Renaissance Society of America – Chicago, 2024 (March 21 – 23rd)
Panel Organizers:
Rosario Nava Román. Instituto Mora (CONACYT), Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y
Grabado “la Esmeralda”
Vanessa A. Portugal. University of Lincoln
Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2023. 5pm (BST)
Considering the range of asymmetrical encounters (Subrahmanyam, 2012) that particulars
exercised during the early modern world, this panel seeks paper proposals that engage
critically with the representations of the otherness –and the construction of identities– from a
non-European discourse to examine the visual strategies employed by groups or individuals
(Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africans, Asians) to understand unfamiliar peoples in
their interconnected world.
The aim of this panel is to deeply reflect on the diversity of creative processes brought in by
the new cultural interactions, shifting the focus on the paradigm of ‘the global world’ by
drawing on the diversity of diachronic negotiations, interpretations, and constructions of
identity of the self and of the otherness recognizing the agency of a diverse plurality of actors
with an emphasis in, but not limited to, the colonial Americas.
We welcome papers studying paintings, codices, artifacts, archaeological objects, dealing
with gender, racism, castes, identity, and the agency of the image.
Please submit your abstract (200 words maximum) with title (15 words maximum), your full
name, current affiliation and a one page CV to the organizers Rosario Nava Román
(rona.foto@gmail.com) and Vanessa A. Portugal (vaportugal@lincoln.ac.uk) by 5pm British
Summer Time on 31 July. Notifications will be sent by 10 August.
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