[ecrea] Visual Culture Division - Cultural Studies Association (US) - CFP

>The Division on Visual Culture of the Cultural Studies Association
>invites submissions for the 9th Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies
>Association (U.S.), to be held at Columbia College, Chicago, March
>24-26, 2011. The theme of the conference is â¬SNew Directions in Cultural
>Studies⬝ and we are interested in work that addresses the current
>historical conjuncture, one characterized by crises and uncertainties of
>all kinds: social, economic, political, cultural, institutional, and
>intellectual.
>
>In recent years visual culture studies has itself been characterized by
>theoretical and methodological uncertainty, in fact such uncertainty
>might be considered â¬Snormal⬝ to it. Of particular note is the relation
>between new visual technologies and the theoretical modes used to
>address them. In what manners can studies of visual culture be assembled
>to address ever-transforming visual cultures? This is a critical issue
>as elements of visual culture shift toward mobile technologies and
>user-generated content; however, it is also important as the discrete
>unity of visual culture as a category is challenged by interactivity and
>modes in which visuality is but one register of experience. In keeping
>with the issue of crisis, the Visual Culture Division invites
>submissions for this session titled â¬SVisual Uncertainty⬝.
>
>Additionally, the Visual Culture Division invites papers for a second
>session on the visual culture of vampires. This session, titled
>â¬SVampiric Visualities⬝, will critically investigate the current
>vampire craze and its precedents in visual culture. For this session we
>are particularly interested in submissions from graduate students.
>
>Please submit the following by Friday September 3:  your name, email
>address, phone number, and institutional affiliation; 250-word abstract
>for the 20-minute paper proposed, including session and paper title; and
>any required audio-visual equipment. Please send all required
>information to Division Chair: Randal Rogers ((Randal.Rogers /at/ uregina.ca)).
>
>
>Additional information about the CSA meetings and the Visual Culture
>Division can be found at:http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/
>
>
>Randal Rogers, PhD
>Associate Professor
>Department of Visual Arts
>University of Regina
>306.585.4746
>

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