<div dir="ltr">Please see call for papers below.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><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">jweems@ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: CFP: WashU Graduate Student Art History Symposium 2026<br>To: Iselda Salgado <<a href="mailto:iselda.salgado@ucr.edu">iselda.salgado@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Please share with the grad students.<div>yours,</div><div>Jason</div><div><br></div><div><br id="m_-5515589642834781220lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><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">A&S GSAHS Committee <<a href="mailto:gsahs@wustl.edu" target="_blank">gsahs@wustl.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>CFP: WashU Graduate Student Art History Symposium 2026</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 8:00:00 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&S GSAHS Committee <<a href="mailto:gsahs@wustl.edu" target="_blank">gsahs@wustl.edu</a>><br></span></div><br><div>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:20.925px">We hope this email finds you well and enjoying a productive semester! The Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington
University in St. Louis is seeking papers for its 2026 Graduate Student Art History Symposium (GSAHS). The theme of the symposium is
<i>"Ghost Stories for Grown-Ups": Hauntings, Afterlives, and Reawakenings</i> and the event will be held in-person on our campus in St. Louis on February 13–14, 2026. The deadline to submit proposals is Monday, December 8, 2025. Selected speakers will be notified
by Friday, January 2, 2026. Please forward the attached CFP to any graduate students to whom this topic might be of interest and feel free to contact
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:20.925px"><b>Jillian Lepek & Hannah Wier</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.7625px"><b>2026 Graduate Student Art History Symposium:
<i>"Ghost Stories for Grown-Ups": Hauntings, Afterlives, and Reawakenings</i></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px 0px 10.6667px">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.7625px"><b>Washington University in St. Louis, February 13–14, 2026</b> <br>
<b>Deadline: December 8, 2025</b> <br>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.7625px">The Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis is seeking papers for its 2026 Graduate
Student Art History Symposium (GSAHS). The theme of the symposium is <i>"Ghost Stories for Grown-Ups": Hauntings, Afterlives, and Reawakenings</i> and the event will be held in-person on our campus in St. Louis on February 13–14, 2026. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px 0px 10.6667px">
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While working on the <i>Mnemosyne Atlas </i>(1925–1929), Aby Warburg characterized his art historical practice as a “ghost story for grown-ups.” As scholars, we are often all too familiar with recurring images, motifs, and ideas that persist in the canon or
emerge from the archive as if of their own volition. Similarly, many communities have their own traditions and tales of spirits or spectral encounters that linger in visual culture. Many studies across the humanities have attended to the culture of the afterlife,
both literally and figuratively. In his book <i>Specters of Marx</i> (1993), Jacques Derrida introduced the theoretical framework of “hauntology” to consider elements of the social and cultural past that endure and reappear in a manner of ghostliness. Furthermore,
sociologist Avery Gordon contends that such hauntings are an index of “dispossession, exploitation, and repression” that reemerge in order to demand being addressed. This symposium seeks to lift the veil by critically engaging with hauntings, afterlives, and
ghostliness as both cultural phenomena and a conceptual model for art historical inquiry. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin:0px 0px 10.6667px">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.7625px">We invite current and recent graduate students in art history, archaeology, visual culture and related disciplines to submit
abstracts for this symposium. Submissions may explore aspects of this theme as manifested in any medium, historical period, cultural, and geographical context. <br>
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<b>Keynote Speaker: </b>Dr. Patrick R. Crowley, Associate Curator of European Art at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University<br>
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<b>We welcome potential topics from any time period/geographical area that contend with ghosts, phantoms, spirits, or hauntings, including but not limited to:</b> </span></p>
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<span style="line-height:19.7625px">Spirit photography </span></div>
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<span style="line-height:19.7625px">Ghosts, spirits, and demons in historical folk and religious art </span></div>
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<span style="line-height:19.7625px">Spectral images in theatre and cabaret performances </span></div>
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<span style="line-height:19.7625px">Paranormal and horror cinema </span></div>
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<span style="line-height:19.7625px">The afterlives of artworks, motifs, notable figures, or ideas </span></div>
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<span style="line-height:19.7625px">The persistence and/or reemergence of repressed peoples, beliefs, and images </span></div>
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<span style="line-height:19.7625px">Art made in the wake of war, genocide, or tragedy </span></div>
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<span style="line-height:19.7625px">Mausoleums, tombs, memorials, or other elements of the built environment meant to connect the living with the dead </span></div>
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<span style="line-height:19.7625px">The display of human remains, sacred relics, and objects that house spirits in museums, cultural institutions, and tourist attractions </span></div>
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<b>To apply:</b> <br>
Submit a 350-word abstract and a CV in a single PDF file by Monday, December 8, 2025, to Jillian Lepek and Hannah Wier at
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(12,100,192);line-height:19.7625px"><a href="mailto:gsahs@wustl.edu" target="_blank">gsahs@wustl.edu</a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.7625px">.
Selected speakers will be notified by Friday, January 2. Paper presentations must not exceed 18 minutes in length and should be accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation. The symposium will be held entirely in-person at Washington University in St. Louis. Modest
honoraria will be provided to student speakers to offset the cost of travel and accommodation.</span></p>
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