[Commlist] cfp: Illustration & Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures

ILLUSTRATION & HERITAGE: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures

EXTENDED DEADLINE- extended to the 14th of April, 2024.


On 22 and 23 November 2024, the 14th Annual International Illustration 
Research Symposium will explore the role illustration plays in cultural 
heritage. Hosted by the Illustration Programme at Camberwell College of 
Arts, University of the Arts London, Illustration & Heritage: Sharing 
Histories to Draw Out Futures will present panels, papers, and posters 
by practitioners and researchers from the fields of illustration and 
heritage, who explore the active processes of heritage-making.

In what ways do contemporary illustrators participate in historical 
narratives and give voice to people and communities — both remembered 
and forgotten — through their work? How are historical relics, places, 
and events represented through illustrative processes? How do 
researchers and practitioners in heritage utilise the practices, 
research methods and processes of illustration? How does heritage shape 
the perspectives, positions, and identities of illustration 
practitioners and researchers? How is the process of heritage-making 
practised by illustrators around the world? How do illustrative 
processes — and the shared languages of categorising, curating, 
conserving, and communicating heritage  — bring illustration into the 
realms of archaeology, museology, curation, and other heritage 
practices? Do illustrators who engage with heritage-making as part of 
their practice communicate and reflect what Stuart Hall described as a 
‘collective social memory’?  Who should be making the images that shape 
the future histories of culture and identity? When practising 
heritage-making with or through illustration, how do we make space for 
plurality, and how do we reflect on our subjectivity?

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NOTES:
Harrison, Rodney (2005) ‘Beyond “Natural” and “Cultural” Heritage: 
Toward an Ontological Politics of Heritage in the Age of Anthropocene’, 
Heritage & Society, 8(1). 24–42.
Hall, Stuart (1999) ‘Whose Heritage? Un-settling the Heritage, 
Re-imaging the Post-Nation’, Third Text, 13(49). 3–13.


Call for Papers and Posters
The call for papers and poster proposals is now open: please submit your 
interest by the 14th of April, 2024 (extended deadline).

All submissions should be in .pdf format and emailed 
to:(illustrationandheritage /at/ arts.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(illustrationandheritage /at/ arts.ac.uk)>


To submit a paper proposal, include:

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    Working paper title

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    A 300-word written proposal detailing how the paper relates to the
    symposium themes

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    3 images maximum

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    100-word biography and affiliation

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    Reference to a symposium theme or prompt listed here (personal
    interpretations of these prompts are welcome).

To submit a poster proposal, include:

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    Working poster title

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    150-word written proposal detailing how the visual work relates to
    the symposium themes and key word poster prompts listed here

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    5 images maximum (from your own practice and/or research)

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    100-word biography and affiliation

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    Reference to one key term theme or prompt listed here (personal
    interpretations of these prompts are welcome).

Notes: Posters will be exhibited alongside the symposium. Posters can be 
fully illustrational. Format specifications and practicalities for 
poster printing and display will be shared after the submission deadline 
has passed.

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Symposium prompts and provocations for paper and poster proposals

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Heritage as Process

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    Heritage is an ongoing, active process

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    Illustration is a tool that can be used to bridge the gap between
    objects, people, and places and their stories

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    Illustrative processes can disrupt the process of heritage-making,
    for example in the archive, collection, or museum

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    People working in heritage often use illustrative processes in
    curation, collecting, captioning, and more

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    Heritage is used to build future worlds

Participating in Heritage

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    Illustrators participate in the historical narrative, rather than/as
    well as spectating or recording it

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    Illustration plays a key role in museology, anthropology,
    archaeology, and curation

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    Affected communities and individuals participate in the processes of
    illustration and heritage-making

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    By exploring heritage through illustrative practice, we participate
    in events that are historically and geographically distant

A Found Voice and a Made Voice

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    Illustration gives voice to historical individuals and communities,
    particularly those who are under-represented

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    Through the processes of heritage-making and illustration, the
    historical voice can be ‘found’ and/or ‘reconstructed’

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    Illustration as ventriloquism, medium/conduit, and/or spokesperson

Representing and Representation

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    Illustration can represent prehistoric and historical landscapes or
    sites

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    Illustration in the context of heritage can construct and represent
    a collective social memory and a ‘national story’ (Stuart Hall, 1999)

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    Heritage-making represents a collective form of knowledge-making

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    Illustration in the context of heritage draws attention
    to/privileges certain aspects of history, but not others

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    List of key subjects, processes, and ideas


A non-exhaustive list of key terms that suggest subjects, processes, and
ideas that we welcome in paper and poster submissions:


Folk — archives, collections, and museums — curating and collecting 
—religion and spirituality — dance and song, and performance — heritage 
as a process — customs and traditions — food — dress and costume 
—heritage futures — collectives and communities — object narratives and 
embodiments — identity — story-telling and fiction — archaeology and 
museology — inheritance and legacy — memory — nostalgia — collectivity, 
 plurality, and chorality — place and situatedness — excavation — 
preservation — conservation — care — interpreting and exhibiting

Questions: emailDr. Rachel Emily Taylor 
<mailto:(rachel.taylor /at/ camberwell.arts.ac.uk)>

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