Worlding Decolonial Knowledges in Modern and Contemporary Art
Worlding the Global: The Arts in an Age of Decolonization
November 8-11, 2019
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Call for Proposals:
Early Career Researchers’ Workshop
Worlding Decolonial Knowledges in Modern and Contemporary Art
With generous support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis at Carleton University will host a workshop for early career researchers on November 10, 2019. We invite graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, early-career artists, and curators from all regions of the world to submit a short abstract of research or a project-in-progress that considers the world-making and decolonial capacities of modern and contemporary art from any relevant geocultural perspective. The workshop is part of Worlding the Global: The Arts in an Age of Decolonization, a four-day international academy designed to collaboratively re-imagine and pluralize the ‘global’ from
multiple geocultural perspectives.
This workshop for early career researchers responds to the academy’s relational understanding of the global and to its emphasis on the world-making and decolonial capacities of modern and contemporary art. Recent studies in global art history call for a fundamental paradigm shift, taking aim at neoliberal conceptions of the ‘global’ witnessed through expansive networks of culture and capital that start from a colonial centre and disperse to its peripheries. Worlding, a concept rooted in phenomenological thinking, enters into this… READ MORE