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From: Taryn Sirove <tarynsirovegmail.com>
Date: May 21, 2014
Subject: “MUSEOPATHY”: DEALINGS IN THE INTERACTION OF EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCE, AND COLLECTING PRACTICES

Deadline: 18th June 2014

Call for Papers
Session at Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC/AAUC)
Conference 2014

Session Chairs: Andrea Terry (Lakehead University) and Taryn Sirove (Carleton University)
E-mail: andrea.terry1gmail.com, tarynsirovegmail.com

“MUSEOPATHY”: DEALINGS IN THE INTERACTION OF EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCE, AND COLLECTING PRACTICES

This session borrows its title from the 2001 multi-site exhibition in museums and historic sites throughout Kingston, Ontario, curated by DisplayCult (founded by Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick) and organized by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Artists installed site-specific works and mounted performances to disrupt commonplace narratives and exhibitionary designs. Artists deployed contemporary art interventions, raising questions around artefactual arrangements, historical representations, community engagement and civic rituals in the museum space.

This session invites papers that approach the museum as a site of interaction, between personal and collective identities, between contemporary art and history. We encourage papers that critically examine ways in which artists, curators and museums collapse the distance between the represented past and artistic present. Papers might also address how artists and curators interrogate exhibitionary designs in their practice, collecting practices, strategies and education or, more broadly, the cultural production of meaning in the museum.

For general information about the conference please visit:
http://www.uaac-aauc.com/en/conference

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From: Candice Bogdanski <bogdanskyorku.ca>
Date: May 21, 2014
Subject: COSMOPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE: TRAVELS, EXCHANGES, AND TRANSMISSION OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Deadline: 18th June 2014
CFP: UAAC-AAUC Conference, 23–26 October 2014, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, OCAD University.

Session:
COSMOPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE: TRAVELS, EXCHANGES, AND TRANSMISSION OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

With the foundation and expansion of the European Union, scholars of medieval architectural history have been eager to employ the notion of free trade in order to suggest the idea of movement and exchange, however, Medieval Europe was not segregated according to modern nationalistic boundaries. Thus, the ways in which styles, as well as the people responsible for bringing these ideas from one major architectural site to another, were able to transgress substantial distances requires detailed investigation. This session will consider not only the clear visual relationships between medieval architectural and decorative programmes, but also the distinct processes of transmission that facilitate this symbiotic exchange of ideas, styles and people. How can we qualify the relationship between construction sites when medieval architecture borrows, blends, adapts and distorts its models to create a new style? Papers may examine any aspect of this process of architectural stylistic transmission in order to determine whether or not a tangible process of exchange, based on practical commercial and socio-political networks, can be found behind the visual evidence.

Session Chairs: Jean-Sébastien Sauvé; Candice Bogdanski,
Affiliation: UQAM, Montreal, & York University, Toronto
Email address: jean-sebastien.sauvekit.edu; bogdanskyorku.ca

Please send abstracts no longer than 150 words to both Candice and Jean-Sébastien by Wednesday, 18 June 2014.

Please see the following link for submission guidelines as well as the full conference CFP.
http://www.uaac-aauc.com/sites/default/files/UAAC-AAUC%20%20Call%20for%20Papers-%20Appel%20de%20communications%202014%20final%20MAY%2013%20.pdf

Please also note that presenters must obtain membership to the Universities Art Association of Canada in order to participate in the 2014 proceedings. Membership information can be found on the UAAC-AAUC website.

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From: Ryan Whyte <rwhytefaculty.ocadu.ca>
Date: May 22, 2014
Subject: READING SMALL TEXTS IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Toronto, October 23-26, 2014
Deadline: June 18, 2014

CFP: "Reading Small Texts in Global Perspective"

Universities Art Association of Canada/l’association d’art des universités du Canada 2014 Conference, Toronto, October 23-26, 2014

Session Co-Chairs:

Ryan Whyte, Assistant Professor, OCAD University, rwhytefaculty.ocadu.ca
Heather Coffey, Assistant Professor, OCAD University, hcoffeyfaculty.ocadu.ca

Scholarly literature on small or miniature codices, scrolls, tablets, and other forms of text has largely developed along the lines of national schools and disciplinary divisions to the detriment of scholarly understanding of the exchanges, difference, or parallels in the production, distribution and reception of these objects. Yet multiple, parallel projects to make text small, the portability of these objects, the technical demands of their facture, and the challenges of their reading, suggest phenomena whose global flows remain fragmentary, if not invisible, in the existing literature. This session welcomes contributions that shed new light on the production, circulation, and reception of small texts in any time period and geographical region. Can classic theoretical texts on smallness and miniaturization still leads to new insights on these objects when viewed in a global perspective? What
new directions might be suggested by existing art historical or interdisciplinary methodologies, or entirely new theoretical approaches?

