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Revisiting Suburbia
| Location: | Ontario, Canada |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-02-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-01-23 |
| Announcement ID: |
182382 |
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Revisiting Suburbia
As a dynamic cultural form that persistently shifts, changes, and often eludes our attention, suburbia is a legitimate and fertile ground for cultural inquiry. Revisiting Suburbia proposes to critically engage with both the cultural fantasies and existing realities of suburbia: promise and failure, utopia and dystopia, public and private, centre and margin.
Despite the steady growth of downtown populations in cities across North America and Europe, metropolitan growth remains primarily peripheral. Common perceptions of suburbia as communities of white, middle- and upper-middle class families in detached houses, sprawling into homogeneity occlude the reality that the suburbs are developing racial and ethnic diversity, some suburbs are in economic decline, non-family households and single people are now the fastest growing groups in suburbia, and the suburbs now generate more new employment than traditional downtowns.
Through a combination of a symposium and an exhibition (to be held at the Varley Art Gallery in Markham, ON), this project will investigate and explore the notion of suburbia through scholarship and artistic endeavors. We welcome art historical and cultural studies perspectives as well as geographic, architectural, sociological, and interdisciplinary approaches concerning a variety of related topics. We are especially interested in presenting work about community-based and site-specific artistic practices, radical approaches to landscape, cartography, and urbanism, and representations of suburbia in pop culture and the mass media.
PLEASE NOTE that the deadline has been extended to:
FEBRUARY 15th, 2010.
Please send a 250-word abstract of your paper along with a curriculum vitae and contact information to:
ahgsay@gmail.com
Or
Attn: Symposium Committee
Art History Graduate Student Association
256L Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts
York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
Successful participants will be notified by February 22nd, 2011. The conference will take place on April 23rd, 2011 at York University Keele campus.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact:
Maxine Proctor at [ahgsay.comm@gmail.com]
Thank you
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Symposium Committee
Art History Graduate Student Association
256L Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts
York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
Email: ahgsay@gmail.com
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