Call for Session Proposals

Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference 5-8 December 2014
Launceston, Tasmania
The conference theme, GEOcritical, is a concoction that both delimits and opens up creative speculation. Taking the GEO prefix sits us firmly on earth, world, ground, and by extension, in specific places and conditions of being. Importantly for this conference, it can be the place from which to speak or create. Together with GEO, ‘critical’ can work in at least two ways: for example, referencing critique (in speaking, writing, process, action) in both its contemporary and historical frames; or in reference to the current state of the world or earth in which artists, designers and architects must inevitably intervene.

GEOcritical can drive discussion on both historical and contemporary creativity. At the broadest level, issues that might be addressed include: empires and imaging; shifting subjectivities; unstable centres and dissolving peripheries; vernacularisms; anxieties and urgency; transculturalism and migratory artists; spatial negotiations; land shaping; material/ immaterial; biographies; ecoventions.
 
Potential session convenors should send proposals in an email to the Session Curators:
Dr Karen Hall: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dr Deborah Malor: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Proposals should comprise: 300 word session proposal; 150 words on how the session articulates with the conference theme, GEOcritical; contact details (email/ phone) and affiliation of the proposer/s.  Each panel will be of 3 papers (double panels by negotiation with Session Curators).

Any questions regarding panels should be addressed to the Session Curators

Deadline for Sessions Proposals with the Session Curators: Friday 23 May 2014

KEY DATES
Close of call for session convenors
Friday 23 MayCall for papers
Monday 9 JuneClose of calls for papers
to session convenors
Friday 29 August

Call for participation in
postgraduate workshops
Friday 26 September

Program on web
Friday 3 October

Early bird registration
Friday 3 October – Friday 7 November

Open registration
Saturday 8 November

Conference postgraduate day
Friday 5 December
Conference
Saturday 6 – Sunday 7 December
Conference Optional Day (Hobart)
Monday 8 December

NOTE: dates shown are a guide only
and may change in response to
organisational requirements. Watch
the AAANZ website for updates.

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