https://scahweb.org Society of Contemporary Art Historians Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:43:53 +0000 https://scahweb.org en https://scahweb.org/Home Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:42:27 +0000 Society of Contemporary Art Historians https://scahweb.org/Home https://scahweb.org/Index Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:50:04 +0000 Society of Contemporary Art Historians https://scahweb.org/Index Society of Contemporary Art Historians https://scahweb.org/About-1 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:50:05 +0000 Society of Contemporary Art Historians https://scahweb.org/About-1 About SCAH aims to foster strong scholarship and promote collegiality within the vital field of contemporary art history. The Society of Contemporary Art Historians (SCAH) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of contemporary art. Founded in 2007 as an affiliate society of the College Art Association, SCAH aims to foster strong scholarship and promote collegiality within the vital field of contemporary art history. The Society also encourages mentoring and career development, especially for younger scholars and graduate students. Our major initiatives include a standing panel at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Regional Groups, mentoring and career development, The Syllabus Project, Foreign Language Index (FLI), and the distribution of relevant information through the Society’s website and Google Group listserv. The SCAH Graduate Student Advocacy Committee (GSAC), now enfolded into SCAH's Regional Groups, aims to connect emerging scholars in two intertwined pursuits: the interrogation of contemporary art objects/projects; and the assessment and understanding of the conditions in which we do our work. Programs and InitiativesEvents and ProgramsMeet and talk with SCAH members and friends. Annual Panel at the College Art Association (CAA) Annual ConferenceInformation about past and future SCAH panels at the CAA Annual Conference. Past EventsA record of past SCAH-sponsored events. Resources The Syllabus Project  An evolving digital archive of syllabi related to the teaching of contemporary art history. Foreign Language IndexSummaries of recent scholarship published in various languages, broadening perspectives on contemporary art and encouraging cross-cultural exploration within the field. Media Recordings of selected SCAH events and workshops.    Let’s be in touch ︎  ︎ ︎ https://scahweb.org/SCAH-at-CAA-2 Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:02:06 +0000 Society of Contemporary Art Historians https://scahweb.org/SCAH-at-CAA-2 SCAH at CAA The SCAH-sponsored panel at CAA highlights topical research and fosters dialogue among scholars of contemporary art through panels, roundtables, and networking events. As an affiliate society of the College Art Association (CAA), SCAH actively contributes to the Annual Conference through its standing panel, which highlights topical research and fosters dialogue among scholars of contemporary art. SCAH also holds its annual business meeting during the conference and occasionally organizes workshops and other networking opportunitiees. In 2022, SCAH’s Executive Board made the decision to withdraw our panel from the official proceedings of the 110th CAA conference after our request to make the session free and open to the public was denied. Despite this, we continued to uphold our commitment to accessibility and inclusivity by hosting an alternative un-CAA panel, detailed in our Open Letter to CAA.  Selection ProcessMembers are encouraged to submit proposals for the session chair and topic for the SCAH-sponsored panel. Proposals may be sent to the President via email or presented at the annual business meeting held during the CAA conference. The final selection is initiated by the President and determined through an anonymous vote by members of the Executive Committee. To learn more about joining our community or renewing your membership, visit our Membership page.  https://scahweb.org/SCAH-at-CAA-2026 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:42:34 +0000 Society of Contemporary Art Historians https://scahweb.org/SCAH-at-CAA-2026 SCAH at CAA 2026 Dissent Nearby: Diasporic & LGBTQ+ ResistanceSCAH-sponsored panel at 2026 College Art Assocation Annual Conference Chair: Jocelyn E. Marshall, University of South Florida Friday, February 20 • 9:00 am to 10:30 am CTHilton Chicago • 8th Floor – Lake Ontario In frantically trying to gain Republican support to pass a funding bill, Donald Trump asserted on Truth Social “We have to remain UNITED – NO DISSENT…VERY IMPORTANT…” (8 March 2025). As artists and activists have demonstrated for years, solidarity building and modes of dissent, however, often go hand-in-hand. This panel subsequently spotlights entwined histories of U.S.