[Ahs-grads] CFP - AHGSA 2026 Conference - Deadline extended!

[Rachel Shermock]

*Proposal deadline extended until April 15!*

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We welcome papers that attend to objects as physical and spatial
presences–shaped by texture, labor, technique, and geology–and as agents
embedded in systems of circulation, power, and belief. How do materials
anchor art in specific places and ecologies? How do objects move through
economic, colonial, religious, and institutional networks? How do processes
of extraction, touch, decay, and repair entangle symbolic meaning with
lived experience?


*Deadline Extended*

Please submit your abstract and CV to ahgsa.ucr at gmail.com by April 15th,
2026, at 11:59 pm PST. We invite abstracts of no more than 300 words for
online 10-12-minute paper presentations. Proposals from graduate students
and independent scholars across the humanities will be considered,
including Art, Art History, Anthropology, Classics, Literature, Dance
Studies, Ethnic Studies, Global Studies, History, Media and Cultural
Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Philosophy, among others. Contact us
at ahgsa.ucr at gmail.com with any questions.

Selected speakers will be notified in late April 2026.




Rachel Shermock, Ph.D. student, History of Art, and AHGSA 2026 conference
co-coordinator

Xinqian Zhang, Ph.D. student, History of Art, and AHGSA 2026 conference
co-coordinator
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