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CAA 106th Annual Conference, New York, February 21-24, 2018
LA Convention Center
February 21–24, 2018
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Wednesday
02/21/2018
8:30am
“Against Algorithms (Or the Arts of Resistance in the Age of Quantification)”
Room 409A
“Framing the Struggle: Early Twentieth-Century Women Modernists”
Room 501C
“Sport, Fitness, and Wellbeing in Art History”
Room 404B
“Viral Media and South Asia”
Room 407
10:30am
“A Public Art Primer: Expanding Form and Content”
Room 506
“Alternative Visions: The Photograph, Self-Representation, and Fact in Contemporary Art of the United States”
Room 505
“Art/Data”
Room 402B
“Regionalism in the Global Era”
Room 405
“Shifting Sands: New Trends in Visual Resource Services” (Visual Resources Association VRA)
Room 406B
“State of the Art (History): Re-Examining the Exam” (Art Historians Interested in Pedagogy and Technology AHPT)
Room 402A
“Travel, Diplomacy, and Networks of Global Exchange in the Early Modern Period, Part I”
Room 404A
2:00PM
“Art, Agency, and the Making of Identities at a Global Level, 1600–2000, Part I”
Room 405
“Disciplinary Distinctions: Art History / Visual Studies / Studio Art” (Professional Practices Committee)
Room 402A
“Keeping Up Appearances: Historicizing Trans and Gender Variance in and across Art History”
Room 501C
4:00PM
“Data Publics: Art in the Age of Platforms”
Room 402B
“Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA — Case Studies in Teaching from Exhibitions”
Room 403B
“Travel, Diplomacy, and Networks of Global Exchange in the Early Modern Period, Part II”
Room 503
Thursday
02/22/2018
8:30am
“Italian Renaissance Art in the Age of Leonardo, Part I”
Room 404A
“Learning from Elsewhere: Critical Arts Pedagogies in the University”
Room 406A
“Projecting the Body: Beyond the Ocular”
Room 501A
10:30am
“Calligraphy’s Visuality in China”
Room 501C
“Picturing Property: Real Estate in American Visual Culture, 1840–1920”
Room 506
2:00PM
“Imperial Islands: Vision and Experience in the American Empire after 1898 “
Room 506
“Intercontinental: Indigenous Artists of the Americas on the Contemporary Art Stage”
Room 409B
4:00PM
“Collecting, Cutting, and Collaging”
Room 406B
6:00PM
“Movements in Art and Activism: Radical Practice in California and Beyond”
Room 405
“Teaching and Writing the Art Histories of Latin American Los Angeles” (Art Historians of Southern California AHSC)
Room 403B
Friday
02/23/2018
8:30am
“Alt-Aesthetics: The Alt-Right and the New Turn in Appropriation”
Room 404B
“Circuits of Belonging: Rerouting Blackness in the Imaginary”
Room 408A
“Design and Neoliberalism: The Economics and Politics of “Total Design” across the Disciplines” (Design Studies Forum DSF)
Room 402A
“Italian Renaissance Art in the Age of Leonardo, Part II “
Room 410
“Speech Balloons and Thought Bubbles: Architecture and Cartoons”
Room 406A
10:30am
“America Is (Still) Hard to See: New Directions in American Art History”
Room 408A
“Climate Aesthetics in the Anthropocene”
Room 405
“Recipes for Revolution from Feminist Artists of Color” (Women’s Caucus for Art WCA)
Room 501B
2:00PM
“A Critical Conversation on Affect Theory, Neuroscience, and Art-Science Collaborations”
Room 405
“Art and the Cold War in East Asia: The Long 1970s”
Room 409B
“Art on the Nature of Data about Nature”
Room 501A
“Mobilities: Brazil and Beyond” (National Committee for the History of Art NCHA)
Room 404A
“Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Appropriation in the History of Design”
Room 402A
“The 1790s” (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies ASECS)
Room 503
“Voices to Be Heard: Art in the Face of Alienation”
Room 406B
“Women Artists, Social Issues, and the Resistance” (Coalition of Women in the Arts Organizations CWAO)
Room 501B
4:00PM
“‘Change the Joke, Slip the Yoke’ Twenty Years Later: African American Artists and ‘Negative’ Imagery”
Room 408A
“Art and Reason: Art’s Possible Worlds”
Room 405
“Place and Agency in Ancient American Murals and Monuments, Part I”
Room 402B
“Taking it to the Streets: The Visual and Material Culture of Women’s Marches” (Committee on Women in the Arts)
Room 501B
6:00PM
“African Americans and US Law in Visual Culture”
Room 408A
“Destabilizing the Geographic in Modern and Contemporary Art”
Room 406B
“Place and Agency in Ancient American Murals and Monuments, Part II “
Room 402B
Saturday
02/24/2018
10:30am
“Recuperation”
Room 406A
“The Art of Image Description” (The Art of Image Description)
Room 408A
2:00PM
“Fashion, Costume, and Consumer Culture in Iberia and Latin America: A Sessions in Honor of Gridley McKim-Smith” (American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies ASHAHS)
Room 405
“Histories of Fake News”
Room 503
4:00PM
“Fear of the Unknown” (Mid-America College Art Association MACAA)
Room 402B
“New Directions in Black-British Art History”
Room 409A
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