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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
“Ariadne’s Thread: Understanding Eurasia Through Textiles”
Room 408B
“Imitation, Influence, and Invention in the Enlightenment” (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture HECAA)
Room 501B
“Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Materialism and Ephemeral Prints” (Association of Print Scholars APS)
Room 406B
“Viral Media and South Asia”
Room 407
10:30am
“Localizing History through Donor Portraits: Images of Donors and Ritual Scenes in Early Medieval South Asia”
Room 407
“Socialist Realism Reconsidered: New Readings of Russian Cultural Policy 1920–1930s”
Room 501A
“The Elements and Elementality in Art of the Premodern World”
Room 408A
“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
“The Tool: Cultural Expressions, Histories, Rhetoric, and Agency”
Room 406B
“Unruly Women in Early Modern Art and Material Culture” (Society for the Study of Early Modern Women SSEMW)
Room 404A
4:00PM
“All in the Family: Northern European Artistic Dynasties, ca. 1350–1750” (Historians of Netherlandish Art HNA)
Room 404A
“Breaking Down Barriers: The Visual Culture of the Border in Late Antiquity”
Room 408A
“Faithful Copies: On Replication and Creative Agency in Buddhist Art, Part I”
Room 407
“Travel, Diplomacy, and Networks of Global Exchange in the Early Modern Period, Part II”
Room 503
Thursday
02/22/2018
8:30am
“Art Historical Ecology: Asian Perspectives”
Room 501B
“British Abstraction after World War II”
Room 407
“Craft and Resistance”
Room 408B
“Faithful Copies: On Replication and Creative Agency in Buddhist Art, Part II”
Room 402B
10:30am
“Materiality and Metaphor: The Uses of Gold in Asian Art”
Room 407
2:00PM
“Imperial Islands: Vision and Experience in the American Empire after 1898 “
Room 506
“Islamic Art Circa 1900” (Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey AMCA)
Room 503
“Object – Event – Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s”
Room 501A
4:00PM
“Collecting, Cutting, and Collaging”
Room 406B
“Permanence/Impermanence: Materiality in the Precolumbian World”
Room 409B
“Save Our Children! That Sweet, Sweet Pie in Anita Bryant’s Face”
Room 405
“Touch and Tooling: A Social and Historical Perspective on Craft and Engagement in Contemporary Ceramics”
Room 408B
6:00PM
“Medium Sensitivity and the Ingenuity of Translation”
Room 402A
“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
“Casts: Plaster and Pedagogy”
Room 409A
“Global Conversations – Border Crossings: The Migration of Art, People, and Ideas” (CAA-Getty International Program and International Committee)
Room 403B
10:30am
“Art in Middle Eastern Diplomacy, Part I: Politics and Museums”
Room 503
“Digital Craft: A Historical Perspective”
Room 408B
“Florence, Berlin, and Beyond: Social Network and the Late Nineteenth-Century Art Market, Part II”
Room 404A
“Imagining the International: Repositioning Peripheral Narratives in Global Design Histories” (Design History Society)
Room 402A
“Repair and Maintenance in Art, Architecture, and Design, Part I”
Room 406A
2:00PM
“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
4:00PM
“Crafted InSites”
Room 408B
“Place and Agency in Ancient American Murals and Monuments, Part I”
Room 402B
“Repair and Maintenance in Art, Architecture, and Design, Part II”
Room 406A
“Taking it to the Streets: The Visual and Material Culture of Women’s Marches” (Committee on Women in the Arts)
Room 501B
6:00PM
“Craft: Unsettling Hierarchies”
Room 408B
“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
8:30am
“De-Centering the “Global Renaissance”: Encounters with Asia and the Pacific Rim” (Renaissance Society of America RSA)
Room 404A
“Material Culture and Art History: A State of the Field(s) Panel Discussion” (Association of Research Institutes in Art History ARIAH)
Room 410
10:30am
“Critical Craft: Voice of the Object “
Room 408B
“Materials, Makers, and Commissions: Moving Objects between Asia, Europe, and the Americas during Early Modern Globalization”
Room 404A
2:00PM
“Critical Craft: Craft’s Evolving Relationship with Industry”
Room 408B
“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
“Medieval Echo Chambers: Ideas in Space and Time” (International Center of Medieval Art ICMA)
Room 403B
“Mobilities: Italy and the New World”
Room 404A
4:00PM
“Critical Craft: What Craft Archives?”
Room 408B
“No Discipline”
Room 408A
“Speculative Play”
Room 402A
“Surrealism’s Subversive Taxonomies”
Room 501B
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