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Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=10061, phase=CONNECT, target=127.0.0.1:2306). The server is probably not started. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The call for participation in the 1998 conference in Toronto has issued and the deadline has passed for submission of paper proposals to session chairs. The conference will be held February 25-28, 1998. The call for session proposals for the 1999 conference in Los Angeles has been issued. Session will take place Wednesday, February 10 through Saturday, February 13, 1999. Statements by the Art History and Studio Arts theme chairs and the proposal submission guidelines are published in the May/June 1997 issue of the CAA News (pp.4-7; the session proposal submission form is on the last page of that issue). DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF SESSION PROPOSALS IS SEPTEMBER 5, 1997. The Session themes are: "From Another Place: Difference, Encounter, Acculturaion, Identity" (Art History theme) and "Ring of Fire" (Studio Arts theme). While CAA welcomes session proposals on any topic of interest to members of the CAA without regard to category, those well-written proposals that are oriented toward the conference theme gain extra attention. ARLIS MEMBERS -- please work on session proposal ideas so we are represented with a joint session in 1999. Contact your ARLIS CAA liaison (address listed below) for further information. REMEMBER, THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF SESSION PROPOSALS IS SEPTEMBER 5, 1997. The May/June issue of CAA News also includes "Criteria for the Hiring & Retention of Visual Resources Professionals" (pp.8-10). CAA News now offers a new column entitled "Web Update." See the May/June issue of CAA News, p.12. Winners of CAA prizes at the 1997 conference in New York City were: Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize (for an outstanding journal article): "The White Obelisk and the Problem of Historical Narrative in the Art of Assyria" by Holly Pittman Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award (for a distinguished catalogue in the history of art): Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York by Rebecca Zurier, Robert Snyder, and Virginia Mecklenburg (National Museum of American Art in association with W.W. Norton Co. Charles Rufus Morey Award: African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power by Suzanne Preston Blier Frank Jewett Mather Award (distinction in art criticsm): Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times CAA Committee on Women in the Arts Recognition Award: Louise Bourgeois Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement: Peter Voulkos Distinguished Body of Work, Exhibition, Presentation, or Performance: Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz and Mel Bochner Distinguished Teaching of Art History: Francoise Forster-Hahn (University of California, Riverside) Distinguished Teaching of Art: Ken Ferguson (Ceramicist, Kansas City Art Institute) CAA/National INstitute for Conservation Joint Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation: Henry W. Lie (Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University for technical examination of classical bronzes in American collections. Now available from CAA headquarters in New York: International Directory of Arts Organizations, edited by Danielle Hughes (covers over 1,000 organizations in the visual arts around the world). Book Note: OUR CREATIVE DIVERSITY; REPORT OF THE WORLD COMMISSION ON CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT. Paris: UNESCO, 1995. $40 (available from Bernan Associates) Produced by the UNESCO Commission on Culture and Development. Ray Anne Lockard Head, Frick Fine Arts Library University Library System University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Voice: 412-648-2410 Fax: 412-648-7568 E-mail: [log in to unmask]