IAMCR 2013 - Visual Culture Working Group - Call for Papers

altThe Visual Culture Working Group invites submissions for sessions at IAMCR 2013 Conference which will be held in Dublin, Ireland from 25th to 29th of June 2013. The main theme of this year’s IAMCR Conference is Crises, 'Creative Destruction' and the Global Power and Communication Orders.

Visual Culture Working group has been playing a leading role in discussing creative destruction of pre-existing power and order in the world communication system particularly from the perspective of non-Western alternatives. We have been involved in strong arguments on dynamic changes in visual art, cinema, visual media and new technology in Asia, Latin America and Africa in addition to changes in European and American visual media. Visual culture will be the main realm of searching for the force of creative destruction against contemporary power of media and communication. We welcome theoretical and practical research agenda related to visual culture. Particularly, we would like to encourage panel proposals in relation to the main theme of this year’s conference.

The prospective themes of Visual Culture Working Group sessions would be as follows though we would not exclude any other themes related to visual cultures.

  • cultural studies of visual media,
  • history of visual culture,
  • new technology and visual media,
  • sociological and anthropological research on visual communication,
  • cinema studies,
  • environmental issues of visual communication,
  • methodological issues in visual communication.

Guidance of abstract submission

  • Abstracts should be between 300-500 words.
  • Names of the authors, professional titles, institutional affiliations, email address should be included.
  • The title should be clearly marked
  • Abstracts (and full papers) should be submitted by IAMCR Open Conference System (OCS) at http://iamcr-ocs.org, not to the Section chair.

Please note: Individuals may submit 1 abstract (paper) per Section or Working Group as lead author, and a maximum of 2 abstracts (papers) to a single IAMCR conference in general.

Presenters are expected to bring fully developed work to the conference. Prior to the conference, it is expected that a completed paper will be submitted to Section. The same abstract or version of an abstract with minor variations must not be submitted to other IAMCR sections or Working Groups. Such submissions will be rejected by the OCS system and by the heads of Sections and Working Groups.

Deadlines

  • Submission of abstracts : January 28, 2013.
  • Decisions on acceptance of abstracts: February 28, 2013.
  • Final conference programme will be known by 15 April 2013
  • Deadline for full paper submission: 28 May 2013.

The OCS system at will open on November 15, 2012, and will close on January 28, 2013. Early submission is strongly encouraged.

Any questions and inquiries should be directed to Sunny Yoon sunny33 [at] naver.com; syoon [at] hanyang.ac.kr, Chair of Visual Culture Working Group.