Online Symposium - Translocation of South Asian Art: Provenance and Documentation - October 6-7, 2022, Symposium October 6, 2022 to October 7, 2022

 

Subject Fields: 

Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian History / Studies, South Asian History / Studies, Research and Methodology, Asian American History / Studies

Join the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and The British Library on October 6-7 from 9 am-12 pm EDT daily for Translocation of South Asian Art: Provenance and Documentation. This program is the fifth installment in the series Hidden Networks: Trade in Asian Art.

From the seventeenth century onward, Western visitors to the South Asian subcontinent were actively acquiring as well as commissioning works of art for private and public collections. A complex network of individuals and institutions encouraged collecting and facilitated the strategic movement of art out of South Asia. In our contemporary moment, histories of South Asian objects in museum collections are under increasing scrutiny, and questions about the art market and museum ethics are at the forefront of people’s minds. While this webinar engages with those important issues, it primarily focuses on documenting the provenance and circulation of South Asian art before 1970 as a way to better understand and reckon with the collections that exist today. Divided into two half-day sessions, this webinar will present scholarly talks and discussions that provide an overview of the field of South Asian provenance research and highlight important resources.

Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EZCOd9lZSdyYztOKjG9qPQ

Organized by:

Najiba H. Choudhury, National Museum of Asian Art 

Joanna M. Gohmann, National Museum of Asian Art 

Christine Howald, Zentralarchiv/Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 

Malini Roy, The British Library

Speakers include: 

Matt Cox, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 

Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes, Independent paper and book conservator 

Melanie Eastburn, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 

Nicole Ioffredi, The British Library 

Katherine Kasdorf, Detroit Institute of Arts 

Paramdip Khera, The British Library 

Natasha N. Kimmet, University of Vienna 

Salila Kulshreshtha, New York University, Abu Dhabi 

Nandita Punj, Department of the History of Art, Rutgers University 

Melody Rod-ari, Loyola Marymount University 

Jayanta Sengupta, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata 

Theresa Sepp, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte 

Cam Sharp Jones, The British Library 

Emma Stein, National Museum of Asian Art

Contact Info: 

Lizzie Stein, Scholarly Programs and Publications

National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution

Contact Email: 

asiascholarlyprogram@si.edu

URL: 

https://asia.si.edu/research/scholarly-programs/hidden-networks/translocation-of-south-asian-art-provenance-and-document…

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Interrogating Western Americana: Photography, Indigeneity, Ecology, Symposium,June 3, 2022, June 3, 2022

 

2022 Terra Study Day on American Photography 

June 3, 2022 - Rijksmuseum and Online

The Rijksmuseum and the Terra Foundation for American Art are pleased to invite you to “Interrogating Western Americana: Photography, Indigeneity, Ecology.” This convening will examine how photography shaped the ecological and racial narratives that enabled colonialism in the American West. Featuring the work of Native and non-Native scholars, this study day will address this topic from art historical and interdisciplinary perspectives that will reconfigure the ways in which we position photographs of Indigenous peoples and the environment. This Study Day is free and open to the public and will take place at the Rijksmuseum and online.

Our guest participants include Elizabeth Hutchinson (Columbia University), Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (University of California, Davis), Jolene Rickard (Cornell University), and Henrietta Lidchi (Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen).

This event is free and open to the public. To register to for the event please complete this form.

Contact Info: 

If you have any comments or questions, please contact Maria Beatriz H. Carrion.

Contact Email: 

b.haro.carion@rijksmuseum.nl

URL: 

https://forms.gle/trrooJFxH8W7t4gM9

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Dissident Feminisms: Inaugural bell hooks center Symposium, June 16, 2023 to June 18, 2023, United States

 

Subject Fields: 

African American History / Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Black History / Studies, Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies

Dissident Feminisms: 

Inaugural bell hooks center Symposium

Sponsored by the bell hooks center and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Berea College

June 16^th-18^th, 2023

Berea College

Berea, KY

bell hooks’s life and works engage in feminist thought and action that disrupts hegemonic systems of domination, including the cultural norms that hold these systems in place. She calls this dissident feminism a “talking back,” a “moving from silence into speech,” a “stand[ing] and struggl[ing] side by side [as] a gesture of defiance that heals, that makes new life and new growth possible” (Talking Back 9). Her writings envision feminist theory and praxis as transformational politic and movement–one that demands the provocation and audacity that hooks also represented in her person. Beverly Guy-Sheftall describes the oppositional voice of bell hooks as “loud and unrelenting” in her keynote address for the bell hooks center launch in September 2021. Indeed, hooks’s radical thought and action reimagine feminism as a sociopolitical movement that is “fundamentally anti-racist,” which “has no gender,” and which “is for everybody.”

