Call for Proposals

The CAA Annual Conference is the largest professional convening of art historians, artists, designers, curators, and others in the visual arts. Each year we offer sessions submitted by our members, committees, and affiliated societies offering a wide range of program content.

The Annual Conference Committee members review over 800 submissions each year. They take into account subject areas and themes that arise from accepted proposals to present as broad and diverse a program as possible. The Committee selects approximately 250 sessions for each conference and it must, at times, make difficult decisions on submissions of high merit. This means that on occasion, quality submissions may not be selected.

The Call for Proposals gives CAA members the opportunity to submit for the 2019 CAA Annual Conference. Proposals must be submitted from March 1 through April 27, 2018.

All participants (chair, presenter, moderator) must be current CAA members and register for the conference in order to participate in a session.

CAA schedules the conference program so that there are back-to-back sessions with similar content. However, given the number of sessions, this is not always possible. All sessions are ninety minutes in length and are scheduled Wednesday, February 13, through Saturday, February 16, in the following timeslots:

• 8:30—10:00 AM
• 10:30 AM—12:00 PM
• 2:00—3:30 PM
• 4:00—5:30 PM
• 6:00—7:30 PM (Thursday, February 14, and Friday, February 15, only)

CAA AFFILIATED SOCIETIES AND CAA COMMITTEES

CAA Affiliated Societies and CAA Committees may each submit information for one guaranteed session in the Complete Session or Session Soliciting Contributors category according to the general session proposal deadlines.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION INFORMATION

• Please follow the Chicago Manual of Style for your submission.
• All abstract proposals must be no longer than 250 words.
• Submissions may be started and worked on during multiple visits to the submission portal.
• The accuracy of information in the submission is important as, if selected, it will be transferred to the conference program, abstract booklet, website, etc., exactly as written.

Members may submit proposals in these three categories:

1. Complete Session

   The organizer submits the information about the complete session including: session title, session abstract (up to 250 words), names and affiliations of all session participants, Chair's CV, presentation titles, presentation abstract texts (up to 250 words each).

2. Session Soliciting Contributors

   The organizer submits a session title and abstract (up to 250 words) that will require a call for participation. The list of accepted Sessions Soliciting Contributors will be posted on the CAA website in late June or early July, 2018. Session organizers review and select papers and projects based on their own requirements. See CAA 2019 Call for Participation section below for more information.

3. Individual Paper/Project

   An individual member may submit an abstract (up to 250 words), with title and member CV. If accepted, the individual paper will be included in the 2019 conference as part of a composed session with others accepted in this category based on subject area or compatible content.