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From AAH:

39th Annual Association of Art Historians Conference
University of Reading, 11-13 April 2013

Proposals due by 12 November 2012

AAH2013 will represent the interests of an expansive art-
historical community by covering all branches of its discipline/s and the range of its visual cultures. Academic sessions will reflect a broad chronological range, as well as a wide geographical one. We will address topics of methodological, historiographical, and interdisciplinary interest as well as ones that open up debates
about the future of the discipline/s.

Keynote Speakers: Adrian Forty (Professor of Architectural History, The Bartlett, University College London) and Okwui Enwezor (Curator and Director of Haus der Kunst, Munich)

If you would like to propose a paper for one of the sessions listed below, please follow the proposal guidelines outlined on the paper proposal form.

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The following selections might be relevant for dixhuitièmistes. A full list of panels along with descriptions is available here (as a PDF file).

• (In)formal Networks and the Professionalisation of Art and Design History: Conversations with art and design historians
Liz Bruchet (Voices in Art History) and Joanne Gooding (Design History Society)

• Painted Gladiatrices: Women, art and the 18th-century social arena
Heather Carroll and Lauren Puzier (Sotheby’s)

• Landscape and Economy
Kevin Chua (Texas Tech University) and Ross Barrett (University of North Carolina)

• Poster Session
Susan Grange (Independent) and Lawrence Buttigieg (Independent)

• The Art History of the Animal
Alastair Harden (University of Reading)

• Ceremonial and the City
Caroline Arscott (Courtauld Institute of Art) and Pat Hardy (Museum of London)

• Rhythm in Art and Life
Michelle Ying-Ling Huang (Hong Kong Baptist University) and Charlotte de Mille (Courtauld Institute of Art)

• ‘Action Painting’: The theatrical and the dramatic in narrative art
Mark Ledbury (University of Sydney) and Andrei Pop (University of Basel)

• Shut your Eyes! Iconophobia in the modern era
Sarah Lippert (University of Michigan-Flint)

• The Permanence of the Transient: Precariousness in art
Camila Maroja (Duke University) and Caroline Menezes (University of the Arts – UAL)

• The Knowing Gaze: The shifting role of the connoisseur and connoisseurship in art and its histories
Jordan Mearns (University of Edinburgh Jordan) and Tom Denman (University of Reading)

• Into the Light: The changing significance of light in art, design and architecture
Melissa Miles (Monash University)

• The Imaginary Drinker: Bodies and beverages in art and society
Frédérique Desbuissons (Institut national d’histoire de l’art) and Edward Payne (Courtauld Institute of Art)

• From Utopian Teleologies to Sporadic Historiographies: ‘Interfaces’ of art and cybernetics
Maia Toteva (Montana State University) and Jennifer Way (University of North Texas)

• Twitchers: Birds and art
Tracey Warr (Oxford Brookes University), Paul Kilsby (Oxford Brookes University), and Clair Chinnery (Oxford Brookes University)

• Photography and the Histories of Sculpture: What role has photography played in forming sculpture’s place in art history?
Lisa Le Feuvre (Henry Moore Institute) and Jon Wood (Henry Moore Institute)

• Student Session: Collaboration
Sibyl Fisher (University of Leeds)

• Visualising Architecture: Fictive buildings c.1300 – c.1750
Amanda Lillie (University of York)

• Sculpture and the Sea: Figureheads and ship sculpture
Alison Yarrington (University of Hull), Douglas Hamilton (University of Hull and Maritime Historical Studies Centre), and Julia Kelly (University of Hull)

• Museums & Exhibitions Session: Curating the Book: Exhibiting books, archives and manuscripts
Layla Bloom (Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds) and Ben Thomas (University of Kent)