[Ahs-grads] Fwd: [Amart-L] Call for Papers - 21st Annual Yale University American Art Graduate Symposium

[Iselda Salgado]

Please see call for papers below.

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From: Jason Weems <jweems at ucr.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Subject: Fwd: [Amart-L] Call for Papers - 21st Annual Yale University
American Art Graduate Symposium
To: Iselda Salgado <iselda.salgado at ucr.edu>


please forward to grads.



Jason Weems
History of Art Department, Director of Graduate Studies
University of California, Riverside
http://arthistory.ucr.edu

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*From: *"'Aliyah Efotte' via Amart-L" <amart-l at barnard.edu>
*Subject: **[Amart-L] Call for Papers - 21st Annual Yale University
American Art Graduate Symposium*
*Date: *November 5, 2025 at 10:02:49 AM PST
*To: *Amart-L at barnard.edu
*Reply-To: *Aliyah Efotte <aliyah.efotte at yale.edu>

Hello,

I hope this email finds you well. Might you please forward the attached Call
for Papers for the Twenty-first Annual Yale
University American Art Graduate Symposium to the graduate students in your
department? This year's theme is "Local," and the keynote speaker is Dr.
Caitlin Beach from CUNY Graduate Center. *Interested students are invited
to submit an abstract by January 31, 2026.*

Thank you for your help, and please contact
americanist.symposium at gmail.com with
any questions.

Best regards,
Aliyah Efotte
American Art Graduate Symposium Organizing Committee
Department of the History of Art, Yale University

Call for Papers: The Twenty-first Annual Yale University American Art
Graduate Symposium
Theme: Local
Date: April 11, 2026
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Caitlin Beach, Associate Professor of Art History,
CUNY Graduate Center

What is at stake in identifying artists, subjects, materials, and economies
as local? The term commonly circumscribes a particular space while evoking
feelings of inclusion. To be “a local” is to belong to a place or a people,
to have insider knowledge, to see oneself as part of a community, to be and
feel at home. From quilts made by generations of Black women in Gee’s Bend
to the centuries-long production of lienzos by Ñuu Dzaui, Nahua, and other
Indigenous artists, objects play outsized roles in shaping and defining the
local. Embracing the local may also function as a subversive move.
Establishing a local artistic identity can oppose hegemonic national
narratives, a gesture in line with what Arjun Appadurai has termed “the
production of locality.” Maroon communities in the Caribbean, for instance,
blended West African traditions with Taino knowledge and indigenous
materials to assert their own definitions of place within imperial
landscapes.

Across time, place, and media, artists and viewers alike have imagined and
reimagined the local, stretching and compressing its contours to define who
falls within its bounds. The term’s elasticity continues to provide fertile
ground for new interpretations within art history and beyond. How does the
local open onto discourses of repatriation and conservation, or histories
of migration, diaspora, and Indigeneity? How do we navigate the term
alongside related concepts like intimacy, insularity, and domesticity? How
might locality interface with decoloniality?

Featuring Dr. Caitlin Beach as our keynote speaker, the Twenty-first Annual
Yale University American Art Graduate Symposium asks what centering the
local affords art historical inquiry. We welcome submissions exploring art,
architecture, performance, and visual and material culture across the
Americas, including the Caribbean, North, Central, and South America.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:


   - Community-based artistic practices, collectivized artistic labor, and
   local artistic identity
   - Local materialities and histories of industry
   - Indigenous understandings of space, the local, and (home)lands
   - Site specificity and placemaking
   - Local audiences and reception
   - The local in relation to provincialism, urbanism, and cosmopolitanism
   - Local ecologies and economies; agrarianism and rural uplift
   - Tourism and the commodified local
   - The local and the nation state, narratives of locality and universality


You are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 350 words and a CV to
americanist.symposium at gmail.com by January 31, 2026. Accepted participants
will be notified in mid-February. “Local” will take the form of a day-long,
in-person symposium, with food and hotel accommodations provided for all
speakers.


-- 
*Aliyah Efotte*
GSAS Post-Baccalaureate Research Education (PREP) Scholar│History of Art
e: aliyah.efotte at yale.edu

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