Transnational Latin American Art

Call for Paper Proposals: Deadline May 5 2009
Viewing the history of Latin American art in terms of reception, contact and collaboration is an emergent paradigm exemplified by recent exhibitions, publications, and research projects.
An International Research Forum on Transnational Latin America aims to create opportunities for emerging researchers to join experienced scholars in interrogating this area of research and its implications.
Addressing art from 1950 to the present day, the forum concerns intra Latin American exchanges, as well as encounters between Latin America and Europe and the USA; it will explore contacts between individual artists and critics, the movements, groups and institutions and wider geopolitical and cultural contexts that have supported and provoked them, and the particular forms of art and its reception that transnational exchanges have generated.
The event is a collaboration between The Permanent Seminar on Latin American Art ¿ a project at the Department of Art and Art History and the College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin - and Meeting Margins Transnational Art in Europe & Latin America 1950-1978 ¿ a collaborative AHRC project, between the Department of Art History & Theory, University of Essex (UK) and TrAIN: Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity & Nation, The University of the Arts London (UK).
We are now inviting proposals addressing the following areas of research:
¿ Historiography: the benefits and limitations of approaching Latin American art and its history in terms of external points of contact and reception.
¿ The invention of Latin America: artists, gallerists, magazines, critics and art historians influential in constructing a field of Latin American Art across post-war Latin America, in Europe and the USA.
¿ Methods and media: particular types of media used to sustain connections, including small presses, conceptual and mail art; and international meetings, biennales, and exhibitions.
¿ Contact and collaboration: focused case studies on the work of individual artists, critics, galleries and networks across post-war Latin America, and in Europe and the USA.
¿ Sites and centres: Cities and institutions in Europe and the USA that have emerged as centres for Latin American art across post-war Latin America, and in Europe and the USA.
We invite proposals from:
- current PhD candidates;
- those who have received their PhD within the past three years (approximately);
- emerging independent scholars, with equivalent research experience.
Travel bursaries: Funded by the University of Texas, TrAIN, the University of Essex and the UK AHRC, travel bursaries are available for three participants who reside in Central or South American countries, México and the Caribbean. If you would like to be considered for this award, please state your case as an appendix to your paper proposal and include the estimated cost.
Language: Please state if it is possible to present your research in English at the Forum.
(We will accept proposals in Portuguese and Spanish.)
Deadline for proposals: May 5 2009
Submission Instructions: Please send a 500-word abstract and brief CV by email to:
Ian Dudley (idudle@essex.ac.uk), AHRC Project Support Officer, Meeting Margins