Literacies 2012 - 6th Global Conference: Visual Literacies

6th Global Conference
Visual Literacies
Tuesday 3rd July 2012 ? Thursday 5th July 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Papers:
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
conference seeks to examine and explore issues
surrounding visual literacy in regard to theory
and praxis. Perspectives are sought from those
engaged in fields such as education, visual arts,
fine arts, literature, philosophy, psychology,
critical theory and theology. These disciplines
are indicative only as papers are welcomed from
any area, profession and vocation in which visual
literacy plays a part.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops
are invited on issues related to any of the
following themes;
1. Visual Literacy as Theory
~What are the theoretical constructs of your
discipline?
~What are the current debates and directions of
your field?
~What are the various forms of socio-cultural
reactions and realizations of visual literacy?
~What are the modes and nodes of interdisciplinary
connections to visual literacy in your field?
~How will the concept of visual literacy be
described in the next decade in your discipline?
~How does the concept of 'framing' fit with visual
literacy in your field?
2. Visual Literacy as Practice
~What are the forms of representation and
realization of visual literacy in your field?
~What are the current debates and issues around
the notion of 'practice' in your field?
~What are the current 'tools, approaches and
applications' of visual literacy in your field?
~What are the current interdisciplinary
connections to the 'tools, approaches and
applications' of visual literacy in your field?
~What are the 'insiders views' visual literacy?
(That is from the perspective of artists, taggers,
digital natives, digital or visual immigrants)
3. Visual Literacy as Analysis
~What are the modes of visual literacy analysis in
your field?
~What are the 'tools' of visual literacy analysis
in your field?
~What are the current debates around analysis in
your field?
~What are the current debates and forms of
analysis in the areas of art history, fine arts,
creative arts, multimodality, cinema, television,
drama and IT?
4. Visual Literacy as an Interdisciplinary Overlap
~How is visual literacy connected to visual
rhetoric and/or visual thinking: overlaps,
questions and differences?
~How is visual literacy related to sensory
perception?
~How is curriculum design in, or across
disciplines connected to and through Visual
literacy?
The Steering Group welcomes the submission of pre-
formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts should
be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an
abstract is accepted for the conference, a full
draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th May
2012.
300 word abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to all Organising Chairs; abstracts
may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with
the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to
10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: VL6 Abstract
Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts
is planned for the end of the year. We acknowledge
receipt and answer to all paper proposals
submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us
in a week you should assume we did not receive
your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We
suggest, then, to look for an alternative
electronic route or resend.
Joint Organising Chairs:
Dr Phil Fitzsimmons
Faculty of Education
University of Woollongong
Australia
Email:philfitz-AT-uow.edu.au
Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
Email: vl6-AT-inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'
series of research projects run by ID.Net. It aims
to bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and challenging.
All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go
forward for development into 20-25 page chapters
for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard
copy volume.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-
interface/education/visual-literacies/
For further details of the conference, please
visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-
interface/education/visual-literacies/call-for-
papers/
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-
profit network and we are not in a position to be
able to assist with conference travel or
subsistence