Autor: GKS

Deadline for submissions: November 4, 2022

2023 Annual Conference

University College London, London/UK

12-14 April 2023

https://forarthistory.org.uk/conference/2023-annual-conference/

Session: Against the Nation: Rethinking Canadian Art History in the World

The history of Canadian art is a transnational history. Canadian art historiography, however, is strongly rooted in national narratives. As a settler-colonial nation, the country itself cuts across dispersed territories of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. Taken one way, the prefix trans in transnational — which signals many possible relationships across, between, and beyond geopolitical national boundaries, as well as those that fundamentally challenge or change them — describes the material and epistemic violence of Canada’s formation. Taken another way, it offers a methodology for unsettling colony-to-nation narratives of Canadian art history and for thinking about the relationships between art, nation, and nationhood, and between local, regional, and global cultures, in new ways. Reframing Canadian art history in light of global networks focuses on the exchange and flow of ideas, peoples, artistic connections, and institutions beyond political borders.

Please see full call for papers for submission guidelines: https://forarthistory.org.uk/conference/2023-annual-conference/

Contact Info:

Jennifer Kennedy, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, jen.kennedy@queensu.ca

Devon Smither, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, devon.smither@uleth.ca

University of Konstanz, 18-20 May 2023

Deadline: December 31, 2022

Mobility systems, urban planning, markets, educational facilities, digital appliances: infrastructure organizes social life, assigns subject positions, and enables or prevents cultural exchange. Yet its powerful role often goes unnoticed as most infrastructure is designed to recede into the half-conscious background of daily life. In recent years, researchers in several fields have begun to uncover the sociopolitical hierarchies and resistant forces at work in the construction, maintenance, transformation, and dismantling of infrastructure. Postcolonial studies has much to contribute to this research—and vice versa.

After all, colonization is itself a large-scale infrastructure project. Both historically and systemically, colonization involves the transcultural transfer of military, political, economic, legal, social, and other infrastructure, and the destruction of indigenous infrastructure, in order to establish and maintain power over colonized peoples. As Édouard Glissant remarks, today’s infrastructures are “products of structures inherited from colonization, which no adjustment of parity (between the former colony and the former home country) and, moreover, no planning of an ideological order has been able to remedy.” Scholars in postcolonial studies have therefore begun to analyze infrastructure as a form of “planned violence” (Boehmer and Davies). At the same time, infrastructure can function as a social good that fosters relations and enables alternative forms of sociality. Access to infrastructure thus confers privilege, regulates participation, and erects hierarchies. In the decolonial struggle, infrastructure has therefore emerged as a key site and means of resistance. These infrastructural dynamics require analytic approaches from the humanities, and especially from postcolonial studies, because they unfold centrally on a cultural level.

Toronto/Tkaronto, ON/Canada

May 11-13, 2023

Deadline: November 15, 2022

Tkaronto has been home of Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples since time immemorial and part of the original homelands of the Wendat people. We invite people to the NAISA 2023 meeting in Tkaronto, a place that is both lands and waters. We invite you into a good way of being and thinking in relation with lands, more than human and human kinship, while visiting us here. We hope that our gathering is both about the future and about remembrance. In our planning of this meeting, we have been considering the following prompts: How do we practice consent? How do we gather in a good way? How do we show care? While we do not ask that you directly address these prompts in your proposal, we encourage you to consider these questions as you begin to plan your time at the conference.

The NAISA Council invites all persons working in Native American and Indigenous Studies to submit proposals for: Individual papers, panel sessions, roundtables, or creative works/film screenings. We welcome proposals from faculty and students in colleges, universities, and tribal colleges; from community-based scholars and elders; and from professionals working in the field. We encourage proposals relating to Indigenous community-driven scholarship.

The deadline for proposal submissions is November 15, 2022, 11:59 pm EDT. Only complete proposals submitted through the online Abstract Collector before the deadline will receive consideration. Please read the Instructions for Preparing Proposals (below and on the submissions website) carefully before submitting your proposals.