Academic Sessions: Liverpool 2002

ART AND CULTURE OF THE OTHER AMERICAS

1. 'Latin American Art': The Critical Discourse from Within
2. Colonial Art in Latin America
3. The Mexican Revolution and its Legacy in the Arts
4. The New York School: Transatlantic Interchange with America
5. The Latin American Left and Avant-Garde, or Jose Carlos Mariategui and Unorthodox Socialism
6. Across the Great Divide, or Trumped by the Race Card: Contemporary Native American Art and Mainstream Discourse

CULTURES OF CONTEMPORARY ART

1. Race, Culture and Representation
2. Political Art Now
3. Smelling, Hearing, Tasting and Touching
4. More than just a matter of style - On the practices of writing on art
5. Collecting the Colony: Contemporary thoughts on Imperial histories
6. Contemporary Art and Matters of Science
7. Computer Arts; the Internet and Power

PUBLIC ART, ARCHITECTURE, INSTITUTIONS, AND ART HISTORY

1. The Colonisation of Public Space - the Empowerment of sculpture
2. The Roles of Visual Tropes in 17th and 18th Century Engravings of Colonial Subjects
3. 'Alternative Modernisms'
4. Legitimising Art in Public: The development of Art Institutions and Exhibitions c.1750 - 1914
5. Civilised Painting
6. Hybrid Narratives in Contemporary Art
7. Architecture, Society and the Avant-Garde in Post-war Britain
8. The Other Europe: Art, Identity and Politics in the Shadow of the First World
9. Like a Bat Out of Hell? Marxist Art History in the 21st Century
10. New Public Art: Communication and Collaboration