hooks’s naming of “imperialist white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy,” which she later, in conversation with Laverne Cox, revised as “imperialist white supremacist capitalist cis-hetero patriarchy,” pointedly critiques the politics of domination that govern this world. hooks’s ordinary upbringing as a young Black girl in Appalachia, specifically, in the “Kentucky backwoods,” grounds her critique in space and place. It animates her radical interventions and deep commitment to liberatory world-making. While maintaining the connection between a love ethic and critical consciousness, hooks calls on us to cultivate visionary spaces, beloved communities, outlaw cultures, and radical undercommons in which oppositional worldviews are rooted in the experiential.

In honor and celebration of her life, works, and legacy, the Inaugural bell hooks Symposium at the bell hooks center at Berea College holds collective space for continued engagement with dissident feminisms. This symposium encourages theory, praxis, poetics, and aesthetics that move hooks’s interventions into the present moment while challenging the co-optation and de-politicization of her work.

We invite proposals from activists, scholars, artists, community organizers, and public intellectuals engaged in thought, action, and cultural production that attends but is not limited to the following: 

• Alternative networks of community and care
• Feminist abolitionisms, liberation, and futurity 
• Archaeologies of change
• Critical consciousness and embodiment
• Decolonization beyond metaphor
• Feminist archiving 
• Radical love and healing justice
• Feminism beyond binaries (male/female, hetero/homo, abled/disabled, etc.)
• Transgressive pedagogies 
• Public intellectualisms 
• World-making and beloved community
• Critical Youth Studies
• Black girlhood geographies 
• Alternative masculinities
• Intersectionality and its dis/contents
• Feminist activism and coalition-building 
• Alternative forms of parenting and family structures
• Feminist intimacies and pleasures

Possible formats for individual and/or group submissions are as follows:

• Roundtable conversations
• Community and campus workshops
• Individual essays
• Panel presentations
• The displays of works of art, including but not limited to exhibitions, installations, performances, visual works, and musical stylings 

We also encourage creative proposals that merge one or more of these categories, or which do away with categorization altogether.

If interested, please submit a 250-300 word proposal to https://tinyurl.com/bhcsymposium2023 by September 15th, 2022  with the names, contact information, and bios of participants included. Artist submissions should also include samples of work. Please submit proposals as PDF, .jpg, and .mov files. For questions, email: bhcsymposium@gmail.com.

As the location of the bell hooks center, the bell hooks Institute, and hooks’s archives, we welcome rigorous engagement with her scholarship.

Symposium Organizers:

M. Shadee Malaklou

Founder and Inaugural Director of the bell hooks center at Berea College; Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Associate Professor of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department  

fari nzinga

Inaugural bell hooks center Teacher-Scholar in Residence at Berea College

Megan Feifer

Inaugural bell hooks center Teacher-Scholar in Residence at Berea College 

Contact Info: 

For questions, email: bhcsymposium@gmail.com.

Symposium Organizers:

M. Shadee Malaklou

Founder and Inaugural Director of the bell hooks center at Berea College; Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Associate Professor of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department  

fari nzinga

Inaugural bell hooks center Teacher-Scholar in Residence at Berea College

Megan Feifer

Inaugural bell hooks center Teacher-Scholar in Residence at Berea College 

 

Contact Email: 

bhcsymposium@gmail.com

URL: 

https://tinyurl.com/bhcsymposium2023

CFP Silence is (not) an option: Re-thinking oral history post-MeToo, Call for Papers, May 15, 2022, Belgium

 

Subject Fields: 

Oral History, Sexuality Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies

Dear Colleagues,

The Belgian Forum for Gender History invites you to submit a paper proposal for the symposium ‘Silence is (not) an option: Re-thinking oral history post-MeToo’, which will take place 17-18 November 2022 in Brussels.

Description:

Silence occurs in every oral history interview and comes in many forms. Some silences are striking, others are barely noticeable. Some express comfort, others discomfort. Some signify a refusal to speak, others do not. The meanings of silence are myriad: it may express taboo, trauma, forgetting, reluctance, oppression, deceit, politeness, censorship, secrecy, contemplation, reflection, or simply that there is no need to explain.

