This session focuses on the complex relationship between art, visual culture, social order and transgression. Possible topics might include, but are not limited to: the role of institutions (broadly imagined) in disciplining the production and reception of visual culture; interactions between art, medical discourse and the law; the construction and perpetuation of myths of artistic creativity and delinquency; proscribed and normative forms of artistic practice or representation; technologies of identification, classification, surveillance and manipulation; the body as a site of criminal otherness; sexuality and deviance; the construction of criminality in terms of race, gender or class, and the possibilities for the contestation or complication of these categories. We encourage the submission of papers from all historical periods, and with a variety of theoretical approaches.

The deadline for paper proposals (of approximately 250 words) is Monday 16 July 2007. For more information please visit:
http://www.uaac-aauc.com/
Please send proposals to: richard.taws@mcgill.ca and maryjhunter@hotmail.com