AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS

They have several conferences under slightly different names around the world every year. Check under "Conferences" and "Calls for Papers" for details.

AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

16-19 OCTOBER 2008. Albuquerque, NM. "Call for Proposals: ASA Convention "Back Down to the Crossroads: Integrative American Studies in Theory and Practice." The 2008 ASA Program Committee invites colleagues in American Studies and all related disciplines to submit proposals for individual papers, entire sessions, presentations, performances, films, round tables, workshops, conversations, or alternative formats described below on any topic dealing with American cultures, including topics in disciplines that have been under-represented in American Studies research and teaching. The ASA Annual Meeting is open to anyone having an interdisciplinary interest in the study of American cultures. Proposals must be submitted through the the ASA's on line submission system, which can be found at [the link above]. Deadline for submissions was January 25, 2008. For complete CFP and additional information, see: (http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/page/annual_meeting_general_information/)

AMERICAN STUDIES AND IMPERIAL DESIGNS: NEW SCHOLARSHIP AND PERSPECTIVES ON THE US IN THE WORLD

11-14 September 2008 Purdue University, IN. 2008 International Conference for American Studies."We seek papers, panel proposals and performances that demonstrate bold new ways of thinking about the role and place of American Studies in challenging and describing current moments and acts of imperialism. These can include but are not limited to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, global economic restructuring, new forms of global culture, threats to academic freedom, censorship, forms of anti-globalization activism, media, the arts and building cultures of resistance. The conference especially invites papers which articulate new forms of social organizing and resistance to imperialist designs. That is, the conference seeks to bring together scholars and activists committed to the theory and practice of social change, on one hand, and an intellectual project rooted in transformative goals. Finally, the conference seeks to refresh understanding of the terms imperialism and empire on one hand, resistance and revolution on the other. The conference seeks to create a dialectical moment and space for the production of new work and ideas, and new networks of alliance that may move us past the 'imperial moment' into a just global future.

"Individual paper proposals with abstracts of up to 250 words; panel proposals no more than one page, with a complete description of the panel and individual papers; roundtables and open hearings on crucial issues and ideas up to 250 words in length; performances and/or readings on the conference theme up to 250 words are all acceptable. All proposals must include mailing address, e-mail address and telephone number for all proposed participants. Proposals may only be sent via e-mail to Bill Mullen, Director of American Studies, Purdue at bvmullen@purdue.edu or to Delayne Graham, Program Assistant in American Studies at dkgraham@purdue.edu. Deadline for submission was December 15, 2007.

[AMERICAN STUDIES] McNEIL CENTER FOR EARLY AMERICAN STUDIES

They hold several conferences each year. Check the Web site for those of interest.

AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Held 11-14 October 2007. Philadelphia, PA. "The theme for the 2007 ASA Conference is "America Aqui: Transhemispheric Visions and Community Connections." Go to the Web site for the call for papers and panels. Deadline was January 27, 2007.

ANTI-POPERY: THE TRANSALANTIC EXPERIENCE: 1530-1850

18-20 September 2008 "The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, in cooperation with the School of Arts and Sciences of The Catholic University of America, will hold a conference on the uses of anti-popery in the early modern world. Antagonism towards the pope and his co-religionists was nearly universal in the Protestant societies of Europe and colonial America. In recent years historians on both sides of the Atlantic have begun to realize that anti-Catholic fears represented more than blind prejudice or ignorance. Instead, anti-popery was a powerful set of ideas that early modern Europeans used to understand their world and their place in history. This conference will explore the diverse uses of anti-popery in the Protestant Atlantic - whether religious, social, legal, economic, or political - from the time of the Reformation to the era of massive Catholic migration to America in the mid-nineteenth century.

We invite proposals for papers on any aspect of anti-popery in Europe or the Americas from approximately 1530-1850. Presenters will be expected to complete a 20-30 page essay by late-May 2008, for pre-conference circulation among registered attendees. We welcome submissions from advanced graduate students as well as more senior scholars. Proposals to Anti-Popery Conference, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4531, or e-mail to (mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu) were due September 15, 2007. Other questions can be directed to the conference organizers: Evan Haefeli (eh2204@columbia.edu), Brendan McConville (bmcconv@bu.edu), and Owen Stanwood (stanwood@cua.edu).

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Held 23 February 2007. University of Arizona, Tucson. Theme: Memorializing Conflict: A look at the Creation and Social Impacts of Memorials to War, Conflict or Catastrophe. "The Art History Graduate Student Association (AHGSA) at the University of Arizona invites you to their interdisciplinary symposium exploring the ways in which architects, artists, and communities have responded to conflict or tragedy through the creation of memorials. The symposium seeks to explore issues such as: the needs for individuals, communities, and nations to create visual statements about conflict; the appearance and impact of "spontaneous" memorials at the sites of accidents and crimes; the significance of chosen designs and their locations; controversies surrounding design, location, funding, and reception; and long-term effects of memorials on their communities...We welcome papers from Master's and PhD students that address this topic regardless of time period, scale, or geographic area. Proposals to tamato@email.arizona.edu were due December 1, 2006.

ART AND ART HISTORY AFTER HEGEL

25-28 February 2009 Part of the conference of the College Art Association, Los Angeles, California. "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was arguably the founder of modern art history: he was the first to fold an account of art's internal development into a larger cultural and intellectual history, while attempting to examine the entirety of the world©ös artistic production and rigorously explore the differences between artistic mediums. We invite papers that explore Hegel's importance both to art history as a discipline and to the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art. We are especially interested in papers on specific artists and works that directly engage Hegel's Aesthetics including its controversial claim that "art is and remains for us, on the side of its highest vocation, a thing of the past." Proposals (mail a copy to each co-chair) should be sent by May 9, 2008, to:

• Lisa Florman, Dept. of History of Art, Ohio State University, 100
• Hayes Hall, 108 North Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1318 AND
• Cordula Grewe, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Columbia University,
  Please see the CAA's "Call for Participation" (http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf) for eligibility and submission guidelines.

