To support an international convening for scholars and the general public, to be organized in conjunction with the exhibition Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow. Proceedings include panel discussions, participant workshops, and tours to Chicago-area sites and collections of interest. The program explores the theme and idea of place in relation to outsider art, considering the artists’ influences on places in which they worked, and how locality and sense of place have influenced the presentation of non-mainstream art nationally and internationally.