Ninth Annual World Art Postgraduate Symposium School of World Art Studies and Museology University of East Anglia Friday 28th May 2010

Sites of Sacrifice

The practices and concepts of sacrifice appear across geographies and cultures and through time from deepest antiquity to the present.

Sacrificial acts can be religious and secular, communal and individual; a means of propitiating supernatural powers, bringing about political and social change, or inducing altered states through personal acts of abstinence and self negation. Sacrifice, therefore, plays a crucial role in the ways in which human beings negotiate their position in cosmic, socio-political and private spheres.

This annual symposium is an opportunity for postgraduate students of art history, archaeology, anthropology and cognate fields to present their research in an open and sympathetic forum. Papers are invited which will address aspects of the visual and material context and practice of sacrifice across time, place, culture and theory.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words for papers of 20 minutes in length should be submitted by 12th April to h.lunnon@uea.ac.uk or by surface mail to the School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ.

The symposium is free and open to all. For registration please contact Beverley Youngman at b.youngman@uea.ac.uk