Conferences

Call for papers: Close at Hand: Touch and Tactility in Art Third Biennial Graduate Student Art History Symposium Washington University in St. Louis Friday, February 28 – Saturday, February 29, 2020 Inevitably every museumgoer is bound to encounter the all-too-familiar refrain: “Do not touch the art.” How does this “hands-off” attitude transform our engagement with art meant […]

Women’s corpses, such as those of Snow White or Ophelia, are often depicted as a beautiful and passive objects, which has led scholars to posit cultural reflections concerning tacit assumptions in the link between femininity and death. In relation to modern literature and art, scholars such as Elizabeth Bronfen (Over Her Dead Body), Elizabeth Grosz

In their book Rules of Play (2003), authors Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman refer to video games as having the potential to provide what they call ‘transformative cultural play.’ In this type of play, video games become vehicles of culture, in which there is an exchange of meanings between the game, the player, and culture at large.

Edenic getaways and utopian elsewheres, or dystopian spaces of exile and segregation; marginalized, exploited, self-referential appendages of nations, but also fertile spaces of multicultural exchanges, and microcosms of pluralism; real destinations or existential metaphors Islands evoke a vast array of topoi, conditions, and ideologies which have been abundantly depicted, shaped, and problematized by literature, cinema,

On October 24, 2019, The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History, Humanities, and Languages, and Center for Critical Race Studies is hosting a Symposium commemorating 400 Years of African American Life and History. This year, 2019, marks the four hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the first documented Africans to