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RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE CONFERENCE 2008

We are pleased to announce that the confirmed keynote speakers at the
Research into Practice conference will be W.J.T. Mitchell (USA) and Griselda
Pollock (UK). The conference will be held on 31 October 2008 at the Royal
Society of Arts, London. The call for abstracts is now open, and the closing
date for receipt is 1 May 2008. Selected papers from the conference will be
published in the international open access journal Working Papers in Art and
Design. Selection for the conference is by double-blind peer-review.

The theme of the conference is the role of "interpretation" in arts-based
research. 

The conference will focus on the theory of interpretation in research in
traditional disciplines and on the emerging theory of interpretation in
research in the visual and performing arts.

Conference topics that might be considered include, but are not restricted
to:

    * are unambiguous research outputs in the arts possible or desirable?
    * are the problems of interpretation in the arts different from other
disciplines?
    * do the interpretational problems in arts stem from its media or from
its aims?
    * can anything be learned from studies in interpretation in other
humanities subjects?
    * in the historical past were issues of interpretation viewed
differently?
    * do the arts have special advantages that compensate for any perceived
disadvantages with respect to interpretation of outcomes?
    * how does the author/reader problem affect research?


FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE AT
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/confhome.html

Research into Practice is the leading forum for scholarship on so-called
practice-based research in the visual and performing arts, hosted biennially
by the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

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