Hi all,
I just received this call for papers from a colleague of mine and thought some of you Kossaks might be interested. The conference takes place at the New School for Social Research, in New York City, and will be held on Monday, April 18th, 2005. Abstracts or presentation proposals are due by the 25th of this month, but I'm sure they'll give you an extension if you want to participate.
The title of the conference is Words, Images, and the Framing of Social Reality.
You'll find the full CFP in the extended entry.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Words, Images, and the Framing of Social Reality
Monday, April 18th, 2005
65 5th Avenue, New York , New York
A spring interdisciplinary conference hosted by The New School Graduate Faculty Department of Liberal Studies is seeking paper presentations, videos, visual art, and/or performance pieces that confront the topic of "Words, Images, and the Framing of Social Reality."
Words and images are the conceptual tools used to "frame" our understanding of social reality. Oftentimes, these words and images unify our understandings of a concept to be classified as "truth". Nevertheless, there are also instances when this "truth" is not objective, but merely a veiled fantasy incapable of fully describing the complexity of the situation it attempts to define. Thus, simulated and psuedo-concrete imagery such as extreme religiosity, political propaganda, mass media, nationalism, etc. are perhaps only manageable, yet illusory attempts of filling this conceptual void. Are we then slaves to the fantasy and seduction of words and images, or, subjects vying to redefine them? This interdisciplinary (and hopefully multi-media) conference will explore the relationship and tension between imagery, metaphor, and rhetoric in creating, maintaining, and framing social reality(s). Please submit paper abstracts or presentation proposals to AllaN562@newschool.edu by February 25th 2005.
Some possible topics could be (but are, of course, not limited to...)
* Image and Sexuality
* Racism and War: Debasing the Other
* Terrorist as Auteur
* Pop Culture as Social Control
* Spin Cycle: The Framing of Politics
* Art as resistance
* Coding War: just vs. unjust violence
* Willful Amnesia: Choosing to ignore and/or forget