CFP: Framing Nature, graduate student symposium. Greenwich, CT; March 5, 2017

Call For Papers: Framing Nature (Greenwich, CT; March 5, 2017)
Abstract Deadline: Wednesday, November 23, 2016
The Bruce Museum welcomes submissions for its third annual graduate student symposium, which is being organized in conjunction with a monographic traveling exhibition, Alfred Sisley (1839-1899): Impressionist Master (on view January 21—May 21, 2017).
Please submit an abstract (maximum 250 words) for a twenty-minute paper and a one-page CV as a single PDF by 5:00PM on Wednesday, November 23, 2016. Participants will be notified in early December of the committee’s decision. Completed papers must be submitted by January 25, 2017. All questions and materials may be submitted to Courtney Long, Ph.D. at clong@brucemuseum.org
The full call for papers can be downloaded here.

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