ART AND THE MEMORY OF REVOLUTION 1789-1939

25-28 February 2009 Part of the conference of the College Art Association, Los Angeles, California. "This panel explores the relation between art, popular imagery, and the global histories of political dissent. In particular, it sets out to chronicle instances in which images were used to (re)write the histories of revolution, from painting to broadsheets to early film. Contributions are welcome that: investigate the partisan relationships between image and event, not only as tool of revolutionary activity, but especially as acts of the retroactive shaping of political terrain; question the status and form of imagery during and after revolution; and/or offer provocative new approaches to the iconic aspects of political and national memory. While no limitations are placed on geographical location or revolutionary event, artistic medium, "popular" or "official" histories, an insistence on a timeframe stretching roughly from the French, Haitian and American Revolutions to World War II is preferred in hope of foregrounding how the period's imagination transformed, and was transformed by, extremes of political praxis. Please send proposals for 20-minute papers by MAY 9, 2008, to the address below, or via e-mail:

Andre Dombrowski, Smith College, Department of Art, Hillyer Hall,
Northampton, MA 01063, adombrow@smith.edu
Detailed information on the sessions and application procedures can be
found at:
http://conference.collegeart.org/2009/
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf

ART IN PUBLIC SPACES

22-24 May 2008 NYU, New York City. The Visual Culture Division invites submissions for the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.). "In the face of Robert Smithson's "non-sites," of controversy over Richard Serra's Tilted Arc, of graffiti gone high art, and of home videos gone "viral," how are we to understand the ways that the art and visual culture of public spaces intersects with or redefines social responsibility today? Can we even talk about "public space" or "public art" anymore? What, if anything, is lost or gained by the redefinition of these terms? Proposals were due October 22 to:

• Kelly Dennis
• Chair, CSA Visual Culture Division
• Department of Art and Art History
• 830 Bolton Rd U-1099
• University of Connecticut
• Storrs, CT 06269-1099
• kelly.dennis@uconn.edu

ART MATTERS: Image and Interpretation from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day

Held 3 March 2007. Cowan Center at The University of Texas at Tyler. "Presentations from a wide variety of disciplines will be welcomed.In addition to 150-250 word abstract, please include a brief personal statement or Curriculum Vitae of less than one page, with full contact information and a tentative assessment of any audio-visual equipment required for your presentation. Victor Scherb Department of Literature and Languages, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX 75799. (903) 566-7374 or Jill Blondin, Department of Art, The University of Texas at TylerTyler, TX 75799. Annual? Poorly-designed Web site is seldom updated promptly.

ART, RITUAL, PUBLIC: INTERACTION AND MEANING

25-28 February 2009 College Art Association - Los Angeles, CA. "This session examines the construction of layers of meaning resulting from the ritual interaction of art, architecture and the public. We invite papers on: ritual phenomena, such as pilgrimage, or the performance of liturgical or political ceremonies; ritual contexts, in which agents and / or the audience contribute actively to the definition of the meaning of art; ritual settings (buildings, urban spaces, etc.) specifically created to define and control rituals, or that take on new functions and meanings once utilized for this purpose. Contributions on these issues from historical, anthropological, and semiotic viewpoints, from the medieval period to the Modern Age, are solicited. Papers on ritual contexts envisioning a polysemic conception of art, rather than a univocal significance, are particularly welcome.

"Please submit an abstract, c.v., letter explaining speaker's interest, and CAA membership status, by Friday May 9, 2008, to:

Princeton University, Index of Christian Art,
• McCormick Hall, A9, Princeton NJ 08544
• E-mail: gfreni@princeton.edu, and
• John Beldon Scott
• University of Iowa, School of Art & Art History,
• Iowa City, Iowa 52242
• E-mail: jb-scott@uiowa.edu
• For submission guidelines, see: (http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf)

[ASIAN ART] EAST ASIAN ART HISTORY

17-20 July 2008 Institue of East Asian Art History, University of Heidelberg, Germany. "Graduate students engaged in research for a PhD on East Asian art history are invited to present papers about their current work for the colloquy. This colloquy provides a forum for young researchers to share ideas, exchange valuable experiences with other graduate students and work towards international standards on field in East Asian art history. Please send your application via e-mail to the organiser (oakg@sino.uni-heidelberg.de). Abstracts were due March 31st, 2008.

ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

The annual conference sometimes has panels relating to art history.

ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN ART

Held Friday, March 21, 2008. See Web site for more information.

ASSOCIATION FOR TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP IN ART HISTORY

Always held as part of CAA and Renaissance Society of America (others as well). See the Web site for more information.

ATLANTIC STUDIES WORKSHOP

Held 4-5 MAY 2007. Co-hosted by the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. "The Atlantic Studies Workshop seeks papers from graduate students in multiple disciplines including, but not limited to: African and African-American Studies, American Culture, Anthropology, Art and Art History, History, Law, Literature, Music, Sociology, and WomenÍs Studies...The deadline for applications was March 1, 2007. Papers will be pre-circulated to all participants. Applicants are therefore requested to submit a complete paper of approximately 15-25 pages for review by the application deadline. Applicants should also submit a C.V. Final versions of each presenterÍs paper are due by April 10, 2007. Please send application materials electronically to atlantic@msu.edu. Please also address inquiries to atlantic@msu.edu."[SEE the Web site for more information.]

BOSTON COLLEGE ELEVENTH ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE ON ROMANCE STUDIES

Held March 30/31, 2007. Annual. Please see the Web site for further information.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Held 28-29 March, 2008. ANNUAL. Abstracts were due December 1, 2007.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY

Held 26 October 2007. "CO-Collaboration and Collectivity in Art is the 42nd Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium, the longest-running Art History student symposium in the United States..." Please see the rather disorganized Web site for more information.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE : ANNUAL HUMANITIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

Annual, held usually in April. For more information, please see the Web site.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Held 11 April 2008. Theme: "Seeing Knowledge Work." "The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at UCSB invites graduate students and emerging scholars to submit paper proposals for 'Seeing Knowledge Work,' a conference about the ways in which we structure our understanding of the creation, purpose, and meaning of visual knowledge. The act of making knowledge visible, and of seeing it at work and at play, makes it available as an object for comprehension and critique. Abstracts were due February 1.

[CANADA] UNIVERSITIES ART ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

Held 1-3 November 2007.. Annual. See the Web site for more information.

[CARTOGRAPHY] CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY

Held 8-13 July 2007. Berne, Switzerland. "The Conference is the major international scholarly conference dedicated to advancing knowledge of the history of cartography, of maps and mapmaking, broadly defined...The first aim of the conference is to foster discussion on the history of cartography in general, not necessarily the history of single maps. The presentations should be focused on the history of cartography and only deal with historical geography or the history of discoveries on the margins. Contributions on a topic from specialists in disciplines such as geodesy, tourism studies, linguistics, history of science, art history, etc., are very welcome. The conference themes will be:

• Mapping Relief
• Maps and Tourism
• Language and Maps
• Time as the Cartographic Fourth Dimension
• Any other aspect of the history of cartography

For more information, please contact:

• Christoph Graber (Conference Secretary)
• ICHC2007
• c/o swisstopo
• Postfach CH-3084 Wabern
• Switzerland
• Fax: ++41 31 963 24 59
• Email: ok@ichc2007.ch
  Due date for proposals was 1 October 2006

"THE CLEVELAND SYMPOSIUM" : CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART and the BAKER NORD CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AT CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

27-30 March 2008 Annual, usually held March or April. For more information, please see the Web site. Next: "Cityscapes": "a conference exploring what arts and humanities contribute to analysis of cities. We seek papers investigating the historic constitutive factors of cities, cities as crucibles of creative change, contemporary issues of urbanism, and the role of cities in envisioning possible futures. Proposals must include a 200 word abstract, cover letter, 3 page cv, and a self-addressed postcard or request for electronic confirmation. Due date for submission was 14 September 2007. Please see the Web site for more information.