-based immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities as part of ongoing efforts to address issues of xenophobia, racism, homophobia, and transphobia using an intersectional and transnational feminist lens. Throughout the last century, American immigration acts have routinely included language of “sexual deviation” and anti-HIV-positive rhetoric in impermissibility rubrics—a pattern that often evades analysis of such legislation and state-sanctioned violence. While, today, we are seeing immigrants be deported to Guantanamo Bay alongside federally funded programs removing “T” and “Q” from materials using an LGBTQ+ acronym, the relationships between  U.S. legislation, diasporic displacement, and gender and sexual identities are arguably under-discussed in tandem. By closing this gap, the panel fosters both timely critical conversations and steps toward solidarity building, collective organizing, and mutual aid. Together, panelists voice dissent inside and outside of gallery walls. Papers from a range of professionals – art historians, theorists, curators, artists, and community organizers – are invited to collaboratively investigate the intersections of diasporic and LGBTQ+ resistance. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Anti-imperial queer feminist methodologiesStrategies for navigating tensions between arts activism and institutional strictures Critical approaches to issues of displacement and/or archival erasure or exclusion in art history scholarshipSolidarity building and forms of mutual aid inside and outside of the university and museum Papers“Queer Feminist Redress of U.S. Imperalism,” Dr. Jocelyn E. Marshall, University of South Florida  “Looking at JEB: Disidentification and the World-Making Power of Queer Photography,” Deirdre Price “THEY/THEM/THEN,” Jess Westbrook https://scahweb.org/Previous-SCAH-CAA-Panels Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:50:09 +0000 Society of Contemporary Art Historians https://scahweb.org/Previous-SCAH-CAA-Panels Previous SCAH CAA Panels 2025    Narratives of Exile, Movement, and Migration in Contemporary Art, Sarah Kleinman, Nicole F. Scalissi, Serda Yalkin, Olivia Murphy, Paloma Checa-Gismero, Peter M. Chametzky 2024    Fugitive Ecologies in Contemporary Art, Allison Young, Andrew Hennlich, Jason Waite, Kate Keohane, Brianne Cohen2023    Global Solidarities: Contemporary Art and Internationalism, Aaron Katzeman, Jessy Bell, Erina Duganne, Paloma Checa-Gismero2022*    un-CAA panel: Fighting Back to Reclaim Institutions, Nic Aziz, Tatiana Flores, Pablo Helguera, Christine Y. Kim* SCAH’s Executive Board decided to retract our panel from the official proceedings of 110th annual CAA conference after our request to offer it free and open to the public was denied. See our Open Letter to CAA and the details about our un-CAA panel.2021    Agitators and Aggregators: New Cycles of Contemporary Art History, Rose G. Salseda, Andy Campbell, Johanna Gosse, Jacqueline Francis2020    The Status and Stakes of Contemporary Art History Publishing Today, Susan Bielstein, Dushko Petrovich, Rebecca Uchill, Anuradha Vikram, Benjamin Tiven2019    What is Contemporary Art History, Now? 10 Years of SCAH, Pamela M. Lee, Tobias Wofford, Daniel Quiles, Suzanne Hudson, Alexander Dumbadze2018    Sites of Micro-Community, Roberto Tejada, Jennifer Doyle, Saloni Mathur, Susanna Newbury2017    Contemporary Art History: Temporal Frames and Geographic Terrains, Steven Nelson, David Joselit, Irene V. Small, Anneka Lenssen2016    Exhibition History as Contemporary Art History, Lynne Cooke, Glenn Phillips, Julian Myers-Szupinska2015    Histories and Economies of Contemporary Art, Rhea Anastas, Katy Siegel, Howard Singerman, Nato Thompson2014    Identity Politics: Then and Now, Hamza Walker, Gregg Bordowitz, Joan Kee, Dieter Roelstraete2013    The Social, the Relational, and the Participatory: A Reevaluation, Martha Rosler, Anton Vidokle, Shannon Jackson, Julia Robinson2012    Digging Where You Stand, Kellie Jones, Michelle Kuo, Frank Smigiel2011    Critical Histories, Barbara Rose, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Thomas Crow2010    Contemporary Art History in 2020, Hannah Feldman, Amelia Jones, Robert Storr2009    What is Contemporary Art History? Grant Kester, Pam Lee, Richard Meyer, Miwon Kwon https://scahweb.org/Programs Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:43:53 +0000 Society of Contemporary Art Historians https://scahweb.org/Programs Events and Programs SCAH’s Events and Programs offer dynamic opportunities for scholarly exchange, professional growth, and community building in the field of contemporary art history.   