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------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:48:33 -0600 From: "Andrew C. Rieser" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: CFP: Journal of Visual Culture Call for Papers Journal of Visual Culture The past two decades have witnessed an explosion of interest, research, and writing on visual culture within the Humanities and Social Sciences. 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. Interdisciplinary Coverage 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 n 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 are now being sought for early issues of the journal. 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: [log in to unmask] or Joanne Morra, School of Art, Publishing and Music, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Hill Campus, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK Tel : +44 (0)1865 484960 ï Fax: +44 (0)1865 484952 Email: [log in to unmask] Reviews Editor Simon Ofield Email [log in to unmask] Events Editor Rob Stone Email [log in to unmask] Call for Papers website: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0376.html This announcement was submitted via the H-Net Announcements Website. Find it at: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=126843 ------------------------------