[COMICS] SUPERHEROES AND COMIC BOOKS IN THE UNITED STATES

February 27 through March 1, 2008 Jacksonville, FL. 47th Annual Meeting Florida Conference of Historians. "From the debut of Superman in 1938 through Marvel's Comics' Civil War storyline this year, superhero comic books have made an indelible mark on American culture. The current popularity of stories and characters originating in comic books has expanded interest in the medium and in the superhero genre which itself incorporates a variety of other genres. Moreover, recent scholarship has striven to define the superheroÍs unique relationship to American culture. Submissions that address the ways the comic book superhero represents, constructs, and distorts American culture are welcomed. For consideration, please send the following information:

1. Paper title and abstract/proposal (300-500 words)
2. Brief vita or one-paragraph biography.
3. Complete personal information: name, department, academic affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address.

• Bill Svitavsky, Electronic Resources Librarian
• Olin Library, Rollins College
• 1000 Holt Avenue - 2744
• Winter Park, FL 32789
• (407) 646-2679
• E-mail: bsvitavsky@rollins.edu

CONSTRUCTED LIGHT, CONSTRUCTED MEANINGS

11-13 APRIL, 2008 Contemporary Art Museum, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, and Saint Louis University Museum of Art in St. Louis, Missouri. "The Department of American Studies at Saint Louis University invites papers for its 2008 Visual Culture Graduate Student Conference. This year's conference theme, "Constructed Light, Constructed Meanings," coincides with the "Dan Flavin: Constructed Light" exhibition at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis. This interdisciplinary graduate student conference welcomes proposals from the humanities and social sciences that explore the diverse uses, functions, and meanings of light ¨¢ in its natural, manufactured, and manipulated forms ¨¢ in artistic expressions, cultural representations, and people's daily lives and experiences. Renowned visual culture studies scholar Dr. Shawn Michelle Smith, Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will deliver the keynote address. Abstracts were due January 15, 2008 to visualcc@slu.edu. For questions, please contact Emmett McKenna (visualcc@slu.edu). [SOMEDAY, THIS WILL BE THEIR CONFERENCE SITE: (http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/amers/sitebody/graduate_conference)

COSTUME SOCIETY OF AMERICA

20-25 May 2008. New Orleans. See Web site for details. Deadline (originating in USA): Postmarked by October 1, 2007 Deadline (originating outside USA): wasSeptember 15, 2007. Explore it also for information on various symposia and other offerings.

CULTURAL CROSSROADS: THE MARK ROSKILL SYMPOSIUM

11 April 2008 University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "The Graduate students in the Department of Art History cordially invite the submission of abstracts for papers investigating cultural crossroads. The symposium will explore the various ways in which cultural concepts and preconceptions are conveyed by artists working in the visual arts from ancient to modern times. The field of interest includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

o        cultural ownership and cultural property
o        globalization and its influence
o        colonization and its influence
o        exchanges between ancient and modern cultures
o        revisionist history
o        national identity and culture
o        conflicting cultural identities
o        generation of culture crossroads
o        resilience of cultural meaning
o        cultural convergence

Paper presentations should be between 15 and 20 minutes in length. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and a paragraph biography to Symposium Co-chairs Mary Elizabeth Williams and Jill Bierly at (umassarthistsymposium@gmail.com) by February 25, 2008. Notifications will be sent by March 14, 2008.

CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (U.S.) ANNUAL MEETING

22-24 May 2008 New York University, New York City. Abstract Deadline was November 10, 2007. See the Website for more information.

DAHESH MUSEUM OF ART GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

Held 4 March 2006. "The Dahesh Museum of Art invites graduate students to submit 20-minute papers for its third annual graduate symposium on recent developments in the history of nineteenth-century art." No sign yet of another symposium. Note: "The Trustees of the Board of the Dahesh Museum of Art announced today [No date given, but apparently 2007] that it will close its current location at 580 Madison Avenue. For the next two years, the Museum will operate out of a Manhattan office space, which will serve as the nerve center for a number of diverse projects while the Board looks to acquire a building."

[FASHION]FASHION & MATERIAL CULTURE

2-4 NOVEMBER 2007 MID-ATLANTIC POPULAR | AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION 2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE. Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel Philadelphia.

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ART HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

17-18 October 2008. Annual. Deadline for abstracts is September 2. Very detailed Web site should answer your questions. Please check there for updates and the call for papers or contact:

• Prof. Karen A. Bearor, Symposium Coordinator
• Department of Art History
• Florida State University
• Fine Arts Building
• P.O. Box 3061151
• Tallahassee, FL 32306-1151
• fax: 850-644-3259
• kbearor at fsu dot edu

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GRADUATE ART HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

Held 3 February, 2007. Annual? Nothing on the Web site as of 25 March 2008.

THE FRICK COLLECTION AND THE INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF ART

Usually held at the end of March/beg. of April. To participate you must be enrolled in one of the 14 member institutions and be nominated by your department. Write: Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 E. 78th St., New York, NY 10021. Tel.: (212) 288-0700.

GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE

2 - 5 October 2008. Thirty-second Annual Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota. "The Program Committee cordially invites proposals on any aspect of German, Austrian, or Swiss Studies, including (but not limited to) history, Germanistik, film, art history, political science, musicology, sociology, and cultural studies. Proposals for entire sessions and for interdisciplinary presentations are strongly encouraged. Individual paper proposals and offers to serve as session moderator or commentator are also welcome. Programs of past GSA Conferences may be viewed at the GSA web site (ABOVE) Please see the GSA web site for information about the submission process, which opens on 5 January 2008 and note that ALL proposals must be submitted online; paper forms are not used. The deadline for proposals was 15 February 2008. For more information, visit the GSA web site or contact the Executive Director of the GSA, Prof. David E. Barclay, Department of History, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy St., Kalamazoo, MI 49006-3295. FAX: 269-337-7251. (director@thegsa.org)

GRADUATE HISTORY FORUM UNC CHARLOTTE

Held 17-18 March 2006. Annual? Apparently there's going to be one in 2009 but no details yet!

