We are pleased to announce the 20th annual Context & Meaning Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the Department of Art History and Art Conservation at Queen’s University. This year’s conference will engage broadly with issues of crime and criminality in visual and material culture, Context & Meaning XX considers the complex inter-relationship between art and crime. From forgeries to representations of criminality, to artists who were murderers, marauders, mobsters and misogynists, crime has long been a subject of art. Art and Crime will include projects that relate to issues of crime and criminality in visual and material culture.

Context & Meaning is an annual juried graduate student conference organized entirely by Art History students at Queen's University.

Due to COVID-19, this year's conference will function a little differently than previous years'. Each presentation will be uploaded to a website for attendees to watch at their leisure. Then, on January 22 and 23, the keynote speaker and panel discussions will be hosted over zoom. Please confirm your attendance through Eventbrite. On Monday, January 18th you will receive a passcode to access the conference video presentations, as well as the Zoom links for the conference keynote presentations and panel discussions. This information is now also available in the ticket description.

Please send any questions you have for the presenters to contextandmeaning@queensu.ca with the subject "Panel Questions". In your message please include the title of the panel and/or presenter to whom the question is addressed.