Call for Papers Art History Graduate Student Association at York University

Split Structures: Navigating the In-Between

The Art History Graduate Student Association at York University announces
its call for papers for its 7th Annual Symposium, "Split Structures:
Navigating the In-Between" to be held Friday, March 7, 2008.

Deadline: JANUARY 7th, 2008

Current cultural activity, addressing both historical and contemporary
practices, is characterized by a move towards deconstructing boundaries and
binaries. Breaking down these barriers, in theory, opens up new territories
for navigation; innovation and growth are seen as the result of moving into
the spaces between established methods, concepts, or ideologies. Often these
spaces are demarcated by the binaries of traditional modernist thought:
male/female, mind/body, science/humanities, archaic/innovative, etc. What
are the relationships between traditions, innovations and the spaces
in-between: how do we map their post-structural navigation? To what extent
is this navigation productive? What does it tell us about how cultures are
theorized and practiced?

We invite submissions for a 20-minute presentation from graduate students
in a wide range of thematic, methodological, and disciplinary backgrounds
that address the implications and the particulars of these non-linear
developments within academia and other dominant cultural institutions. We
expect to publish the papers in an online journal. Some possible
presentation topics include but are by no means limited to:

(Inter)disciplinarity
Implications for the cultural critic, historian, or artist
Globalization, Regionalism and/or localities
Communication and information technology in the arts
Structuralism and/or Post-structuralism
Art as political activism
The artist as curator, critic and/or cultural worker
Institutionalization and/or academicization of the art world
Linear and/or non-linear art history
Abstraction and/or representation
Space and place

Please send a 250-word abstract of your paper, curriculum vitae, email
contact information and audio-visual needs by MONDAY, JANUARY 7th, 2008 to:

york_art_historyyahoo.ca
Attn: Symposium Committee
OR
Art History Graduate Student Association
256L Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts
York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3