Each proposed paper must include: name of individual submitting the
paper and their email contact, paper title; abstract (150-word
maximum); keywords; and a brief curriculum vitae (300-word maximum)
that specifies their rank and institutional affiliation (if
applicable). Individuals, collaborators or research partners may submit
single papers, and they may submit only one such proposal. Proposals
for papers may be submitted by current members OR non-members of UAAC.

However, non-members MUST become members of UAAC in order to present a paper at the conference, and all members must renew their memberships in UAAC/AAUC by 1 September 2014 .

For more information, see the conference website:
http://www.uaac-aauc.com/en/conference

n.b. participants need not be Canadian citizens nor employed or affiliated with a Canadian university.

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From: Steven Stowell <steven.stowellconcordia.ca>
Date: May 22, 2014
Subject: THE THETORICAL BODY IN EARLY MODERN ART

Please find below a call for papers for a session being organized for the University Arts Association of Canada Conference, to be hosted in 2014 by the OCAD University in Toronto. Details on submission guidelines and regulations follow below.

The Rhetorical Body in Early Modern Art

This panel addresses the status of the body in the visual arts in the Early Modern period, with particular attention to what may be called its rhetorical uses. The flowering of Renaissance culture has long been associated with a revived interest in rhetoric: in literature and philosophy, the movement away from Scholasticism by Humanist authors celebrated eloquence and the arts of persuasion. Interest in the affective power of rhetoric has likewise been partially credited for developments in the visual arts: in Leon Battista Alberti’s On Painting, for example, the painter’s process is modeled after the ancient orator’s practice. The rhetorical function of the body in visual art was acknowledged during the Early Modern period, as artists understood the uniquely moving and persuasive effect of the human form: through the demonstration of gestures and passions; as moral or negative exemplars; to heighten the variety and sweetness of an image; to induce penitence and devotion, etc. Proposals exploring the status of the body in Early Modern art and its rhetorical functions, broadly conceived, are encouraged.

Session Chair: Dr. Steven Stowell
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Concordia University, Montreal
Email: steven.stowellconcordia.ca

Proposal Abstracts

Proposals for papers shall not exceed 150 words, and are to be submitted to the individual session conveners whose sessions have been accepted for inclusion in the conference (please see below under ‘General Principles’ for further guidelines about proposals)
A good abstract will reveal the kernel of the argument and will inform specialists in the field of what is new about the research. Generalities known to everyone, or research that a scholar intends to do but has not yet begun, are not appropriate.

Who may submit proposals

Proposals for papers may be submitted by current members OR non-members of UAAC. However non-members MUST become members of UAAC in order to present a paper at the conference, and all members must renew their memberships in UAAC/AAUC by 1 September 2014.
The Call for Papers is open to post-secondary faculty in all fields of the visual arts; i.e. art history, visual culture, material cultures and their histories, museum studies, art conservation, visual artists, practitioner/researchers, etc. as well as qualified independent scholars in such disciplines.
Student members of UAAC/AAUC who are pursuing a terminal degree in related disciplines (i.e. the PhD in Art History or Visual/Material Cultures, MFA, Masters of Design etc.) may submit paper proposals. MA students in Art History or Visual Culture are not permitted to give papers at the annual conference.
Those individuals who have not secured their membership or membership renewal by 15 September 2014 will be removed from the conference program.

