See also Lorraine Audric’s account of the event, and a copy of her presentation ‘Visual Culture Studies in France here: culturevisuelle.org/imago/

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

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

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)

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.

Visual Culture Studies in Europe will host a conference in late 2009. Details forthcoming.

Participants:
Joachin Barriendos, Curator, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
Professor Jose Luis Brea, Editor of Estudios Visuales, Madrid, Spain
Professor Iain Chambers, University of Naples, Italy
Professor Anna Maria Guasch, University of Barcelona, Spain
Professor Oliver Grau, Danube University Krems, Austria
Dr Joanne Morra, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, England
Dr Almira Ousmanova, European Humanities University Belarus/Lithuania
Kresimir Purgar, Center for Visual Studies Zagreb, Croatia
Dr Vivian Rehberg, Parsons Paris School of Art + Design, France
Dr Marquard Smith, University of Westminster, England
Dr Oyvind Vagnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Dr Nina Lager Vestberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway

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.

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.
The shifting terrain for these scholarly, institutional, and personal politics became manifest in, for instance, the emergence of cultural studies, media studies or, more recently, visual culture studies; the importation of ‘theory’ within the academy; the political investment captured in the institutionalization of postcolonial theory, queer theory, and feminism within the University; as well as the emergence of new trans-disciplinary problematics such as globalization. Some of this genealogy has been written. And yet, more work needs to be done. Our interest in this genealogy is to consider it in light of the histories of interdisciplinarity within an expanded field: to think of the social, political and academic field of interdisciplinarity, and its relation to publishing, governmental policy and funding bodies.

Within this expanded context, it is possible to propose that as a result of these necessary incursions within the social and academic field, a forum was required for the public interrogation and dissemination of our past and present cultures. Thus, the interdisciplinary journal, in particular, emerged in both the UK and US as a ready and willing space within which to debate the complexity and intertwined nature of these cultures. Having very specific political and epistemological agendas, these journals created an arena for dialogue, provided us with new, interdisciplinary knowledge, while shaping our understanding of the world. This genealogy has not been written, and is one of the main streams/points of interrogation of our conference.

Interdisciplinary journals are, in many respects, the primary means of (print and electronic) dissemination, and continue to be the contemporary ‘gold star’ of research achievement. Yet journal publishing is rarely discussed on its own terms. Equally, with the catchword – ‘interdisciplinarity’ – in the air, government funding bodies and policy makers have caught on to it, and today it has become an overarching term for a type of research evacuated of its earlier political, social and cultural commitments. Or did it? The third stream of this conference will consider the history and political ramifications for interdisciplinary research as a result of institutional and governmental seizure. As such, this conference is the first to bring together the relationship between journal publishing, policy-making and research itself, so as to discuss the future of interdisciplinary work in the Arts and Humanities of the twenty first century.

Contributors

Professor GEORGINA BORN, Sociology, Anthropology, and Music, University of Cambridge / Dr DAVID CUNNINGHAM, Literature and Aesthetics, University of Westminster, Editor of ‘Radical Philosophy’ / Professor THOMAS DOCHERTY, English and Comparative Literature, Warwick University / Dr JEREMY GILBERT, Cultural Studies, UEL, Editor of ‘New Formations’ / Professor SUSAN MELROSE, Performance Arts, Middlesex University / Dr JOANNE MORRA, Art History and Theory, University of the Arts London, Principal Editor of ‘Journal of Visual Culture’ / Professor PETER OSBORNE, Director, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, Editor of ‘Radical Philosophy’ / Professor ADRIAN RIFKIN, Art Writing, Goldsmiths College, former Editor of ‘Art History’ / Dr MARQUARD SMITH, Visual Culture Studies, University of Westminster, Editor-in-Chief of ‘Journal of Visual Culture’ / Professor SHEARER WEST, Director of Research, AHRC / Dr JOANNA ZYLINSKA, Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, Editor of ‘Culture Machine’

This conference is organized by: Dr DAVID CUNNINGHAM (University of Westminster and Editor of ‘Radical Philosophy’), Dr JOANNE MORRA (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Principal Editor of ‘Journal of Visual Culture), Dr MARQUARD SMITH (University of Westminster and Editor-in-Chief of ‘Journal of Visual Culture’), and Dr JOANNA ZYLINSKA (Goldsmiths College and Editor of ‘Culture Machine’)

This conference is the first in a series of projects and events organized by the Network for Editors of Interdisciplinary Journals (NEIJ).