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Engaging in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (EPOCH) Student Symposium
September 24, 2010-September 25, 2010 The University of Texas at Austin, School of Information, Austin, TX, United StatesThe first annual Engaging in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (EPOCH) student symposium aims to bring together an international group of graduate students who are involved in the research and practice of protecting cultural heritage. In order to prevent the loss of material and intangible culture due to both human and natural causes, EPOCH will engage a new generation of scholars in the practices and methodologies necessary to preserve our cultural legacies for today and the future. Hosted by The University of Texas at Austin's School Information, this two-day conference will allow students from diverse backgrounds in heritage protection studies (including library and archival science, museum studies, architecture history, anthropology, and art conservation) to share findings, pose questions, and develop collegial networks. We hope you can join us!
For more information: EPOCH Student Symposium
World Universities Congress
October 20, 2010-October 24, 2010 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, TurkeyFor more information: World Universities Congress - Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Other Views: Art History in (South) Africa and the Global South
January 12, 2011-January 15, 2011 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaFinal call for papers: OTHER VIEWS: ART HISTORY IN (SOUTH) AFRICA AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
A colloquium organised by the South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) under the aegis of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 12-15 January 2011
The colloquium addresses concerns about the unequal distribution of resources around the globe and challenges from postcolonial societies to the older methods and concepts of Western art history. These challenges have relevance in South Africa, Africa and the Global South, which in this context is a cultural construct rather than a geographic term. It refers to communities and artistic production, throughout history and across nations, which, within the dominant narratives of Western art, have been ignored, marginalised, displaced and appropriated.
Papers are invited that address any of the topics outlined in the panels below. Abstracts, up to 250 words in length, must be submitted by email in English, and must include the author’s institutional affiliation and relevant contact details. The final length of individual papers must not exceed 3,000 words, in order to fit into the strict 20 minute time limit per presentation. Abstracts should be sent directly to the panel organisers, copying the Chairperson of SAVAH, Federico Freschi, federico.freschi@wits.ac.za. ABSTRACTS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL 31 JULY 2010.
1. INTERROGATING WESTERN PARADIGMS
1.1 Modernist primitivism and indigenous modernisms: transnational
discourse and local art histories
1.2 Rethinking authenticity in African art
2. INTERROGATING THE POSTCOLONIAL
2.1 Art as an act of decolonisation: perspectives from and on the Global South
2.2 About the epistemological and political consequences of some uses of the ‘Latin American Art’ label
3. INTERROGATING THE GLOBAL SOUTH
3.1 Problematising the Global South
4. THE POLITICS OF DISPLAY AND COLLECTING
4.1 Changing museums, changing art histories
4.2 Africa, Africanness, and their representation in the contemporary
mega-exhibition
5. CULTURAL PRODUCTION
5.1 Where to put baskets in an art gallery? The place of traditional
cultures in art history
5.2 Tradition and innovation in Southern African textiles
6. ART AND ‘PRE-HISTORY’
6.1 Archaeologies of art
7. POWER AND POLITICS
7.1 Architecture and landscape
8. CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES
8.1 Unsettling hierarchies: women artists in South Africa
8.2 Clothing, cultures, classifications: inventing self and other through
dress
8.3 Who is entitled to tell the black artist’s story in South Africa?
9. PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
9.1 Between Seeing and Believing: Documentary and Archival Practices in the Global South
For more information: Final Call for Papers: Other Views: Art History in (South) Africa and the Global South