[ecrea] CFP: Iconotopoi / Bildkulturen (Cultures of the Image)

>CALL FOR PAPERS
>Iconotopoi / Bildkulturen (Cultures of the Image)
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>Current Academic Practices in the Study of Images
>Joint Eikones-McGill Graduate Conference
>hosted by the Dept. of Art History and Communication Studies
>McGill University, Montreal
>December 3 to 5, 2008
>
>Description:
>With the global communication enabled by digital media, images
>circulate all around us today: they move freely across the same
>linguistic divides that sometimes render discourses impermeable.
>Whereas economic borders are increasingly dissolved by the
>transnational flow of consumer goods, linguistic barriers maintain
>divisions between academic practices across different cultures ­
>barriers which also affect the study of mobile images. The joint
>McGill-Eikones Graduate Conference Iconotopoi /Bildkulturen (Cultures
>of the Image) aims to identify and challenge these cultural and
>linguistic barriers within the academy, so that the study of images
>may one day become as mobile as its objects of inquiry.
>
>Since the early 1990s, at least two interdisciplinary fields
>dedicated to understanding images attest to the differences in
>cultural/academic approaches to the study of images: Visual Studies
>in America, and Bildwissenschaften in German-speaking Europe. Each of
>these fields traces its roots back to the Linguistic Turn, and both
>stem from the Pictorial or Iconic Turn (cf. W.J.T. Mitchells
>Critical Iconology and G. Boehms notion of Bildkritik). Bildkritik
>emphasizes the singular image, its inner tensions and structures, and
>its temporal and affective interplays. In contrast, Visual Studies
>often focus on the social and political contexts of image production
>and reception, thereby broadening the field in which images are
>considered.
>
>Iconotopoi /Bildkulturen aims to confront these diverse critical
>cultures of the image through case-study presentations by
>international scholars. The conference will forge a constructive
>dialogue between German-, French-, and English-language academic
>cultures, at a time when allegedly international discourses tend to
>lose sight not only of the singularity of the image, but also of
>singular approaches to understanding images that can be found in
>different cultures.
>
>Guidelines for Proposals
>Proposals in English or French from graduate students in all relevant
>fields are welcome. We especially encourage reflections on
>interdisciplinary and/or cross-cultural methodologies in the study of
>images. Possible research topics include:
>·Affective imagery (Anthropology, Art History, Dance Studies,
>Performance Studies, Religious Studies, Theatre Studies)
>·Imaging knowledge (Information Design, Scientific Visualisation)
>·Non/narrative imagin(in)gs (Anthropology, Literature, Philosophy,
>Psychology)
>·Digital Images (New Media Studies, Informatics)
>
>Send a 250-word abstract, along with a 100-word biography, to
>(iconotopoi /at/ gmail.com) by May 30, 2008. All submissions should be
>identified with your name and complete contact information, as well
>as details about your institutional affiliation.
>
>Additional information: http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/iconotopoi

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
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