<div dir="ltr"><b>Proposal deadline extended until April 15!</b><br><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mnnk44462" alt="AHGSA2026.jpg" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="436" height="563"></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" id="gmail-:22t" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem;overflow-x:hidden;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" id="gmail-:22s" style="direction:ltr;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:auto hidden"><div id="gmail-avWBGd-376"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">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?</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Deadline Extended</b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Please submit your abstract and CV to <a href="mailto:ahgsa.ucr@gmail.com" target="_blank">ahgsa.ucr@gmail.com</a> 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 <a href="mailto:ahgsa.ucr@gmail.com" target="_blank">ahgsa.ucr@gmail.com</a> with any questions.<br><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Selected speakers will be notified in late April 2026.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:14.95px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span lang="EN" style="line-height:20.7px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Rachel Shermock, Ph.D. student, History of Art, and AHGSA 2026 conference co-coordinator</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span lang="EN" style="line-height:20.7px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Xinqian Zhang, Ph.D. student, History of Art, and AHGSA 2026 conference co-coordinator</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hq gmail-gt" id="gmail-:235" style="font-size:0.875rem;margin:15px 0px;clear:both;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div></div></div>