2008 CAA Conference (Dallas, Texas February 20-23)

CFP for Panel Session: Common terrain: surveying geography's
contributions to histories of art, architecture and visual culture.

Abstracts of 1-2 double spaced pages are due May 1, 2007.

We solicit short papers exploring how historians of art, visual culture
and architecture engage the purview and methodologies of geography in
their historical or current forms. How do our uses of geography augment
or revise chronologies and narratives, or shape our work as a critical
practice
How do features of geography help us elaborate on the ‘place’
of the observer, enhance reception-oriented approaches, situate art in
mythical or ritualistic spaces or understand their imagined, physical,
personal and social uses
Can geography articulate locality as a
circumstance of art
What does the concept of ‘mapping’ owe geography

How can geography’s interests and practices clarify the significance of
composition, perspective, or pictorial or negative space
With what
benefits might we approach non-geographic topics, geographically
How do
we employ empirical and quantitative methodologies associated with
social science dimensions of geography
Following presentations lasting
approximately fifteen minutes, we will conclude the session with a
roundtable discussion.

For more information, consult CAA guidelines:
http://conference.collegeart.org/2008/

Jennifer Way, PhD
Associate Professor of Art History
School of Visual Arts
University of North Texas
P.O. Box 305100
Denton, TX 76203-5100
Email: JWayunt.edu
Tel: 940-565-4029
Fax: 940-565-4717

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