CALL FOR PAPERS

The Graduate Art History Joint Program of Case Western Reserve University
and the Cleveland Museum of Art announce:

The 36th Annual Cleveland Symposium

The Art of Exchange
Cross-Cultural Ideas in a Visual World

Friday, February 26, 2010
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Ohio

The 2010 Cleveland Symposium invites graduate submissions exploring cross-cultural influences throughout the history of art. The exchange of ideas across local, regional, national, and continental borders has been one of the major vehicles by which art changes over time. We are seeking papers using all methodologies that explore these convergences. Examples include cases of  artists influenced by other artists, places, time, culture, history, and any other relationships that are ultimately expressed in visual and material culture. We welcome submissions from graduate students in all stages of their studies and from all fields of art history including Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Contemporary and Non-Western. A monetary prize will be awarded to the speaker who presents the most innovative research in the most successfully delivered paper.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, along with a curriculum vitae, to clevelandsymposium@gmail.com by December 11, 2009.

Selected presenters will be notified by January 1, 2010.

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Above, Detail: John La Farge (American, 1835-1910). A Rishi Stirring Up a Storm, 1897. Watercolor and gouache over graphite; 27.3 x 38.9 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.267