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Call for Papers : â€œWhere is our ecological art history?

July 30, 2013Cultura21, Open Calls40th Anniversary, Art Architecture, Art History, Bookfair, Call For Papers, College Of Art London, Consi, Critical Issue, Critical Issues, Ecological Art, Gender Sexuality, Humanistic Discipline, Including Art, Material Culture, Practice Collections, Royal College Of Art, Royal College Of Art London, Significant Works, Social Identity, Visible Examples

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April 10-12, 2014 : 40th Anniversary, Annual AAH Conference & Bookfair, Royal College of Art, London

Deadline for proposals :Â November 11th 2013

The discipline of art history has proved itself able to look various crises of culture in the face and open up the discipline to ideological struggles and debates. These debates have involved its own politics as a discipline in response to critical issues. Issues of gender, sexuality, race and social identity have strongly inflected the discipline and have importantly shaped its trajectories and characteristic preoccupations over a number of years, but what of the critical issue of our environment? There are some highly significant works which have discussed artâ€™s and artistsâ€™ responses and interventions in the crucial area of ecology, but perhaps less talked about and made visible is art historyâ€™s disciplinary response to crises in nature and the environment throughout its history as a discipline.

AAH2014 will represent the richness and diversity of art historical debate across the broadest sweep of time and space. The conference will unite the interests of art history with those of contemporary practice, as well as a wide diversity of visual and material culture, including art, architecture and design. As it is in close collaboration with museums and galleries, most notably the V&A Museum, the RCA aims to offer a conference exploring â€˜history in the makingâ€™ through engagement with practice, collections and exhibitions.

The aim of this session is to bring this ecological art history to the fore, to uncover, freshly discover and make visible examples of such an ecological art history. The session also offers the opportunity to discuss whether art historyâ€™s status as a â€˜humanisticâ€™ discipline has in the past hindered its concern for the natural world and the environment other than through strong human cultural paradigms, and consider how the discipline has started to change with further interests in â€˜eco-aestheticsâ€™ and other multi-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary approaches to the history of the environment and its critical future : â€œWe feel that this is an extremely prescient moment for the history of art to engage more actively in this cross-disciplinary themeâ€, explains Andrew Patrizio, Professor of Scottish Visual Culture, School of History of Art, University of Edinburgh.

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Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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Sociology of the Arts â€“ Artistic Practices

November 20, 2011Cultura21, Open CallsApril 2007, Art Criticism, Art Theory, Artistic Practices, Berlin Germany, Call For Papers, Commercialisation, Copenhagen Denmark, Core Areas, Cozzolino, European Sociological Association, Film Television, Francesca, Further Development, G Music, Impact Of Technology, Including Art, Kagan, Kajsa, Karlheinz Essl, Koefoed, Members, Mexico City, Music Sociology, Oleg, Paris France, Production Distribution, Rana, Sacha, Schatzki, Scholarly Exchange, Sociologist, Sociologists, Vienna Austria, Vitality

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Vienna

5th to 8th of September 2012

Call for Papers: The 7th Conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts, which is part of the European Sociological Association (ESA), takes place from the 5th to the 8th of September 2012 in Vienna, Austria. The conference will be organised by the Institute for Music Sociology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is an event in a biannual rhythm since 2000. The key aim of these conferences is to enable collaboration and scholarly exchange between art sociologists and other scholars of the arts, and to support the presentation of new research projects. Furthermore, inspiration for the further development of the sociology of the arts can be seen as a goal.

