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#CFP: Bodies of Knowledge: Interviews, Interlocutors, and Art Historical Narratives Due May 4

Bodies of Knowledge: Interviews, Interlocutors, and Art Historical NarrativesLocation:New York, United StatesCall for Papers Date:2012-05-04 (in 22 days)Date Submitted:2012-04-08Announcement ID:193835College Art Association 101st Annual Conference New York, NY, February 13-16, 2013: Bodies of Knowledge: Interviews, Interlocutors, and Art Historical Knowledge.
This panel invites contributions that examine the use of interviews in the production of art historical narratives. We consider interviews, interlocutors, and art historical narratives as representing distinctive bodies of knowledge that engage and entangle in the processes of scholarly production. By opening up questions about the relationship among interlocutors, interviews, and art historical narratives, our inquiry builds on insights from scholarship in art history, anthropology, and history including the work of Burton and Pasquariello, Clifford, and Marcus, Gupta and Ferguson, and others who have written about interviews and the disciplinary practices of knowledge production. Questions configuring our inquiry include: How do the voices of cultural producers factor into the representation of their works? How do interviews center and de-center scholarly narratives? How might interviews extend other discursive frames and theoretical orientations through which artistic production is understood? How do individual histories and interviews figure into broader narratives about collective projects and institutional agendas? How do interviews serve to substantiate various claims, to moor interpretation, or to contest other bodies of knowledge? How might interviews mediate the varying agendas of their participants? We seek to bring together contributions addressing perspectives about African artists and art with those focusing on other geographical regions so as to generate cross-regional inquiry and analysis. In this, our panel is an inquiry into the processes, methods, and instruments of knowledge production that figure across a range of art historical fields, disciplinary specialties, and diverse theoretical platforms.

Send proposals to:
Carol Magee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, cmagee@email.unc.edu
Joanna Grabski, Denison Univeristy, grabski@denison.edu

PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS TO SESSION CHAIRS: DUE MAY 4, 2012
CHAIRS DETERMINE THE SPEAKERS FOR THEIR SESSIONS AND REPLY TO ALL APPLICANTS BY JUNE 4, 2012.
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS TO SESSION CHAIRS: DUE AUGUST 6, 2012
FULL TEXTS OF PAPERS TO SESSION CHAIRS: DUE DECEMBER 3, 2012

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CFP: Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions

The following CFP may be of interest to some:

RELIGION IN PIECES
An Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored by the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Brown University, April 27-29th, 2012

The quest to determine the contours and contents of ancient religion has always been a largely constructivist endeavor, subject to the exigencies of preservation. How do we, in our respective fields, approach the problem of fragmentary evidence? How do we construct such elusive categories as “belief” or “ritual” or “praxis” from an insufficient, scattered, or occasionally inscrutable base of primary source materials?

The Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions seeks papers for a conference to be held at Brown University, April 27-29th 2012, on the topic, “Religion in Pieces.” In keeping with the society’s broad interests in religions of the Mediterranean basin over the great chronological expanse from prehistory to late antiquity, we seek contributions from scholars in the fields of Classics, Ancient History, Religious Studies, Archaeology, Near Eastern Studies, Egyptology, and Art History. We are particularly interested in papers that present case studies in reconstructing religious practice from fragmentary evidence, or which problematize or lay out the methodological challenges inherent in constructing religion from a paucity of sources. Relevant subfields include (but are not limited to) epigraphy, papyrology, codicology, archaeology, and textual studies of fragmentary or poorly attested sources; especially welcome are transdisciplinary papers which synthesize a variety of textual, archaeological, and art historical and/or material culture sources to reach new insights into ancient Mediterranean religions.

We invite abstracts from 250-500 words, accompanied by a Curriculum Vitae, to socamr@gmail.com. Deadline for submission is midnight of January 28thth, 2012. Participants will be contacted with an invitation to participate by the beginning of March, 2012.

(Source: currentepigraphy.org)

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