Last month’s
international conference entitled ‘Visual Culture Studies in Europe’, hosted by the Institute, was a huge success. A stella cast of leading academics, curators, and editors from Austria, Spain, Croatia, Norway, Belarus, Italy, England, and France including Iain Chambers, Oliver Grau, and Adrian Rifkin came together to discuss the study of visual culture within the context of European universities, art colleagues, and cultural institutions. The audience, a talkative mix of staff and students from Westminster as well as welcome guests from elsewhere in London, Brighton, and as far away as Lithuania, had a day to remember. The conference speakers, members of the Visual Culture Studies in Europe Network, plan to meet again next year, this time in Barca!
See also Lorraine Audric’s account of the event, and a copy of her presentation ‘Visual Culture Studies in France here: culturevisuelle.org/imago/
Date: Thursday 27th May 2010 – Saturday 29th May 2010
Venue: The Old Cinema, 309 Regents Street, University of Westminster, London
Host: University of Westminster, London
Organizers: Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University), Joanne Morra (University of the Arts London), Marquard Smith (University of Westminster, London)
Thursday 27th May 2010
12:00 Registration
1:00 Welcome
1:05-2:15 Session 1
W.J.T. Mitchell (English and Art History, University of Chicago)
2:15-4:15 Session 2 Roundtable: Education
Mark Dunhill (School of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)
Will Cobbing (Wimbledon College of Art)
Joanne Morra (School of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)
Adrian Rifkin (Art Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Joy Sleeman (History and Theory of Art, Slade School of Fine Art)
Victoria Walsh (Education and Interpretation, Tate Britain)
4:15-4:45 Break
4:45-6:30 Session 3
Gary Hall (Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University)
Esther Leslie (Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London)
6:30-8:30: Reception
Friday 28th May 2010
10:00-11:15 Session 4
Keith Moxey (Art History and Archaeology, Columbia)
11:15-1:00 Session 5
Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (Geography, Durham University)
David Cunningham (Aesthetics/Urban Studies, University of Westminster);
1:00-2:00 Lunch (Not provided)
2:00-4:00 Session 6 Roundtable: Design Studies – Visual Studies – Cultural Studies
Glen Adamson (Design/Craft, RCA/V&A)
Sarah Chaplin (Architectural Humanities, Greenwich University)
Elizabeth Guffey (Design, SUNY, Purchase)
Raiford Guins (Digital Cultural Studies, SUNY, Stony Brook)
Guy Julier (Design, Leeds Metropolitan University)
Penny Sparke (Design History, Kingston University)
4:00-4:30 Break
4:30-5:45 Session 7
Lisa Cartwright (Communication, UC, San Diego) and Marita Sturken (Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University)
Saturday 29th May 2010
10:30-11:45 Session 8
Nicholas Mirzoeff (Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University)
11:45-1:30 Session 9
Joanna Zylinska (Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Esther Gabara (Romance Studies, and Art, Art History, & Visual Studies, Duke University)
1:30-2:30 Lunch (Not provided)
2:30-4:30 Session 10 Roundtable: The Future Institution: An International Association for Visual Culture Studies?
Michael Ann Holly (The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown)
Laura Mulvey (Screen Media, Birkbeck, University of London)
Stephen Melville (Art/Aesthetics/Philosophy, Ohio State University)
Griselda Pollock (Art Histories/Cultural Studies, University of Leeds)
Marquard Smith (Visual Culture Studies, University of Westminster)
4:30 Conference Ends
Date: Friday 5 February 2010
Location: Room 2.05c, 4-12 Little Titchfield Street, University of Westminster, London W1W 7UW
Cost: £20/£10 concession.
Booking: Visual Culture Studies in Europe Booking Form
10:00 Introduction
10:15-12:30 Session 1: Cartographies of Power
Iain Chambers, University of Naples, Italy
Joachin Barriendos, Curator, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, and Professor Anna Maria Guasch, University of Barcelona, Spain
Dr Almira Ousmanova, European Humanities University, Belarus/Lithuania
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:45: Session 2: Education, Education, Education
Dr Joanne Morra, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, England
Lorraine Audric and Professor Andre Gunthert, Laboratoire d’histoire visuelle contemporaine, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Dr Nina Lager Vestberg, Norwegian, University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway
3:45-4:15 Break
4:15-6:30: Session 3: Projects
Dr Oyvind Vagnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Kresimir Purgar, Center for Visual Studies Zagreb, Croatia
Professor Oliver Grau, Danube University, Krems, Austria
Dates: 27 May – 29 May 2010
Host: Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, London
Location: University of Westminster, London
Booking: Visual Culture Studies Conference Booking Form
Confirmed contributors: Glenn Adamson (RCA/V&A); Dipti Bhagat (London Met, tbc); Lisa Cartwright (UC, San Diego); Sarah Chaplin (Greenwich); Will Cobbing (Wimbledon College of Art); David Cunningham (Westminster); Mark Dunhill (Central Saint Martins); Esther Gabara (Duke); Elizabeth Guffey (SUNY, Purchase); Raiford Guins (SUNY, Stony Brook); Gary Hall (Coventry); Michael Ann Holly (The Clark Institute); Guy Julier (Leeds Met); Esther Leslie (Birkbeck); Stephen Melville (Ohio State); Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU); W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago); Joanne Morra (Central Saint Martins); Keith Moxey (Columbia); Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck); Griselda Pollock (Leeds); Adrian Rifkin (Goldsmiths); Joy Sleeman (Slade); Marquard Smith (Westminster); Penny Sparke (Kingston); Marita Sturken (NYU); Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (Durham), Victoria Walsh (Tate Britain); Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths).