[GRADUATE STUDENTS] NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS

15-18 November 2007 University of Texas-Austin. "The National Association of Graduate and Professional Students is seeking panel and paper proposals on all aspects of graduate and professional student life, including teaching, learning, research, professional development, and quality of life issues...We welcome proposals both for individual papers and complete panels (with a maximum of four presenters...Deadline for proposals was September 15, 2007. Submissions must be sent to conference@nagps.org as a .doc or .pdf file attachment."

HAGLEY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

Friday, May 16, 2008 THEME: "Commonplace Yet Extraordinary: Design Histories of Everyday Objects". "We invite scholars pursuing innovative research in this area to submit paper proposals for a symposium. The symposium's theme is the histories of design processes that created everyday objects, such as appliances, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous things commonly used in homes, offices, factories, and public spaces....Proposals were due December 1, 2007. Presenters' travel expenses will be covered by Hagley.

• Contact:
• Carol Lockman, clockman@Hagley.org, fax 302-655-3188 OR
• Hagley Museum and Library
• PO Box 3630
• Wilmington DE 19807

HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTS AND HUMANITIES

11-14 January 2008. Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, and the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Submission Deadline was September 13th, 2007. Please see the Web site for more information.

THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

5-8 June 2008. Theme :Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, & Nationalism in History. To be held at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD The deadline for proposals was January 31, 2007.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

Held Saturday, 24 March 2007. Priceless?: The Cost of Art. Art is a business. Despite our most romantic notions of starving artists transcending all physical needs in order to devote themselves to their work, art has been and is still a money making venture. This year, the Seventeenth Annual Indiana University Art History Association Graduate Student Symposium seeks to explore the intersection of art and commerce. Abstracts of no more than 500 words or less to (wmoeller@indiana.edu) were due Friday, January 12th, 2007. For more information:

• Whitney Moeller
• AHA Symposium Committee
• Department of the History of Art
• Fine Arts Building
• 1201 East Seventh Street
• Room 132
• Bloomington, IN 47401-5501

INTERDISCIPLINES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

There is/was one in 2007. No other information on strangely obscure Web site. Supposedly Annual. Try: (interdisciplines@fsu.edu)." Please see the Web site for more information, haha.

INTERNATIONAL COMIC ARTS FORUM

Held 18-20 OCTOBER 2007. Washington, D.C. Apparently annual.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY, AESTHETICS AND THE FINE ARTS

18-19 May 2007. Annual; always held at the Harvard Divinity School. Theme: The Artist's Account and Philosopher's Interpretation. Abstracts were due March 15, 2007. Full Papers due April 15, 2007. Please see the Web site for more information.

INTERNATIONAL VISUAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION

10-12 August 2007. New York University, New York City. Theme: Public Views of the Private; Private Views of the Public. Please see the handsome if noisy Web site for full information. The deadline for submitting proposals was 15 March, 2007.

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

7-8 March 2008. Theme: Fun and Games: The Principle of Pleasure in Art and Architecture. "Art and architecture are serious stuff. We have no time for fun and games. Or do we? References to play, entertainment, and leisure abound in the discipline„from an Athenian amphora adorned with dice players and signed by Exekias to enigmatic Maya "ballcourts"; from Judith LeysterÍs paintings of comic figures to woodblock views of festivals by Utagawa Hiroshige; from Marcel Duchamp's "malic" chessmen to much of Claes Oldenberg's entire oeuvre. In the last half a century or so, an interest in the subject has permeated the scholarly literature and become integral to a range of methodological approaches. Robert Venturi offered lessons on the forms of the Las Vegas Strip, while T.J. Clark drank in the leisure activities of modern life. And Jacques Derrida took pleasure in jouissance, while Henry Louis Gates "signified" a provocative reading of African American trickster figures.

"The graduate students of The University of Iowa Art History Society have decided that it is high time we made time to consider this zenith of "lowbrow" subject matter. AHS hereby solicits applications for participation in our 2008 graduate student symposium on Fun and Games: The Principle of Pleasure in Art. Papers may treat works of any genre, historical period, or geographical designation. Proposals must take the form detailed below. Final papers must be 20-25 minutes in length. Proposals were due December 7, 2007. With the authors' permission, a selection of participants' papers will be published in Montage, the online journal of The University of Iowa graduate Art History Society (http://www.uiowa.edu/~montage/). AHS will provide a small honorarium to accepted participants, as our final budget permits; further information will be provided upon acceptance. Participants will be required to submit their papers, in full, four weeks prior to the event. For more information, please contact symposium chairwoman, Megan Masana, at (masanam@aol.com).

[ISLAMIC ART]HISTORIANS OF ISLAMIC ART ASSOCIATION

16 -18 October 2008 Philadelphia, PA. The theme is "Spaces and Visions." They are calling for papers now (Dec. 2007) but give no central address; check the Web site to see if it has been updated. Proposal deadline was Feb. 1. 2008.

[ISLAMIC ART] ORIENTING ISTANBUL: CULTURAL CAPITAL OF EUROPE?

26-27 September 2008 University of California Berkeley. "We are inviting abstract submissions for [this] interdisciplinary conference. Taking as a point of departure the selection of Istanbul as one of Cultural Capitals of Europe in 2010, the goal of this conference is to reflect on how cities and culture have become key to imagining communities in a globalizing word. Please, send your abstract submissions to Deniz Gokturk, Ipek Tureli, and Levent Soysal [dgokturk@berkeley.edu, ipek@berkeley.edu, levsoy@khas.edu.tr] by May 20, 2008. And please, check [the Web site] for a full announcement and updates.

[JEWISH STUDIES]ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES ANNUAL CONFERENCE

16-18 December 2007. Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Please see the Web site for more information.

[JEWISH STUDIES] SWORD OF JUDITH: FEMALE AGENCY AND THE AESTHETIC OF TERROR

17-18 April 2008 New York Public Library, NYC. "We invite papers that examine any aspect of the theme of Judith for a multidisciplinary conference...We welcome all scholarly approaches and new contributions to the canonicity, authorship and historical basis of the Book of Judith and to any aspect of the textual and visual traditions of Judith in later periods. Possible topics include the Mary/Judith typology; the relationship of the Book of Judith to the Jewish canon; the interpretation of Judith in Jewish, Christian, or secular literature, manuscript illuminations, and works of art; Judith as a subject in music and dance; and the resurgent interest in Judith in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

"Papers that address the Judith narrative in its larger contexts are particularly welcome. To enhance multidisciplinary collaboration and community, a combination of a private Web site and wiki technology will enable scholars to circulate their work-in-progress before and after the conference. Research grants are available and conference travel expenses will be paid for the selected participants. Abstracts were due November 30, 2007, to Judith2008@rarewildflower.org. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 31, 2007. Completed papers must be ready to be posted on the conference website by March 21, 2008. Those selected for publication are required to be submitted online by August 31, 2008.

