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Session at NCSA (Rochester, 16-19 Mar 22)
Rochester, New York, Mar 16–19, 2022 Deadline: Sep 1, 2021
Emily Gephart, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
This panel will happen in person at the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association annual conference in Rochester New York in March 2022. We seek 15-20 minute papers that discuss worldwide visu- al culture of the long 19th century and that engage with conceptions of “nature” as extractable
“resources.”
Panel Chairs: Emily Gephart and Maura Coughlin Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Resources aquatic, biotic, terrestrial and finite
--Mining, other energy extraction, deforestation or other radical removals --Potential energy (waterfalls, wind)
--Extracting indigenous and local knowledges; bio-prospecting --Animal products: guano, fur, oil, etc.
--Plant ways and uprooting --Sourcing art materials --Commodification of “exotics”
--Cultural appropriations
Please email a 150 word abstract and CV to Emily.gephart@tufts.edu and mcoughli@bryant.edu by September 1, 2021
Reference:
CFP: Session at NCSA (Rochester, 16-19 Mar 22). In: ArtHist.net, Jul 5, 2021 (accessed Feb 27, 2022),
<https://arthist.net/archive/34488>.