The invited four key speakers, Karlheinz Essl (composer), Nathalie Heinich (sociologist), Theodore Schatzki (philosopher) and Laurent ThÃ©venot (sociologist) will focus their speeches on artistic practices. The conference welcomes participants and papers on all core areas of arts sociology.Â (Please find the PDF file of the call for papers at the bottom of this post.)
Experienced as well as young scholars from various disciplines sensitive to social inquiries into the arts are invited to participate in the conference. Their presentations can be related to following fields:

Sociology focused on particular domains in arts including architecture, urban planning, applied arts, arts within the domain of popular culture (e.g. film, television, and popular music) as well as traditional â€˜highâ€™ arts (e.g. music, visual arts, literature, theatre, etc.).
The process of production, distribution, promotion and commercialisation of works of art including the impact of technology, new means of production, forms of collaboration, the formation of art theory, the development of arts markets, process of valuation etc.
The process of presentation and mediation of arts including art criticism and publicity in all domains of the arts, museums, theatres, concerts, audience studies, attitudes towards the audience, educational programs, etc.
Professional development including amateurs and semi-amateurs, vocational education, art schools, professional differentiation, artistic income, artistic reputation, relation to arts management, etc.
Arts organisations (not only houses such as museums, theatres but also festivals and artistsâ€™ unions) â€“ investigation of historical development, power relations, effects, program selection, processes within the organisations such as gate-keeping, leadership, etc.
Arts policy (especially the sociological aspects thereof) including legal issues, public and private funding, public discourse and debates (e.g. classification of art, arts and religious symbols, arts and sexuality, arts and racism), censorship, analysis of the impact of arts, sustainability, lobbying associations, cultural ministries or other government bodies.
Social and cognitive effects of the arts including:Â arts and identity formation, arts and bodies, aesthetic experience, arts and ethics, coding and decoding, gender related practices, ethnographic aspects, art for social transformation, arts in communities and arts as a part of urban culture.
Arts from a macrosociological perspective including: (de-)institutionalisation, economisation, globalisation vs. localism, digitalisation, mediamorphosis, arts and social cohesion, arts and ethics, arts and hegemony and arts and power.
Theoretical development in arts sociology such as the production of culture approach, (post-) structuralism, field theory, system theory, praxeology as well as methodological issues.

The deadline for submission is the 31st of January 2012.
Further information on the conference and about the application details can be found on the conference website.

The call for papers can be downloaded as PDF file here:

Call for Papers, Vienna 5-8 Sept.2012, ESA-RN02

For further details on the conference please contact zembylas [at] mdw [dot] ac [dot] at or tel. +43-1-71155-3617.

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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Global Survey on Social Sciences and Environmental Crisis

February 19, 2011ecoartscotlandAcademic Disciplines, Academic Knowledge, Assumptions, Curators, Edge Research, Favour, Fremantle, Global Environmental Change, Global Survey, Humanities And Social Sciences, Ihdp, Including Art, International Human Dimensions, International Networks, International Social Science, Questionnaire, Research Associate, School Of Art, Social Science Council, Theoretical Texts

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If you think that your work contributes to the broader understanding of Global Environmental Change then you should probably have a go at filling in this survey.

UNU-IHDP :: IHDP launches Global Survey on Social Sciences.

The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, working in partnership with UNESCO and the International Social Science Council, is trying to assess the extent to which the humanities and social sciences have developed programmes addressing Global Environmental Change, and what the priorities are.

That being said, this questionnaire is based on outdated assumptions about forms of knowledge, and excludes non-traditional academic knowledge including art, inhabitation-based forms of knowledge, and non-human forms of knowledge.

Another weakness is that it would appear to assume competition between academic disciplines, rather than collaboration.Â The ecoart perspective assumes collaboration at its heart.

Finally, the questionnaire appears to breaks up virtuous cycles of knowledge and action in favour of prioritisation for funding purposes.

ecoartscotland is a resource focused on art and ecology for artists, curators, critics, commissioners as well as scientists and policy makers. It includes ecoartscotland papers, a mix of discussions of works by artists and critical theoretical texts, and serves as a curatorial platform.

It has been established byÂ Chris Fremantle, producer and research associate withÂ On The Edge Research,Â Grayâ€™s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University. Fremantle is a member of a number of international networks of artists, curators and others focused on art and ecology.

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