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Call for papers for panel at CAA's
(College Art Association)
annual conference in Boston, 2/2006:

Regarding Postcolonialism

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Historical Studies, Contemporary Issues/Studio Art, Educational and
Professional Practices, CAA Committees, and Affiliated Society
Sessions (listed alphabetically by chairs).

Proposals, sent to session chairs and not to CAA, must be received by
May 13, 2005.

The study of modern art has all too often been undertaken without
careful attention to the history and effects of decolonization, even
as the dismantling (and reinstantiation) of colonial hierarchies has
profoundly transformed representational strategies throughout the
twentieth century. This session aims to examine this aporia,
questioning why postcolonial theory—a fecund tool in film and
literature studies—has failed to illuminate art-historical discourse
or shake its temporal and geographic (i.e., Western and non-Western;
post- and prewar) boundaries. Of particular relevance are how the
discipline appropriated poststructuralist and postmodernist models of
representation after the 1960s, often occluding the colonial context,
and of how visual production itself might interrogate and/or reproduce
colonial and postcolonial hierarchies. Papers addressing
methodological issues as well as concrete case studies of art
production and distribution from any number of post- or neocolonial
contexts are therefore equally welcome.

Abstracts of 1-2 pages and brief cv due by 5/13/05; all accepted
participants must be member of CAA by time of conference.

Hannah Feldman

Email: h-feldmannorthwestern.edu <mailto:h-feldmannorthwestern.edu>
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