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Future Directions in 19th Century Art

From: Patricia Mainardi <pmainardigc.cuny.edu>

The Association of Historians of 19th-Century Art (AHNCA) will hold its annual session, "Future Directions in 19th-Century Art History," at the 2016 College Art Association annual conference in Washington, D.C. Recent PhDs and advanced graduate students are invited to submit a proposal on any aspect of artistic production of "the long 19th century" (late 18th to early 20th century).

Proposal abstracts should be no more than 500 words, should be accompanied by a current c.v. and must be received by email by May 31. Please also include your CAA membership number, institution, home or office address, telephone number, and email. If you have applied to another session, please include the title and chair’s name. Send this information and your abstract by email to the session chair Sarah Betzer at sbetzervirginia.edu.

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Eros and Enlightenment

From: Herica Valladares <herica.valladaresgmail.com>

What would it mean to consider the eighteenth century through the lens of its evolving discourse on love? The explosion of a novel-reading public; the Enlightenment’s often nervous inquiry into love’s place among the “moral sentiments” and its status in relation to the equally unstable category of friendship; the expansion of epistolary culture and the attendant vogue for love letter pictures; the libertine conceptualization of love as a “commerce”; homoeroticism as a cultural leitmotif; the ubiquitous presence of Cupid, even in such unexpected contexts as financial literature; the fixation on ancient notions of eros, from Ovid’s persistently popular Ars Amatoria to the unearthed remains of erotic frescoes: these and other phenomena suggest that love played a central yet complicated role in period self-imaginings, in ways that iconographic accounts of the era’s visual arts have perhaps not fully registered.

This ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)-sponsored panel seeks papers on all aspects of visual and material culture that expand, challenge and enliven our understanding of eros in the eighteenth century.

Please email a title, abstract (1-2 pages double-spaced) and brief CV (1-2 pages) to the panel chairs by May 31.

Nina Dubin, University of Illinois at Chicago (dubinuic.edu); Hérica Valladares, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (herica.valladaresgmail.com)

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Draping the Middle Ages: Moveable Textile Patterns in East and West, c. 500-1500

From: Patricia Blessing, Stanford University <pblessinstanford.edu>

This panel focuses on the mobile nature of textile patterns in East and West during the Middle Ages, and investigates the question of cultural specificity in the use of imitations of textile in a range of media. As coveted objects of trade and diplomatic gift exchange, textiles were widely distributed using the cross-cultural networks between Byzantium, the Islamic world, East Asia and Europe. Within this broader world of medieval textile exchange, the notion of textile patterns that are adapted in architecture, ceramics, metalwork, and manuscripts stands at the center of this panel. Questions to be discussed are the portability of textile patterns; the adaptation of textile motifs in a variety of media; the appropriation of textiles forms and patterns from other cultural contexts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the use of textile patterns in architectural decoration, painted textiles in the pages of manuscripts, and architectural motifs woven into fabrics.

Deadline: 8 May 2015
Submit proposals to: pblessinstanford.edu

All presenters must be members of CAA. Please see the CFP at: http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2016CallforParticipation.pdf for further information and participant information form.

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Design on Display: Staging Objects in the Museum and Beyond

From: Anca I. Lasc, Pratt Institute <alascpratt.edu> and
Paula Lupkin, University of North Texas <alascpratt.edu>, <Paula.Lupkinunt.edu>

The theory and practice of object display has a long history, from cathedral crypts and early modern cabinets of curiosities to nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, universal exhibitions, theme parks, chambers of horror, and department stores. Historians, curators, artists, entrepreneurs, and designers engage in complex experiential, pedagogical, and technological challenges involved in the design of environments for education, entertainment, and consumption. This panel explores evolving practices of presentation and display including but not limited to exhibition, retail and interior design, historical house museums, period rooms, and art installations. Seeking to chart a history of display design, we invite papers that examine the cross-fertilization of ideas and practices related to the display of objects in different historical contexts and spatial layouts. What does the history and theory of presentation and display teach us about the design of interior environments, and what emergent trends might shape the future of display?

Proposals due to session chairs by: May 8, 2015
For further submission information please refer to: http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2016CallforParticipation.pdf