<div dir="ltr">Please see call for papers below.<div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Murphy, Kendall M</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Kendall.Murphy@tufts.edu">Kendall.Murphy@tufts.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM<br>Subject: Call for Papers: Tufts University Graduate Symposium<br>To: <a href="mailto:iselda.salgado@ucr.edu">iselda.salgado@ucr.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:iselda.salgado@ucr.edu">iselda.salgado@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg4738179329541923765">
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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.</div>
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The symposium, titled<i> Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance</i>, will be held on<b> March 27, 2026</b> 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.
<b>Submissions are due on or before December 21, 2025. </b>If students have any questions regarding submissions or other inquiries, they are encouraged to reach out via email at
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Kendall Murphy</div>
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<b>Call for Papers</b>: <i>Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance</i> | March 27, 2026</div>
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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Diana Martinez, Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley</div>
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Graduate Student Symposium</div>
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Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Tufts University, Medford, MA</div>
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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
<i>Resistance from Within: Art as Covert Defiance</i>, which will be held on March 27, 2026, in Medford, MA. </div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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Recent scholarship and exhibitions have spotlighted myriad forms of resistance throughout time, including Gregory Sholette’s 2022 book
<i>The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art</i>, the Walker Art Center’s exhibition
<i>Multiple Realities: Navigating Experimental Art in Central Eastern Europe, 1960s-1980s</i>, and the Clark Art Institute’s
<i>A Room of Her Own: Women Artists in Britain, 1875-1945.</i></div>
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Topics may include:</div>
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Decolonial perspectives on art created within the context of Empire</li><li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in">
Feminist interventions across art history</li><li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in">
The role of art in resisting censorship </li><li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in">
Institutional critique from within the institution itself </li><li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 12pt">
Dissent through architecture, street art, and/or monuments</li></ul>
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<b>Submission Guidelines</b>:</div>
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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 <a href="mailto:tufts.grad.symposium@gmail.com" target="_blank">tufts.grad.symposium@gmail.com</a>
by December 21, 2025. Participants will be notified by January 9, 2025.</div>
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