Neighborhood and World
The Global and Local City

Deadline: May 21, 2010

Presented by the University of Illinois at Chicago Art History Graduate
Student Association with the Sokol Fund for Art of the Americas and the
College of Art and Architecture

Art of the Americas Keynote Address:
"Notions of 'Order' and 'Disorder' in the City"
D. Bradford Hunt, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Social Science
Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies, Roosevelt University

Saturday, October 9, 2010
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted, Chicago, IL 60607

The Art History Graduate Student Association (AHGSA) at the University of
Illinois at Chicago will host a graduate student symposium exploring the
city as a physical and conceptual space of engagement between the 'local'
and the 'global'. The symposium aims to investigate changing critical
perspectives on these historically and culturally contingent concepts. The
city is a dynamic and complex place which enables opportunities and
creates tensions between the neighborhood and the world. How is the local
and global manifest in the built environment? How do artists represent and
intervene in urban space to re-inscribe meaning? What role do art forms
play in the construction of identities? AHGSA invites proposals for
innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship that follow these and other
lines of inquiry. We welcome submissions which address these issues in
art, architecture and design from all periods and geographic regions.
Through the generous support of the Sokol Fund for Art of the Americas, a
panel in the symposium will be dedicated to scholarship focused on the
Americas.

Paper Submissions: Please submit a CV and a 300 word abstract for a
twenty-minute paper by May 21, 2010 via email UICsymposiumgmail.com.
Accepted participants will be notified by July 1, 2010. Final papers
including images will be submitted to the organizers in advance to the
symposium.

For more information or questions please email or visit:
www.uic.edu/depts/arch/ah/uicsymposium2010