This is an excellent oppty to share your insights. Let me know if you need help getting a proposal together - Liz

The Welch School of Art and Design’s Gallery is organizing a
symposium on Friday February 12, 2010 in celebration of Black History
Month. Graduate and undergraduate students from all GSU departments
are invited to present papers that address any of the following areas
as they pertain to the African and African American artistic experience:
Journey, Representation, Autobiography, Spirituality, Identity,
Critical Perspectives, Race, and Visual Culture. By assembling a
diverse set of papers without temporal or geographical guidelines, the
symposium strives to highlight the variability and complexity of African
and Diasporic cultural and artistic legacies.

Paper presentation time should not exceed 20 minutes. The symposium
space will be equipped to project digital images. Support will be
available for students who wish to receive assistance in polishing their
presentations prior to the symposium.

Please email Waduda Muhammad or Dr. Kimberly Cleveland with paper
topics by 5:00pm Friday December 18, 2009 if you are interested in
participating.

Grad Student Conference
Deadline extended for Politics of Consumption and Leisure Conference
Location: Illinois, United States
Call for Papers Deadline: 2009-02-10
The Politics of Consumption and Leisure

The History Graduate Student Association of Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale HAS EXTENDED ITS DEADLINE FOR PAPERS for its 4th
Annual Conference on April 10-11, 2009. Dr. Eric Reed, noted historian of
the Tour de France, will give the keynote. We are seeking papers on
historical aspects of consumerism, consumption, and leisure activities.
Though criticisms of material, intellectual, and leisure culture are
timeless, investigations of these topics illustrate broader patterns of
cultural, social, and political attitudes and beliefs. Papers that address
marketing/advertising, commercialization, and the growth of consumer
culture, and leisure time, or contemporary critiques of these themes from
the early modern period (c. 1450 CE) to the present from any area of
European, American, or World history are encouraged to submit.
Topic areas may address, but are not limited to:
-Gender, race, class and religion
-colonialism/imperialism or anti-colonial/imperial/revolutionary movements
-food and drink
-nationalism and the state
-elite vs. popular consumption and leisure activities
-sport and recreation
-fashion and clothing
-creative arts (music, film, literature, dance)
-social circulation of ideas and attitudes
-visual culture (monuments, artwork, architecture)
-medicine and health
-technology and/or media
Please send a 100-150 word abstract of your 15-20 minute paper/presentation,
a brief CV, and a list of any audio-visual needs to Donovan Weight by
February 10, 2009.
Donovan Weight
Faner 3321
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale Illinois 62901
Email: dweight@siu.edu