Calls for participation

Call for papers: Queering the Archive

Convenors:

This session of the Association of Art Historians (UK) calls for papers that engage with diverse approaches to the archival bases of queer art history and visual culture. We encourage submissions which adopt a questioning attitude toward the research and writing of sexual knowledge, and which might include historical, theoretical, or creative/experimental work. We welcome papers from a broad range of disciplinary interests, including art history, literary theory, cinema studies, fine art, performance studies, and visual culture.

Papers must not exceed 30 minutes in delivery time. The deadline for paper proposals is 1 November 2003. Please email or post your proposal to the convenors. Include with your submission: the title of your paper; your full name and contact details; your institutional affiliation (if you have one); abstract of no more than 200 words. For more information on the conference as a whole: http://www.aah.org.uk/confs/2004aah/sessions2004.html

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Call for papers: Queer Performance in the Americas: 1945-1954
Yale University, April 2-4, 2004

We welcome a wide and diverse range of papers, but we also encourage work on the following suggested topics:

Co-sponsored by Yale University’s Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies and the Department of American Studies, the conference will be held at Yale University from April 2 through April 4, 2004. We will not offer honoraria, but we will provide compensation for travel expenses and hotel accommodations. We also plan to publish the conference proceedings in an anthology or a special issue of an academic journal.

The deadline for paper proposals is November 21, 2003, and we will notify all respondents of our selections by mid-December. Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words, along with c.v., to Nicholas Salvato at nicholas.salvato@yale.edu. All attachments must be in Microsoft Word format. Further questions should be directed to Jonathan D. Katz, who directs the Larry Kramer Initiative (jonathan.d.katz@yale.edu). For further information about the Larry Kramer Initiative at Yale please go to www.yale.edu/lesbiangay.

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Call for articles: Women’s Arts News
Looking for front page feature articles.

Women’s Arts News is seeking biographical articles, 700 words maximum, about well-known women visual artists and writers from any time period, art movement or style (fine arts inlcudes painting, sculpting etc, decorative arts, design, photography, and architecture).

Due to limited space articles must be no more than and as close to 700 words as possible. Women’s Arts News is a monthly publication, September through June, produced by Women’s Studio Center Inc, Long Island City, NY. Circulation is throughout the US but mostly in the New York City Tri-State Area. Articles should be written for a general audience, artists, etc. There should be more biographical and factual information and none or less analysis of the artwork.

For information, guidelines and a hard copy of Women’s Arts News please contact Melissa Wolf, Managing Editor at 718-361-5649 or WSC586@aol.com

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“Reversing vandalism”
Vandalized book art project at SFPL

At the beginning of 2001, San Francisco Public Library staff began finding books carved with a sharp instrument, hidden under shelving units. Many of these volumes, eventually numbering over 600, were related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals, as well as AIDS and women’s health issues. Eventually the vandal was caught and charged with a hate crime. The damaged books were assessed, determined to be beyond repair, and withdrawn from the Library’s collection. In an effort to transform this destructive act, the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of SFPL is offering to artists one or more of the destroyed books to create works of art. The resulting artwork will be exhibited in the “Reversing vandalism” exhibition at the Main Library and other possible venues. A Book Request and Artwork Submission form is available at http://www.sfpl.org (under “What’s new”) or from Jim Van Buskirk, Program Manager, Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, SFPL, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA 94102 415-557-4566 or jvanbuskirk@sfpl.org

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See page one for the call for participation in the Caucus exhibition in Seattle, January-February 2004

Queer Caucus for Art newsletter, October 2003
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