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Held 3-4 November 2006. Annual? Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies 2006 Conference, CSU Dominguez Hills. "The conference will bring together scholars, educators, graduate, undergraduate, and high school students, and community members interested in Latin American Studies. Papers from all areas of the social sciences, humanities and the arts and/or cross-disciplinary studies and relating to Latin American/Latino/a Studies are invited. All topics are welcome. We encourage papers that address the question of change in Latin America and/or in how Latin America is studied (theories, methodologies, etc.) Selected papers will be published in the Conference's Proceedings. Proposals for single papers and complete sessions are welcome. Single paper proposals should i nclude your paper's title and abstract (200 word or less), and your name, academic affiliation (if appropriate), and contact information. Session proposals (3 to 4 presenters) should include: the session's title and contact person; the same information required of single paper proposals for each of the session's presenters. Proposals to: lead open forums, discussion groups, teaching workshops; to set up booths for graduate or study abroad programs; and/or to screen films or project other media are also welcome. Email your submissions to the 2006 PCCLAS Program Chair, Ericka Verba, at: everba@csudh.edu.

• Professor Ericka Verba,
• PCCLAS 2006 Program Chair,
• Department of History and Philosophy,
• California State University Dominguez Hills,
• Carson, CA 90747.
• (N.B.: Announcement says that Web site will be up after May 15.)

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE/UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

Held 28-30 September 2007. Annual. Please see the Web site for more information.

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST

Held 27 April 2007. "The Organization of Graduate Students in Art History (OGSAH) announces the Seventh Annual Mark Roskill Memorial Symposium in the History of Art, to be held on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [No sign of this on the Web site as of 11/2007]

MATERIAL CULTURE SYMPOSIUM

Held 12 April 2008. Presented by the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, Winterthur, Delaware. Annual. Proposals were due Monday, November 12, 2007. For more information, please see the Web site.

MEPHISTOS

Held 4-6 April 2008. University of Texas at Austin. 26th annual MEPHISTOS graduate student conference devoted to the History, Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Medicine. "TOPICS: The MEPHISTOS Organizing Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers from graduate students examining issues related to the History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Anthropology of Science, Technology, Medicine, and Health. Applicants should not, however, feel constrained by the above-listed disciplinary approaches. We welcome paper proposals from all disciplinary fields. Further, applicants should not feel restricted to the modern and contemporary time period as we strongly encourage paper proposals devoted to early modern, medieval and renaissance periods as well.

"HOW TO APPLY: All interested applicants please submit a CV and an Abstract (200-300 words, separate attachments preferred) by email to: (mephistos2008@gmail.com). Please include in your CV full contact information, department and university affiliation, and level in graduate program. DEADLINE: January 1, 2008

"ACCEPTANCE: Letters of Acceptance will be emailed to applicants in February 2008. MEPHISTOS presentations are expected to be 15 minutes in length. In accordance with MEPHISTOS traditions, lodging will be provided to conference speakers, and some modest travel grants will also be available„for both international and domestic travelers.

MID-ATLANTIC POPULAR/AMERICAN CULTURE ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Held2-4 November 2007. Philadelphia, PA. For more information, please see the Web site.

MIDDLE ATLANTIC SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF ART

Held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Student participants come from a selected group of colleges and universities. There appears to be no Web site for this; and I haven't found the date for the next one. I guess if you're in the know, you'll know.

MIDWEST ART HISTORY SOCIETY

2-5 April 2008. Chicago, Illinois. "Founded in 1975, the organization is open to all art historians living in the states that comprise the Midwestern United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wisconsin). Members of the organization work to foster close relationships between Museum and academic art historians, and have devoted themselves to mentoring and encouraging the development of young art historians who are just entering the profession. Participation on the part of graduate students is eagerly encouraged, and we offer grants to offset the expenses incurred by graduate students presenting papers at the annual conference." Proposals are Due on December 15, 2007. For more information, please see the Web site.

MIDWEST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION

Held 12-14 October, 2007. Please go to the ornate, multi-part Web site for more information.

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA and THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS AT LAWRENCE

Annual, held every March. Please see the Web Site for more information.

MODERNIST STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

1-4 November, 2007. Long Beach, California. For more information, please see the Website.

[MORRIS] WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY IN THE U.S.

27-30 December 2008. San Francisco, CA. "Call for proposals for two sessions at the Modern Language Association Convention.

"
1. "William Morris: Friends, Colleagues, and Contemporaries" Papers (15 minutes reading time) are sought on all aspects of the Morris circle--his colleagues and co-workers, his family, his artistic and political associates and friends and those who influenced or were influenced by his work. Although comparative approaches or those on little-known members of the Morris circle would be especially interesting, other topics are also welcome.
2. "Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Prose" Papers (15 minutes reading time) are invited on any aspect of prose by Pre-Raphaelite and aesthetic movement writers: art and literary criticism, memoirs, letters, and short prose fictions [sic].

Aabstracts were due 20 March 2008 to Prof. Florence Boos, Dept. of English, University of Iowa via e-mail: florence-boos@uiowa.edu

• Prof. Florence Boos
• Dept of English
• University of Iowa
• E-mail: florence-boos@uiowa.edu

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Held 3-14 April 2007. "The Museum of Modern Art, New York, announces its third annual graduate symposium in modern and contemporary art. Annual?

[NATIVE AMERICAN ART] MEMORY AND VISION: NATIVE ARTS OF THE GREAT PLAINS

Held 5-8 October 2006. Coy, Wyoming. "The 2006 Plains Indian Museum Seminar of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center addresses the theme: Memory and Vision: Native Arts of the Great Plains. Suggested topics for presentation include Plains cultural artistic traditions, the work of particular artists, museum interpretation and public artistic presentations, trade and influences of the marketplace, arts education, and contemporary artistic expressions. Presentations that address new areas of Native American scholarship are encouraged. Abstracts were due April 28, 2006." Please see the Web site for more information.

• Jesse K. Siess
• Public Programs Coordinator
• Buffalo Bill Historical Center
• 720 Sheridan Avenue
• Cody, Wyoming 82414
• (307) 578-4028
• Email: jesses@bbhc.org

NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST CIVILIZATION GRADUATE CONFERENCE

Held 1 March 2007. University of Toronto, Canada??? Please see the Web site for more information.

NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

26 April 2008. Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. Kindly submit a title, one paragraph description, and short vita by January 15, 2008 to:

• Professor Ballard Campbell
• Northeastern University
• History Department
• 360 Huntington Avenue
• Boston, MA 02115
• E-mailto:b.campbell@neu.edu

Please see the Web site for more information.

[NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART] GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART

Held 21 March 2008. Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY. Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York. The symposium is free and open to all.

NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES ASSOCIATION

3-5 April, 2008. Florida International University, Miami, Florida. "We welcome paper and panel proposals concerning any aspect of politics during the long nineteenth century, including, but not limited to: political figures, movements, (Chartism, socialism, communism, anarchism, trades unions, reform), parties, campaigns, immigration, imperialism, suffrage, gender politics, war, slavery, nationalism, pacifism, uprisings, and revolutions. Equally welcome are paper and panel proposals concerning propaganda, including but not limited to advertising, periodicals, promotion (including self-promotion), news, campaign materials, songs, slogans, cartoons, souvenirs, paraphernalia, monuments, posters, and public art.

"Abstracts (250 words) for 20-minute papers, author's name and paper title in heading, with one-page c.v. were due Oct. 1, 2007 to: Kathleen McCormack, Program Chair, Florida International University, mccormac@fiu.edu Graduate students whose proposals are accepted can at that point submit a full-length version of the paper in competition for one travel grant to help cover transportation and lodging expenses."

NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION

Held 1-4 March, 2007. Annual. Baltimore, Maryland.

NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION

26-26 October, 2007. Held at Worcester, Mass., at Clark University.

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Held 29 April 2006. Annual?? Theme; Mapping and Locative Practices. "This year's symposium will explore themes of mapping and locative practices. Since what the school of critical geography coined as the "spatial turn," mapping and its concomitant metaphors have proliferated in academic scholarship. In this vein, the conference hopes to takes an expansive view of mapping as a physical artifact produced under historical conditions, and also as a mode of analyzing representations. We welcome papers that explore these spatial themes in the visual or built environment from any historical period in any medium." [See the Web site for more details.]

ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

15-19 October 2008 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel. "...the Program Committee of the OHA welcomes proposals for presentations on a variety of topics. In keeping with this year's theme, "A Convergence of Interests: Oral History in the Digital Age," the 2008 Annual Meeting will focus special attention on oral history and digital technologies. Emerging digital technologies continue to expand options for the recording, preservation, and use of oral history interviews and other historically significant sights and sounds, to expand audiences, and to draw together once separate communities of practitioners. In doing so, they raise perplexing practical, legal, ethical, and theoretical questions. For its 2008 meeting, the Oral History Association extends an invitation to teachers and students, archivists and librarians, Luddites and media theorists, web and exhibit designers, documentary producers and media artists, ethnographers, family and public historians, program officers and curators, scholars from a broad and growing range of disciplines, social and political activists, and others interested in sharing their experiences, projects, concerns, ideas, and questions about oral history...Proposals should be sent by January 15, 2008, to: Madelyn Campbell Oral History Association Dickinson College P. O. Box 1773 Carlisle , PA 17013 Telephone (717) 245-1036 Fax: (717) 245-1046 E-mail: (oha@dickinson.edu) For courier service add: Holland Union Building , College and Louther Streets." [See the Web site for more details.]

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ART HISTORY ASSOCIATION GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

Held 20-21 April 2007 Annual. "The University of Oregon Art History Association is pleased to invite submissions to our Fourth Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Symposium. This year's theme is focused on the human figure and its influence on and employment within artistic traditions. Applicants are asked to address the topic of the body within any area or time period of the history of art and architecture. Potential themes may include but are not limited to gender identity, fashion/costuming, eroticism, portraiture, mortality, or human movement. The deadline for submissions was January 12, 2006. Graduate students should submit 250-word abstracts for 20 minute presentations and a current curriculum vitae. Undergraduates should submit a 250-word abstract, a completed paper of approximately 6-8 pages for a 15 minute presentation and a current curriculum vitae. Graduate submissions may be emailed to mbuerkle@uoregon.edu. Undergraduate submissions may be emailed to jparks@uoregon.edu. Or post submissions to:

• Meridith Buerkle
• Art History Department
• Lawrence Hall
• 5229 University of Oregon
• Eugene, OR 97403-5229

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS

HELD 19-22 April, 2006. Theme: "Our America/Nuestra America." Location: Washington, D.C. Call for Papers Deadline was 25 January 2005." For more information, check the Web site.

ORIGINS PENN HUMANITIES FORUM GRADUATE CONFERENCE

28-29 February, 2008 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. "To speak of origins in the humanities is to speak in spirals. In the absence of some cause-and-effect model of explanation?long since ceded to certain precincts of science?the humanities often broach the concept of origins as ever-absent historical provocations. But once again, the question of origins is beginning to capture the attention of scholars in both the humanities and the human sciences. The Graduate Humanities Forum, a graduate student-run division of the Penn Humanities Forum, seeks papers for its interdisciplinary conference, which consider any facet of this year?s theme, "Origins." Contributions from all fields in the humanities and sciences will be considered...This conference is open to all graduate students. Both single and group panel submissions will be considered. The deadline for proposals is 16 November 2007. Please e-mail abstracts of no more than 200 words to Erik Mathisen, Chair of the Graduate Humanities Forum, ghf-conf@sas.upenn.edu. Notification of acceptances will be e-mailed by 14 December 2007."

PHILADELPHIA SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF ART

Like the Frick talks and the Middle Atlantic Symposium on the History of Art (see above) this is open to students at a selected group of colleges and universities in the area; presumably you know whether your school is included in this group.

PICTURE FRAMES: IMAGING AND IMAGINING AMERICA

11-14 October 2007 Held as part of the American Studies Association Conference in Philadelphia, PA. "In keeping with the overarching theme of the 2007 convention ("Amërica AquÕ: Transhemispheric Visions and Community Connections"), this panel explores photography's intersections with migration and immigration across the United States' physical and metaphorical borders...Papers with historical, cultural, political and especially transnational perspectives are welcome, as are papers from all levels of academia. Proposals (500 word maximum) or inquiries along with a CV to E. Godbey (egodbey@iastate.edu) were due January 12, 2007.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

10-12 October 2008 Sponsored by students in the History of Art and Architecture Department and the Film Studies departments, U. Pittsburgh. Theme: Storytelling: Playful Interactions and Spaces of Imagination in Contemporary Visual Culture. "articipation to art projects as redemptive therapy; intersections between literature, film, and art practices at the level of appropriations and adaptations; interweavings of classical myths and contemporary myths; modes of inhabiting and subverting the white cube/black box; artists as trickster figures and mythmakers; participatory responsibility and interactivity; relational aesthetics and relational antagonism.

"We invite paper submissions from graduate students at all stages of their studies, working in any discipline. We also encourage MFA students to send in presentations of art projects related to these themes. Abstracts should be under 350 words. Final presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Please submit abstracts and CVs to haasymposium2008@gmail.com by March 17th, 2008. We will notify selected speakers by March 30th.

