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Visual Culture Caucus
The Visual Culture Caucus works to support the critical investigation of visual materials at the American Studies meetings and to provide a network for scholars working in visual studies from diverse disciplinary homes. Its members include teachers, museum curators, librarians, and others who research a variety of visual forms and media, such as painting, photography, sculpture, film, television, advertisements, cartoons, visual ethnographies, and the Internet. The VC Caucus works closely with the national organizing committees and councils of the ASA, organizes and sponsors sessions, conducts business, and co-hosts a reception at the ASA’s annual meeting.
Through this discussion board, the Caucus acts as a clearinghouse for people teaching and doing research in visual culture and those seeking to broaden their community or to gain the advice of other scholars and teachers. We are particularly devoted to the mentoring of emerging scholars, and encourage graduate students to participate in this forum, organize sessions through the caucus and attend our meetings.
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Call for Papers
ASA 2012, November 15-18, San Juan, Puerto Rico
“Visualizing Pre-Columbian Civilizations in the Service of Nation-Building in the U.S. and Mexico, 1850-1950”
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Call for Papers
ASA 2012, November 15-18, San Juan, Puerto Rico
“Pictures from an Expedition: Aesthetics of 19th-century Cartographic Exploration in the Americas”
We seek historians, art historians, geographers, and scholars of visual culture for a panel discussing the aesthetics of 19th-century cartographic exploration in the Americas.
The nineteenth century represented a high point in mapping expeditions at the hemispheric level. These ostensibly scientific expeditions charted territories, often in support of nation building projects, yet also produced vast amounts of visual and artistic materials. This panel will focus on this visual material addressing such questions as: What kinds of 19th-century visual practices and technologies of seeing do these materials engage? How does scientific knowledge get translated into the visual and disseminated to the public? Can looking at mapping hemispherically challenge a distinction between North American and South/Central/Latin American methodologies or practices of exploration? We are interested in all forms of visual representation, including maps, sketches, drawings, landscape paintings, photography, lithography, etc.
Proposals including a title and abstract (maximum 500 words) should be sent by Monday January 23rd to:
Ernesto Capello, History, Macalester College, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Julia Rosenbaum, Art History, Bard College, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Proposing papers on the post-Cold War failure of American exceptionalism?
I’ve proposed a paper on post-atomic-holocaust video games set in that context. Anyone else working the same general thematic who thinks this might make a good session can contact me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Looking for others proposing on cultural significance of the gaming world
I have submitted a paper proposal on the subject of the post-atomic-holocaust-premise video gaming genre and its significance as a “return of the repressed” anxiety both about atomic war and about the loss of America’s premise as a “necessary empire” in the Cold War years. I am interested in others who are proposing on the gaming world. Email me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you think this might make a good special session.
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Visual Culture Caucus Panel and Proposal Assistance
Call for Participation:Visual Culture Caucus, American Studies Association. Deadline for Panel and Proposal Assistance: January 10, 2012.
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