CAA's 99th Annual Conference, Feb. 9-12, NY

CAA's 99th Annual Conference
From February 9th to 12th, 2011
New York City, New York

Schedule
Program Session
ARTspace
Special Events
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2011 Awards for Distinction
February 10, 2011, 6:00–7:30 PM, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement: Lynda Benglis

Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work: John Baldessari

Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art: Mieke Bal

Frank Jewett Mather Award: Luis Camnitzer

Distinguished Feminist Award: Faith Ringgold

Distinguished Teaching of Art Award: William Itter

Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award: Patricia Hills

Charles Rufus Morey Book Award: Molly Emma Aitken, The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010)

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award: Darielle Mason, ed., Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009)

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions: Yasufumi Nakamori, Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture; Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2010)

Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize: Ross Barrett, “Rioting Refigured: George Henry Hall and the Picturing of American Political Violence,” The Art Bulletin (September 2010)

Art Journal Award: Kirsten Swenson, Janet Kraynak, Paul Monty Paret, and Emily Eliza Scott, Winter 2010 issue of Art Journal, “Land Use in Contemporary Art” 

CAA/Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation: Joyce Hill Stoner

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Jonathan Kats(University at Buffalo, SUNY, the co-curator of Hide/Seek exhibition) will be the most occupied person this year!!

The central issues of this year's meeting are Global Art History, Gender & Sexuality, LGBT, Visual Studies, and Medium. Among them, the Rise of Visual Studies & Crisis of Art History seems an old topic, but it's been 20 years since the 2 founding conferenced of Visual Studies held. So it's a good time to reflect the new interdisciplinary realm. Some related sessions are:

Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture
The Display of Art and the History of Art History, from the Premodern to the Present
- Chair: Karen Ann Lang, University of Southern California
- Virtual Display: The Role of Drawing in the Early Modern Art Collection
Susan Maxwell, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
- Pattern Book, Museum, and Ethnographic Village: Intersections of Art History and Ethnography in Austria-Hungary
Rebecca Houze, Northern Illinois University
- An Art History of the "Most Neglected": Art History and Ethnology in German-Speaking Scholarship
Priyanka Basu, University of Southern California
- Expansion of the Discursive Field: Harald Szeemann’s "documenta 5" (1972)
Ursula Frohne, University of Cologne, Germany
- Raphael and Stalin in Dresden: Art, Display, and Ideology
Tristan Weddigen, University of Zurich

The Crisis in Art History
- Chair: Patricia Mainardi, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Stephen Murray, Columbia University
- Virginia Rutledge, New York City Bar Association
- Patricia Rubin, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
- David Joselit, Yale University
- Maxwell Anderson, Indianapolis Museum of Art
- Elizabeth Easton, Center for Curatorial Leadership

CAA International Committee
Global Perspectives on the History of Art: Voices from around the World
- Chairs: Jennifer Milam, University of Sydney; Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University
- Architectural History and the Nation: Global and National Paradigms and the Discourse on Early Ottoman Architecture
Suna Cagaptay, Bahcesehir University
- Transatlantic Crossroads: Images of the Lusitanian Empire between Italy, Portugal, and the New World
Maria Berbara, State University of Rio de Janeiro
- Global Perspectives of Modern and Contemporary Art in Indonesia
Thomas Berghuis, University of Sydney
- Producing the Commensurable Other: Contemporary Indian Art and the Lure of the Decorative
Atreyee Gupta, University of Minnesota
- Art History as a Professional Practice: The Context of the Arab World
Howayda Al-Harithy, American University of Beirut

Beyond the "Other": New Paradigms for a Global Art History
- Chairs: Julie Berger Hochstrasser, University of Iowa; Dawn Odell, Lewis and Clark College
- Theorizing the "Global" in Art's History: Historicity and Artefact-hood
Jonathan Harris, University of Liverpool
- Cosmopolitanisms at the Margins: Neo-Classical Temple Architecture in Colonial India
Sugata Ray, University of Minnesota
- Locating Nationality: Attempting to Translate Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy
Shaolan Hertel, Free University, Berlin; and China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
- Art History after Humanism: Ecocriticism, Otherness, and Post-Katrina Aesthetics
Alan Braddock, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
- Discussant: Keith Moxey, Barnard College and Columbia University

Centennial Session
Global Art Histories/Multiple Modernities
- Chairs: Leslie King-Hammond, Maryland Institute College of Art; Sarah Lewis, Yale University
- Mina Cheon, Maryland Institute College of Art
- Lowery S. Sims, Museum of Arts and Design
- Edward J. Sullivan, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
- Paul Chaat Smith, National Museum of the American Indian
- Nyland Blake, International Center for Photography

What Is Visual Studies? An Open Forum
- Chairs: Anne Marie Oliver, Pacific Northwest College of Art; Wiebke Leister, University of the Arts London
- Giuliana Bruno, Harvard University
- Florian Dombois, Hochschule der Kunste Bern
- Richard Grusin, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Heike Kühn, Frankfurter Rundschau
- Tim Mattson, Intel
- W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago
- Laurence Rickels, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Craig Smith, University of Florida
- Thomas Zummer, Hogeschool Sint Lukas Brussel

Society of Contemporary Art Historians
Critical Histories
- Chairs: Tim Griffin, Artforum International; Christine Mehring, University of Chicago
- Thomas E. Crow, New York University
- Diedrich Diedrichsen, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna
- Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Harvard University
- Barbara Rose, independent art historian and curator

Centennial Session
Globalization
- Chairs: James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University
- David Carrier, Case Western Reserve University
- Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University
- Michael Ann Holly, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute