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Call For Papers
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE
INTERNATIONAL VISUAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY
WEDNESDAY JUNE 24 - SUNDAY JUNE 28, 1998
CONFERENCE THEME:
COMMUNICATING IMAGES - DEFINING SOCIAL WORLDS
AND TRANSCENDING THEIR BOUNDARIES
DISCUSSION: It has become a truism that our global age is also a visual
one. The images of our time - whether they be produced by the mass media,
by independent professionals in organizations like the IVSA, or by plain
folks armed with automatic cameras, camcorders or computer software -
increasingly constitute a lingua franca that defines who we are and what we
might become both to ourselves and others. But what kinds of communities
do these images represent, and what kind of civilization are they building?
With this in mind, the 1998 IVSA Conference in Louisville, Kentucky,
invites papers that focus on two sets of questions:
1) What does contemporary image-making communicate about the nature and
quality of social relationships? How adequately do these images represent
lived experience? How useful are they in grounding our understanding of
situations in which we find ourselves? What do they reveal about trends
that are shaping our institutions?
2) How adequate is our own image-making? What kinds of empirical and
practical work should we as ethnographers, documentarians, social
researchers, graphic designers, archivists and curators be producing? What
new subjects and issues should we explore in our research and teaching?
What applications should new and emerging technologies have for our
research designs? How should we communicate our research findings? How
should we incorporate images and image-making into our teaching?
For further information about registration, accommodation and the
submission of abstracts, please contact:
Nancy Shepardson
Box WAK
Wheaton College
Norton, MA 02766
Telephone: 508-286-3650
Fax: 508-286-3640
E-mail: nshepardson@wheatonma.edu
Conference registration fee:
IVSA members (regular): $50.00
IVSA members (student/unemployed): $20
Non-IVSA members (employed): $80 *
Non-IVSA members (student/ unemployed): $40*
* Non-IVSA members receive a one-year membership in the IVSA, which
includes a one-year subscription to the organization's journal, Visual
Sociology, as part of their registration fee.
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Jon Wagner Division of Education, UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA
95616
PH1: 916-752-5387 PH2: 510-559-8006 FAX:
916-752-5411
E-mail: jcwagner@ucdavis.edu
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