FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:43:02 -0500 From: H-NET Announcements Editor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CFP: Journal of Visual Culture Journal of Visual Culture - Call for Papers The Journal of Visual Culture is a new international, refereed journal being launched in April 2002 as a site for astute, informative, and dynamic thought on the visual. The journal will publish work from a range of methodological positions, on various historical moments, and across diverse geographical locations. It will promote research, scholarship, and critical engagement with visual cultures. The Journal of Visual Culture will be essential reading for academics, researchers and students engaged with the visual within the fields and disciplines of: * film, media, and television studies * art, design, fashion, and architecture history * visual culture * cultural studies and critical theory * gender studies and queer studies * ethnic studies and critical race studies * philosophy and aesthetics * photography, new media, and electronic imaging * critical sociology * history * geography/urban studies in comparative literature and romance languages * the history and philosophy of science, technology, and medicine Topics to be covered will include: * technologies for seeing, machines of the visible,architectures of vision * gazes, glances, voyeurism, narcissism * the public sphere, privacy, the visible and everyday life * appearances, surfaces, textures, touch, transparency * performance, the erotic, the pornographic * the eye, ocular regimes, optics, blindness, the obscene * blackness, whiteness, colour, lightness, darkness * the ornamental, iconoclasm, idolatry, aura * spectacle, simulation * displays, exhibitions, collections, installations * seeing, scenes, screens * land/city/media-scapes * detection, the hidden, invisibility, blindspots, resemblance, vanishing points, peripheries, misrecognition, curiosity * cartographies, topographies * image, imagination, dreaming, fantasy * censorship, editing * forgery, the alchemical, anamorphosis * perception, projection, disclosure, illusion * monuments, museums, archives * copy, reproduction, the microscopic, the macroscopic * aesthetics, mimesis, tropes, figures * style, technique, gesture Call for Papers Articles should be between 5-7000 words. Reviews (which must be approved in advance with either the Reviews or Events Editor) should be between 800-1200 words. Four copies of the manuscript should be submitted, typed in double-spacing on one side of A4 paper only and must include an abstract of 100-150 words on a separate sheet. Authors will be asked to provide a diskette of the final version. Submissions will be refereed anonymously by at least two referees. The journal uses the Harvard system of referencing with author's name and date in the text and a full reference literature in alphabetical order at the end of the article. Articles for the journal should be addressed to either: Raiford A. Guins, University of California, San Diego, Department of Literature, 0410, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0410, USA Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Joanne Morra, School of Art, Publishing and Music, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Hill Campus, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK Tel : +44 (0)1865 484960 � Fax: +44 (0)1865 484952 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reviews Editor Simon Ofield Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Events Editor Rob Stone Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact information: Jane Makoff Sage Publications 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7374 0645 Fax: +44 (0)20 7374 8741 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
