CFP: Association of Art Historians 2009 Conference: Intersections
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