35th AAH Conference and Bookfair 2009
'Intersections'
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
2 - 4 April 2009

The AAH Annual Conference and Bookfair takes place at a different UK venue
each year. These prominent, international events take place over three days
and attract up to 600 delegates and publishers.

http://www.aah.org.uk/conference
http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/sessions2009.php

http://www.aah.org.uk/conference/booking.php
Booking Deadline: 13 March 2009

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough University) and Prof.
Ernst van Alphen (Leiden University).

The 35th AAH Annual Conference, Intersections, will be held at Manchester
Metropolitan University from 2 - 4 April 2009. It will focus on the
intersections (connections, linkages, overlaps) of art history with different
disciplinary, methodological, political and historical spaces. Three areas of
intersection might be identified: between areas of convention and innovation
within the discipline; between art history and its adjacent fields of
inquiry, display and production; and between the subjects and objects of
interpretative and historical practice. In this light, intersections can be
understood as the convergence, however temporary or in-process, of art
history's divergent values and practices.

Within the discipline, areas of intersection may encompass: the descriptive,
interrogative, ethical, pedagogical and critical elements of art historical
practice. Between art history and its adjacent fields lie the margins,
overlaps and divisions that notions of intersectionality are able to
highlight. Interactions with visual processes and practitioners invoke social
worlds, individuals, performative and public spaces.

Intersections opens up room for a variety of critical engagements with, and
creative responses to, traditional and new art histories. What are the issues
and implications involved in locating and exploring the crossovers of visual
and cultural histories and practices? How should historians of the visual
consider the intersections between interpretative subjects and objects? By
looking at the boundaries and meeting points of different histories of art,
what new intersections emerge? What are the intersections between artistic
and other aspects of visual culture, such as the popular? What are
intersections between different artistic media? This conference will provide
a platform for the interrogation of these and other intersections that define
and challenge art history.