Annual APS Panels at CAA
Every year, the Association of Print Scholars invites thematic proposals for its sponsored panel at the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference. The panel may be related to any period, theme, or aspect of print scholarship. We encourage proposals that transcend chronological or geographic boundaries, as well as those that engage current theoretical interests in materialism, archival theory, bibliographic studies, history of ideas, or social history, including feminisms and critical race studies.
If you are interested in chairing a panel, please submit a title and 250-word (max) abstract that describes the subject of your session. Co-chaired proposals are welcome. Once the theme and chair of the panel are selected, the panel will solicit contributors through CAA’s open call. Chair or co-chairs must be members in good standing of APS and CAA.
Submissions should include a 2-page CV and should be sent to caacoordinator@printscholars.org.
The next deadline for panels at CAA 2027 will be updated in early 2026.
APS and print-related panels at CAA 2026
APS is sponsoring a session at the CAA Annual Convention 2026 in Chicago from February 18–21, 2026. Visit the CAA website for the full conference program.
CFP: APS-SPONSORED SESSION at CAA 2026:
Beyond Piranesi: Urban Representations in Contemporary Printmaking
Location TBD
Time TBD
Chairs: Carlos Lozano Guillem and Helena Perez gallardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) codified a modern style of representing the city by inaugurating dramatic perspectives, bird’s-eye views, forced diagonals, and futuristic visions. For example, in his prints of Rome’s Campo Marzio and the Via Appia, Piranesi focuses on the sublime exaltation of ruin and antiquity, while revealing, as well, a discourse on architecture and the contemporary city. Piranesi’s style of printed images determined an aesthetic of later representations of modern architecture and urban spaces (Paris, London, Vienna,…). Nineteenth-century romantics and twentieth-century avant-garde multimedia artists, such as Sergei Eisenstein, marked the next generation of engravers who represented the contemporary city. After Piranesi, printed depictions of the modern city pull together nostalgia, nightmare, history, the exaltation of progress, and ruins—marking the past with ideas, as well, of a future.
This panel highlights print media’s role in the representation of urban and architectural transformations in large cities. We invite papers that bring forth the work of printmakers, and also institutional or personal projects, that analyze aspects related to the artistic change that engaged with the representation of the city, new perspectives in the representation of urban morphology, documentary or propagandistic intentions, and also questions around media and the issues that allow print scholars to establish a broad intercontinental conversation of urban representation in modern and contemporary culture.
All paper submissions are now conducted through the CAA Portal:
Before submitting:
- Make a CAA account. Current membership is not required at this step, but you must create an account at this link. Skip the payment/joining step for now.
- Prepare your Presentation title and Abstract (250 word limit)
- Have a shortened CV ready (~ 2 pages).
- (Optional) Select up to five images to include that support your presentation.
- Submissions due to session chairs by August 29, 2025
- Chairs will notify submitters directly of their decision by September 16.
Print-related sessions and papers (forthcoming)
* Closer to the conference, this page will be updated with other print-related papers and panels.