[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: Rhetoric of the Image: Visual Culture in Political Islam (Copenhagen University, Denmark, March 21-22, 2009)

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Call for Papers
 
Rhetoric of the Image: Visual Culture in Political Islam
 
Conference to be held at Copenhagen University, Denmark 
Saturday and Sunday, March 21-22, 2009.
 
While narrative sources and oral communication were key in the formation and
transmission of Islamic culture in the pre-modern period, an increasing use
of visual media in the cultural production of modern Islamic societies has
effectively placed the image alongside-- if not above-- text-based
rhetorical models. Over the course of the twentieth century, visual media
such as film, television, the graphic arts, illustrated books, and pamphlets
were mobilized in the drive to modernize and to define a role for Islam in
the public domain of everyday politics. In more recent years, new media
forms like satellite television and the internet have offered further
possibilities to use visual rhetoric for the public representation of
Islamic subjectivities. The use of image-based narratives in modern Islamic
culture generates an increasingly visualized public sphere that enables
states, political groups, and individuals to construct and deploy
ideological messages through culturally recognizable symbols.
 
We invite proposals for papers that deal with the power and role of the
image in creating a rhetorical lexicon for political Islam in the modern
period in national, nationalist, and trans-national cultural production.
Topics should deal with aspects of the visual in any region of the Islamic
world, from the emergence of visual media in the early modern period to the
production and reception of the latest interactive media, including the
presentation of Islam on television (talk shows, Qur'an classes, films); the
internet and other digital media; banners, posters, murals and graffiti; and
illustrated pamphlets, cartoons, graphic novels, and children's books. We
also invite presenters to assist in developing a conceptual and theoretical
framework to investigate more broadly the role of visual culture in modern
Islamic societies.
 
The conference will take place under the auspices of the research unit "The
New Islamic Public Sphere" at the University of Copenhagen, March 21-22,
2009. The host institution will cover transport, accommodation, and meals.
 
Please send a 200-word abstract by October 15, 2008 to Sune Haugbolle (
<mailto:suha at hum.ku.dk> suha at hum.ku.dk) and Christiane Gruber (
<mailto:chgruber at indiana.edu> chgruber at indiana.edu).

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