[Bilimsel Haber] CFP/CONF.: 8th International Conference on Word and Image Studies: Efficacy / Efficacité - Paris, July 7-11, 2008

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

*Censorship Panel, Word and Image conference, Paris, France, July 7-11, 
2008*
*Location:* France 
<http://www.h-net.org/announce/geography.cgi?geography=France>
*Call for Papers Date:* 2007-10-14
*Date Submitted:* 2007-07-24
*Announcement ID:* 157484

Call for conference papers on the theme of censorship for sessions at 
the 8th International Conference on Word and Image Studies: Efficacy / 
Efficacité to be held in Paris, July 7-11, 2008.

Word, Image and Censorship

These sessions seek papers that examine texts or images that have been 
accused, prosecuted or prohibited for moral or political reasons from 
the seventeenth century to the present. Papers may examine topics within 
a specific historical, religious or political context or analyze 
theories and shifting definitions of morality or propaganda. Papers 
might consider the following questions: How did artists and writers 
confront, subvert or negotiate legal restrictions that defined the 
illicit or transgressive? What was the interaction between censored 
material distributed in the popular domain and uncensored works 
considered literature and fine art? Papers might also address how texts 
and images challenged the efficacy of legal definitions, while the law, 
in turn, made more vivid the efficacy of the subversive and forbidden. 
Papers should address censorship in relation to word and image studies 
and the conference theme "Efficacy." Proposals in French and English 
will be considered.

Please e-mail proposals (300 words maximum) to Lauren Weingarden 
lweingar at mailer.fsu.edu before 15 October and send a copy to the 
conference organizers efficacite08 at gmail.com.

For more information about IAWIS/AIERTI International Association of 
Word and Image Studies / Association Internationale pour l'Etude des 
Rapports entre Texte et Image and the 2008 conference, 'Efficacy / 
Efficacité' in Paris, France (July 7-11, 2008), go to 
http://www.iawis.org/.

Lauren Weingarden
Associate Professor of Art History
Florida State University