Calls for papers...
These two are both from H-ArtHist and although, strictly speaking, neither are directly about museological issues, it sounds like there would be some scope for museum-based papers.
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Panel n°33 "Visualizing Africa, from there to here, between now and then".
This panel will take place during the 2nd European Conference of African Studies, organized by the Aegis, in Leyden (Nederlands), July 11th-14th 2007.
The panel will focus on the visual representation of Africa, African visual arts & artists, and art markets, both in Africa and in the Western world.
Deadline for submission: January the 21st, 2007.
Panel precise description: http://ecas2007.aegis-eu.org/panels.aspx
Information on the AEGIS conference in Leyden: http://www.aegis-eu.org/
All abstracts must be submitted through:http://ecas2007.aegis-eu.org/Commence.aspx
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REAL THINGS: MATTER, MATERIALITY, REPRESENTATION
1880 TO THE PRESENT
University of York, 5-8 July 2007
Proposals for twenty-minute presentations or panels of three to four presenters are invited for a conference entitled \"Real Things: Matter,Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the present,\" to be held at theUniversity of York, England and co-sponsored by the University of Sussex.
Keynote speakers:
Bill Brown
Mary Ann Doane
Hal Foster
Patrick Keiller
Hermione Lee
Edmund White
This conference proposes a re-engagement with representational realism and its objects and effects across a wide range of aesthetic, critical and theoretical practices, from 1880 to the present day. We seek to engage cutting-edge work that raises new questions about the status of the object of representation; representations as archives of material history; the shifts in representational practices associated with modernism and postmodernism; the changing status of real bodies and lives (as opposed to their representations) as objects of analysis in the humanities; and the politics of these transitions.
Topics of interest include but are notlimited to the following:-
-Realism as modernism/modernism as realism
--Rethinking photographic indexicality; cinema and/as archive
--Paintings, documents, realism: literary and visual representation
--The turn to science
--Postmodernism, realism and the real
--Representation and the psychoanalytic Real
--Evidence, document and representation
--New philosophies of nature
--Documentary film practices
--Biopolitics, biopower, bodies
--Forensics, indices and popular culture
--Performance, theatricality and materiality
--Success and/or failure of representation
--Presentation vs. representation
--New technologies, representation and embodiment
--Anti-sublimation and resistance to metaphor
Please send 250-word paper abstracts and 1000-word panel abstracts to realthings@events.york.ac.uk by 1 Febraury 2007. For more information, please contact realthings@events.york.ac.uk
Co-organizers
Victoria Coulson, University of York
Jane Elliott, University of York
John David Rhodes, University of Sussex
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Panel n°33 "Visualizing Africa, from there to here, between now and then".
This panel will take place during the 2nd European Conference of African Studies, organized by the Aegis, in Leyden (Nederlands), July 11th-14th 2007.
The panel will focus on the visual representation of Africa, African visual arts & artists, and art markets, both in Africa and in the Western world.
Deadline for submission: January the 21st, 2007.
Panel precise description: http://ecas2007.aegis-eu.org/panels.aspx
Information on the AEGIS conference in Leyden: http://www.aegis-eu.org/
All abstracts must be submitted through:http://ecas2007.aegis-eu.org/Commence.aspx
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REAL THINGS: MATTER, MATERIALITY, REPRESENTATION
1880 TO THE PRESENT
University of York, 5-8 July 2007
Proposals for twenty-minute presentations or panels of three to four presenters are invited for a conference entitled \"Real Things: Matter,Materiality, Representation, 1880 to the present,\" to be held at theUniversity of York, England and co-sponsored by the University of Sussex.
Keynote speakers:
Bill Brown
Mary Ann Doane
Hal Foster
Patrick Keiller
Hermione Lee
Edmund White
This conference proposes a re-engagement with representational realism and its objects and effects across a wide range of aesthetic, critical and theoretical practices, from 1880 to the present day. We seek to engage cutting-edge work that raises new questions about the status of the object of representation; representations as archives of material history; the shifts in representational practices associated with modernism and postmodernism; the changing status of real bodies and lives (as opposed to their representations) as objects of analysis in the humanities; and the politics of these transitions.
Topics of interest include but are notlimited to the following:-
-Realism as modernism/modernism as realism
--Rethinking photographic indexicality; cinema and/as archive
--Paintings, documents, realism: literary and visual representation
--The turn to science
--Postmodernism, realism and the real
--Representation and the psychoanalytic Real
--Evidence, document and representation
--New philosophies of nature
--Documentary film practices
--Biopolitics, biopower, bodies
--Forensics, indices and popular culture
--Performance, theatricality and materiality
--Success and/or failure of representation
--Presentation vs. representation
--New technologies, representation and embodiment
--Anti-sublimation and resistance to metaphor
Please send 250-word paper abstracts and 1000-word panel abstracts to realthings@events.york.ac.uk by 1 Febraury 2007. For more information, please contact realthings@events.york.ac.uk
Co-organizers
Victoria Coulson, University of York
Jane Elliott, University of York
John David Rhodes, University of Sussex
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