CFP: 2007 ASA panel on Philadelphia visual culture

I'm putting together a panel for the 2007 American Studies
Association conference, which will be held in Philadelphia next October,
and am looking for possible speakers. The panel would be organized
around the idea of visual culture and its expression of cultural
difference/commonality in the city of Philadelphia (time period
open). The conference theme, which is fully described on the ASA
website
(http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/AmericanStudiesAssn/annualmeeting/ASA2007/CFP2007.htm),
is relatively broad, so the specific shape of the panel would be
largely determined by individuals' research interests. That said,
speakers should be working on issues related to (as the ASA puts
it) the "changing nature of American communities, cultures,
politics, economies, and identities."

If you are working on a project that directly speaks to the topic of
the proposed panel and would like to present your work at the
upcoming ASA, please email me a brief proposal (working title,
abstract of ~250 words, and cv) at ts2285columbia.edu. In your
proposal be sure to explicitly specify how your work: 1) defines
and explores issues in the ASA conference theme and 2)
significantly furthers our understanding of Philadelphia's social,
cultural, and/or artistic history.

I plan to submit the panel by early January to the ASA's Visual
Culture/Art History Caucus for possible sponsorship, so I'd like to
receive proposals by Dec 31.

Please distribute this announcement widely, thank you!

Best,
Tanya Sheehan, Ph.D.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Art History and Archaeology
826 Schermerhorn Hall
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
ts2285columbia.edu

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