CFP: Association of Art Historians 2009 Conference: Intersections
(Manchester - 2-4 April 2009)

http://www.aah.org.uk/future-conferences/index.php
http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/aah09/session.php?id=9

Panel: Intersectional Queer Visualities

Michael du Plessis, University of Southern California
duplessiusc.edu

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

This session 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