[Discussion] VISUAL CULTURE

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Call for Papers: 14th Annual KSU Cultural Studies Conference
VISUAL CULTURE: IMAGE IMAGINATION IDEOLOGY

March 10-12, 2005, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

Keynote Speaker:
Scott McCloud, author of _Understanding Comics_

This conference will examine the visual codes of cultural works as
well as the relationship between these works and their conditions
of production and reception. How do images function within
political, social, and economic forces? What is the cultural work
that images do? How do we theorize visual culture?


Possible topics:
Graphic Novels; Picture Books, Billboards;
Graffitti, Advertisements; Murals; Comix; Tattoos; Logos; Cartoons,
Illuminated Manuscripts; Informational Sign Icons; Diagrams;
Maps, Emoticons; Emblems, Heraldry; Cover Art, Image Theory,
Photography


Send one-page abstracts to:
Michele Janette
Director, Program in Cultural Studies
English Department, KSU
108 ECS Building
Manhattan, KS 66506-0701

Email submissions encouraged: mjanette@ksu.edu

Deadline for proposals: October 25, 2004


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