CFP 15.09.2014

In the Same Boat (New Haven, 8-9 May 15)

Department of the History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 08.–09.05.2015
Eingabeschluss : 17.11.2014

Sophie Lynford

CALL FOR PAPERS

“In the Same Boat”: British and American Visual Culture during the Second World War

On December 8, 1941, immediately following the declaration of the American entry into World War II, President Roosevelt telegraphed Prime Minister Churchill, “Today all of us are in the same boat with you and the people of the empire and it is a ship which will not and cannot be sunk.”

This two-day conference in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University, to be held on the seventieth anniversary of VE-day, will investigate the textured relationship between war-time visual cultures of America and Britain. We will consider the cultural origins of the postwar political and economic bond which would come to be called the “special relationship,” and explore the various political and social pressures that shaped image-making in the two countries. Certainly, the nations’ territorial autonomy during the war distinguished their experience of war from that of other allied powers. This conference will focus on the visual cultural exchange between the two countries, identifying parallels between the way images and culture were politically mobilized and influenced by the social impacts of war itself.

We welcome papers on art, print and graphic media, photography and film in the United States and/or United Kingdom between 1939 and 1945. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

· The artist as eyewitness
· Realism and/or documentary
· Propaganda film
· Institutional and political patronage
· Strategic imaging: aerial photography, camouflage, reconnaissance
· Abstraction and representation
· Visual and sonic responses to war
· Maritime art and imagery
· War landscapes
· Popular geography and artistic production
· Discourses on sovereignty and global responsibility
· Transatlantic information/cultural exchange and dialogue
· Affect and trauma
· War commemoration and historical memory

Keynote speakers for the conference are Cécile Whiting, University of California at Irvine, and David Alan Mellor, University of Sussex.

Please submit your CV and paper abstract (not to exceed 500 words) to inthesameboat2015gmail.com by November 17, 2014.

Conference organizers: Eric M. Stryker (Southern Methodist University), Tatsiana Zhurauliova (University of Chicago), and Sophie Lynford (Yale University).

Quellennachweis:
CFP: In the Same Boat (New Haven, 8-9 May 15). In: ArtHist.net, 15.09.2014. Letzter Zugriff 28.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/8401>.

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