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Call for Papers & Submissions - February 2014
Call for Papers and Conference - Challenges, Disconnects, and Clashes in Political Studies
The Department of Political Science's 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference
Concordia University's Political Science Graduate Students' Association and the Department of Political Science invite graduate students from different disciplines to submit paper proposals for our third annual Graduate Student conference. This year's theme is on the topic of Challenges, Disconnects, and Clashes in Political Studies. Potential paper subjects include:
- Relevance of Academia: the ivory tower vs. practical implications
- Contesting Borders: Conventional vs. transnational conceptions
- Humanitarian Intervention: Western tradition vs. rising players
- Security: New era of peace vs. new 'war on terror'
- Democracy revisite
- Bringing the 'public' into public policy
- Methodological disconnects
The aim of the conference is to foster dialogue and academic exchange between graduate students of different disciplines on subjects in public policy, public administration, political theory, comparative politics, international relations, Canadian politics, security studies, and border studies.
The Political Science Graduate Students' Association and the Department of Political Science at Concordia University invite submissions to these and related themes. Papers from an interdisciplinary perspective are accepted and encouraged. Papers presented at the conference may also be considered for inclusion in our 3rd annual graduate student journal.
Additional information
All submissions should include a short biography with contact information, institutional affiliation, and an abstract of no more than 300 words. All abstracts should be sent to concordia.psgsa.conference@gmail.com by Feb. 15th, 2014.
Where:
Concordia University
When:
Montreal, Quebec
Friday April 25, 2014
Call for Papers and Conference - Consumed: A History of Indulgence in Art
Deadline for proposal submissions: February 15, 2014
The Art History Association at San José State University invites advanced undergraduate and graduate students to submit proposals for 20-minute presentations for consideration for the 20th Annual Art History Symposium, Consumed: A History of Indulgence in Art.
Indulgence may relate to pleasure, satisfaction, or enjoyment, yet it may also be in sync with sin, unrestrained pleasure, excess, or deprivation. Whether embraced as a positive or shamed as a vice, the history of indulgence in art involves all time periods, cultures, and area of art history. Possible submissions may include material culture, consumerism, pop culture and media, desire in art, performativity in art, exploration of gender normativity, sexuality, wealth, lavish extravagance, narcissism, and consumption. The notion of indulgence is all encompassing, and we invite students to explore art history, visual culture, and interdisciplinary topics.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Richard Meyer, Professor in Art History at Stanford University
Additional information
Submissions must include a 300-word abstract, author name, title of proposed lecture, affiliation, brief recommendation from advising professor, condensed CV and a 1-paragraph biographical statement.
Submissions must be emailed to sjsuarthistory@gmail.com by February 15, 2014 for consideration.
For additional inquiries and questions, please email sjsuarthistory@gmail.com.
Selected students will be notified by February 24, 2014.
Where:
San José State University--San Jose, CA
Department of Art and Art History
Art History Association
20th Annual Art History Symposium
When:
April 5, 2013
Call for Papers and Conference - Le Sexe de l'avant-garde
L'avant-garde a-t-elle un sexe? Si nous pensons qu'il dépasse en théorie les catégories de genre, le concept d'avant-garde reste le plus souvent associé à un imaginaire masculin dans la culture visuelle et littéraire. Centrée sur la figuration, métaphorique ou non, d'une posture empruntant beaucoup aux origines militaires du concept, l'écriture de l'histoire des pratiques culturelles et de l'offensive intellectuelle de l'avant-garde reste entachée d'une "virilité originelle". En revanche, la posture féminine est investie d'une dimension exploratoire sentimentale et intime, même lorsqu'elle se positionne volontairement dans l'espace public. Ceci n'est pas sans reproduire des clichés en vogue depuis le XIXe siècle, clichés qui voudraient cantonner le féminin à l'affectif et le masculin au politique, tout en évitant scrupuleusement d'aborder les genres au-delà du binôme féminin/masculin. En outre, dans le discours historique en littérature, en arts ou en cinéma, les productions féminines se situent dans un champ para-artistique: les femmes "ouvrent la voie", elles montrent un "domaine nouveau", mais semblent ne pas remettre en question, comme c'est le cas pour les hommes, les conventions esthétiques et les idéologies du champ culturel - exception faite des productions à saveur féministe qui, elles aussi, sont considérées "à part".
