CFP: African Photography issue of Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies

Call for papers for a special issue of Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies

African Photography: Realism and After

The place and meaning of photographs in Africa has shifted dramatically
over time, from colonial and ethnographic practices to radical new forms
of contemporary representation. Photographs circulate as documents, as
remnants in the aftermath of violence and dislocation, as both public
and private records of celebration, kinship and dwelling, and as
artworks. Photography offers a suggestive surface for engagements with
questions of both the imaginary and the real. This special issue of
Social Dynamics invites papers that explore the history, theory and
practice of photography across the continent.

Topics might include:

The role of portraits and family albums
Photographs of public figures
Photography and the history and memory of slavery
African photography and postcolonial modernity
Reading photographs as colonial documents
Photography and liberation struggles
Photography and national history
Local histories of photography
Art photography and imaginative transformation

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words by the 22 February 2013 to:
kyliethomas.south@gmail.com

Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies is a peer-reviewed journal
that is published three times a year by Taylor & Francis in electronic
and print format.  The journal is based at the Centre for African
Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and is edited by
Louise Green and Kylie Thomas.

For more information about the journal see:
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsdy20/current

New Book: “Horrofílmico—Aproximaciones al cine de terror en Latinoamérica y el Caribe”

Reblogged from Repeating Islands:

Horrofílmico: Aproximaciones al cine de terror en Latinoamérica y el Caribe (San Juan: Isla Negra Editores, 2012), the first collection of essays on the horror film genre in Latin America and the Caribbean edited by  Rosana Díaz-Zambrana and Patricia Tomé.

Description: Horrofílmic presents different approaches to the horror genre in essays that are widely varied both geographically and methodologically. The anthology includes 22 essays and panoramic comparative accounts on the genre, presenting nationally or transcontinental geopolitical readings on historical events and socio-economic contexts; the use of parody in re-adaptation of foreign iconographic traditions; the cult film and its interconnection with so-called "disposable" formulas; and cinematic implications arising from consumer practices in the digital age.

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PUB: n. p a r a d o x a, issue, “Africa and Its Diasporas”

 n. p a r a d o x a: Volume 31, Jan 2013, Africa and Its Diasporas

Full Contents Listing:

Guest Edited by Bisi Silva (curator and Director of CCA, Lagos)

Giulia Lamoni  ‘African masks, family photographs and open suitcases: Rosana Paulino, Mónica de Miranda and Maimuna Adam’
Julie Crenn ‘Michèle Magéma – Without Echo, there is no Meeting’
Nontobeko Ntombela  ‘Silent Toyi-Toyis in the work of Donna Kukama and Reshma Chhiba’
Monique Kerman ‘Cut to the Chase: The Work of Mary Evans’
Rachida Triki  ‘Contemporary women artists in Tunisia’
Cheryl Thompson ‘Contesting the Aunt Jemima Trademark through Feminist Art:  Why is She Still Smiling?’
Solange Farkas ‘From “ferramentaria” to trance: Symbolism, concept and religiosity in the work of Eneida Sanches’
Peju Layiwola ‘From Footnote to Main Text: Re/Framing Women Artists from Nigeria’
Zehra Jumabhoy ‘Betwixt and In-Between: Reading Zarina Bhimji’
Artists’ Statements on recent works from Taiye Idahor, Ato Malinda, Adwoa Admoah, Maimuna Adam and Mary Sibande

Artist’s Pages by Ayana V. Jackson; Pinar Yolacan; Angèle Etounde Essamba

This volume is financially supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.

n.paradoxa is published two times a year (Jan and July) and its content is available in print and electronic form.

Order online at www.ktpress.co.uk

The Civil War and American Art

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In the century and a half since the Civil War, more than 75,000 books have been published about the war and its legacy. The figure speaks to the magnitude of its impact on American politics, economics, and culture. However, few of these books have examined how American art evolved as it chronicled the Civil War. 

The Civil War and American Art…

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• Published July 2012:The Slave in European Art. From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem

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The Slave in European Art: From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem

Edited by prof. Elizabeth McGrath (Warburg Institute) and prof. Jean Michel Massing (University of Cambridge)

Warburg Institute Colloquia, 20

(Editors: Jill Kraye and Charles Burnett)

The Warburg Institute – Nino Aragno Editore (London and Turin, 2012)

This volume explores the imagery of slaves and enslavement – white as well as black – in early modern Europe.

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JOB/PUB: Inaugural South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) Undergraduate Editorial Board

Website: http://www.saadigitalarchive.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SAADAonline

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SAADAonline

The South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) is now accepting applications from undergraduate students for its inaugural SAADA Undergraduate Editorial Board!

