Relational subjects, objects and institutions: Artistic Convergences between Latin America and Europe in the Postwar

Through an open call, the organizers invite interdisciplinary scholarship from academics, researchers, postgraduates and practitioners to submit proposals. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Histories of migration and exile
Transnational itineraries, circulation and encounters
Infrastructures and institutional practices of exchange
The role of museums and collections
Parallel artistic movements
Multi-local networks
Cities, sites and other spaces of interaction
Diasporic artistic productions
Cosmopolitan identities and internationalist ambitions
Shifting concepts of transnationalism, post-nationalism, internationalism
Strategic regionalisms
Colonial and decolonial processes
Division and dictatorial repression in Europe and/or Latin America and cross-geographic strategies of dissent

Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short CV to: f.martinezsevilhano@uva.nl and e.mazadiego@uva.nl by Friday 6 January, 2023. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by 31 January 2023. The conference is scheduled to take place on 8-9 June, 2023 at the University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Some support may be available to cover participants’ travel expenses.