by Jon Lackman | 21 November 2011 | Conferences
With apologies to the Harper’s Index (which I once helped to produce) I present a few statistics regarding CAA’s 2012 annual conference:
Sessions: 203
Sessions with co-chairs: 93
Participation slots (chair, panelist, discussant): 1194
Participants: 1095
Participants playing more than one role: 75
Most roles played by any one participant: 4
People playing that many roles: 3
Participants with no institutional affiliation: 97
Independent artists: 54
Scholars: 24
Curators: 9
Critics: 1
Number of colons in paper titles: 392
Question marks: 37
Exclamation points: 6
Semi-colons: 1
Uses of the word “identity”: 9
“Feminist” or “feminism”: 7
“Queer”: 6
“Race” or “racial”: 5
Papers titled “No Art Historian Is An Island”: 1
Institutions garnering the most participation slots:
NYU: 24
Getty: 21
UCLA: 18
USC: 17
Graduate Center, CUNY: 17
Columbia: 16
UC, San Diego: 12
UC, Irvine: 12
Columbia College, Chicago: 10
Virginia Commonwealth University: 9
LACMA: 9
University of Pennsylvania: 8
Pratt Institute: 8
Indiana University: 8
Yale University: 7
Washington University in St. Louis: 7
University of Texas at Austin: 7
School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 7
Princeton University: 7
You know art historians all too well: we can’t help but use colons in the titles of our papers (or in our writing, for that matter). Ha ha!