AAH2016 Annual Conference and Bookfair
University of Edinburgh
7 - 9 April 2016
The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and reconstructing material
culture
Convenors:
Sarah Laurenson, University of Edinburgh, [log in to unmask]
Freya Gowrley, University of Edinburgh, [log in to unmask]
Material things have been used to fashion identities and form social
relationships throughout history. This panel seeks to shed light on the
intersecting histories of materiality and process in the production and
consumption of material culture. It invites papers that examine how
physical and intellectual practices such as collecting, repurposing and
remaking conveyed materially embedded messages about the subjective
experience of their owner-makers, as well as the period in which they
were undertaken more broadly. Such practices performed not only physical
but semantic changes upon these objects which, due to their revised
contexts, reciprocally enacted changes upon their possessors. Examining
how these processes allowed individuals to construct identities, spaces,
and social bonds, this panel will address issues central to the
‘material turn’ that has characterised recent scholarship within the
humanities and, in particular, that of art history.
Papers concerning all geographical areas and time periods – from the
beginning of human history to the present day – are welcome. Potential
topics could include, but are not limited to:
• object biographies
• construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction
• adaptation and alteration
• quotation and pastiche, bricollage & photomontage
• movement: mobility, translation, and geographical transformation
• composite forms of artistic production: quilting,
shell/feather/paper-work, collaging
• affective, familial, and emotional objects
• modes of acquisition: collection, found objects, inheritance, and gift
exchange
• the relationship between mass production and personal identity
Email paper propsals to the session convenor(s) by 9 November 2015.
Download Paper Proposal Guidelines from
http://www.aah.org.uk/media/docs/Call%20for%20Papers%20format%20guidelines(1).doc
From: http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/sessions2016/session27
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