[spectre] CFP: Migrations in Visual Culture (Belgrade, 8-10 Sep 16)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Faculty of Philosophy, University in Beograd; Faculty of Arts, 
University of Ljubljana; Center for Iconographic Studies, University of 
Rijeka; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split 
<conference.phd2016 at gmail.com>
Date: Feb 16, 2016
Subject: CFP: Migrations in Visual Culture (Belgrade, 8-10 Sep 16)

Belgrade, Serbia, September 8 - 10, 2016
Deadline: Apr 25, 2016

Migrations in Visual Culture

Conference for PhD Students and recent PhD Graduates

The theme of the conference addresses the power and meaning of images 
and the visual in general in the context of migration of people, ideas, 
knowledge, artefacts, art works and symbols through the prism of 
postcolonial and cultural translation theories, from antiquity to the 
present. The question involves far more than just art, all the more so 
because many fields in the humanities and social sciences have in recent 
times taken the "pictorial turn". Moreover, and especially at this 
moment in history, any discussion of the power of images and their role 
in migrations in visual culture is unavoidably also positioned in the 
context of current changes in global relations as well as in the growing 
impact of social media. This issue also opens the question of 
de-territorialisation of images and how, as Walter Benjamin has already 
indicated, technical reproduction has moved the artwork from its 
original context. The circulation of images is, of course, as old as 
civilization itself and crucial in the process of generating multiple 
facets of their agency in society, their impacting both the individual 
and the collective habitus and their role in cross-cultural 
communication. Any aspect of the visual is never simply an expression of 
one culture but rather part of a process of constructing meaning in a 
field characterized by similarities as much as by differences. This 
conference seeks to put these and other issues related to migrations in 
visual culture at the center of the discussion and to present them from 
an interdisciplinary point of view.

The international conference is intended for PhD students and recent PhD 
graduates from different fields of humanities and social sciences, who 
are hereby invited to participate.

The proposed topics for interdisciplinary discussions are:
  1. West Balkans - Migration and Cultural Transfer
2. Migration as Cross-cultural Communication
3. Migration of Ideas and Concepts
4. Migration of Works of Art
5. Migration of Symbols

Proposals should include name, contact information (address, phone 
number, e-mail), title of the paper, short CV in English of maximum 200 
words and an abstract in English of maximum 400 words.

conference.phd2016 at gmail.com

Faculty of Philosophy
Art History Department
University in Beograd
Čika Ljubina 18-20
11000 Beograd
SERBIA
(with the note »Conference for PhD Students and recent PhD Graduates«)

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: Migrations in Visual Culture (Belgrade, 8-10 Sep 16). In: 
H-ArtHist, Feb 16, 2016. <http://arthist.net/archive/12236>.