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Contemporary Histories: Intersecting Pasts and Futures
| Location: | British Columbia, Canada |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-02-25 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-10-19 |
| Announcement ID: |
179887 |
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As Hal Foster has noted in a recent questionnaire on the subject, contemporaneity--while not a new term—has at our present moment assumed a relevance as insistent as it is diverse. Encompassing a wide array of concerns including the ambitions and anxieties of the “new” in historical and neo-avant-gardes, the epistemological status of collected objects, and the ontological status of the historian, contemporaneity lies at the heart of many of the most pressing questions currently preoccupying the humanities. The 30th annual University of British Columbia Art History Visual Art, and Theory Graduate Symposium provides a unique opportunity to address these questions. Offering a cross-disciplinary forum for reflection and discussion, the symposium will investigate not only the specific ways in which contemporaneity has been and is being mobilized by scholars, critics, artists and curators working today, but also how different notions of contemporaneity engage our collective pasts and anticipate our shared futures. The symposium will be held on the 25th and 26th of February, at the University of British Columbia.
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