12th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium: “Translating Home: Views From the Diaspora” (online / April 22–23, 2022)
Submission Deadline: January 23, 2022
Organized by the Rutgers University Art History Graduate Student Organization (AHGSO)
The concept of home is unstable, bearing countless interpretations of physical and abstract places. Diasporic and transnational identities are particularly susceptible to the uneasy tension produced by slippages of stable meaning. Framed around both the abstract and material notion of home, “Translating Home: Views From the Diaspora” aims to interpret practices that span borders, fostering discussion that marks the complexity of real and lived experiences of those working in a transnational context.
Abstracts are welcome from all historical periods, disciplines, and methodological perspectives. Submissions will be considered for 20-minute presentations in English. After the symposium, one paper will be selected for possible publication in Volume 39 of the Rutgers Art Review, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal produced by graduate students in the Department of Art History.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
– Gender and migration
– Queer diasporas
– Borders, real and imagined
– Representation/ways of seeing
– Indigeneity
– Language
– Memory and nostalgia
– Identity formation
– Heritage as mobility
– Construction of diasporic identities
– Representations of exile
– Diasporic time
Please send your abstract and a current CV to rutgersarthistorygradsymposium@gmail.com by Sunday, January 23, 2022. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words. We welcome conventional academic papers as well as visual (photographic, video, etc.) projects and other creative proposals. Applicants will be notified of the committee’s decision in early February.