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The Princeton University Department of Art and Archaeology Graduate Program
invites proposals for its 2012 graduate research conference, *The End of
the ‘-ist’ and the future of art history*. Including scholarship on
European, American, Latin American, African, Asian and other areas of
study, this year’s conference will consist of an evening session and
opening address by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (Frederick Marquand Professor of
Art and Archaeology at Princeton University) on Friday, March 30th followed
by a series of three panels and a keynote address by Yaëlle Biro (Assistant
Curator of African Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art) on Saturday, March 31st.
Conference Theme:
It is said that today’s world is a smaller place due to advancements in
travel, communications and technology. But was the world ever that large?
By positing a globalized art history—and in turn deemphasizing the primacy
of specialists and departments and rejecting the rigid timelines that have
prefaced decades of art history textbooks—the field has begun to embrace
hybrid identities and an eclecticism that better describe the
interconnected ways in which art has transcended both time and space. This
conference seeks to explore the ways in which the actual creation of art
defies the strict geographical and temporal restrictions currently
programmatized by the academic institution of art history and to question
the continued value of periodization and geographic specialization in a
field where current trends in scholarship point to a long history of global
artistic interchange.
The question of how academia will respond to this methodological shift is
of utmost concern for today’s scholars, curators and graduate students
studying. We therefore welcome papers from a variety of time periods and
geographic areas, especially those that are underrepresented in the current
canon of art history. Possible topics include diaspora, travel,
interdisciplinarity, multiculturalism, and case studies of specific of an
object/location/style, as well as methodological concerns and museology.
Interested participants should submit a CV and one page abstract for a
twenty minute paper as attachments to gradsymp@princeton.edu by 1/5/2012.
Successful applicants will be notified by 01/20/2012 and should be
available the weekend of March 30-31, 2012. Limited funds for travel and
lodging are available for participants.
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