***York University’s Art History Graduate Student Association presents***

*its 9th Annual Symposium*
*Appropriation: People, Places, Things*
Submission Deadline: January 22nd, 2010
Symposium Date: March 19th, 2010

The 2010 Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium will focus on the theme of *Appropriation: People, Places, Things. *This symposium aims to critically engage with appropriation in art, visual culture and media. Appropriation commonly refers to the use of adopted, recycled, sampled or borrowed elements in the creation of a new work. We invite graduate students and recent graduates from all disciplines to submit short proposals for presentations that examine appropriation. Proposals may address practices and histories of: advertising, antiques, the archive, questions of authorship, globalism, the body, craft, diaspora culture, fashion, institutional critique, landscape, photography, sound technology, virtual space, among others.

Please send a 250-word abstract of your paper along with a curriculum vitae and contact information by January 22nd, 2010 to:

ahgsay@gmail.com
Or
Attn: Symposium Committee
Art History Graduate Student Association
256L Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts
York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3

Successful participants will be notified by February 1st 2009. The conference will take place on March 19th, 2010 in downtown Toronto at Osgoode Professional Development Centre.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact: Maxine Proctor at ahgsay.comm@gmail.com