by Jon Lackman | 29 January 2008 | Conferences
The annual College Art Association conference convenes February 20–23 in Dallas. If you’re going, please consider writing about your experience! We’ve enjoyed hearing from a variety of people in the past, and it’s an opportunity for you to opine before our audience of 1000+ readers per day. Email your write-up(s), which can be brief and informal, to lackmanjon@ arthistorynewsletter.com (with your name, a sentence about yourself, and a contact email address if you’d like that included). Please send all this during the conference, or shortly afterwards. Thanks!
In other CAA News, Paul Jaskot has been elected CAA president:
Paul B. Jaskot, associate professor of art history at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, has been elected president of CAA for a two-year term, beginning May 2008. A member of the Board since 2004, he has served as vice president for publications for the past two years. Jaskot will succeed Nicola M. Courtright, professor of fine arts at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
An art historian who specializes in modern German art and architecture, Jaskot earned his PhD in 1993 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. His dissertation focused on art and political extremism, dealing specifically with how National Socialists mobilized forced-labor concentration camps to produce building materials for the monumental Nazi architecture in Berlin and Nuremberg …
