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Mon, 20 Oct 97 09:43:00 PDT

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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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