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Current Research in American Art symposium

Just a reminder…please save the date for the “Current Research in American Art” symposium at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, Oct. 8-9, 2010.  There will be 31 exciting papers in 8, non-concurrent sessions: Visual Culture, Colonial/17th-18th c., 19th c., 20th c. to 1970, Sculpture, Ethnicity/Race, Photography and Other Multiples, Folk/Outsider/Self-taught Art.
Michael Harris, Assoc. Prof. at [...]

Save the Date Driskell Center Fall Symposium

“Performing Race in African American Visual Culture”
Wednesday, September 15, and Thursday, September 16, 2010
Featuring a keynote address by Dr. Richard Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University
Lecture will be held at the Phillips Collection, Washington DC,
Wednesday, September 15
Followed by the second day of the symposium at the Adele H. Stamp [...]

“Is Photography Over?”

Notes on the recent symposium at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are available online. It’s always disappointing with broad discussions like this that there are no African-American curators, writers, or photographers represented (granted, I do not know who George Baker is), though hardly surprising, especially in San Francisco. The exclusion can’t help but [...]

Venus symposium videos available online

VENUS 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot,” An Interdisciplinary Symposium – Welcome from NYU Photography and Imaging on Vimeo.

Watch the webcast: Photography and Diaspora – A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture & Modernity

March 9, 2010
Photography and Diaspora – A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture & Modernity

Watch online: http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/video/photography-and-diaspora-critical-discourse-africa-visual-culture-modernity-moderated-renee-mu
Download: http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.dubois.org/PHOTGRAPHY_AND_AFRICA_20100309-iPhone.m4v

Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
In conjunction with the the exhibit, “James Barnor: Ever Young” (on display in the Du Bois Institute’s Rudenstine Gallery during the spring 2010 academic term).
Moderated by Renee Mussai, Archive Project Manager, [...]

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    • Palimpsest: New Journal Announcement and CFP September 2, 2010
      Website and Submission Guidelines Information: www.vanderbilt.edu/aframst/palimpsest Inquiries: PalimpsestJournal@vanderbilt.edu Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their commu […]
    • CFS: Photobook!! The Photographer and the Self-Published Book September 2, 2010
      I’m writing to request you spread the word regarding our November 18 – December 19 exhibition, PHOTOBOOK!! It’s our first annual juried photobooks show. I’m a true believer in the photobook to bring one’s work to the attention of the public. I think it’s a natural for the end of the [...] […]
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