<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Please see call for papers below.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jason Weems</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jweems@ucr.edu" target="_blank">jweems@ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: [Amart-L] Call for Papers - 21st Annual Yale University American Art Graduate Symposium<br>To: Iselda Salgado <<a href="mailto:iselda.salgado@ucr.edu" target="_blank">iselda.salgado@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="line-break:after-white-space">please forward to grads.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br id="m_-5839865917724979382m_-1049944672064056635lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
<div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;line-break:after-white-space"><div>Jason Weems<br>History of Art Department, Director of Graduate Studies<br>University of California, Riverside<br><a href="http://arthistory.ucr.edu" target="_blank">http://arthistory.ucr.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">"'Aliyah Efotte' via Amart-L" <<a href="mailto:amart-l@barnard.edu" target="_blank">amart-l@barnard.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>[Amart-L] Call for Papers - 21st Annual Yale University American Art Graduate Symposium</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">November 5, 2025 at 10:02:49 AM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:Amart-L@barnard.edu" target="_blank">Amart-L@barnard.edu</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Aliyah Efotte <<a href="mailto:aliyah.efotte@yale.edu" target="_blank">aliyah.efotte@yale.edu</a>><br></span></div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Hello,</font></div><div><div><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><font size="2">I hope this email finds you well. Might you please forward the attached <font size="2">Call for Papers for the <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span>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 </font></font>CUNY Graduate Center<font size="2"><font size="2">. <b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span>Interested students are invited to submit an abstract by January 31, 2026.</b></font></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><font size="2">Thank you for your help, and please contact <a href="mailto:americanist.symposium@gmail.com" target="_blank">americanist.symposium@gmail.com</a> with any questions.</font><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Best regards</span>,</font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Aliyah Efotte</span><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">American Art Graduate Symposium Organizing Committee</font></div><div><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">Department of the History of Art, Yale University</font></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><span id="m_-5839865917724979382m_-1049944672064056635m_5264223077941823765gmail-docs-internal-guid-a65b124c-7fff-8a04-fab2-8d38ee011e79"><font face="georgia, serif"><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Call for Papers: </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Twenty-first Annual Yale University American Art Graduate Symposium</span></div><div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Theme: Local</span></div><div style="line-height:1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