Conference: Power to Empowerment: Critical Literacy in Visual Culture
June 6-7, 2008
Dallas, Texas
Keynote speakers (appearing in pairs to address a respective common topic
from their individual perspectives):
Ms. Melanie Burford
Melanie Burford is a 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner and a Dallas Morning News
Staff Photographer.
Professor Douglas Kellner
Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at
UCLA and is author of many books including his most recent, Guys and Guns
Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City
Bombings to the Virginia Tech Massacre.
Ms. Heather Amuny-Dey
Creative Director for Nike Global Brand Design
Professor Jonathan Baldwin
Jonathan Baldwin is a lecturer in Design History, Theory and Practice at the
University of Dundee and co‑author of Visual Communication: From Theory to
Practice.
Call for Papers (DEADLINE EXTENDED):
Papers are solicited for an international, transdisciplinary conference
examining visual literacy as it is shaped by, shapes and integrates private
and public identity and subjectivity through social institutions and forces
including education, politics, ethics, technology, media, marketing,
commerce, the environment and society. The conference understands visual
literacy from the perspective of individuals, communities, groups and
organizations to mean the ability to successfully compose and deliver
meaningful communication as well as decode and interpret visual messages. It
involves perceiving visual images as components of a larger culture matrix,
constituting their meaning and significance, discerning relationships
between their intended and actual purposes and audiences, and acting with or
upon them. Visual literacy generates and is affected by relationships
between the visual, literacy and power, including disenfranchisement.
Particular themes or topics for papers may include but are not limited to
the economics of visual culture, constructing the visual landscape, visual
culture and affiliations and disenfranchisements, brands and users,
ethnographies of visual culture, the charge of education to superintend
visual literacy, visual literacy and power, visual illiteracy, visual
culture and social difference, and visual cultures of everyday life.
Abstracts between 250-500 words are sought for 15-20 minute paper
presentations. The extended deadline to receive abstracts is February 29,
2008. Extended notification of acceptance will be March 30, 2008.
Please send your abstract electronically as a word-document to Keith Owens,
Assistant Professor, Communication Design, University of North Texas College
of Visual Arts & Design, [log in to unmask]
More information about the conference can be found at
http://visualliteracyconference.unt.edu/
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