Open Session for Emerging Scholars of Latin American Art
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Association for Latin American ArtThe aim of the ALAA-sponsored open session is to provide a platform at the annual conference to highlight work produced by advanced graduate students and recent Ph.D.’s, who concentrate on the histories of Latin American and U.S. Latinx arts and/or visual and material cultures. Papers may focus on any region, period, or theme related to the Latin American and Latinx experience, including, Pre-Hispanic/Ancient American art, colonial/viceregal art, art of the nineteenth century, modern art, and contemporary art, including folk/popular art and craft studies, from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S. In reviewing submissions and selecting the papers for the session, the co-chairs will be looking for strong proposals that cover a range of subjects across each of the noted areas.
Subject Areas: Latin America, U.S., Mesoamerica, Andes, New Spain, Peru, Caribbean, Central America, South America, ancient art, indigenous art, colonial art, nineteenth-century art, modern art, contemporary art, Latinx art, innovative methodologies, historiography.
Association for Latin American Art (ALAA) membership is not required when submitting a paper proposal; however, all speakers must be active members at the time of the annual meeting.
Field of Study:
Latin America
Mexico
Central America
Caribbean
United States of America
Chairs:
Ray Hernández-Durán,University of New Mexico - rhernand@unm.edu
and
Ana Maria Reyes,Boston University - amreyes@bu.edu