Call for Papers

AAH 2009 Intersections Conference, Manchester, 2 - 4 April 2009

Panel: Intersectional Queer Visualities

This panel will highlight different articulations of art-historical
understandings of subject/object relations, theory, and visuality as
those terms themselves have been transformed through an intersection
with “queer.” We wish to trace passages to critical thinkers (e.g.,
Derrida, Cixous, Deleuze, Rancière, Nancy, Agamben, Ettinger, among
others) and the modalities of their projects—and to ask what “queer”
practices can, or have, emerge from such critical and creative
crossovers into art history? How have theories on, and around, the
visual by these critical thinkers working outside of art history been
“queered” and put to work in the practice of “(un-)doing” art
history—which is to ask how has the discipline of art history become
un-disciplined, “queered”? Furthermore, how is “queer” in theory and
visuality thought differently when further intersected with
post-colonial theories and/or feminisms? Indeed, how has “queer” been
(re-) opened to issues such as race, ethnicity, the nation-state, and
sexual difference? How have these multiple intersections with “queer”
and/in art history transformed it? Do such multiple crossings,
thinkings, and doings by way of creative connections and intersections
radically change the project and trajectory of art history as a
discipline—if only in some of its modes and movements? If so, then what
are the ramifications for the future/s of art history and its
institutions? These are some of the questions that we want to explore
in this session.

Deadline for proposals: 10 November, 2008

Please email proposal to BOTH

Michael du Plessis, University of Southern California
duplessiusc.edu

Robert Summers, University of California, Los Angeles
robtsumucla.edu

For more information on the AAH 2009 Conference and other details go to
http://www.aah.org.uk/future-conferences/index.php
http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/aah09/session.php?id=9