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From: Emily Morgan <emorganiastate.edu>
Date: Feb 10, 2015
Subject: CFP: Photographing Industry: Pittsburgh and Beyond

Photographing Industry: Pittsburgh and Beyond
Deadline: April 20, 2015

Over the years, Pittsburgh and its industries have played host to
several key photographic surveys. Beginning in 1907 as part of the
pioneering Pittsburgh Survey, documentary photographer Lewis Hine
recorded the complex relationship between the city's factories and its
citizens. Roughly forty years later, W. Eugene Smith made nearly twenty
thousand images of Pittsburgh, creating what he considered his finest
work. In keeping with the spirit of these important projects, this panel
seeks papers exploring the rich and complicated relationship between
photography and industry. Topics of exploration may reflect the broad
range of the subject, from the Industrial Revolution to the Information
Age. The panel welcomes papers examining not only art and documentary,
but also casual and vernacular photographic records of industry.

Session chairs: Emily Morgan, Iowa State University, and James Swensen,
Brigham Young University. Contact: emorganiastate.edu

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[2]
From: Nicole Scalissi <nfs14pitt.edu>
Date: Feb 13, 2015
Subject: CFP: Confluence in the Americas

Confluence in the Americas
Deadline: April 20, 2015

The Americas has often been theorized as a space of confluence,
cross-cultural exchange, and hybrid engagement. This panel will
interrogate this notion of "confluence" within the Americas. For
scholars in the humanities, the cultural amalgamation taking place in
the American continent has derived multiple, positive concepts including
'mestizaje,' 'hybridity,' 'syncretism,' among others, which are
constantly examined and revised. For over 20 years, the term "contact
zone," developed by Mary Louise Pratt as “the space in which peoples
geographically and historically separated come into contact with each
other and establish ongoing relations,” has been the flagship term used
to discuss the two-way hybridization beginning with the EuroAmerican
encounter.

We invite papers in modern and contemporary art history that seek, like
Pratt, to question the terms used for exchange between or among the
Americas. We are particularly interested in papers that examine the
agency at play in such cross-cultural exchange, and those rethink the
notion of 'border' as something other than an inflexible boundary to be
policed.

Session chairs: Nicole F. Scalissi and Paulina Pardo, University of
Pittsburgh.