SCAH organizes and supports a range of events and programs designed to facilitate scholarly exchange, professional development, and community building among those engaged in the study and production of contemporary art. These initiatives foster dialogue across diverse areas of research, providing a platform for members to share their work, explore pressing issues in the field, and connect with colleagues at all career stages. SCAH’s flagship event is the standing panel at the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, which showcases topical research and fosters critical discussions among historians of contemporary art. Other key offerings include Regional Group meetups that encourage local collaboration, the Mentorship Program connecting emerging and established scholars, and The Syllabus Project, which provides resources for innovative teaching practices. Through workshops, public lectures, symposia, and virtual gatherings, SCAH’s Events and Programs reflect the organization’s commitment to advancing scholarship, supporting professional growth, and strengthening the sense of community in contemporary art history. Keep an eye on our Instagram and Google Group for upcoming convenings! Propose a Program The Executive Board invites proposals for member-led programs that foster connection, inspire dialogue on contemporary art practices, and support professional growth within our community. Events can be virtual and/or in-person, and we encourage a variety of formats—including book talks, workshops, panel discussions, or informal sessions on topics like research, writing, editing, and publishing. Upcoming Events and Programs Opportunities to come together to share research, foster community, and engage in professional development opportunities tailored to contemporary art historians. Past Events Highlights from SCAH’s past events, showcasing dynamic discussions, topical scholarship, and opportunities for connection within the contemporary art history community. https://scahweb.org/Propose-a-Program Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:20:47 +0000 Society of Contemporary Art Historians https://scahweb.org/Propose-a-Program Propose a Program SCAH’s Executive Board invites members to propose programs that offer opportunities for scholarly exchange, professional growth, and community building. SCAH invites members to submit program ideas for Winter/Spring 2025!The Executive Board invites proposals for member-led programs that foster connection, inspire dialogue on contemporary art practices, and support professional growth within our community. Events can be virtual and/or in-person, and we encourage a variety of formats—including book talks, workshops, panel discussions, or informal sessions on topics like research, writing, editing, and publishing.Submit Your Program Proposal Here!Please include a brief description (250 words max), preferred date, and any proposal participants/guests. The SCAH Executive Board will review submissions on a rolling basis https://scahweb.org/Upcoming-Events-1 Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:11:13 +0000 Society of Contemporary Art Historians https://scahweb.org/Upcoming-Events-1 Upcoming Events Offering dynamic opportunities for scholarly exchange, professional growth, and community building in the field of contemporary art history. Keep an eye on our Instagram and Google Group for upcoming convenings! In the meantime, we invite you to Propose a Program!  https://scahweb.org/Past-Events Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:42:32 +0000 Society of Contemporary Art Historians https://scahweb.org/Past-Events Past Events Highlights from SCAH’s past events, showcasing dynamic discussions, topical scholarship, and opportunities for connection within the contemporary art history community. 2025  Virtual Author Q&A • Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global SCAH Program Paloma Checa-Gismero,  Assistant Professor of Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Swarthmore CollegeThursday, April 24 • 3–4 PM ET • Zoom Join us for a special author Q&A with Paloma Checa-Gismero, author of Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global (2024), published by Duke University Press. Moderated by SCAH Programs Coordinator Noni Brynjolson Assistant Professor of Art History at Minnesota State University, Moorhead.How did contemporary art biennials become the defining exhibitions of the global art world? In Biennial Boom, Checa-Gismero traces an archeology of contemporary biennials, uncovering the processes that prompted their rise at the end of the 20th century.⁠⁠Paloma Checa-Gismero is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Swarthmore College. A scholar of art biennials, global contemporary art, and socially engaged art, her criticism and scholarship have been published in journals such as Afterall, Third Text, The Journal of Modern Craft, and FIELD. Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America SCAH Program Katia Anania, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and Aisling Hamrogue Friday, March 28 • 2:30 to 3:30 PM ET • Zoom  We are pleased to announce an upcoming SCAH program featuring the art historian and curator Katie Anania and the Brooklyn-based artist Aisling Hamrogue. They will be in conversation about Anania's 2024 book, Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America, published by Yale University Pres. Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America reveals how paper became an environmental medium in the postwar United States, showing how artists from the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico used drawing, erasing, cutting, shredding, and recording to reckon with the shifting conditions of their surroundings.In the conversation, Anania and Hamrogue consider drawing’s ability to capture spaces and bodies in the contemporary moment. How might drawings reveal the varied and intense sensations held within the body during a time of intensifying ecological damage and degradation? Using feminist materialist methods from the book’s first two sections, Anania and Hamrogue will consider paper and drawing as models for connecting bodies with worlds. Narratives of Exile, Migration, and Movement in Contemporary Art  2025 College Art Association Annual Conference Chair: Sarah E. Kleinman, Virginia Commonwealth University Friday, February 14, 2025 • 4:30–6 PM New York Hilton Midtown • 2nd Floor – Madison Suite In his 2011 essay “The Migrant’s Time,” Ranajit Guha casts diaspora as a temporal transgression, resulting in displacement and a rupture from shared pasts. This session invites papers that examine the ways in which art and curatorial practices intersect with experiences of displacement, migration, and cultural hybridity in contemporary art. Possible topics include:How have arts practitioners represented narratives of exile and displacement? What visual languages and narratives emerge from experiences of forced migration and diaspora? How do these representations challenge dominant narratives of place and belonging?How have artists navigated issues of identity in the context of migration and movement? How do their works reflect the complexities of cultural hybridity, diasporic identities, and the politics of belonging?How do material choices and artistic processes intersect with memories of displacement and migration? How have artists engaged with objects, textures, and archival materials to evoke personal and collective histories of migration and exile?How have curators engaged with narratives of migration, exile, and (post)colonial histories in exhibition-making? How have recent exhibitions served as sites of critical inquiry?How have diasporic artistic practices challenged dominant narratives of migration, displacement, and colonial legacies? How have arts practitioners mobilized art as a tool for resistance, solidarity, and social change?This session aims to critically examine narratives of exile, migration, and movement within the broader context of contemporary art and visual culture. We particularly encourage submissions from emerging scholars, curators, and artists.  Papers‘she walked in reverse’: Forced Migration, Diaspora, and Indo-Caribbean Identities in Suchitra Mattai’s installations, Nicole F. Scalissi, PhD, California State University San BernardinoCreolizing Landscapes: Public Domesticity and Hiram Maristany’s ‘Island in the City,’ Serda Yalkin, PhD candidate, Duke UniversityShifting Sands/Shifting Identities: Anh-Thuý Nguyễn’s ‘Thuy & Sand,’ Olivia Murphy, PhD candidate, University of OklahomaAesthetic Conversions in the US/Mexico Borderlands: Artist Collective COGNATE and the Work of Migration, Paloma Checa-Gismero, PhD, Swarthmore CollegeManaf Halbouni’s Mobile Monument, Mobilistan and Multi-Directional Migration, Peter M. Chametzky, PhD, University of South Carolina The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art & Institutional Critique  SCAH programAmanda Cachia, Assistant Professor of Arts and Leadership, University of Houston Friday, January 31, 2025 • 2:30–3:30 PM ET • Zoom An ALS interpreter provided services during this event  During this program, art historian and curator Amanda Cachia spoke about her 2024 book, The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique, published by Temple University Press. The talk also featured brief presentations by two of the featured artists discussed in the book, Carmen Papalia and Corban Walker.The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique argues that as contemporary disabled artists move away from figurative representations of disability, they create an art of access, or access aesthetics, through works that center translation, sensory expansion, touch, and movement for audiences and offer an experience of “being with” disability. The book showcases artwork by contemporary disabled artists including Corban Walker, Christine Sun Kim, and Carmen Papalia, among others, and it inscribes contemporary disability art in the broad canon of contemporary art, where the artistic past can be regarded differently. 