welcome. The conference
languages are German and English.
"The Ludwigsburg Film Conference invites established as well as young researchers. Paper presentations should
not exceed 25 minutes. Travel and accommodation expenses can partly be reimbursed. Conference participants
should submit their full papers (10 to 20 pages) by February 28, 2010 for the projected publication.
Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) and a brief biographical statement by October 4, 2009 to
Sarah Wuest, wuest@ph-ludwigsburg.de.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Stephan Buchloh
Ludwigsburg University of Education
Department of Culture and Media Education
Reuteallee 46
71634 Ludwigsburg / Germany
Phone: +49-7141-140783
Email: buchloh@ph-ludwigsburg.de
www.ph-ludwigsburg.de/kumebi
Publications
Modern Art Asia: " a new journal dedicated to the arts of Asia from the eighteenth century to today,
presenting postgraduate research from historical perspectives and international news on Asian art. Combining
peer-reviewed articles with insightful commentary and the latest exhibiton reviews from international
correspondents, Modern Art Asia provides a new forum for exchange between scholars that crosses the boundaries of
traditional academic disciplines, and engages with a general readership through the addition of journalistic
writing on art. Modern Art Asia invites postgraduates working on the arts and material cultures of Asia from the
eighteenth century to the present to submitpreviously unpublished papers of 4,500-10,000 words for publication...
We are also seeking students and journalists interested in becoming
regular correspondents or in submitting shorter journalistic pieces.
"Word limits: Academic papers: 4,500-10,000 / Correspondence and opinion pieces: 500-1,000 words / Exhibition,
book, performance reviews: 500-800 words. Contact modernartasiaenquiries@yahoo.co.uk to submit articles and for
further information.
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From New York University. This is linked to the page for: CALLS FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION; many, many other resources also.
Held 27-29 April 2006. Annual? Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.
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.
Held 5-28 June, 2009.
10-13 February 2010. College Art Association Conference: 2010 Chicago. "As curator at the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts and a passionate discussant of traditionalist values, Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) is renowned as
the scholar and philosopher who introduced Asian art to a wide American audience in the early 1900s. Less well
known is the wide-ranging influence he has had on 20th-century modern and contemporary discourses in art. Artists,
composers, and art historians who have been influenced by CoomaraswamyÕs writings on Hindu, Buddhist and European
art, promoting art as inseparable from life, include John Cage, Albert Gleizes, Morris Graves, Rockwell Kent, Eric
Gill, Thomas Merton, Isamu Noguchi, Mircea Eliade, Dorothy Norman, Alfonso Ossorio, Ad Reinhardt, Alfred Stieglitz,
Mark Tobey, Bill Viola, and many others. This panel invites papers on Coomaraswamy's influence on artists' working
methods, conceptual ideas, and aesthetic approaches as well as the reception of Coomaraswamy's literature,
exhibitions, and museum installations and his impact on Asian art as a scholarly field. Session organizers:
Dr. Lise Kjaer, City College, CUNY, lkjaer@ccny.cuny.edu
Dr. William Wroth, Independent Scholar, wwroth@kiva.net
Abstracts were due Friday, May 8, 2009 to both organizers at:
(lkjaer@ccny.cuny.edu) and (wwroth@kiva.net), or by mail to:
Lise Kjaer Art Department The City College, CUNY 160 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031
1-2 October 2009 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. "Paper submissions are invited for this symposium, which will address the complicated interactions between American and Asian artists and visual traditions from the eighteenth century to the present. Scholars are encouraged to send in proposals engaging all media of visual art, and including craft, architecture, and the moving image. Original, innovative scholarship is sought investigating all manner of artistic nterchanges, including issues of patronage, art markets, and popular culture, and engaging a wide range of geographic sites where these exchanges took place...Scholarship is invited that complicates or reimagines the historical meanings of "East" and "West" as well as terms such as "orientalism" through the prism of multi-directional cultural exchange. The symposium will recognize that the "East" is made up of a wide variety of countries -- not just Japan and China, whose influence on American art has been most discussed to date. In addition to high-art visual exchanges, interdisciplinary explorations of immigration, border cultures, and transnational flows in popular culture are welcome...To submit a paper, please send a two-page, double-spaced abstract (300-500 words) and a short c.v. to East-West Symposium, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, Victor Building, MRC 970, Washington D.C. 20013-7012. Proposals to SAAMSymposium@si.edu. were due February 20, 2009. Confirmed speakers will be required to submit the text of their 20-minute symposium presentations by September 1, 2009. A final text of the essay with endnotes will be due by January 5, 2010, for possible publication in the symposium proceedings. The symposium will be available for viewing in a simultaneous and, later, an archived webcast.
MEGACITIES AND FILM: SOUTHEAST ASIA ON FILM29-30 January 2010. Ludwigsburg Film Conference, University of Education, Germany, Department of Culture and Media Education. "Southeast Asian filmmaking is still widely unknown outside the subcontinent. Films emerging from this cultural region rarely find their way to international festivals or cinemas, only Thailand having begun to establish a worldwide reputation as a film nation. The Ludwigsburg Film Conference 2010 therefore primarily brings productions from Southeast Asia to screen by focusing its debate on the topos of the city...We welcome submissions with thematic, aesthetic, socio-cultural, narrative, spatial, architectural, and economic perspectives on megacities in (Southeast) Asian film that, ideally, connect various perspectives. The conference focuses on Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Submissions from researchers working on other Asian countries are also encouraged, particularly if they address cinematic exchange processes within Asia. Suggestions for film presentations are welcome. The conference languages are German and English.
"The Ludwigsburg Film Conference invites established as well as young researchers. Paper presentations should not exceed 25 minutes. Travel and accommodation expenses can partly be reimbursed. Conference participants should submit their full papers (10 to 20 pages) by February 28, 2010 for the projected publication. Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) and a brief biographical statement by October 4, 2009 to Sarah Wuest, wuest@ph-ludwigsburg.de.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Stephan Buchloh Ludwigsburg University of Education Department of Culture and Media Education Reuteallee 46 71634 Ludwigsburg / Germany Phone: +49-7141-140783 Email: buchloh@ph-ludwigsburg.de www.ph-ludwigsburg.de/kumebi
PublicationsModern Art Asia: " a new journal dedicated to the arts of Asia from the eighteenth century to today, presenting postgraduate research from historical perspectives and international news on Asian art. Combining peer-reviewed articles with insightful commentary and the latest exhibiton reviews from international correspondents, Modern Art Asia provides a new forum for exchange between scholars that crosses the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, and engages with a general readership through the addition of journalistic writing on art. Modern Art Asia invites postgraduates working on the arts and material cultures of Asia from the eighteenth century to the present to submitpreviously unpublished papers of 4,500-10,000 words for publication... We are also seeking students and journalists interested in becoming regular correspondents or in submitting shorter journalistic pieces.
"Word limits: Academic papers: 4,500-10,000 / Correspondence and opinion pieces: 500-1,000 words / Exhibition, book, performance reviews: 500-800 words. Contact modernartasiaenquiries@yahoo.co.uk to submit articles and for further information.