[spectre] CFP: Public Views of the Private, NYC 2007

[Pelin Tan]

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CFP

Public Views of the Private; Private Views of the Public

2007 Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association
10 - 12 at New York University in New York City.

The 2007 Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association 
will take place August 10,11,12 at New York University in New York 
City.
Cameras record our lives from the intimate family realm of baby 
pictures through required driver's license and passport photos, to 
the now ubiquitous video surveillance on highways and city sidewalks. 
In effect each person leaves a visual trail from birth to death.  The 
theme for the 2007 IVSA conference is the multi-faceted relationship 
between public and private realms and how they are shaped by human 
action while at the same time condition our lives. The aim of the 
conference is to visually examine the various layers of the 
public/private relationship. Presenters and panelists are invited to 
explore how the social is embodied in the built environment, how 
visual media challenge and/or reinforce the traditional divide 
between public and private; and alternative frameworks that visual 
sociology offers for reconstructing this relationship.
Cultural forms, social institutions, and power structures always 
frame private and public realms. Recent research suggests that the 
relations and borders between public and private are rapidly 
changing.  Technological developments, changing social mores and 
folkways, cross-cultural perspectives, urban conditions, and 
advancing communication media seem to be breaking down borders or 
making them more permeable. Visual Sociology provides useful tools 
for investigating and interpreting the complexity and 
interpenetration of public and private realms; making visible 
intersections, historical legacies, and cross-cultural processes. 
Art, photography, film and video as well as careful observation can 
depict local communities and global society and elucidate social 
cohesion and social conflict.   
Visual researchers also construct their own images and interpretive 
narratives elucidating and questioning "the image" of public views 
and private views. We welcome a wide variety of formats including 
video, poster sessions, installations, performances, photo exhibits, 
and multimedia presentations as well as traditional papers.   
Focusing on public and private views draws attention to the physical 
dimension of human interaction and to the spatial ground that gives 
rise to social phenomena. It also allows researchers to consider 
dialectics between home and community, front stage and backstage, 
local communities and the global society.  In order to address these 
issues, papers and sessions may include, but are not limited to, the 
following topics:
1. Visual media in public and private
2. Changing borders between the public and private
3. Social Conflict and Fear
4. Terrorism as a public catastrophe
5. Gender and sexuality
6. Surveillance and invasion of private and public space
7. Built environments
8. Neighborhoods, localities, and semi-public realms
9. Public/Private: theories and methods 
10.The body in the arts and science
11. Cinematic representations
12. Public/Private narratives: home made videos to "Reality' TV

Those interested in organizing sessions on the topics listed above, 
or other related topics, should submit proposals to  HYPERLINK 
"mailto:<http://us.f300.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=IVSA2007@gmail.com> 
IVSA2007 at gmail.com" 
<http://us.f300.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=IVSA2007@gmail.com> 
IVSA2007 at gmail.com Deadline for submission of session proposals is 
March 15rd  Please submit an abstract of about 50-100 words on the 
session's theme to be used as guidelines for presenters.
<http://www.visualsociology.org/>www.visualsociology.org






Pelin Tan - 
<http://us.f300.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=pelintan@gmail.com> 
pelintan at gmail.com
IVSA conference committee










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Ph.D. cand. at Art History - Humboldt Univ.zu Berlin
Lecturer at Art History -  Berlin Technical University
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