Deadline: BSA @ College Art Association Conference 2025 CFP

The Material Text in Latin America: Local Traditions and Intercultural Dialogue

The Bibliographical Society of America’s sponsored session at the College Art Association Annual Conference
 New York City, February 12–15, 2025

The goal of this session is to explore textual artifacts that have originated or been adapted for use in one or more Latin American cultures. The interplay between cultures, including relationships between different Latin American cultures or between Latin American and other cultures, will be a particular focus. Papers that address any period up to 1914 will be prioritized. A variety of media will be considered, including painted pottery, carved stucco, coins and other metalwork, engraved stone, and manuscripts or printed materials. Examples include the use and reuse of items bearing Indigenous or European script; the reinterpretation of imagery from elsewhere to illustrate Latin American texts; the early European historiography of indigenous Latin American ideographs and pictographs. While attending to the specificity of local traditions, the session will consider the significance of these textual artifacts in intercultural and historiographic perspective. The geographical definition of “Latin America” is open.

This session will be held in person in New York.

Submit a proposal

• Send proposals (title and 250-word maximum abstract) and your CV to Jeanne-Marie Musto, Bibliographical Society of America liaison to the College Art Association: musto.jeannemarie@gmail.com.

• If you are a current CAA member, please include your CAA member number with your proposal.

• Deadline: August 29, 2024.