CALL FOR SESSIONS

(Deadline: 14th April 2008)

AAH CONFERENCE 2009

MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, April 2nd - 4th 2009

INTERSECTIONS

The 35th AAH conference will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University.
It will focus on the intersections (connections, linkages, overlaps) of art
history with different disciplinary, methodological, political and
historical spaces. Three areas of intersection might be identified: between
areas of convention and innovation within the discipline; between art
history and its adjacent fields of inquiry, display and production; and
between the subjects and objects of interpretative and historical practice.
In this light, intersections can be understood as the convergence, however
temporary or in-process, of art history's divergent values and practices.

Within the discipline, areas of intersection may encompass: the descriptive,
interrogative, ethical, pedagogical and critical elements of art historical
practice. Between art history and its adjacent fields lie the margins,
overlaps and divisions that notions of intersectionality are able to
highlight. Interactions with visual processes and practitioners invoke
social worlds, individuals, performative and public spaces.

Intersections opens up room for a variety of critical engagements with, and
creative responses to, traditional and new art histories. What are the
issues and implications involved in locating and exploring the crossovers of
visual and cultural histories and practices? How should historians of the
visual consider the intersections between interpretative subjects and
objects? By looking at the boundaries and meeting points of different
histories of art, what new intersections emerge? What are the intersections
between artistic and other aspects of visual culture, such as the popular?
What are intersections between different artistic media? This conference
will provide a platform for the interrogation of these and other
intersections that define and challenge art history.

Please send session proposals to aah09mmu.ac.uk. Proposals should include a
session title and abstract (maximum 250 words) and full contact details of
the session convenor(s).
Deadline for the submission of session proposals is 14th April 2008.

For other queries about the conference or bookfair please contact:
aah09mmu.ac.uk or consult the conference websites:
http://www.aah.org.uk/future-conferences/ and
http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/aah09/

Conference Convenor: Dr Patricia Allmer, Manchester Metropolitan University,
MIRIAD
Conference and Bookfair Administrator: Cheryl Platt, Manchester Metropolitan
University