CFP 31.10.2012

Mapping Discursive Geographies (Tucson, 1 Feb 13)

Tucson, AZ, 01.02.2013
Eingabeschluss : 20.11.2012

Miranda K. Metcalf, Tucson

Mapping Discursive Geographies

The Art History Graduate Student Association at the University of
Arizona is pleased to announce its twenty-third annual symposium,
"Mapping Discursive Geographies", which will take place February 1,
2013 at the University of Arizona Student Union, Santa Rita Room. The
keynote speaker for this year's symposium is Dr. Stella Nair from the
University of California, Los Angeles.

The goal of this symposium is to explore the relationship between
geography and art, art history, and curatorial practices, within the
context of recent scholarship on natural and artificial landscapes,
landscape aesthetics, earth works, land preservation and degradation,
hybridities of art and science, disputed and fraught boundaries, the
distribution of resources, and immigration. This symposium hopes to
provide a forum to address how geography is a cultural process which
can be instrumental in the formation of identity.

Some ideas to consider are: how do national and social identities
become inscribed in the terrain? How do visual representations of
terrestrial and corporeal spatiality construct meaning? How have
shifts in geographies changed the production, exhibition, and/or
consumption of artistic, curatorial practices and art historical
discourse?

Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:

1. Site specificity, locality, and intervention
2. Construction of mythology and symbolism in the landscape
3. National/corporeal identities
4. Physical or intangible borders between nations/individuals and
issues of ownership and sovereignty
5. Commercialization, consumerism, and tourism
6. Historic and contemporary cartographic or locational practices

Graduate students in art history and relating disciplines are invited
to submit a 300-word abstract and curriculum vita to
AHGSA.orggmail.com
by November 20, 2012.
Applicants will receive notification via email of the committee’s
decisions by December 12, 2012.

To learn more about the Art History Graduate Student Association at the
University of Arizona, please visit
http://www.cfa.arizona.edu/ahgsa/

Quellennachweis:
CFP: Mapping Discursive Geographies (Tucson, 1 Feb 13). In: ArtHist.net, 31.10.2012. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/4118>.

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