[Ahs-grads] Fwd: Call for Papers: Tufts University Graduate Symposium

[Iselda Salgado]

Please see call for papers below.

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From: Murphy, Kendall M <Kendall.Murphy at tufts.edu>
Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Subject: Call for Papers: Tufts University Graduate Symposium
To: iselda.salgado at ucr.edu <iselda.salgado at ucr.edu>


Good Morning,
My name is Kendall Murphy and I am a MA candidate in the Department of the
History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University. I am reaching out on
behalf of the Tufts History of Art and Architecture Graduate Student
Symposium Committee to share a Call for Papers with your department and
colleagues.

The symposium, titled* Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance*,
will be held on* March 27, 2026* in Medford, MA. Attached, please find a
PDF version of the CFP flyer, along with a text version written below. We
would be grateful if you could help us circulate this announcement to
graduate students (MA or PhD) who may be interested in contributing.
*Submissions
are due on or before December 21, 2025. *If students have any questions
regarding submissions or other inquiries, they are encouraged to reach out
via email at *tufts.grad.symposium at gmail.com
<tufts.grad.symposium at gmail.com>* or email me personally at
*kendall.murphy at tufts.edu
<kendall.murphy at tufts.edu>*.

Thank you for your help in sharing this opportunity!

Best regards,
Kendall Murphy

*If this email has reached the incorrect recipient, we sincerely apologize
and kindly request that it be forwarded to the appropriate contact. We
greatly appreciate your assistance in this matter.*


*Call for Papers*: *Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance* | March
27, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Diana Martinez, Assistant Professor of Architecture,
UC Berkeley
Graduate Student Symposium
Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Tufts University,
Medford, MA
The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University
invites graduate students to submit paper proposals for the 2026 Graduate
Symposium titled *Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance*, which
will be held on March 27, 2026, in Medford, MA.
In 1984, Lucy Lippard asked if the Trojan Horse was the first work of
activist art. Written during the first Reagan administration, Lippard’s
famous essay posits activist art as working both “within and beyond the
beleaguered fortress that is high culture or the ‘art world.’” (Lippard,
1984, p. 1) This symposium seeks to explore how art throughout history has
worked as a Trojan Horse, quietly maneuvering across tangible and
figurative boundaries, defying the restrictions of authoritative
institutions, and subverting societally imposed conventions and
expectations.
In the interest of tracing a broad spectrum of activist stories, we
encourage diverse perspectives on art and defiance throughout art history,
spanning time, place, and media. Examples could range from marginalia in
medieval manuscripts that deride members of the clergy, to Impressionist
painters who counter conventional gender norms in their work, and from
Cuban artists who subvert propaganda using the principles and visual
language of Pop Art.
Recent scholarship and exhibitions have spotlighted myriad forms of
resistance throughout time, including Gregory Sholette’s 2022 book *The Art
of Activism and the Activism of Art*, the Walker Art Center’s
exhibition *Multiple
Realities: Navigating Experimental Art in Central Eastern Europe,
1960s-1980s*, and the Clark Art Institute’s *A Room of Her Own: Women
Artists in Britain, 1875-1945.*
Topics may include:

   - Decolonial perspectives on art created within the context of Empire
   - Feminist interventions across art history
   - The role of art in resisting censorship
   - Institutional critique from within the institution itself
   - Dissent through architecture, street art, and/or monuments

*Submission Guidelines*:
The symposium will feature 20-minute presentations. We welcome submissions
from graduate students in all fields and disciplines. For consideration,
please submit a title and abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a
brief biography, to tufts.grad.symposium at gmail.com by December 21, 2025.
Participants will be notified by January 9, 2025.
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