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CFP: Difference Reframed: Feminist Art History and Visual Culture

DIFFERENCE REFRAMED: REFLECTIONS ON THE LEGACIES OF FEMINIST ART HISTORY AND
VISUAL CULTURE

One-day conference at the University of Sussex, UK
Saturday 16 September 2006

Confirmed Speaker: Professor Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds, UK.

CALL FOR PAPERS
(abstract deadline: 12 May 2006)

Over the past thirty years, the critical interventions of feminist art
historians in the academy, the press and the art world have not only 
politicised
and transformed the themes, methods and conceptual tools of art history, but
have also contributed to the emergence of new interdisciplinary areas of
investigation, including notably that of visual culture. Although the 
impact of
such fruitful transformations is indisputable, their exact contribution to
contemporary scholarship and changing roles within the academy are 
matters for
debate, not least because feminism itself has changed significantly 
since the
seventies.

In their third volume of feminist art historical writing Reclaiming Female
Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism (2005), editors Norma 
Broude
and Mary Garrard advocate a tactical withdrawal from the snares of critical
theory and return to 'real-world issues'. This conference stems from the 
premise
that, although a retreat from theory might be neither entirely possible nor
necessarily desirable, a critical assessment of the legacies of feminism 
in art
history and visual culture is now timely. We therefore invite reflective and
critical responses to this expansive and diverse body of work, which 
engage with
the interpretative and conceptual models fashioned by feminist art 
history and
visual culture from both historical and theoretical perspectives.

Anticipated issues include but are not limited to the following:
*** What is the place of feminism in art history and the study of visual 
culture
today?
*** Is feminist analysis possible without theory?
*** Why (still) write on women artists?
*** Whither feminism and psychoanalysis?
*** Whither gender and/in postmodernity?
*** Is there (and/or should there be) an extant or emergent feminist canon?
*** How has the content and deployment of key theoretical concepts (e.g.
fetishism) changed since the 1970s?
*** How do we address the fact that theory has its own history?

Early career academics and advanced doctoral candidates are particularly
encouraged to participate. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes to allow for
questions and discussion. Professor Griselda Pollock, author of numerous
influential works in feminist art history including Old Mistresses (with 
Rozsika
Parker), Vision and Difference and Differencing the Canon, will be 
responding to
the papers selected for presentation.

Please send a 300-word abstract and short CV to Dr. Alexandra M. Kokoli
, both as MS Word attachment and copied into the email, or by post to:
'Difference Reframed' Conference,
c/o Ms. Lindzey Mullard,
Co-ordinator, Department of Art History,
Arts B, University of Sussex,
Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex,
BN1 9QN, United Kingdom.

Deadline for proposals is 12 May 2006.

Dr. Alexandra M. Kokoli,
'Difference Reframed' Conference,
c/o Ms. Lindzey Mullard,
Co-ordinator, Department of Art History,
Arts B, University of Sussex,
Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex,
BN1 9QN, United Kingdom.

Email: a.kokoli@sussex.ac.uk