CALL FOR PAPERS

Fifth Annual American Art History Symposium - Yale University

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Keynote Address: Rachael DeLue, Princeton University

The Department of History of Art at Yale University announces its fifth
annual American Art History Symposium. The organizers seek proposals from
graduate students whose work both exemplifies creative modes of inquiry and
breaks with established critical approaches to the study of American Art.
We welcome submissions addressing any medium or period.

Abstracts of approximately 500 words for papers not to exceed 20 minutes in
length should be received, along with a CV, by Monday, 14 January for
consideration. Selected speakers will be notified by Monday, 25 February.

This year, we will be expanding the traditional symposium format in an
effort to encourage dialogue among the participants and initiate focused
discussion on the role of a distinctly "American" art history within the
context of globalization. Selected speakers will be asked to submit
extended abstracts along with images, which will be distributed to the other
panelists ahead of time. We hope that through this process our discussions
might take the form of a workshop for ideas on the current state of the
field and possible new directions in the study of American art.

Please e-mail materials to americanist.symposiumgmail.com