CALL FOR PAPERS:
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts
Conference: November 1-2, 2013
Poignant Prospects: Landscape and the Environment in American Visual Culture, 1750-1890
The
Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) at the American
Antiquarian Society seeks paper proposals that explore how visual
representations of both natural and built environments have changed over
time, and how those changing narratives helped shape American attitudes
toward nature and the environment. How has historical visual culture
contributed to today’s environmental movement? We encourage proposals
for papers that address the issue of landscape broadly defined as
depicted in prints, photographs, political cartoons, book illustrations
(including children’s literature), broadsides, ephemera and other forms
of visual culture. We invite participation and dialog among scholars
from a variety of disciplines including history, American studies, art
history, literary studies, and environmental studies.
Keynote Speaker: Aaron Sachs (Cornell University). His most recent book Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition (2013) has just been published by Yale University Press.
Potential topics and themes include:
- The urban landscape
- The American West and other borderlands
- Exploration and science
- Streetscapes
- The commemorative landscape
- Parks and public spaces
- The ocean as a landscape
- Museum and other displays of natural history
- Transnational comparisons
- Regional identities
- Body/landscape
- Abundance and destruction in landscape imagery
Please
send proposals for 20-minute presentations including a title and
abstract (not to exceed 250 words) and a brief CV to Nan Wolverton,
Director of CHAViC, to nwolverton@mwa.org by March 18, 2013.
Please
also note the availability of short-term fellowships for the study of
visual culture at the American Antiquarian Society. The application
deadline for the 2013-14 fellowship cycle is January 15, 2013.
Information of fellowships can be found at: www.americanantiquarian.org/
Nan Wolverton, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC)
American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester, Massachusetts 01609
www.americanantiquarian.org 
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