Dear
Colleagues,
I am
organizing a panel for the 2nd European Association for Asian Art
and Archaeology Conference (Zurich, 24-27 August 2017) and I am
looking for 3-4 presenters interested in the topic described below. Please feel free to contact me with any questions and, if you plan
to submit a proposal, please email me as soon as possible indicating your
intention and topic in one or two lines. Thank you!
Best wishes,
Isabella
Nardi
Call for Papers: Transcultural
trajectories in South Asian visual arts before the contemporary period
Panel description: In the past few years, transculturalism
has become a valuable critical tool in the study of contemporary and global South
Asian art and visual culture, whereas this framework of analysis is still marginal
in the study of earlier periods which are often dominated by religious,
textual, dynastic, iconographic, and other Eurocentric narratives, and by regionally
limited investigations permeated by notions of cultural and artistic
authenticity.
The
purpose of this panel is to extend the transcultural lens to the pre-contemporary
art scenes of South Asia - including its ancient, classical, pre-modern and
modern productions - by considering them as manifestations of global flows and,
at the same time, move beyond our established methods in an attempt to reach a
less biased reading of South Asian visual arts.
Papers are
invited to focus on art objects, buildings, iconographies etc., that emerged
from South Asian internal trajectories or from interactions with Asia, Europe,
etc. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
Study of the migration or circulation of
objects, people, ideas, images, themes, techniques etc., to consider them as
vehicles of transcultural interaction.
Analysis of specific sites, group of objects,
themes etc. together with their modes of visual adaptation and appropriation.
Critical assessment of the strengths, limits,
and dissonances that arise in adopting the transcultural lens in the study of
South Asian art history as opposed to the traditional frameworks of
investigation.
Question established terminologies,
geographical boundaries, periodizations, and mutually exclusive binaries that
pervade our field, such as high vs low art (e.g. courtly vs folk
representations), center vs periphery (e.g. imperial vs sub-imperial/provincial
productions), modern vs traditional, authentic vs hybrid, religious vs political.
Abstract: 250 words. Also include
a short bio at the end of the abstract indicating your position and
affiliation. Please submit your abstract to isabella.nardi@yahoo.it by 30 September
2016.
Membership: EAAA membership is
a prerequisite for participation to the conference. Annual membership fees are 30 € (10 € for
students). Please check the website for payments and other conference
information: http://www.ea-aaa.eu/events/events