IMAGES OF SOCIAL LIFE
Exploring the New Foundations of Visual Studies
International Visual Sociology Association Conference, at the University of
Southampton, UK July 8th - 10th 2003
An international, cross-disciplinary conference, Images of Social Life
invites
contributions to a matrix of visual strategies in film, video, still
photography and multi media used to formulate, conduct and disseminate
social
research.
Contributions dealing visually with all aspects of social life - intimate
scenes of personal life, subjectivity formation, domestic organisation,
urban
life, work, community, biography, place, migration and global processes ñ
particularly those linking different degrees of magnification, scope and
scale
are strongly encouraged. Themes that cross-cut the usual tensions between
the
micro and the macro, individual lives and bigger social processes, the
global
and the local, the general and the particular, the theoretical and the
empirical, and connect small landscapes with bigger processes are
particularly
welcome. Creating a matrix across disciplines, research fields,
methodologies,
and forms of social analysis, we will see what different visual strategies
can
achieve by moving in different directions and operating at different levels.
On past experience we expected this conference to attract scholars from the
US
and all over Europe from a broad range of disciplinary bases including
Cultural and Media Studies, Geography, History, English, Architecture and
Urban Planning, Politics, Psychology, Art and Design, Anthropology,
Sociology and Social Policy. It is intended for those who work with images -
whether making their own or using those of other people, in film, video,
still photography and multi-media - in understanding social life. It is also
for those who would like to develop their visual literacy as researchers and
teachers and learn basic skills in the photography and video workshops.
Abstracts by February 15th 2003 to Caroline Knowles, [log in to unmask]
Or by post to, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, University of
Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UK.
Registration details to follow.
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