2024  A Guide to Academic Publishing in American Art and other Peer-Reviewed Journals SCAH Members-Only Workshop Robin Veder, Executive Editor of American ArtMonday, May 20, 2024 • 12:30–2 PM ET • Zoom When you want to share your scholarship, it’s important to think about where to publish. Led by Robin Veder, Executive Editor of American Art, this workshop is about how to select the best journal for your work so that your article is a good fit for the venue and so you can reach the audiences that are important to you. Topics may include developing a first draft, searching for appropriate publications, and working on revisions following peer review, among other things. The workshop will include time for attendees to ask questions on specific topics of interest. Robin Veder is the Executive Editor of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s peer-reviewed journal for art history scholarship. She has published extensively on transatlantic art history, visual culture, history of the body and landscape studies. Her book, The Living Line: Modern Art and the Economy of Energy (2015), illuminates connections among the histories of modern art, body cultures and physiological aesthetics in early-20th-century American culture. Before joining the museum’s staff, Veder was a tenured associate professor of humanities, art history and visual culture (2010–2016) and assistant professor (2004–2010) at Penn State University, Harrisburg. She received her bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University (1991), and her master’s degree (1995) and doctorate (2000) in American studies from the College of William and Mary. Fugitive Ecologies in Contemporary Art2024 College Art Association Annual Conference Chair: Allison K. Young, Louisiana State UniversitySaturday, February 17, 2024 • 3–5 PMHilton Chicago • 8th Floor – Lake Ontario For historian Sarah L. Lincoln, the term “fugitive ecology” describes a range of subaltern relationships to the land, soil, and planet enacted in response to conditions of alienation and dispossession. As she indicates, fugitivity not only suggests “modes of being, knowing, and acting on the run, perpetually mobile, lacking a legal or official relationship to place” but also “oppositionality to a system predicated on the ‘fixing’ of bodies.” Yet even under the duress caused by the tangible spatial violence of enslavement, apartheid, colonization, reservations, prisons or plantations, such transgressive practices of tending the earth have persisted as strategies of both resilience and care. This panel asks how “fugitive ecologies” have been proposed or theorized by contemporary artists, particularly in the wake of climate catastrophe. It considers the many resonances of the “wake” offered by Christina Sharpe – as visible disturbance, as a view towards the past, as openness of mind, or care in mourning – which are made manifest amidst present ecological breakdown. Responding to environmental crises of industrial, nuclear, and colonial origin, artists have served as documentarians and activists, gardeners and radical botanists, and community archivists. What possibilities for decolonizing our relationship to nature are envisioned or demonstrated in contemporary art? How have artists drawn from alternative, Indigenous and subaltern onto-epistemologies when engaging with natural materials or landscape representations? How have artists responded to the collapse of world systems in the wake of the pandemic - alongside calls to action on the fronts of climate change and social justice? Papers Invasive Species: Nonbelonging and Utopia in Flaka Haliti’s ‘Maybe I Ate It?’ • Andrew Hennlich, Western Michigan University Distance and Risk: Chim↑Pom & Finger Pointing Worker • Jason Waite, University of Oxford Shadow Worlds: Plotting Alternative Futures for the Earth • Kate Keohane, University of Oxford How to Improve the World Through Vulnerable Listening • Brianne Cohen, University of Colorado at Boulder  2023 Generative Pedagogies: Art, Activist, and Curatorial PracticesSCAH Roundtable Izabel Galliera and Noni Brynjolson with Erin McCutcheon and Szabolcs KissPal Friday, December 1, 2023 • 2–3:30 pm ET • Zoom  Focusing on intersections between art, activism, and pedagogy, this roundtable is intended to spark conversation around an in-progress edited book project titled Generative Pedagogies. Since the 1960s and 1970s, pedagogical approaches have been increasingly adopted by a number of contemporary practitioners operating at the intersections of art, activism, art history, education, and the socio-political realm, with the goal of producing, disseminating, and activating critical and transformative forms of knowledge. Examples include Joseph Beuys’s Free International University for Creative and Interdisciplinary Research (FIU) in the 1970s; the work of the Guerrilla Girls and The Yes Men since the 1980s; and Tania Bruguera and Mel Chin in the 2000s. Academic attention, scholarship, and critical writing on this topic continues to grow, and the book aims to complement and expand upon this conversation. Co-editors Izabel Galliera and Noni Brynjolson will speak with contributing authors Erin McCutcheon and Szabolcs KissPal about the historical, philosophical, and theoretical legacies of pedagogical art in activist movement and institutional practices. This roundtable is an opportunity to share research and develop ideas together. Attendees are invited to offer feedback and their own experiences in merging art, activism, and pedagogy. Global Solidarities: Contemporary Art and Internationalism 2023 College Art Association Annual ConferenceChair: Aaron Katzeman, University of California Irvine In 2021, a number of artists, curators, and cultural workers drafted the Art of Internationalism platform for Progressive International—a global coalition of left-wing activists and organizations reengaging internationalism for the 21st century —calling for artists to participate in "the craft of organizing transnational, planetary solidarities." While the manifesto is meant to influence future creative work, there is also an established internationalist inclination in contemporary art. From OSPAAAL's mass distribution of Third World solidarity posters, the 1974 Venice Biennale's united focus on Chile, the collaborative efforts initiated by Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, and Decolonize This Place's recent action-oriented movements to Globalize the Intifada, artists have long played a vital role in imagining, producing, and enacting an anti-imperialist internationalist politics of decolonial liberation. Revisiting October's "Questionnaire on 'The Contemporary'" (2009) with the spirit of Art of Internationalism's revolutionary optimism, this roundtable invites contributions that consider contemporary practices engaging a politico-aesthetic internationalism, with particular attention to how place-based work speaks with and embraces similar movements elsewhere. Proposals from cultural workers outside or at the margins of the hegemonic art system are especially welcome. How can an internationalist focus trouble the consensus that contemporary art only went "global" in 1989, a designation often depoliticized in its function as explanatory timeframe? If such periodization too easily capitulates to economic globalization and liberal multiculturalism, might a return to internationalism rupture our most fundamental understandings of what constitutes and delineates the "global-ness" of contemporary art Papers Echos of Solidarity: Petar Lubarda’s “Industrialization” (1961), Vladimir Nikolić’s “The Communist Painting in The Age of Digital Reproduction” (2017), and Yugoslav Non-Alignment • Jessy L. Bell, Northwestern University  Artists Call, Solidarity, and the Problem of Critique in Contemporary Art • Erina Duganne, Texas State University—San Marcos Biennial Solidarities: Internationalisms, Globalisms, Localisms, et al. • Paloma Checa-Gismero  Encounters in Video Art in Latin AmericaSCAH Members-Only Event  Hosted by Vuk Vuković, with Elena Shtomberg and Glenn Phillips Tuesday, March 7, 2023 • 3–4:30 PM ET • Zoom Focusing on their practice of curating and writing on video art from Latin America, Elena Shtomberg, associate professor of art history at the University of Utah, and Glenn Phillips, senior curator of modern and contemporary collections and head of exhibitions at the Getty Research Institute, will  discuss their recent co-edited volume, Encounters in Video Art in Latin America. This volume approaches the subject thematically in a sequence of essays and interviews, presenting video art from different periods and regions of Latin America. In addition, Vuković will speak with Shtomberg and Phillips about their robust research ranging from visits with artists, curators, and scholars in Latin America, to organizing several groundbreaking events since 2013, like Video Art in Latin America at LAXART (September 16–December 16, 2017) as part of Getty’s city-wide art initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. This event followed the presenentation of Encounters in Video Art in Latin America at the 2023 College Art Association Annual Conference.  