Annual Graduate Symposium

On Edge: Visual Culture across Boundaries

17 – 18 February 2006

Cornell University
Department of History of Art and Archaeology
Ithaca, NY
USA

We cordially invite the submission of abstracts for the 2006 Graduate
Student Symposium in the Department of the History of Art and Archaeology
at Cornell University. We will focus on art historical scholarship that
transverses regional boundaries such as those imposed by geography,
nationhood and religion. In reconsidering the nature of imposed
boundaries, we ask that papers address through their theoretical
orientation, methodology or case studies, the notion of the region and how
visual culture is created or responds to shifting geographies. Regions may
be constructed in a variety of ways including those which are construed
more broadly as extended spatial locations or may alternatively be
perceived as spaces defined by a specialized function that is dependent on
a specific system.

Papers may cover the regimes of objecthood or the built environment, and
we also extend our invitation to those working on visual culture in
related fields, including but not limited to cultural and historical
geography, history, classics, anthropology and literature. In doing so, we
encourage submissions that explore the full range of definitions of
boundaries as well as those that postulate new ones.

Please send 250-word abstracts to the co-organizers
Kelly Cook and Emily Kelley at:
ek236cornell.edu