[1] The construction of identities from material culture in the early modern world
[2] Early Modern Art and the Underground
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[1]
From: Vanessa A. Portugal; Rosario Nava Román
Subject: CFP: The construction of identities from material culture in the
early modern world

Deadline: Jul 31, 2023

Rosario Nava Román. Instituto Mora - CONACYT , Escuela Nacional de
Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "la Esmeralda" (Mexico); Vanessa A. Portugal.
University of Lincoln (United Kingdom)

Considering the range of asymmetrical encounters (Subrahmanyam, 2012) that
particulars exercised during the early modern world, this panel seeks paper
proposals that engage critically with the representations of the otherness
–and the construction of identities– from a non-European discourse to
examine the visual strategies employed by groups or individuals (Indigenous
peoples of the Americas, Africans, Asians) to understand unfamiliar peoples
in their interconnected world.

The aim of this panel is to deeply reflect on the diversity of creative
processes brought in by the new cultural interactions, shifting the focus
on the paradigm of 'the global world' by drawing on the diversity of
diachronic negotiations, interpretations, and constructions of identity of
the self and of the otherness recognizing the agency of a diverse plurality
of actors with an emphasis in, but not limited to, the colonial Americas.

We welcome papers studying paintings, codices, artifacts, archaeological
objects, dealing with gender, racism, castes, identity, and the agency of
the image.

Please submit your abstract (200 words maximum) with title (15 words
maximum), your full name, current affiliation and a one page CV to the
organizers Rosario Nava Román (rona.fotogmail.com) and Vanessa A.
Portugal (vaportugallincoln.ac.uk) by 5pm British Summer Time on 31 July.
Notifications will be sent by 10 August.

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[2]
From: Andrew Chen
Subject: CFP: Early Modern Art and the Underground (Session at RSA)

Deadline: Jul 21, 2023

The sixteenth century witnessed an expansion in the industries of mining,
quarrying, and mineral extraction. This panel will investigate how this
activity was reflected in and shaped by artistic practices, from roughly
1500 to about 1700. We are interested in papers that address the nexus of
underground resource extraction and the arts in any geographic area. Topic
may include but are not limited to:

- How labor practices of mining and / or quarrying impressed upon the arts
- The evocative potential of materials sourced from beneath the earth’s surface
-The repurposing of narratives tied to underground realms (e.g., Orpheus, Aeneas, Vulcan, Christ in Limbo, Dante, etc.)
- The reshaping of economic, political, and artistic networks in response
to the abundant resource extraction enabled by colonization of the Americas
- The manner in which political regimes conjured the underground to symbolize abundance and technological superiority
- Critiques of exploitative mining practices as expressed through the arts
- The role that personification and metonymy played in encouraging resource extraction
- Metaphors of mining and / or the metaphoric language of resource extraction (i.e. the "mining" of meaning, “veins” of metal, the “belly” of the earth, etc.)
- Natural philosophical and mineralogical images
- Multi-sensorial approaches to representing the abyss
- Underground spaces in the theatrical arts

Please submit a single PDF proposal to Andrew Chen (ahc45txstate.edu) and
Christopher Nygren (cnygrenpitt.edu) by 5pm Eastern Time on 21 July.

Paper proposals should include:
- paper title (15-word maximum)
- paper abstract (200-word maximum)
- 2-page resume or CV (including full name, current affiliation, and e-mail address)