An extraordinary nineteenth-century American woman, Julia Ward Howe was a courageous abolitionist, suffragist, pacifist, poet, public speaker, and founder of many organizations whose purpose was the intellectual and political advancement of women.  To acknowledge and examine this...

SPECIAL ISSUE:  Mark Twain and the West

The Mark Twain Annual will commemorate the sesquicentennial of Roughing It in 2022 with a special issue devoted to Mark Twain and the West. The Annual is seeking article-length...

Call for Papers
Posted by: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo MI
Deadline: September 30, 2019

The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA) is hosting a symposium on the Bay Area Figurative Movement, its participants, and their significant impact on American...

Governments and private developers have employed built environments to control and regulate racialized bodies. Through the systemic planning of residential and commercial districts, public spaces, and transit, they ensured the growth of isolated enclaves whose economic health varied based on...

Scholars marvel at the intersectionality of works by women of color—not only in terms of how they artfully navigate the borders of identities, but also how their works transgress conventional borders of genres. On the MELUS 2019 Women of Color Caucus panel, participants will consider...

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Black Bibliographia: Print/Culture/Art”

April 26-27, 2019

University of Delaware...

AHAA Symposium 2018 - Twin Cities - Call for Papers
The Fifth Association of Historians of American Art Symposium
October 4-6, 2018
Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

The ...

We are looking for papers that explore the history of making, fabrication, industry, craft, and consumerism in New York--on large and small scales, high design and popular culture, tangible goods and media product--from the Dutch founding of the city, or even before, to the present...

We are accepting proposals for the 3rd annual Borderlands Graduate Symposium to be held at University of Connecticut on March 30 & 31, 2018. This year, the conference theme is “Cartographies of the Body: Subversions. Surveillance. Crossings.” We hope to hear from a wide...