POLITICS AND PROPOGANDA IN 19TH-CENTURY VISUAL ARTS

3-5 April 2008 Miami, FL. Part of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association annual conference. "This session will be sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. Proposals for papers addressing intersections between politics and visual culture should be sent to Elizabeth Mansfield, Department of Art & Art History, University of the South, Sewanee, TN 37383. Electronic submissions are most welcome: (emansfie@sewanee.edu). Proposals should be no longer than 250 words; papers will be limited to the customary 20 minutes. Proposals were due September 28, 2007.

POLITICS OF PLAY: Art, Aesthetics, and the Ludic Saturday

1 March 2008 2008 Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. "Recent scholarship on the ludic has begun to examine the role of play in cultural production and aesthetics, as in debates over the participatory tendencies of many contemporary art practices, historical investigations of earlier modes of play in social and aesthetic realms, and attempts to grapple with the overwhelming pressure of market forces and the instrumentalization of the aesthetic...Abstracts were due to Emma Hurme and Megan Heuer at (gradsymp@princeton.edu) Friday, November 30, 2007. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words and final papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Selected speakers will be notified by December 15, 2007.

POPULAR ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

19-22 March 2008 San Francisco Marriott, San Francisco, CA. National Pop/Am Culture Association Annual Conference. "Popular Art, Architecture and Design is concerned with the aesthetics of popular material culture in the everyday world of the past, present and future. Scholars from such disciplines as Architecture, Art History, Fine Art, Industrial Design, and Interior Design are invited to submit proposals. At previous conferences topics have included Good Sports, Model Women, Shopping Malls, Bodies of Work, Mass Media, Place & Identity, Household Myths & Mysteries and many, many more. It is truly a broad arena! Popular Art, Architecture and Design papers may be published in an e-zine after the conference. Please e-mail a cover letter with contact information and 150-word abstract of your proposed paper to Dr. Loretta Lorance at (llorance@earthlink.net) and Dr. Derham Groves at (derham@unimelb.edu.au). NO ATTACHMENTS. The deadline for abstracts was November 15, 2007. Registration fees apply. For information about the Popular Culture/American Culture Association, please go to the Web site above.

[PRINTS] CONTINUITIES AND INNOVATIONS: POPULAR PRINT CULTURES, PAST AND PRESENT, LOCAL AND GLOBAL

26 to 31 August 2008 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. "Papers and presentations are invited for any aspect of the conference theme. Proposals should be 200 to 300 words in length and clearly state the central theme or argument, the kind of popular print or related media to be considered, and its social and cultural location in time and place. Please indicate any equipment requirements (data projector; conference computer; overhead projector; video or dvd player; audio player, etc). A brief resumë should accompany each proposal, stating the proposer's name, address, contact information, and relevant academic, professional, or personal background and knowledge of form of popular print culture discussed. Send proposals and resumes by e-mail as pasted-in documents or attachments in an up-to-date format to: (popprint@ualberta.ca) Or mail hard copies to: Popprint, Kirsten MacLeod, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E5. Questions to either address. Deadline for proposals is 30 May 2008. But space on the program is limited, and proposals will be considered on a first-come, first-accommodated basis.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN EUROPEAN SCHOLARS CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE

Held 19-20 October 2007. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona [are there Rocky Mountains in Arizona?] Held in a different location each year; that for 2008 not revealed here.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY CONFERENCE

Held September 2007. "This academic conference provides a congenial atmosphere in which graduate students may present papers, network with fellow students, gain experience in public speaking, and attend workshops specifically tailored to graduate student interests. If you are working on an interesting project that deals with a historical topic, this conference provides an excellent opportunity to share your work! Please submit a one-page abstract of the paper and a current c.v. The abstract should clearly express an original argument rooted in extensive primary source research. Ideally, the paper will fill a void in the historical record. Please email your abstract and c.v. to: rmihc@colorado.edu, or send by mail to: RMIHC, University of Colorado, Dept. of History, Hellems 204, UCB 234, Boulder, CO 80309-0234. For more information, please visit the website.

CSU SACRAMENTO ART HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

15 March 2008 "We invite 300-word proposals for 20-minute lectures that will highlight the force of visual and verbal interaction in the history of art. Topics might include historical or contemporary sites of intersection such as artistic-literary magazines, visual-textual artworks (broadly defined to include all visual production), culture-making milieus, poet-critic-artist friendships, and the limits/possibilities of translation in global art today. We welcome proposals from historians of architecture, design, literature, and cultural studies. Proposal deadline was January 7, 2008. Please email your proposal with a one-paragraph professional biography to eobrien@csus.edu or mail them to Elaine O'Brien, Art Department, California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6061.

SOUTHWEST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE XVIII

Held 18-20 October 2007. Taos, New Mexico. "Papers should 20-30 minutes in length and generally include visuals. Topics should be relevant to the art and artists of the Southwest or the American West, and their place in the broader framework of American art history. The Southwest Art History Conference is sponsored by the Southwest Art History Council...Proposals were due April 15, 2006 to: Betsy Fahlman, School of Art, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871505, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1505; phone: 480-965-2610; fax: 480-965-8338; e- mail: Fahlman@asu.edu.

TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRINTED MEDIA IN ITALY BETWEEN 1870 AND 1914

16-17 October 2008 South Orange, NJ, Seton Hall University. "Cultural historians and literary critics have in the last few decades highlighted the historically contingent nature of literary productions and discursive formations. According to this approach, the book is viewed as a cultural object, that is, the cultural intersection of a triangular relationship between author, publisher, and reader. The conference will explore this approach in the context of late nineteenth-, early twentieth-century Italian literary texts, a period associated with an unprecedented growth of the print industry and of the reading public. These changes transformed the way in which literature, and more broadly culture, was understood, a transformation that resulted in a fundamental modernization of the very processes of cultural production, along with a professionalization of the figure of the writer and a redefinition of the dichotomy between popular and elite culture.

"Who were the writers and other intellectuals who were most closely associated with this process of transformation? What ideas and debates accompanied this cultural transformation? What were the technological, social and political developments that shaped the way culture was produced and consumed? How can we map out a more detailed geography of the culture, understood in its most comprehensive sense,that marked this crucial time in the history of modern Italy? These are among the questions that will be explored in this conference. Abstracts were due 15th December 2007 to Ann Caesar (A.H.Caesar@warwick.ac.uk ) and Gabriella Romani (romaniga@shu.edu)."

