[Discussion] CFP: Access: History, Art, Architecture, and Comparative Literature (grad) (1/15/05; 4/16/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Call For Papers

ACCESS

The graduate students in the Departments of History of Art &
Architecture and Comparative Literature are pleased to announce our
Fourth Annual Graduate Symposium to be held at Brown University on
Saturday, April 16, 2005.  We are currently accepting abstracts from
graduate students in ALL departments and disciplines.

This year=92s theme will be =93Access=94, a term whose nuances we find hi=
ghly
provocative.  Possible questions/concepts to consider include, but are
not limited to:

=A7Who is granted access to a given work or text, whether economically,
psychologically, physically, geographically, politically, via ritual,
affinity, identity, or otherwise?
=A7What powers and/or features render a work =93accessible=94? How? Why?
=A7What is the role of secrecy and other denials of access? Incidental?
Strategic?
=A7Disclosure/Revelation within or about a work
=A7Literary or artistic spaces: how do we enter or leave them?
=A7What features determine the accessibility of art or literature?
=A7How does the relative accessibility of an artwork or text affect its
reception, its value, and/or its criticism?
=A7What particular stake do academics, critics, and museum professionals
play in creating and controlling access?
=A7How might an artwork or text provide (or deny) access either to the
self or to something else, whether an object, an experience, another
person, =93the Other=94, foreign spaces, the artist or author, etc.?

Symposium presentations will be limited to twenty minutes and should
address the theme of access. Presentations will be divided into two
panels, whose topics will be chosen based on the submissions received.
We are particularly interested in papers that challenge the terms and
questions associated with access within the study of visual and written
representations. The list of possible topics above is by no means
intended to be exhaustive.

Please direct inquiries and send one-page abstracts (including your
name, department, and a brief explanation of how your paper relates to
the theme of the Symposium) to:
Nathaniel Stein (nathaniel_stein@brown.edu)
by January 15, 2005.

As the date of the symposium approaches, please see the History of Art
and Architecture website for further information and updates:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Art_Architecture/HASymposium


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