see/saw, the History of Art Journal at UC Berkeley, is currently accepting undergraduate writing submissions in the discipline of art history and theory to be considered for publication. They encourage submissions from students at any point in their undergraduate career. The scope of your paper does not have to be confined only to the discipline of art history, but must in some way reference art history or theory.

Please submit your work as a PDF file in Chicago style. You may refer to the Chicago Manual of Style for guidelines. Reference images must be uploaded as a separate document or folder in this form, preferably as JPEGs. There is no page minimum/maximum, nor expected word count. Your piece(s) must not be previously published or pending acceptance from another journal.

Anonymity is integral to the scope of see/saw. Your submissions are subject to blind peer review from the see/saw board of editors to ensure a fair selection process.

Deadline is January 20, 2026, at 11:59pm. They will accept no late submissions. You can expect to receive updates on the status of your submission by early February.

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Surfacing
Cambridge Talks 2026
Friday, April 24 – Saturday, April 25, 2026
Gund Hall 112 Stubbins, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138

Surfacing, as a methodological frame, entails a shift in focus from objects to processes. In the project of uncovering colonialism’s lasting legacies, historian Ann Laura Stoler has called for the study of ‘ruination’ rather than ‘ruins’; similarly, they are less interested in surfaces as such than in historical processes of surface-making and surface-breaking. They invite scholars, therefore, to consider the physical production of surfaces and their role in mediating our relationships with each other and with the environment. In historicizing surfaces as sites of intervention and management, they ask: How are surfaces physically produced? With what materials and what tools? What costs do these practices exact, socially or environmentally? Who builds surfaces, and to whose benefit or detriment? How are surfaces remade over time? What modes of maintenance or preservation are involved in doing so? And what happens when surfaces give way — to friction, mold, burst pipes, erosion, social unrest, or archival irruptions?

Harvard welcomes abstracts from doctoral students in architectural, landscape, urban, and environmental history, as well as in geography, the history of science and technology, art history, media studies, comparative literature, and related fields. Paper topics might address:

• Histories of landscape and architectural construction sites
• The geopolitics and/or environmental costs of sourcing and fabricating surface materials
• Histories of representational media as surfaces
• The use of surveying and mapping to document, produce, and manage surfaces
• Social, migration, or labor histories of making, breaking, or maintaining surfaces
• Histories of surface preservation (monuments, properties, landscapes, etc.)
• Alternative or counter-hegemonic practices and processes of surfacing

Submissions: Please submit a 300-word paper abstract, paper title, and 2-page CV via this form. Please direct any questions to surfacing.gsd@gmail.com.

• Abstracts are due by Friday, January 2, 2026.
• Authors of accepted papers will be notified by email by the end of January 2026.
• Participants will be asked to submit a final draft of their paper by April 10, 2026.

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Corpora Foedata: Bodily Taboo and Corruption in Antiquity Biennial Classics Graduate Student Conference New York University, Department of Classics
March 28, 2026

What constituted ancient logics of corruption and pollution? Ancient medicine speaks to the curative effects of ‘purification’ (katharsis), the body’s release of corrupting pestilence or imbalance. Mindful of the history of the 20th century, which saw the application of Germ-theory to disastrous ideologies of ethnic purity, we are sensitive to thoughtscapes which relate notions of the body’s corruption to that of the community. The analogy of body to community and of community to body was, indeed, not uncommon in antiquity. What then were the notional processes by which familial, civic, religious, or ‘social bodies’ became corrupted?

NYU Classics Department welcomes abstracts that tackle the above questions, but also those which contend their very validity. They desire a thematic, constructive, and dynamic exploration from a multiplicity of sub-fields and places of interest. They invite speakers to analyze the ‘body corrupted’ from every angle—the medical, political, socio-cultural, religious, literary, and artistic (inter alia). They are particularly interested in the conceptual crossing of these boundaries, the conceptualization of body and corruption across areas of life. Moreover, they invite not only presentations which prioritize the emic but also those which focalize views of bodily corruption which have moulded the receptions of antiquity among thinkers, historians, classicists, archaeologists, and indeed post-ancient cultures at large.

Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Anonymous abstracts of 300 words, along with an optional bibliography, should be submitted to nyuclassicsgraduateconference@gmail.com in PDF format no later than December 20th, 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent in mid-January. Please include your name, affiliation, and the title of your paper in the body of your email. Questions about the conference should be addressed to Kimiko Adler (kja326@nyu.edu), Mal Main (mlm9673@nyu.edu), and Joshua Williams (jjw519@nyu.edu).

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