5th Global Conference: Visual Literacies

5th Global Conference
Visual Literacies

Friday 8th July ? Sunday 10th July 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford

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 the fields of 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;

~ interdisciplinary connections to visual literacy
~ current debates and issues in visual literacy
~ the concept and tools of visual literacy
~ pre-school children and visual literacy
~ visual literacy and childhood development
~ visual literacy and cultural identity
~ interpreting elements and examples of visual
literacy
~ visual literacy as therapy
~ the liminal elements and facets of visual literacy
~ social and cultural reactions to visual literacy
~ visual literacy in literature
~ visual literacy in television and film
~ visual literacy and the media
~ visual literacy as a social semiotic
~ teaching visual literacy
~ visual literacy as deformed discourse
~ theology and visual literacy ? use and/or abuse
~ teleology and visual literacy
~ the history of visual literacy

The Steering Group welcomes the submission of
pre-formed panel proposals. 300 word abstracts
should be submitted by Friday 14th January
2011. If an abstract is accepted for the
conference, a full draft paper should be submitted
by Friday 27th May 2011.

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

E-mails should be entitled: VL5 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). 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: [email protected]

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]

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 about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/visual-literacies/

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/visual-literacies/call-for-papers/