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2009 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference - Visual Culture Area
| Location: | Louisiana, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2008-11-30 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-10-27 |
| Announcement ID: |
164802 |
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Studies in Visual Culture
2009 Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association Annual Conference
April 8 - 11, 2009
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association will hold their joint annual conference at the New Orleans Marriott between April 8-11, 2009. The conference serves as an important site of creative, intellectual, and cultural exchange and encourages a wide variety of participants to stimulate dialogue across a variety of disciplines. The Visual Culture strand of the PCA/ACA Conference is an important element of the conference and encourages presentations in traditional, non-traditional, and emerging areas of study. We are currently seeking proposals for sessions and individual presentations that engage with issues, ideas, and practices related to all areas of visual culture, including but not limited to:
Traditions and conventions associated with visual culture
Studio art practices and/or theories
Image theory
Interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and intermedia projects
Architecture
Art history and theory
Photography
Journalism and photojournalism (television and print media)
Film and cinematic culture
Public art (graffiti, murals, public commissions and installations)
New media and computer-based issues in visual culture
Advertising
Graphic design
Design history and theory
Visual culture and everydayness
Comparative studies and multiculturalism in visual culture(s)
Subversion and visual culture
Modes of “reading” and experiencing the visual
Verbal, visual, and performative relationships
Ideologies and the visual
Iconographic studies
Post-9/11 issues in visual culture
Aesthetics
Alternative media
Please submit via e-mail a 250-word abstract for your proposed presentation or session no later than November 30, 2008, to Royce W. Smith, Visual Culture Chair for the Popular Culture Association, at royce.smith@wichita.edu. Please do not hesitate to e-mail any questions you might have regarding this exciting opportunity.
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