Image&Word

Alternative Worlds

A retrospective of the last 111 years

Call for Papers/ Art Presentations

Seminar in Visual Culture 2011

Deadline for proposals: 13 Dec. 2010

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, Room ST 274 (School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, WC1B 5DN London)

This series of seminars acts as a forum for practicing artists, researchers, curators, students, and others interested in visual culture who are invited to present, discuss and explore a given theme within the broad field of Visual Culture.

In an attempt to escape the doom and gloom of the economic crisis the theme for 2011 is ‘Alternative Worlds’. The aim is to examine the dreams, plans and hopes, but also the nightmares and fears reflected in utopian thinking since 1900 in the Western hemisphere. What has become of all those possible worlds? How do they reflect their contemporary culture and society and what, if anything, do or can they mean for our present, or indeed, our future? What alternative worlds are engendered by our own times, by the world of 2011 itself? This is, hence not only a retrospective of past utopias and their after-lives but also an invitation to look towards our possible futures.

Thursday October 28 in the theatre of Namur is an interesting conference on censorship of images:

Politiquement (in)correct ?! Journée d’étude autour de la CENSURE

België mag dan wel internationaal bekend zijn voor haar stripproductie en illustratiewerk, toch staat deze creatieve sector alsmaar meer onder druk. Tot op heden heeft niemand een precies idee over de actuele sociaaleconomische situatie van de illustrator of stripauteur. Daarom nam het studiebureau van SMartBe het initiatief om een grootschalig onderzoek uit te voeren. Door middel van een online vragenlijst werd bij illustratoren en stripauteurs gepeild naar de belangrijkste pijnpunten bij de uitoefening van hun beroep. Deze enquête richtte zich zowel naar zij die al een lange artistieke carrière achter de rug hebben, als naar debutanten.

DATUM
19 | 11 | 2010
PLAATS
SMartBe, ingang Coenraetsstraat 82, 1060 Brussel

Informatie: http://www.smartbe.be/

Inschrijven bij Quentin de Ghellinck: deq@smartbe.be
deq@smartbe.be – 02/542.19.73

On November 15 and 16 Unfixed organises a symposium and workshop on Photography and postcolonial perspectives in contemporary art which will explore photography’s relationship to changing notions of cultural histories, identities and representations. The symposium and workshop will take place in The Center for Contemporary Art in Dordrecht (The Netherlands). Parallel to the symposium there is an exhibition of a group of six international artists who re-construct and re-contextualize fixed versions of photographic history through their installations, found and vernacular images, sculpture, text and video. Participating are artists Charif Benhelima (BE 1967), Otobong Nkanga (FR 1974), Keith Piper (UK 1960), Naro Snackey (NL 1980), Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (USA 1954) and Hank Willis Thomas (USA 1976). The artists will be present at the symposium together with Pamela Pattynama, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Cultural History (University of Amsterdam) and art historian and critic Kobena Mercer.

For more information and registration see the Unfixed website.

CFP: 2011 Narrative Conference (7-10 April, 2011; sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis and the International Society for the Study of Narrative)

The 2011 Narrative Conference is sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis and the International Society for the Study of Narrative and will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, April 7-10, 2011. The Narrative Conference is an interdisciplinary forum addressing all dimensions of narrative theory and practice. We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of narrative in any genre, period, discipline, language, and medium. Deadline for receipt of proposals: October 30, 2010.

Proposals for individual papers:
Please provide the title and a 300-word abstract of the paper you are proposing; your name, institutional affiliation, and email address; and a brief statement (no more than 100 words) about your work and your publications.

Proposals for panels:
Please provide a 700-word (maximum) description of the topic of the panel and of each panelist’s contribution; the title of the panel and the titles of the individual papers; and for each participant the name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a brief statement (no more than 100 words) about the person’s work and publications.

Please send proposals by email in PDF, Word, or WordPerfect to:
narrative.conference@wustl.edu
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For further information please contact Emma Kafalenos at emkafale@artsci.wustl.edu or Erin McGlothlin at mcglothlin@wustl.edu or visit http://narrative.wustl.edu. For a flyer of this Call for Papers, please go to:

http://narrative.wustl.edu/media/Flyer_final-6-25.pdf.