CALL FOR CONTENT - SEQUITUR - BU Art History Journal

[sequiturbu]

Hello all,

I'm writing to share a current CFP for Boston University's Art History Journal, SEQUITUR:

SEQUITUR Issue 9.1
Fall 2022

CFP: “Spectacle”

Deadline: September 30, 2022

The editors of SEQUITUR, a graduate student journal published by the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Boston University, invite current and recent graduate students to submit content on the theme of “Spectacle” for our Fall 2022 issue.

The term “spectacle” encompasses various meanings. Derived from the Latin words spectaculum (“a public show”) and spectare (“to view, watch, and behold”), a spectacle is something enacted to be seen or arranged specifically for display. “Spectacle” as a term evolved from associations with early English drama in the seventeenth century to more abstract concepts for understanding postmodern society. Cultural and political theorist Guy Debord identifies a “society of the spectacle” in which excess imagery mediates human interpersonal relationships. Definitions of spectacle and performance are often intertwined in contemporary media such as film, multimedia installations, and other immersive spaces.

For this issue of SEQUITUR, we seek emerging scholarship that explores ideas, expressions, and experiences of spectacles in art, architecture, and material culture from antiquity to the contemporary period. Possible subjects include, but are not limited to: performance; theater; film/cinema; stages (literal and figurative); mise-en-scène; multimedia; exhibitions; presentation; display; constructed/immersive spaces; interactivity; sound art and soundscapes; music; noise; audibility; pandemonium; commotion; clamor; order/disorder; chaos; intoxication; excess; the extra/extraordinary and exceptional; sensation; flamboyance; stimulation; seeing and being seen; mirror(s) and mirroring; carnival; circus; menagerie; pageantry; comedy; tragedy; entertainment; celebration; revelry; audience(s); storytelling; rituals (sacred and profane); magic; transformation; immortality and the beyond; procession; disguises; masking; creation and hiding of identities; portrayal (self or other); ego; celebrity; glory/glorifying/glorification; artifice; concealment; deception; culture and its appropriation.

SEQUITUR welcomes submissions from graduate students in the disciplines of art history, architecture, archaeology, material culture, visual culture, literary studies, queer and gender studies, disability studies, memory studies, and environmental studies, among others. We encourage submissions that take advantage of the digital format of the journal.

Founded in 2014, SEQUITUR is an online biannual scholarly journal dedicated to addressing events, issues, and ideas in art and architectural history. SEQUITUR engages with and expands current conversations in the field by promoting the perspectives of graduate students from around the world. It seeks to contribute to existing scholarship by focusing on valuable but often overlooked parts of art and architectural history. 

See attached CFP for more information, or email us with any questions.

SEQUITUR CFP 9.1.pdf