Silence may also be the very reason for choosing oral history as a methodology. For decades, oral historians have tried to remedy the absence of certain groups in the archives, such as women or the subaltern. Silences occur in every aspect of oral history, from the research design to the dissemination of research findings. Silences influence the recruitment of participants. Often, oral historians only interview self-selected speakers, who have a personal interest in sharing their perspectives. But if we select our narrators differently, there is another issue at stake: is it ethical to (try to) compel someone to speak?

Historians also use silence in many ways. They might wait in silence, giving their narrators time to remember. They might keep quiet as a way to make their narrators slightly uncomfortable, as a means of encouraging them to expand their answers. Historians often remain blank pages in order to mitigate the effects of their own words on the narration. However, they often struggle themselves to navigate narrators’ silences. The wish to record complete stories might lead them to view what remains unspoken as a missed opportunity. Probing the silence is equally complex, particularly if narrators choose to hold their tongues in order to retain some sort of control or check the imbalance of power in an interview.

This symposium will readdress these complexities of silence—a topic that has received new impetus in the wake of the MeToo movement, which has seen a growing number of survivors publicly speak out against perpetuators of sexual violence. Yet MeToo has also shown that breaking the silence has many meanings, much like silence itself. For some women, the sharing of stories as part of the MeToo-movement is a symbol of resistance or a sign of solidarity, for others it signifies an unpleasant reminder of a traumatic experience. We are delighted to announce two keynote speakers, Estelle Freedman (Stanford University) and Emily Bridger (University of Exeter).

Papers may focus upon the strategies of historical actors who prefer to leave their past unspoken, as well as on the potentially unexpected consequences of breaking silences. We also welcome proposals that reflect on the significance of, and difficulties in, interpreting silence or on the differences between what is said on and off the record. We especially encourage proposals that include subaltern voices and address the history of intimacy, consent and activism, as this event is part of the of the 2021-2023 program of the AVG-CARHIF Forum for Belgian Research in the History of Women, Gender and Sexualities, dedicated to the theme ‘Consent, ethics and activism: Re-thinking historical practice post-MeToo’.

Submission Instructions:

To propose a paper, please prepare an abstract of 300 words written for a general academic audience. Please also include (where applicable) your title, program/department, affiliation, and a working chapter title.  Submit your abstract by May 15, 2022 as an attached Word document to silence-is-an-option@hotmail.com. Decisions will be made, and authors informed by June 15, 2022.

Contact Info: 

 

 

Contact Email: 

silence-is-an-option@hotmail.com

URL: 

https://avg-carhif.be/en/2022/04/07/call-for-papers-silence-is-not-an-option-re-thinking-oral-history-post-metoo-2/

Translating Across Time and Space, American Philosophical Society

 

“Translating across Time and Space: Endangered Languages, Cultural Revitalization, and the Work of History”

October 13-14, 2016
American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia, PA
The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) at the American Philosophical Society (APS) is seeking papers for an academic symposium on October 13-14, 2016 to coincide with the APS Museum’s 2016 exhibition, Gathering Voices: Thomas Jefferson and Native America.  The exhibition traces the story of Native American language collection at the APS from Thomas Jefferson’s Indian vocabularies to the anthropological fieldwork of Franz Boas and his students to the language revitalization and community-based initiatives supported by CNAIR today. In doing so, the exhibition also explores the themes of translation across cultures and borders, the politics of representation, practices of language collection and study, cultural continuity and change, and the transformation of the material archives.
The accompanying symposium aims to attract scholars and practitioners whose work expands upon and deepens understanding of the core themes of the exhibition.  Conference organizers are particularly interested in presenters whose work deals with:
1) the preservation of endangered languages, both historically and in the present day;
2) cultural practices surrounding translation and translators over time;
3) the work of language and cultural revitalization; and
4) current and/or collaborative Native language projects.
In the spirit of the exhibition’s emphasis on crossing linguistic, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries, the APS encourages the submission of interdisciplinary papers and will design panels that cross disciplinary boundaries.
The symposium will begin with a keynote address sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday evening.  On Friday, October 14, panels will convene at the American Philosophical Society.

Applicants should submit a title and 250-word proposal along with a C.V. by February 1, 2016 to: conferences@amphilsoc.org. Decisions will be made by the summer of 2016.  All presenters will receive travel reimbursement and hotel accommodations.  Accepted papers will be due a month before the conference and precirculated to registered attendees.  Papers should be no longer than 25-double spaced pages.  Presenters will also have the opportunity to publish revised papers in the APS’s Proceedings, one of the longest running scholarly journals in America.