Full details on the UAAC conference may be found at:
http://www.uaac-aauc.com/en/news/uaac-aauc-call-papers

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From: Maryse Ouellet <maryse.ouelletmail.mcgill.ca>
Date: May 22, 2014
Subject: MAKING REALITY VISIBLE: REDEFINING THE ART AND REALITY RELATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

(Le français suit)

Call for Papers
Session at Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC/AAUC) Conference 2014

Session Chairs: Maryse Ouellet (PhD candidate at McGill University) and
Dr. Christine Ross (McGill University)
E-mail: maryse.ouelletmail.mcgill.ca; christine.rossmcgill.ca

MAKING REALITY VISIBLE: REDEFINING THE ART AND REALITY RELATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Critical theory has taught us to consider “reality” as something suspicious, i.e. as something that is accessible only through language, discourse and representation. More recently, however, philosophy—let us think here of the work of Jacques Rancière, Bruno Latour and the theoreticians of “new materialism”—has proposed to redefine that notion. It has highlighted visible/invisible, human/nonhuman and material/immaterial intercrossings to define reality as the mediating process by which things and sensibilities are made visible and material. These processes are at the forefront of a significant segment of artistic practices today. This session proposes to reflect on the ways in which these new approaches of reality renew our understanding of contemporary art. We invite proposals addressing the following questions: What are the aesthetic strategies mobilizing reality today? If we accept Rancière’s idea that “there is no real in itself, but only configurations of what is given as real” (2008: 84), what are the potentialities of critical art?

Each proposed paper must include: name of individual submitting the paper and their email contact, paper title; abstract (150-word maximum); keywords; and a brief curriculum vitae (300-word maximum) that specifies their rank and institutional affiliation (if applicable). Individuals, collaborators or research partners may submit single papers, and they may submit only one such proposal. Proposals for papers may be submitted by current members OR non-members of UAAC. However non-members MUST become members of UAAC in order to present a paper at the conference, and all members must renew their memberships in UAAC/AAUC by 1 September 2014 .

For general information about the conference please visit:
http://www.uaac-aauc.com/en/conference

Appel à communication
Séance au congrès de l'Association d'art des universités du Canada (UAAC/AUUC) 2014

Présidentes de séance: Maryse Ouellet (Candidate au doctorat à l'Université McGill) et
Dr. Christine Ross (Université McGill)
courriels: maryse.ouelletmail.mcgill.ca; christine.rossmcgill.ca

LA RÉALITÉ PAR L'IMAGE : REDÉFINIR LES RAPPORTS ENTRE ART ET RÉALITÉ AU 21e SIÈCLE

Si la théorie critique nous a appris à considérer comme suspecte l'idée de « réalité », les philosophes Jacques Rancière et Bruno Latour, ainsi que les théoriciens du nouveau matérialisme proposent aujourd'hui de redéfinir celle-ci. En mettant de l'avant l'entrecroisement entre le visible et l’invisible, l’humain et le non-humain ou la matérialité et l’immatérialité, ils situent la réalité du côté des processus consistant à rendre visible, à médier ou à objectifier. Ces processus sont également mis en pratique par l’œuvre d’art. Cette séance propose de réfléchir sur la manière dont ces nouvelles approches de la réalité contribuent à renouveler notre compréhension de l'art actuel. Nous invitons les réflexions concernant les enjeux suivants : Par quelles stratégies l'art d'aujourd'hui compose ou mobilise-t-il la réalité? Si l'on accepte l'idée de Rancière selon laquelle « il n'y a pas de réel en soi, mais des configurations de ce qui est donné comme notre réel » (2008 : 84), quelles potentialités s'offrent désormais à l'art critique?

Les propositions doivent inclure le nom de l’intervenant et une adresse courriel valide, un titre pour l’intervention, un résumé de moins de 150 mots, des mots-clés et un aperçu du curriculum vitae (moins de 300 mots) qui précise le niveau d’études et l’institution d’attache (le cas échéant). Les particuliers, les collaborateurs et les partenaires de recherches ne peuvent proposer qu’une seule intervention. Les membres comme les non-membres de l’AAUC peuvent proposer une intervention. Ceux qui ne sont pas membres DOIVENT néanmoins le devenir avant d’intervenir au congrès, et tous les membres doivent renouveler leur adhésion à l’AAUC avant le 1er septembre 2014.

Pour plus d’information concernant le congrès, visiter :
http://www.uaac-aauc.com/fr/congrès