I wanted to send out this call that is happening for a graduate symposium this Spring. I know many of you have strong interests and specialize in this field.

So, please submit! Or please pass on to interested parties.

York University’s Art History Graduate Student Association presents

its 9^th Annual Symposium

Appropriation: People, Places, Things

Submission Deadline: January 22^nd, 2010

Symposium Date: March 19^th, 2010

Call for Papers

The 2010 Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium will focus on the theme of Appropriation: People, Places, Things. This symposium aims to critically engage with appropriation in art, visual culture and media.  Appropriation commonly refers to the use of adopted, recycled, sampled or borrowed elements in the creation of a new work. We invite graduate students and recent graduates from all disciplines to submit short proposals for presentations that examine appropriation. Proposals may address practices and histories of: advertising, antiques, the archive, questions of authorship, globalism, the body, craft, diaspora culture, fashion, institutional critique, landscape, photography, sound technology, virtual space, among others.

Please send a 250-word abstract of your paper along with a curriculum vitae and contact information by January 22^nd, 2010 to:

ahgsay@gmail.com

Or

Attn: Symposium Committee

Art History Graduate Student Association

256L Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts

York University, 4700 Keele Street

Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3

Successful participants will be notified by February 1^st 2009. The conference will take place on March 19^th, 2010 in downtown Toronto at Osgoode Professional Development Centre.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact:

Maxine Proctor at [ahgsay.comm@gmail.com]