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Making Sense of Visual Culture: Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
| Location: | New York, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-01-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-12-21 |
| Announcement ID: |
181587 |
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“Making Sense of Visual Culture”
An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Graduate Program in
Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester
April 1st-3rd, 2011, Rochester, New York
Sound, taste, touch and smell. The institutionalization of the field of Visual Culture has coincided with a proliferation of methods to investigate a range of sensory experience. More than conceiving of Visual Studies as an historical intervention into disciplinary art history, we seek to explore its ongoing development as a clearing house for investigation of what the visual
does, and doesn’t do. With these concerns in mind, the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester invites scholars from across disciplines to discuss the evolving institutional and methodological contours of our field. From April 1st-3rd, 2011, “Making Sense of Visual Culture” will address large-scale disciplinary questions as well the development of new approaches to an expanded range of sensory objects, phenomena, and
practices.
We solicit 300-word abstracts for 20-minute paper presentations on work that exemplifies,
challenges and expands the field of visual studies. Possible topics include, but are not limited,
to:
- multi-sensory approaches to material culture and memory
- the “hegemony of the visual”
- the practice of visual culture as method, discipline or sensibility
- visualizing sensory experience
- cultural difference and the senses
- epistemology of the senses
- histories of perception
- lending form to affect
- synesthetia
- the interface of vision and touch
- changing practices of visualizing information
- the present and future of medium specificity (in both artistic and scholarly practices)
- the role of technologies in sensory perception
Please include a brief CV with your submissions. Deadline: January 15, 2011. Please email
these documents to submissions@makingsenseconference.com
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