[TEXTILES] TOWARDS AN ICONOLOGY OF THE TEXTILE

19-21 March 2009 UCLA & The Getty Museum, Malibu. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting. "The fabrication of textiles is one of the oldest cultural technologies. Nevertheless, relatively little art historical research is being done on textiles. The objective of the proposed RSA session is to investigate the historical meanings and functions of the textile medium in early modern art and architecture. The exploration of this specific medium is meant as to contribution to a historical theory or iconology of the textile. The interdisciplinary study of such a textile discourse may touch on:

the myths of the origins of the textile (Arachne etc.),
the textuality and narrativity of the textile (the metaphor of the textus,
narrative structures in tapestry cycles etc.),
the transmediality of the textile (painted or sculpted textiles etc.),
the textile constructions of space (ephemeral textile architectures etc.),
the sacred textiles (liturgical functions of textiles, the idea of the
veil, etc.),
the genders of the textile (female virtues associated to the craft etc.),
and the modernity of the textile arts (a critical history of textile
studies).

Scholars of any discipline interested in a historical reflection on the textile are invited to submit a paper title, a 150 words abstract, and a short CV to Tristan Weddigen (weddigen@gmx.ch) by 15 May 2008.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: Graduate History of Art Student Association

Held 19 January 2007. "this year's annual History of Art conference: "Assessing Boundaries: Approaching Art from the Edge". Graduate students, both MA and PhD, are invited to submit abstracts of no more than one page for twenty minute papers. Papers may address the notion of boundaries in the broadest sense, and are not limited by period or medium. Topics may include, but are not restricted to: national boundaries and borders, gender and bodily boundaries, appropriation and exploitation, historiographic categories and classification, art on the periphery, urban peripheries, the notion of the frame, literal and conceptual, travel and exile, spectatorship, voyeurism and surveillanceƒ Papers from other disciplines that address these issues are also welcomed. Abstracts were due December 15, 2006 at the following address: karine.tsoumis@utoronto.ca.

VICTORIAN SECRETS

Held 9-11 November 2007. University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. "Victorians Institute annual conference on the subject of Victorian Secrets. Papers will be welcome that address this topic from any of the specific disciplines represented in the Victorians Institute„including, but not limited to, art, history, literature, music, political science, sociology, and theology„as well as those that work across and outside of traditional disciplinary boundaries. Please send proposals of no more than 500 words were due May 31, 2007 to Dr. Albert Pionke, Department of English, 103 Morgan Hall, Box 870244, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244. Email: apionke@bama.ua.edu."

VISIBLE MEMORIES

2-4 October 2008 Syracuse University, New York. "The Visible Memories Conference invites papers for competitive selection. The conference will explore the intersections between visual culture and memory studies with particular focus on the ways in which memories are manifested and experienced in visible, material, or spatial form. Examples of especially relevant and desirable research topics include: local sites of memory; memorials and archives; environmentalism and representations of nature; regional, national, or global tourism; photography or cinema; digital media; and art installations. We also welcome other research topics in similarly innovative areas...Conference Format: The conference will feature an innovative combination of events designed to facilitate conversation not only between a variety of researchers concerned with the study of visual culture and memory but also between academics and distinguished professionals in art and design, film production, and institutional archiving.

"Submission Guidelines: Submit a paper abstract electronically (500 word maximum). Include a separate cover page with paper title; author name and affiliation; and contact information. Submissions should be addressed to Dr. Anne T. Demo (atdemo@syr.edu). Abstracts will be reviewed by the conference planning committee. Deadline for abstract submission is May 1, 2008. Acceptance notification will be sent by June 1, 2008.

VISUAL CULTURE/ART HISTORY CAUCUS OF THE AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

16-19 October 2008 American Studies Association, Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "is currently seeking complete session proposals for the ASA's 2008 annual meeting. Sessions should explore historical, theoretical, and/or methodological issues in American visual culture. They should also address the 2008 meeting theme, "Back Down to the Crossroads: Integrative American Studies in Theory and Practice." The ASA is particularly interested in work that promotes "integrative" American studies by advancing "multicultural, transnational, public and civic scholarship" or by exploring the relations, tensions, and pathways among these and other critical concepts in the field (see http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/). The meeting theme and location present an important opportunity to examine the visual dimensions of cultural interaction within the American West and Southwest and across national borders; exchanges between different forms of visual culture, such as the official and the vernacular; the relationship between the fields of art history and visual culture studies; and many other rich topics. Proposals were due January 14, 2008 to Tanya Sheehan, Chair of the VC/AH Program Committee, at 94tsheehan@bluelink.andover.edu.

YALE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE: PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOFS

4-5 April 2008 Yale University, New Haven, CT. "The Yale University Photographic Memory Workshop, in conjunction with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, invites submissions for a graduate student conference entitled "Photographic Proofs." The theme of this conference should be interpreted broadly. Papers could be theoretical, historical, or critical explorations based upon one photograph or a collection of photographs. They might interrogate the theme of photographic proofs from one of many different angles, including documentary, artistic, commercial, and vernacular photography. Selected sets of photographs may relate to war, science, medicine, race, class, law, business, reform, the natural and built environment, frontiers, performance, gender, sexuality, or family, among other subjects.

"In order to engender an inter-disciplinary community and to further challenge and develop the vocabulary that surrounds photographic criticism, we encourage submissions from graduate students at all stages of their studies, working in any discipline. The Beinecke Library will add to this discussion by hosting a workshop for conference participants highlighting the library's extensive photographic holdings.

"In an effort to foster a geographically diverse community of graduate student presenters, we are pleased to be able to cover travel and accommodation expenses for students whose papers are selected. Proposals to photographic.proofs@yale.edu were due Monday, October 15. Abstracts should be under 300 words. Final papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. We will notify selected speakers by December 15. Co-organizers: Alice Moore and Francesca Ammon, graduate students in American Studies. Please address any questions to photographic.proofs@yale.edu.

YORK ART HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION

Friday, March 7, 2008 York University, CANADA. "7th Annual Symposium, "Split Structures: Navigating the In-Between". Current cultural activity, addressing both historical and contemporary practices, is characterized by a move towards deconstructing boundaries and binaries. Breaking down these barriers, in theory, opens up new territories for navigation; innovation and growth are seen as the result of moving into the spaces between established methods, concepts, or ideologies. Often these spaces are demarcated by the binaries of traditional modernist thought: male/female, mind/body, science/humanities, archaic/innovative, etc. What are the relationships between traditions, innovations and the spaces in-between: how do we map their post-structural navigation? To what extent is this navigation productive? What does it tell us about how cultures are theorized and practiced?

"We invite submissions for a 20-minute presentation from graduate students in a wide range of thematic, methodological, and disciplinary backgrounds that address the implications and the particulars of these non-linear developments within academia and other dominant cultural institutions. We expect to publish the papers in an online journal. Abstracts were due MONDAY, JANUARY 7th, 2008 to:

• york_art_history@yahoo.ca
• Attn: Symposium Committee
  OR
• Art History Graduate Student Association
• 256L Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts
• York University, 4700 Keele Street
• Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3

Black Moon Japanese art and culture.