Africa on My Mind: Contemporary Art, Home and Abroad
The Savannah College of Art and Design will host its third biennial Art History Symposium, Africa on My Mind: Contemporary Art, Home and Abroad, Feb. 25-27, 2010. The goal of this symposium is to encourage representation by a variety of media and scholarship regarding cultural and geographical areas in Africa and the African Diaspora.
Possible topics could include:
- the role of contemporary African and African Diaspora art in shaping regional, ethnic and individual identity
- the gendered responses to the colonization of the body and mind
- contributions of technology and international art fairs to shaping identity and careers
- questions of interpreting and exhibiting contemporary work
- pedagogic theories and methods addressing African and African Diaspora art
- the vitality of African traditions in coastal South Carolina and Georgia
The call for papers is open to scholars and graduate students. The editors of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture have agreed to consider papers by symposium participants for publication.
The symposium will feature a keynote address by Simon Njami, lecturer, art critic, novelist and essayist.
Jane Rehl, Ph.D., and Andrew Nedd, Ph.D.
Symposium Co-chairs
Department of Art History
Submission
Abstracts due: May 15, 2009 Submit an abstract (300 words max) and a CV, including complete contact information (address, phone and e-mail), to the SCAD art history department. Symposium language is English. Submit abstracts
via e-mail or send to
2010 Art History Department Symposium
Savannah College of Art and Design
Arnold Hall
P.O. Box 3146
Savannah, GA 31402-3146
Notices of acceptance will be sent Sept. 30 via e-mail.
