CAEA to Participate in College Art Association's 114th Annual Conference, Feb 18-21
February 4, 2026
The College Art Association’s 114th Annual Conference will take place at the Hilton Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, from February 18–21, 2026.
Below, please find information about CAEA-affiliated participants and sessions.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Participants: Mengge Cao
Session: Reimagine Curation with New Technologies and Old Dreams
Time: 4:30 PM–6:00 PM
Location: Hilton Chicago - 8th Floor - Lake Michigan
Friday, February 20, 2026
Participants: Ellen Larson and Bridget Madden, co-chairs
Session: Engaging / Exhibiting / Creating with Archives
Time: 11:00 AM–12:30 PM
Location: Hilton Chicago - 3rd Floor - Williford B (Hybrid)
Participants: Alice Casalini, presenter; Claudia Brittenham, co-chair
Session: Crafting Kin: Clay and the Human Body in the Ancient World
Paper: Alice Casalini, “Modelling Buddhism: The spiritual materiality of clay and plaster in Gandhāra”
Time: 2:30 PM–4:00 PM
Location: Hilton Chicago - 3rd Floor - Joliet Room
Participant: Lucien Sun, co-chair
Session: Havoc and Rebirth: Comparative Perspectives on Art and Earthquake
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Hilton Chicago - Lower Level - Salon C-3
Participants: Ellen Larson and Soyoon Ryu, presenters
Session: Communal Art History: New Methods for Comparative Studies of East Asian Art
Paper: Ellen Larson, "Different Place, Same Time: Networked Experiments in Early Video Art from China”
Paper: Soyoon Ryu, “A Communal History of Art: The Case of Yaoe Hyeonjang Misul”
Time: 4:30 PM–6:00 PM
Location: Hilton Chicago, 8th Floor - Lake Huron
Event: University of Chicago’s Department of Art History’s Annual CAA Reception
Time: 5:30–7:00 PM
Location: Hilton Chicago - Room 4B
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Participant: Mohit Manohar
Session: Larger Than Life: Interrogating Monumentality in South Asian Art and Architecture
Paper: “The Issue of Scale at the Qutb Minar and its Copies”
Time: 11:00 AM–12:30 PM
Location: Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor - Private Dining Room 1
Participant: Kiersten Neumann
Session: Laying the Groundwork for the Contemporary Turn in Historical Collections
Paper: “Beyond Antiquity: Repositioning Archaeological Collections through Artistic Collaboration”
Time: 11:00 AM–12:30 PM
Location: Hilton Chicago, 3rd Floor - Astoria Room (Hybrid)
Participant: Kate Lingley, discussant
Session: Material Explorations in East Asian Buddhist Art (6th–10th Century CE)
Time: 2:30 PM–4:00 PM
Location: Hilton Chicago - 3rd Floor - Private Dining Room 2 (Hybrid)
Participant: Dilys Tam
Session: Gender
Paper: “Nüshu as Subversive Visual Culture: Collaborative Methodologies and Feminist Counter-Archives in Jiangyong County”
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Hilton Chicago - Lower Level - Salon C-3
