Transnational Latin American Art Forum - General and Registration Information

TRANSNATIONAL LATIN AMERICAN ART FROM 1950 TO THE PRESENT DAY

1st INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FORUM
FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND EMERGING SCHOLARS

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

6 – 8 NOVEMBER 2009

ACES Building 2.302, Avaya Auditorium, E. 24th St. and Speedway. University of Texas at Austin

Transnational Latin American Art is a collaborative research forum between The Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art* (The University of Texas at Austin) and Meeting Margins (University of Essex and the University of the Arts London). It is designed to promote contacts and collaborative work between graduate students and emerging scholars.
Viewing the history of Latin American art in terms of reception, contact and collaboration is an emergent paradigm exemplified by recent exhibitions, publications, and research projects. This international research forum on Transnational Latin America aims to create opportunities for emerging researchers to join experienced scholars in interrogating this area of research and its implications.
Addressing art from 1950 to the present day, the forum concerns intra-Latin American exchanges, as well as encounters between Latin America and Europe and the USA; it will explore contacts between individual artists and critics, the movements, groups and institutions and wider geopolitical and cultural contexts that have supported and provoked them, as well as the particular forms of art and its reception that transnational exchanges have generated.
For additional information on the conference, including the program please visit the following website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/arthistory/meeting_margins/mmgraduateforum.html

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

For those planning to attend the conference please register at your earliest convenience (but no later than Wednesday, October 28th) by replying to:
Paula Bossa [email protected]
* please include your complete contact information and the days that you will be attending the conference.

Once in Austin, attendees should first register at The Texas Union Building (24th & Guadalupe, 2247 Guadalupe) from 9:30 to 10:30am on Friday or from 8:00 to 9:30am on Saturday.

Important notice regarding parking:
If you plan on parking at the University during the conference, on Friday and Sunday you will have access to the parking garages. The approximate cost is $10 per day. A map of the parking structures is available at http://www.utexas.edu/parking/maps/index.html 
*For Saturday, you can use the San Antonio parking garage, which will also cost about $10 and will most likely be the sole option as there will be a football game that day.

Attached please find information about accommodations, the city of Austin, maps, restaurants, and more.

Please direct any further inquiries to Paula Bossa at [email protected]. If you are not interested in receiving future news from us, please let us know in your registration email.

We look forward to seeing you!