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CFP: Visual Cultures of Radical Extraction in the long 19th century
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Posted by: Nineenth Century Studies Association
Deadline: Wed, September 1st, 2021
CFP: Session at NCSA Rochester, New York, Mar 16–19, 2022.
Deadline: Sep 1, 2021 Panel Chairs: Emily Gephart and Maura Coughlin
This panel will happen in person at the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association annual conference in Rochester New York in March 2022.
We seek 15-20 minute papers that discuss worldwide visual culture of the long 19th century and that engage with conceptions of “nature” as extractable “resources.”
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Resources aquatic, biotic, terrestrial and finite
--Mining, other energy extraction, deforestation or other radical removals
--Potential energy (waterfalls, wind)
--Extracting indigenous and local knowledges; bio-prospecting
--Animal products: guano, fur, oil, etc.
--Plant ways and uprooting
--Sourcing art materials
--Commodification of “exotics”
--Cultural appropriations
Please email a 150 word abstract and CV to Emily.gephart@tufts.edu and mcoughli@bryant.edu by September 1, 2021
CFP: Session at NCSA (Rochester, 16-19 Mar 22). In: ArtHist.net, Jul 5, 2021. <https://arthist.net/archive/34488>.
Posted on Wed, July 7th, 2021
Expires on Wed, September 1st, 2021
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