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NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada, November 5 - 07, 2015 Deadline: Jul 20, 2015 Call for Papers for the following sessions at the UAAC 2015 Conference at NSCAD University, Halifax [1] Blurring the Boundaries of Medium, Form, and Material in Medieval and Early Modern Art [2] Photography and Race in Canada ——- [1] Blurring the Boundaries of Medium, Form, and Material in Medieval and Early Modern Art Ontological questions as to what essentially is architecture, painting, sculpture, drawing, and print elicited numerous answers in the early modern period, due in part to experimentation and development in technical, formal, and discursive practices during the Middle Ages. While building upon previous iconographic traditions and theological discourses on image making, medieval artists continuously obfuscated the divisions between the secular and the religious subject matter by borrowing forms and materials traditionally reserved for holy representations. This, in turn, encouraged new ways of thinking about artistic practices more generally – something that would become central to early modern theories on the rhetorical function of art and the role of the artist in society. Engaging with these ontological questions subsequently led to debates on the paragone and, ultimately, to the establishment of seventeenth-century art academies, with their hierarchical categorization of medium, subject, and form, organized into a practical and theoretical curriculum and supported by an ideological system of meaning and patronage. In order to trace these historical developments, we invite papers that consider the practical and/or theoretical ways in which medieval and early modern artists blurred, played with, and resisted boundaries of medium, material, form, and subject matter. Please submit a proposal to the session chairs that includes: name of individual submitting the paper and their email contact, paper title; abstract (150-word maximum); keywords; and a brief curriculum vitae (300-word maximum) that specifies their rank and institutional affiliation (if applicable). Session Chairs / Présidentes de séance : Ivana Vranic PhD candidate, University of British Columbia ivana.vranic@ubc.ca Danijela Zutic PhD candidate, McGill University danijela.zutic@mail.mcgill.ca [2] Photography and Race in Canada Photography’s role in constituting, and challenging, categories of racial difference has been examined from a wide variety of perspectives, including art history, visual studies, citizenship studies, anthropology and literature. But much of this scholarship centres on histories of representation in the United States and Europe. This session aims to refocus attention on the (ongoing) history of photography’s role in picturing race in Canada, exploring the ways photographers, subjects and spectators have used the camera as both a tool of oppression and an expression of agency. What might critical race studies have to teach photography historians and practitioners working in Canada? How has photography worked to shape Canada’s identity as a multicultural society? In what ways have minority and immigrant communities used photographs as tools of civic action and protest? What might it mean to take indigenous sovereignty seriously in our studies of race and representation in Canada? And how do contemporary artists use photography to bring racialized subjects into public view? Speakers may explore these questions through historical case studies, surveys of historiography, curatorial and artistic interventions, and institutional practices. Proposals that interrogate the specific dimensions of studying photography and race in Canada, or that challenge our ability to see race through photographs, are encouraged. —- Please send proposals to chair Gabrielle Moser by July 20, 2015. For more information, please see http://www.uaac-aauc.com/en/conference or contact the organizer: gmoser@faculty.ocadu.ca. UAAC membership is required of all participants in the conference. Reference / Quellennachweis: CFP: Sessions at UAAC (Halifax, 5-7 Nov 15). In: H-ArtHist, Jul 8, 2015. <http://arthist.net/archive/10730>. ____________________________________________________________________ H-ARTHIST Humanities-Net Discussion List for Art History E-Mail-Liste für Kunstgeschichte im H-Net Editorial Board Contact Address / Fragen an die Redaktion: hah-redaktion@h-net.msu.edu Submit contributions to / Beiträge bitte an: http://arthist.net/mailing-list/mode=contribute Update your subscription / Abo-Verwaltung: http://arthist.net/admin/ --
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