American Art, the peer-reviewed journal co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Chicago Press, seeks to publish papers that explore the intersections of disability studies and the histories of American art, architecture, and design. What perspectives, insights, and forms of redress does disability studies bring to American art history? Where does…
CFP: Words for Disability Art History, edited volume
We invite submissions for a peer-reviewed, English-language edited volume on disability and art history. Art history and disability studies share foundational terms, concepts, and interests, but rarely explicitly exchange methodological reflection. This edited volume asks both fields to invest in their shared potential and productive tensions, creating experimental dialogs between art historical case studies and…
CFP: Queer Cripping, Art, and Resistance
deadline for submissions: May 31, 2024 full name / name of organization: Iraboty Kazi, University of Western Ontario contact email: ikazi3@uwo.ca UAAC Panel Session Queerness and disability have long intersected, from the medicalization of queerness, institutionalization, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic to contemporary address, such as the ongoing suppression of…
CFP: Laughter is the Best Medicine? Visual Histories of Health and Humour
Co-editors Dr Christine Slobogin, Dr Katie Snow, and Laura Cowley are pleased to announce a call for chapter proposals for an edited volume exploring vibrant intersections of humour, visual culture, and the health humanities. This volume examines what role visual humour has had and continues to play in healing and healthcare, as well as in…
Panel: Pathologies, Punchlines, Power: The Medicalized Body, Humour and Art
The Confabulations panel “Pathologies, Punchlines, Power: The Medicalized Body, Humour and Art,” which will address the role of visual humor in medical texts across history, will take place on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from 10:00 to 11:30 AM CDT. Further details and free registration can be found at the link below.
