[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Visual Culture Division, Cultural Studies Association, 23-26 May 2013, Chicago

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From: Cathy Hannabach <channabach at gmail.com>


Call for Papers

Visual Culture Division, Cultural Studies Association (USA)

Visual Studies investigates the production, dissemination and 
remediation of images and imaging systems in all forms—artistic, 
popular, scientific, commercial, etc. It is inclusive and broad-ranging 
both in its methods and approaches as well as in its objects of inquiry, 
which include a wide variety of media forms: digital technologies, the 
internet, photography, film, traditional arts, television, performance, 
gaming, video, the built environment, popular culture, etc. Visual 
Studies also addresses work produced across a broad spectrum of the 
humanities and natural sciences, engineering, medicine, cartography, 
circuit design, mathematics, information science, military applications, 
logic, and the many zones of graphic production in commercial and public 
sectors. Yet, its work is not about representation alone, but includes 
considerations of knowledge production, theory, and methods within 
Visual Studies itself. As a thematic division of the Cultural Studies 
Association (USA) the Visual Culture Division is dedicated to visual 
culture broadly conceived. Please find below the cfp for our annual 
conference, which will take place in Chicago, 23-26 May 2013. If you 
have questions please feel free to contact the Chair of the Visual 
Culture Division, Randal Rogers (randal.rogers at uregina.ca), or the 
respective session contact.

Submissions: please forward paper proposals to session contacts and the
division chair by 24 September. Proposals of 300 words (max.) must
include: title; short description; contact information; institutional
affiliation.


Session: Viralities Virtual and Visual

It has become commonplace to describe the circulation of epidemics,
protests, war, capital, and media through the cliche "going viral."
Indexing something about speed, medium, and audience participation, 
"viral" has come to signify a method of movement that both references 
but exceeds the biological. In media as diverse as cell phone videos of 
the Occupy Movements and revolutions across North Africa and the Middle 
East to CSI shows, bioterror video games, and Twitter feeds tracking TSA 
airport screening practices, visual culture seems inextricably linked to 
the viral both in terms of representation and media production. Viral 
has become both metaphor and materiality, linking digital technologies 
and social media practices to medical cultures, disease patterns, and 
military networks. This panel seeks papers that explore the specifically 
visual dimensions of "viral"--what role do visuality and visual media 
practices play in producing, circulating, and consuming ideas about the 
viral, viruses, and virality? How does the viral necessitate a 
redefinition of what visual culture and visual studies is, and how we 
engage it?

Topics may include:
- Surveillance: ID cards, biometrics, monitoring, law
- War and militarisms: friend/enemy distinctions, tracking movements,
military networks, drones
- Medicine: biological viruses, pandemics/outbreaks, STIs/STDs,
pharmaceutical practices, surgery/medical films, genetics
- Power networks and resistance/revolution: Arab Spring, Occupy Wall
Street, Wisconsin
- Life beyond the living: metaphors, materialisms, vitalisms
- Social media and networking: viral videos, memes, Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube, Vimeo, Academia.edu
- Circulation: bodies, capital, ideas, resources, objects, affects
- Species: animals, biopower, life and death
- Viral economics: capitalism, socialism, risk, speculation, credit, the
commons
- Replication: reproduction, monstrosity, mutation
- Digital lives: hacking, crowdsourcing

Contact:
Cathy Hannabach
Women’s Studies and American Studies
Temple University
channabach at gmail.com and randal.rogers at uregina.ca


Session: Visual Studies and Sport

This panel investigates the relationship between sport and visual
culture. Sports have traditionally had a curious relationship with the
academy and particularly within the arts, where they are often treated 
as ‘low-brow’, anti-intellectual and popular pursuits.  Of the academic 
work that has addressed sport, very little has focused on its highly 
visual nature. Rather, the dominant approach, found in the history and 
sociology of sport, situates sport as a social phenomenon and highlights 
the social and economic structures of sporting events, sports 
organizations and professions, as well as the mediation of sport, most 
specifically through television. By contrast, this panel examines the 
specific intersection of sport and visual representation.

Sports are inextricably bound to visual technologies and, as such, are a
rich site of analysis for visual studies scholars.  Importantly, the 
panel emphasizes the myriad ways in which sports and images intersect: 
images are used as pedagogical tools in sport as they are produced, 
circulated and read by coaches, athletes, trainers and sports medicine 
professionals; they are used as juridical tools that either replace or 
augment the human eye in sporting events; they serve commercial purposes 
as in television and print advertising; they are used as entertainment 
in television, film and new media; and they form an essential part of 
visual culture as manifest in visual art, pop culture and other forms of 
visual culture production.

The panel calls for a rethinking of sport and its relationship to visual
studies.  Whether pedagogical, juridical, commercial, aesthetic or
otherwise, images of sport are fundamental components of contemporary
visual culture: they are bound to cultural conceptions of class, race,
nation and gender and are enmeshed in the fundamental economic and
institutional infrastructures of society. The panel seeks to explore 
this topic in hopes of bringing new perspectives, theories and 
approaches to analyzing sport and visual culture.

Contact:
Jonathan Finn
Department of Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
jfinn at wlu.ca and randal.rogers at uregina.ca


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Cathy Hannabach
Women's Studies & American Studies
Temple University