American Art History
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Call for Participation: Visual Culture Studies, American Studies
Association, San Antonio, Texas Nov. 18-21, 2010.

The Visual Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association (ASA)
invites individuals and groups to participate in the 2010 ASA
meeting, November 18-21 in San Antonio, Texas. For proposals/
abstracts sent by January 15th, The Programming Committee of the
caucus can offer critical feedback on session proposals at any stage
of their development and facilitate networking among scholars who are
looking for session participants, chairs, or commentators. The
committee will subsequently select complete session(s) from those
accepted by ASA for official caucus sponsorship.

Session proposals should explore historical, theoretical, and/or
methodological issues in American visual culture, which includes (but
is not limited to) prints, photography, painting, sculpture, comics/
graphic novels, illustrated books, film, television, and digital
media. They must address the 2010 meeting theme, ?Crisis, Chains,
and Change: American Studies for the 21st Century? (see http://
www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/page/submitting_a_proposal/).

We encourage scholars to submit their proposals for meeting
participation to our new ?Works in Progress? webpage, accessible
through our caucus blog (http://www.theasa.net/caucus_visual/). Any
ASA member may join the caucus by clicking on the registration column
on the blog homepage (requires ASA username and password). Caucus
organizers will be posting ideas for events to the "Works in
Progress" page in the coming weeks; these include sessions and tours
at several museums in San Antonio. Individuals interested in
participating in the 2010 annual meeting may also contact Philip Nel
and Mary Zundo, co-chairs of the Visual Culture Caucus Programming
Committee, at philnelksu.edu and maryzundoaol.com

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