SAADA is the only independent non-profit organization working systematically to document the rich history of the South Asian American community and ensure that these important stories are more widely known and preserved for future generations. All the materials SAADA collects are freely accessible to the public online at http://www.saadigitalarchive.org

CFP: Museums & Social Issues

Museums & Social Issues

A Journal of Reflective Discourse

Museums & Social Issues (MSI), a peer-reviewed journal published by Left
Coast Press, Inc., is pleased to announce a change in format that will
allow researchers, museum practitioners, theorists, social scientists, and
others to submit articles on any topic related to the engagement of museums
in the enduring and complex issues facing our society.

Since its inaugural issue in 2006, MSI has been a theme-based journal,
addressing topics such as race, immigration, incarceration, connection with
nature and other topics. The new format will maintain the focus on
compelling issues but will provide more flexibility and the ability to
respond to dynamic and contemporary topics by featuring theoretical,
philosophical, and practical pieces that discuss museums in relation to a
range of contemporary issues, rather than limited to a specific theme.

We are particularly interested in articles that present either a synthesis
of a body of research or current and innovative research or programming
related to the questions society faces. Topics might address:

Enduring and emerging social problems such as homelessness, war, poverty,
climate change, privacy, mental health.

Contemporary aspirations or perspectives on improving quality of life such
as life/work balance, happiness initiatives, advocacy movements, play,
spirituality.

Thoughtful responses and analysis of current and emerging trends that
relate to the well-being of communities and individuals, such as political
movements, emerging technologies, music, leisure time pursuits, etc.

Exhibit, Book or Program Reviews: The journal is also soliciting reviews of
products that address questions or issues of concern to society.

For more information, contact Editor, Kris Morrissey msiuw@uw.edu or
submit an inquiry through the journals online submission process at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/msi

All manuscripts are subject to anonymous peer review by knowledgeable
scholars and professional practitioners and, if accepted, may be subject to
revision. Materials submitted to MSI should not be under consideration by
other publishers, nor should they be previously published in any form.

Back issues available at www.LCoastPress.com

Stephen Brown on Edouard Vuillard and the Three Muses

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Reflective of his membership in the close-knit theatrical and literary circles of turn-of-the-century Paris, French avant-garde artist Edouard Vuillard's work is a study in intimacy.  Here, curator Stephen Brown, author of Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940, gives us a glimpse into some of the intimate spaces and relationships that most inspired the artist.

Stephen Brown—

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PUB: Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies – Volume 33, Issue 2

 

Section of particular interest:

In Plain Sight: Breaking the Textual Bind

Celeste-Marie Bernier, ‘A “Typical Negro” or a “Work of Art?” The
“inner” via the “outer man” in Frederick Douglass’s Manuscripts and
Daguerreotypes’

Fionnghuala Sweeney, ‘Visual Culture and Fictive Technique in
Frederick Douglass’ The Heroic Slave’

Lisa Merrill, ‘Exhibiting Race “Under the World’s Huge Glass Case”:
William and Ellen Craft and William Wells Brown at the Great
Exhibition in Crystal Palace, London, 1851′

Taylor & Francis Online :: Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies – Volume 33, Issue 2.

CFP: Journal of Art Historiography Special Issue on African Art

The *Journal of Art Historiography*, a peer reviewed journal (http://arthistoriography.wordpress.com),
is interested in producing a special issue on African art.

The discursive practice of African art history is at a crucial juncture, in which rising interest in African art from a global perspective intersects with a possible fragmentation of the field into divergent disciplines each with its own focus. The historiography of African visual arts itself confronts an cross-disciplinary problem identified by *Journal of Art Historiography* as a concern that “contemporary scholarship will forget its earlier legacy and neglect the urgency and rigour with which those early debates were conducted. The journal is therefore committed to studying art historical scholarship, in its institutional and conceptual foundations, from the past to the present in all areas and all periods”.

African art history is particularly in need of this historiographical examination, given the increasing distance between early scholarship and contemporary discourses. The last significant historiography of the field was carried out by the venerable Monni Adams in a classical essay titled “African Visual Arts from an Art Historical Perspective (*African Studies Review*, 32/2, 1989: 55-103), which formed a two part overview of African Studies published in journal, the other written by Paula Ben Amos.

Although African Arts has engaged the issue of African art’s discourse in various presentations in the journal to date, the kind of comprehensive analysis carried out by Monni Adams has largely been absent and is in dire need of
being updated, given how much has happened in the field in the two and half decades since the article was published. The *Journal of Historiography*’s special issue on African arts therefore provides a unique opportunity to revisit the history of art writing on the subject of African visual culture and create a critical dialogue between various generations of African art historians, which will ideally allow foundational research and writing to be subjected to contemporary knowledge practices.

I have been asked to serve as guest editor this proposed issue. I will like to invite proposals for articles on the subject and also appeal to the field to suggest important texts and documents that might be included in this special issue. Previous editions of the journal can be viewed on its website (http://arthistoriography.wordpress.com) for guidance on the Journal of Art Historiography’s focus and submission guidelines.

Please send proposals and suggestions to:

Prof. Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie
ogbechie@gmail.com
Guest Editor, *Journal of Art Historiography* Special Issue on African art