New Voices Conferences
New Voices are annual, one-day conferences of new doctoral scholarship that take place at different universities throughout the UK.
New Voices Student Conferences
Organised by the AAH Student Members Committee, New Voices one-day conferences provide a forum for current doctoral students of art history and visual culture to present and discuss their current research in a stimulating, informal and supportive context. The conferences are open to all.
New Voices: Art and Decolonisation
16 November 2013
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Call for Papers
Art and its histories have ‘complex entanglements’ with empire and
imperialism, to borrow a phrase from theorist Nikos Papastergiadis. In collaboration with the Henry Moore Institute, New Voices investigates the intersections of art and decolonisation to ask what the specific implications of decolonisation are for art and art history. This symposium turns attention to the geo-political struggles, revolutions and cultural recalibrations that artists and art historians have championed, challenged and negotiated as imperialism and colonialism weakened their grip and took on new forms.
New Voices aims to identify the roles art has played in the volatile moments at the end of various empires in order to ask how has art depicted and enabled the production of cultural identities amidst rapid political change seen in examples that include the decline of the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, decolonisation in the twentieth century, the fall of the Berlin wall, Indian independence and the spirit of liberation that swept across Africa. New Voices is also interested in addressing how the visual arts has resisted and altered the terms of domination or homogeneity in the contexts such as the Arab Spring and international Indigenous struggles for self-determination. The effects of deterritorialisation, migration and modernisation on art and its institutions are of particular interest.
As New Voices is hosted by Henry Moore Institute, a centre for the study of sculpture, we welcome submissions which consider sculpture and the Leeds Museums and Galleries sculpture collections, managed on partnership with the Henry Moore Institute.
We invite proposals that explore themes including:
- Art, national independence and self-determination
- Cultural affirmation and hybridity
- International Indigenous collectives and networks
- Global exhibitions and the complexities of national representation
- Contemporary approaches to ethnographic collections
- Historiography, methodologies and their relationships to decolonisation
- Case studies of how curators, artists and collectors have engaged with postcolonial art historiography to produce new narratives while learning from the past
Submit abstracts of 350 words, with a 150 word biography, to the organisers, Charlotte Stokes, Imogen Wiltshire, Sibyl Fisher and Anna Beketov, by 1 October 2013 via email: artanddecolonisation@gmail.com
Previous 'New Voices' Conferences
Art and its Hierarchies, November 24th 2012, University of Nottingham (timetable, speakers and abstracts)
Madness and Revolt, 25 November 2011, University of Edinburgh (full programme, speaker biographies and paper abstracts)
Art & Tradition, 6 November 2010, University of Birmingham
Art & Desire, 7 November 2009, University of York. (Full timetable, Speaker's Abstracts, Speaker's Biographies)
Art & Authenticity, 1 November 2008, University of Cambridge, Newnham College ( programme)
Art & Memory, Courtauld Institute of Art, London - November 2007 - programme
Surface Effects, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds - June 2007
Picturing People: Image and Representation’, University of Birmingham - May 2006
University of Nottingham - November 2005
Birkbeck College - May 2005
University of Reading - November 2004
Henry Moore Institute - May 2004
Cambridge - November 2003
Loughborough - May 2003
AAH Student Conference
London - November 2001
Plymouth - May 2001
Edinburgh - February 2001
Birmingham - November 2000
Sussex - May 2000
London - November 1999
Liverpool - May 1999
Nottingham - February 1999
Oxford - May 1998
