CALL FOR PAPERS

The Annual Undergraduate Symposium in Art History at Portland State
University is the oldest and most prestigious symposium for
undergraduate students in the United States. Each year some ten or
twelve students are selected to give a lecture at the Portland Art
Museum. Symposium presentations will be 20 minutes in length and may
cover any area of art history or visual culture.

All undergraduates are invited to submit a 1-2 page abstract of art
history paper, along with a short bibliography, cover letter,
including contact information (email, phone, address), and a brief
letter of support from a faculty mentor. The deadline is extended to
March 1.

Aplicants will be notified by email for the committee's decision,
winning participants must submit the full text of their papers (8-10
pps.) The winners will receive a certificate of accomplishment from
the Portland Art Museum, and their papers will be printed in a
pamphlet made available to all participants. The keynote speaker this
year will be art historian Dana Katz, and the title of her lecture is
"The Jew, the Madonna, and the mob in Republican Florence."

Please submit proposals to:
Dr. Charles Colbert, Symposium Committee, Art Department, Portland
State University, 2000 SW 5th Ave., Portland, OR 97201 or submit on
line to diljpdx.edu with signatures.
For email enquiries, contact Dr. Junghee Lee at diljpdx.edu. The
call for paper of the symposium is announced in the College Art
Association's website.

The date of the symposium is on April 28th, Friday and the symposium
will be held at Portland Art Museum. The keynote speech is on
Thursday April 27th, 5:30 p.m.

Junghee Lee
Department of Art
Portland State University
PO Box 751
Portland, OR 97207-0751, USA
voice 503-725-3347
fax 503-725-4541
e-mail: diljpdx.edu