[ecrea] ICON: CFA for Academic Quarter

It’s a pleasure to bring your attention to an upcoming issue of the 
journal Academic Quarter on the theme of ICON in literature, film, media 
and culture and to invite you to send in abstracts for suggested articles.

Issue 10 of Academic Quarter on the topic of Icon aims to bring together 
scholars from at least the following fields: Imagology, cultural 
semiotics, star studies, fashion studies, film and media history, art 
history, literary history, and cultural studies to initiate an 
exploration of the phenomenon of cultural iconicity. Scholars from other 
fields of humanistic research are welcome to contribute as well. We seek 
contributions analyzing the phenomenon of cultural iconicity in the 
following areas of study: literature, music, art, fashion, film and 
other visual media, including photography. We seek both papers that 
contribute further to the theorization of the field and its concepts, 
and (primarily) papers that offer analyses of specific cases of cultural 
iconicity.
For the purpose of this issue we propose the following definition of a 
cultural icon:
A commercialized, yet sacralized visual, aural or textual representation 
anchored in a specific temporal/historical and spatial/geographical 
context broadly recognized by its recipients as having iconic status for 
a group of human agents within one or several discursive 
fields/communities. Cultural iconicity can be carried by the 
representation of a person, a place, or an epoch/historical moment. The 
iconicity of a human representation is furthered through the human icon 
having agency to act in a cultural space anchored in time, and by the 
consumers of cultural iconicity having agency to do ‘icon work’ on those 
representations, whether taking the form of collaborative iconolatry or 
adversarial
iconoclasm.

The first step is to submit an abstract of about 150 words to Helle 
Thorsøe Nielsen ((htnielsen /at/ cgs.aau.dk)) and to Bent Sørensen 
((bent /at/ cgs.aau.dk)) by May 15, 2014. By June 1, 2014 the editors will have 
reviewed the abstracts and notified the authors of their decisions. 
Accepted articles – using the Chicago System Style Sheet – should then 
be e-mailed to the editors no later than August 15, 2014. Articles will 
then be reviewed anonymously. The articles should be around 
15,000-25,000 keystrokes (3,000-3,500 words), and they can be written in 
English or in the Scandinavian languages. Assuming that the articles are 
accepted by the peer reviewers and the editors, they should be
revised, and final version of article sent in by November 15, 2014.

Please download the full call from our website through this link before 
proposing an abstract: 
http://www.akademiskkvarter.hum.aau.dk/pdf/vol10/callUK.pdf

And please follow this link to find further general information on the 
journal Academic Quarter: 
http://www.akademiskkvarter.hum.aau.dk/UK/index.php

For questions or inquiries please contact: Helle Thorsøe Nielsen 
((htnielsen /at/ cgs.aau.dk)) and Bent Sørensen ((bent /at/ cgs.aau.dk))



Yours sincerely,

Bent Sørensen and Helle Thorsøe Nielsen

Helle Thorsøe Nielsen
PhD Candidate  | Culture and Global Studies


T: (+45) 9940 9160  | Email: (htnielsen /at/ cgs.aau.dk) | University Profile:  
http://personprofil.aau.dk/111489?lang=en |

Aalborg University | Kroghstræde 3, room 3.202 | DK-9220 Aalborg |





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