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INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE

One of the programs of CAA’s International Committee is the CAA-Getty International Program. Pictured here are participants at the 2019 Annual Conference in New York. Photo: Ben Fractenberg

DESCRIPTION

The International Committee (IC) seeks to foster an international community of artists, designers, scholars, and critics within CAA; to provide forums in which to exchange ideas and make connections; to encourage engagement with the international visual arts community; to develop relationships between CAA and organizations outside the United States with comparable goals and activities; and to assist the CAA Board of Directors by identifying and recommending advocacy issues that involve CAA and cross national borders. Current activities focus on art historians, curators, and artists who teach art history; however, plans are underway to develop robust programs for visiting artists and designers. In the future, the committee also hopes to involve international students in its programs.

IC Subcommittees 

The work of the International Committee is organized into four subcommittees. All members serve on one of them throughout their three-year membership term, though they can change committees from year to year. 

  1. Conference Session Subcommittee 

    2. Task: To identify the session topic, solicit session papers, and fully constitute the session panel for the CAA Annual Conference 

    Upcoming and Recent Activities:

    “Art, Its History, and Institutions in the Age of AI and Posthumanism,” International Committee sponsored session, CAA 113th Annual Conference, New York, February 2025.  

    "Rethinking the Landscape: Future Imaginaries in Environmental Art and Eco-Art History,” International Committee sponsored session, CAA 112th Annual Conference, Chicago, February 2024.  

    "The Aesthetics of Resistance: Artists Respond to Armed Conflict from Home,” International Committee sponsored session, CAA 111th Annual Conference, New York, February 2023. 

    "Whose Heritage? Global, National and Local Debates on the Protection, Restoration and Restitution of Cultural Heritage" International Committee sponsored session, CAA 110th Annual Conference, Virtual, February 2022.   

  2. International News Subcommittee 

    3. Task: To develop new initiatives that discuss international topics with and by international scholars. Previously for publication in CAA News.

    Past Publications under International News:

  3. CAA-Getty International Program Subcommittee 

    4. The CAA-Getty International Program, funded by the Getty Foundation since 2011, brings a cohort of international scholars to CAA Annual Conferenes. Each year the program includes a preconference colloquium on international issues in art history, a program alumni conference session, and an online discussion forum to explore international issues with alumni of the program. CAA staff works to deliver this program in consultation with the International Committee.  

    Tasks:  

    • To help form the jury that selects the annual CAA-Getty International Program participants.   
    • To identify session topics and help organize the annual CAA-Getty Preconference Colloquium.  
    • To work with alumni to advise new participants in preparing their presentations for the annual CAA-Getty Preconference Colloquium on international topics in art history.  
    • To work with CAA staff to invite US-based CAA members to serve as hosts for their international colleagues.  
    • To help produce the CAA-Getty Preconference Colloquium and the Alumni Global Conversations conference sessions at the CAA Annual Conference.  

    Upcoming and Recent Activities:  

    • “Situated Knowledges and Trans-disciplinarity: Positionality and Embodiment in Methodologies of Art History and Visual Culture,” CAA-Getty alumni session, CAA 113th Annual Conference, New York, February 2025. 
  4. International Program for Artists and Designers Subcommittee 

    5. Task: To develop an international program to bring artists and designers to the CAA Annual Conference. 

    Recent Activities: 

    • Co-convened panel with Committee on Design "Global Design Practices and their Socio-Political Impact”, CAA 110th Annual Conference in New York, NY, February 2022.
    • Developing its program, including online activities.  

Current Committee Members

Sarena Abdullah, Chair, Universiti Sains Malaysia (2025) 

Noit Banai, Hong Kong Baptist University (2027)
Susanneh Bieber, Texas A&M University (2027)
Hairi Han, Benedictine University (2026)
Brigitta Isabella, Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta (2027)
Paul Jaskot, Duke University, NCHA President, ex officio  
Nazar Kozak, National Academy of Sciences & Ivan Franko University of Lviv, CAA Board Liaison, ex officio
Ewa Machotka, Stockholm University (2026)
Mar Morosse, Baruch College CUNY (2027)
Felipe Ney, Independent Transdisciplinary Scholar (2027)
Marsha Pearce, The University of the West Indies (2027)
Adity Saxena, Woxsen School of Arts & Design, CAA Board Liaison, ex officio
Doris Sung, University of Alabama (2025)  
Tsultem (Orna) Uranchimeg, Indiana University Herron School of Art + Design (2025)  
Christiane Wagner, University of São Paulo (2025)