Price: £ 50 / £ 20 concessions
Venue: The Old Cinema, 309 Regents Street, University of Westminster, London
Organizers: Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University), Joanne Morra (University of the Arts London), Marquard Smith (University of Westminster, London)
Date: Friday 5 February 2010, 10am
Place: University of Westminster, London
This conference is a collaboration between established and emerging scholars, curators, educators, and editors from across a number of European universities and cultural institutions with a commitment to Visual Culture Studies in Europe, and the study of visual culture.
Featuring Joachin Barriendos (Curator, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain), Jose Luis Brea (Editor of Estudios Visuales, Madrid, Spain), Iain Chambers (University of Naples, Italy), Anna Maria Guasch (University of Barcelona, Spain), Oliver Grau (Danube University Krems, Austria), Joanne Morra (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, England), Almira Ousmanova (European Humanities University Belarus/Lithuania), Kresimir Purgar (Center for Visual Studies Zagreb, Croatia), Vivian Rehberg (Parsons Paris School of Art + Design, France), Marquard Smith (University of Westminster, England), Oyvind Varges (University of Bergen, Norway), and Nina Lager Vestberg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway).
Location: Room 2.05c, 4-12 Little Titchfield Street, University of Westminster, London W1W 7UW
Cost: £20/£10 concs.
The Journal of Visual Culture issue 8:2, The Questionnaire on Obama Issue, is now out. (To go directly to individual articles, please use the links in the right hand column, under the heading Current Issue.) Working in universities and cultural institutions in the UK, the US, and elsewhere, academics, educators, artists, critics, and curators have contributed to the Questionnaire. The contents appear below:
Marquard Smith and JVC Editorial Group
Questionnaire on Barack Obama
W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago)
Obama as Icon
Shawn Michelle Smith (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Obama’s Whiteness read more…
This project is a collaboration between established and emerging scholars, curators, educators, and editors from across a number of European universities and cultural institutions with a commitment to Visual Culture Studies in Europe, and the study of visual culture. The project aims to:
(b) explore the ways in which these diverse trajectories in the emergence of the study of visual culture are historically and theoretically distinctive because of the unique characteristics of a specific country, location, language, peoples, their histories of migration, governmental policies, and the contexts within which universities function as sites for interdisciplinary learning.
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The Network for Editors of Interdisciplinary Journals (NEIJ) was set up in 2008 to raise the profile of interdisciplinary journals in the Arts and Humanities, as a forum for editors to discuss the challenges facing interdisciplinary scholarship and publishing, and to contribute productively to ongoing debates on the future of research, knowledge, and understanding in the academic community and beyond.
Journals involved currently in the NEIJ include: New Formations, Radical Philosophy, Paragraph, Journal of Visual Culture, Interventions, Journal of European Studies, Culture Machine, Cultural Politics, Journal of War and Cultural Studies, Theory, Culture and Society, Visual Studies, Visual Culture in Britain, Journal of Visual Art Practice, Oxford Literary Review, Parallax, Angelaki, CITY, Body and Society, Ethnicities, Social Movement Studies and Subjectivity.
The NEIJ organized its first conference, ‘Interdisciplinarity in the Arts and Humanities: Research, Policy, Publishing‘, which took place in London on 20 March 2009.
Please email your name and institutional affiliation to be added to the NEIJ electronic mailing list, through which we will keep you informed of the Network’s upcoming activities and events.
The Swedenborg Society in Bloomsbury, London, on Friday 20th March 2009
Registration 9:30 am; Conference begins at 10:00 am.
This conference sets out to consider the emergence of interdisciplinary research within the Arts and Humanities during the last 40 years. Emerging out of the political, social and cultural ambitions of a changing western world from the 1960s onwards, as well as the academic corollaries of these endeavours, interdisciplinarity within the academy became a means of developing a new and complex understanding of what it means to situate oneself: to act, teach, and undertake research in a world that no longer broke down according to existing disciplinary boundaries.
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