2022 Semi-peripheries of Contemporary Art: Sarah-Neel Smith and Jacob Stewart-Halevy in ConversationSCAH Program April 1, 2022 A dual book talk and conversation between Jacob Stewart-Halevy (Tufts University, author of Slant Steps: On the Art World’s Semi-Periphery, 2020) and Sarah-Neel Smith (Maryland Institute College of Art, author of Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey, 2022), moderated by Natilee Harren (University of Houston). The authors will introduce their new books and discuss methodological parallels between their two projects, centered on divergent geographies but drawing from similar sociological and economic discourses of semi-peripheral development in the twentieth century. Their respective projects offer new pathways for charting the emergent terrain of global contemporary art. Curating Video Art: Past, Present, and FutureSCAH Program Hosted by Vuk Vuković and Ellen Tani November 2022 • Zoom  A conversation with Barbara London, founder of the video exhibition and collection programs at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and Glenn Phillips, senior curator of modern and contemporary collections and head of exhibitions at the Getty Research Institute, on their practices of curating video art since the emergence of video art in 1960s to current practices of organizing internationally acclaimed exhibitions of video art.The discussion centered on London’s work as a curator of video during the medium’s infancy at MoMA, and Phillips’s current work on video, in particular his upcoming publication, Encounters in Video Art in Latin America, which is set for release in February 2023. In addition, the program addressed questions related to the acquisition, display, and conservation of time-based media, its reception by different generations, and its ties to ongoing technological developments. Un-CAA Panel: Fighting Back to Reclaim Institutions2022 College Art Association Annual Conference • Free Public ConversationOrganized by John Tyson and Anna Mecugni, with panelists Nic Aziz, Tatiana Flores, Pablo Helguera, and Christine Y. KimThursday, March 3, 2022 • 3:15 PM ET • Zoom Over the past decade, layers of capitalist exploitation have continued to shape the ethos of the contemporary art-industrial complex, perpetuating its economic and racial inequities; nonetheless, artists and other art workers have been fighting back with increasing coordination and success. Key moments in these struggles have been the founding of Black Lives Matter and Decolonize this Place; more recently, the coronavirus pandemic outbreak and the viral video of George Floyd’s murder have further precipitated the urgent need to effect more ethical, sustainable communities. While institutional leaders’ responses to financial uncertainty and social unrest have been mixed, often prioritizing profit over equity in academia, museums, and other art organizations, art workers have mobilized in remarkable ways, comparable to the civil rights era. For instance, recent years have seen important revisions and a rethinking of museums’ purpose as well as a heightened sense of accountability to diverse publics. Thus, there have been calls for the resignation of leadership and board members, staff unionization, discrimination lawsuits, and artists removing their works from display in acts of solidarity. The Society of Contemporary Art Historians’ un-CAA panel brings together Nic Aziz, Tatiana Flores, Pablo Helguera, and Christine Y. Kim to reflect on recent dynamics and share their experiences navigating our present neoliberal waters through different channels, in order to explore the field’s systemic crises alongside viable, collectivist modes of resistance, such as distributed self-organizing, resource sharing, and mutual-aid networks. This panel is organized by Anna Mecugni, University of New Orleans, and John A. Tyson, University of Massachusetts - Boston.  PanelistsNic Aziz, New Orleans Museum of Art Tatiana Flores, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Pablo Helguera, New School; formerly Museum of Modern Art, NY Christine Y. Kim, Tate Modern Curating Biennials: The Politics of MediationSCAH Program Organized by Paloma Checa-Gismero, featuring Elia Alba, Lauren Mackler, and Renata Cervetto February 1, 2022 2020 Toward an Anti-Racist Contemporary Art History SCAH Program October 6, 2020 Meriem Bennani & Orian Barki in Conversation with Marisa Olson: Art In and About a PandemicSCAH Members-Only ProgramJune 12, 2020 This discussion followed a screening of episodes 1 and 3 of the “2 Lizards” series. Kirsten Swenson and Rebecca Uchill on Nancy Holt’s Dark Star Park (1984)SCAH Members-Only Program April 3, 2020