AC/CFP: "Artists as Political Refugees", Minneapolis, 26-30 June 2013. Deadline: Feb 1, 2013

This year’s World History Association’s Conference has a theme on “Diasporas and Refugees in World History”. Because I have long had an interest in establishing more dialog between historians (especially ‘world historians’) and art historians, I propose to organize a panel on artists as political refugees. My own field is Twentieth Century China and I am particularly interested in the first stage of China’s post Mao “opening up” in the 1980s. There have been other artistic refugees in the 20t..