[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Gender and Visual Culture (RSA) (1/15/07; 7/21/07/-7/22/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Taking a hard look: Gender and visual culture

CONFERENCE HOSTED BY THE
INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES,
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA

21-22 June 2007

Keynote speaker: Prof Amelia Jones

Gender has functioned as an interdisciplinary approach and critical tool
to analyse and investigate several subject fields.  As such, gender has
contributed to establishing a much-needed theoretical and practical
platform spanning across many fields of enquiry from where gender
practices can effectively be critiqued and ideally changed.

We are looking for papers that contribute to the critical role played by
gender as specifically pertaining to visual culture. If, as some claim,
we live in a culture that is predominantly visual, it means that gender
analysis has to accommodate this shift towards the visual. Visual
culture encompasses all things visual and culturally constructed. It is
that which can be seen, as well as that which remains invisible, but at
the same time makes vision possible.

What type of gendered visual culture is being presented and created in
the South African context particularly (but not exclusively)? How is
visual culture being gendered in the South African context? Is there
reference to a uniquely South African visual culture or is it all a
global visual culture?

Can one refer to a move beyond gender in terms of a trans-gendered
visual culture or are we still caught up in the same debilitating role
models? How does one cope with an ever-increasing alienation between
gender studies and the younger generation of students and scholars
moving into higher education? What is the place of gender as
interdisciplinary tool in the academic analysis of visual culture as it
spans across several subjects, such as science, social work, technology,
psychology, medicine, philosophy, sociology, engineering, communication,
economics, religious studies, business management, anthropology,
geography, historical studies, cultural and media studies, visual
studies, art history and literature studies.

Suggested thematic topics (although others will also be considered):

*	Gender and science
*	Visual violence
*	Masculinity reconsidered
*	Postcolonial systems
*	Poverty/affluence dichotomy
*	Scopophilic regimes
*	Images of death
*	(His)tory visually recorded
*	Gender and advertising/Advertising gender
*	G(l)ocal identities
*	Gendered visual spaces
*	Trans-gendered practices
*	Gender and feminism
*	Gender and sexual differences


Papers:
Papers should not exceed 2,500 words, excluding bibliography.
Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. A volume of selected and 'peer
reviewed' papers will be published.

Abstracts:
Please e-mail 150-300 word abstracts including: keywords, your full
name, institutional affiliation, e-mail and postal addresses.

Deadline: January 15, 2007
(to amanda.dupreez at up.ac.za or marinda.maree at up.ac.za ).
Acceptance of proposals will be notified by February 20, 2007.

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