[ecrea] Call for papers: The 'Posts' Africa

>The annual South African Visual Arts Historians 
>(SAVAH) conference will be hosted by the Visual 
>Arts Department of Stellenbosch University, 
>Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 4-6 September.
>
>The theme of the conference is:
>
>PAST THE LAST POST: the Posts in (South) Africa
>
>This topic invites a critical consideration of 
>the relevance, appropriateness, and viability of 
>the posts in the study of (South) African 
>visual culture. Post-nationalism, 
>post-colonialism, postmodernism, post-apartheid, 
>post-humanism, post-black, post-feminism are 
>just some of the posts that are used in 
>contemporary discourse around visual culture. Do 
>these terms contribute towards a nuanced 
>interpretation of the (South)African cultural sphere?
>
>Any of the following themes/questions/issues can 
>be seen as in some way or another engaged with some post/s.
>
>1.   Nationalism (as postcolonial phenomenon) 
>and post-nationalism in African/South African visual culture
>
>2.  The human and the post-human in African/South African Art
>
>3.  Postcoloniality and the colonial legacy in 
>contemporary (South) African visual culture
>
>4.   The viability of a postcolonial History of 
>Art (can the subject function outside a European epistemological frame?).
>
>5. Re-fashioning visual culture: fashion for a post-Apartheid South Africa.
>
>6. How Post-Apartheid is South African art and its institutions?
>
>7. Postcolonial perspectives in the study of colonial art and photography
>
>8. Unsettling colonialism, humanism and race: 
>art, the past and its discourses.
>
>9. The commodification of revolt: Corporate 
>sponsorship, markets and money in Post-Apartheid 
>South African art and advertising
>
>10. Localising the global/globalising the local: 
>South African visual culture in cyberspace.
>
>11. Postmodern concepts of embodiment and 
>performance in contemporary African and South African visual culture.
>
>12. [Her]itage and [His]tory: re:considering 
>Gender and South African visual culture from a postmodern perspective.
>
>13. Panafricanism: pre-nationalism, 
>post-nationalism or atavistic essentialism?
>
>14. Race and visual culture in (South Africa): 
>is it too early for a post-black perspective?
>
>15. Spatial dialogues:  visual arts in post 1994 
>commercial / retail architectural spaces
>
>
>Proposals should include a title for your paper 
>and an abstract of between 150 and 300 words in 
>length. Please forward these to Lize van 
>Robbroeck at <mailto:(lvr2 /at/ sun.ac.za)>(lvr2 /at/ sun.ac.za) by Friday 14 March 2008.
>
>
>
>Dr Lize van Robbroeck
>Cell: 0823199991
>w: 021 8083048
>
>

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