Call for Submissions
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, October 13-14, 2017
Vital Constitutions: The Appearance of "Health" in History
Rice University | Houston, Texas
Hosted by the Department of Art History
www.arthistory.rice.edu
www.vitalconstitutions.com
Potential points of exploration include but are not limited to the following terms:
Alternative spaces or communitiesArt and neoliberalism
Avant-Garde and canon
Bioethics
Dis/ability
Disease and cure
Drug use and policing
Food economies
Gender and sexualities
Hygiene and filth
In/accessibility
Labor and insurance
Niche construction
Normativity and “Other”
Pseudo-sciences
Recreation and play
Rehabilitation (of land or the body)
Representation and the invisible
Self-care and apathy
Social practice
Social reform movements
Surgery and intervention
Urban planning and transient housing
This conference intends to have an accessible and inclusive structure within and beyond academia. Our aim is for an experimental and collaborative forum that presents not only graduate papers, but also art objects, time-based media, and relics of visual culture. Artists, activists, and scholars will join the public beyond university walls to engage with a local institution or community project. A public roundtable will consolidate ideas, arguments, and strategies explored over the course of the weekend. Updates to the conference schedule will be posted at vitalconstitutions.com.
Please send submissions to vitalconstitutionsgmail.com by June 16, 2017. For paper presentations, please send a 250-word abstract or description and curriculum vitae (limited to 3 pages or less). For artist submissions, please send JPEGS and/or mp3 or mp4 files (include title, work date, process, dimensions, and medium) and a curriculum vitae (Dropbox and other FTP links will not be reviewed). All proposals should be submitted online. Lastly, we are able to offer limited support for travel to participants on a need basis, to be determined after selection of papers.
Quellennachweis:
CFP: Vital Constitutions (Houston, 13-14 Oct 17). In: ArtHist.net, 20.04.2017. Letzter Zugriff 19.04.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/15289>.