Ouvert à l'ensemble des disciplines des lettres et sciences humaines, ce colloque propose d'interroger l'avant-garde de manière théorique et méthodologique en ce qu'elle constitue un système de représentation des genres sexués et de poser un regard critique sur l'état du discours universitaire sur les pratiques culturelles des mouvements sociaux et politiques, tant historiques que contemporains. Conséquemment, les réflexions synthétiques et transdisciplinaires seront préférées aux études de cas. Ces quelques questions pourront aiguiller l'orientation des propositions de communication, mais nous vous encourageons à ne pas vous y limiter:
- À quoi reconnait-on une avant-garde et quel champ lexical utilise-t-elle pour se nommer, se définir et se revendiquer dans ses manifestes, œuvres et actions?
- À quels gestes, quels mythes et quels symboles l'avant-garde se réfère-t-elle pour se situer historiquement? Ces gestes, mythes et symboles sont-ils associés à un genre?
- Comment se construit un mouvement avant-gardiste dans sa réception critique?
- Quelle place cette réception fait-elle à la différence sexuelle?
- Que peut-on dire de l'état actuel du discours sur les avant-gardes dans les champs académique et culturel ?
- L'histoire doit-elle réinterpréter les mouvements féminins, gays ou queer, non plus comme des productions isolées, mais comme parties prenantes d'une avant-garde mixte?
Informations additionnelles
Les propositions de communication (300 mots), accompagnées d'une courte biobibliographie, doivent parvenir aux organisateurs du colloque avant le 14 février 2014.
Anne-Marie BOUCHARD Université McGill
Adrien RANNAUD Université Laval
Call for Submissions - Art Education Graduate Symposium Exhibition
28 February - 2 March 2014, Concordia University
The organizers of the 2014 Art Education Graduate Symposium (The Art of Transforming Communities) would like to invite graduate students in Art Education and Art History to participate in a collaborative project. This will take the form of a small exhibition in the EV building over the course of the conference weekend, entitled:
The exhibition VALLEY / La vallée brings together the Art Education and Art History departments at Concordia University in a collaborative project that celebrates momentary shortcomings. The two groups of students will converge in a communal valley of production - an egalitarian starting point from which to build a new community.
The exhibition will focus on the collective 'failures' or unfinished works of two departments who share the mutual goal of progress and transformation through artistic inquiry. Failure in this context is treated as a positive force - a necessary step toward growth. Reflection on the potent meanings of 'successful' vs. 'unsuccessful' will serve as a catalyst for conversation about the creative and cooperative processes in educational spaces. Failure will also provide a bridge between two communities. The two groups will converge in a valley of sorts, or zone of opportunity, where failure acts as an equalizer and impetus for communal transformation.
We are soliciting submissions from graduate students in Art History and Art Education consisting of:
- Abandoned art projects
- 'Failed,' incomplete, or rough ideas in material form
- Pieces that have been rejected from other exhibitions
Additional information
Art pieces should weigh less than 23kilos/50lbs, and should be no more than 1.2meters/4ft in any length (2D or 3D).
All accepted pieces will be displayed anonymously. Contributors to the exhibition will be collectively acknowledged in a participants' list.
Submission guidelines:
1. Download and complete application form
2. Email the completed application form and jpeg of artwork to symposiumarted@gmail.com
3. Deadline for submissions is FEBRUARY 12, 2014
Call for Papers and Conference - 14th International Conference of the Graduate Student Association of the Historical Sciences Department of Université Lava
February 4-6, 2014
You are cordially invited to participate at the 14th International Conference of the Graduate Student Association of the Historical Sciences Department of Université Laval in Quebec City. The Conference is organized by ARTEFACT (the graduate student Association of History Department at Université Laval, Quebec City).
The purpose of the conference is to gather graduate students of various disciplines (History of Art and Architecture, Social Anthropology, History, Museology, Folklore, Archivistic, Archeology) to exchange and discuss their projects of research.
Additional information
Call for papers
Students and young scholars interested in submiting a paper are invited to fill out the form available on our website by November 22, 2013 to: colloque.artefact@gmail.com
Call for Papers and Conference - Performative Ecologies
Art and Design Graduate Students' Association (ADGSA)
The University of Alberta
A three-day interdisciplinary symposium (March 20-22, 2014) and exhibition (March 20-TBA, 2014).
The time frame of Performative Ecologies will overlap two other noteworthy events taking place in Edmonton:
Now Hear This: Festival of New Music with guest artist R. Murray Schafer will include a wide array of concerts, talks and other events in Edmonton through the weekend of March 20-23, 2014.
Donna Haraway, author of A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century and Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege ofPartial Perspective, will be giving a public lecture at the University of Alberta on Monday, March 24, 2014.
For more information
Extended Deadline: February 3rd, 2014.