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> >From: ali steere <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: CFP: A Thousand Words: Visual Culture and the Humanities >(9/23/05; 3/30/06-4/1/06) > >The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities >Research invites abstracts that address the >relationship of visual culture to other forms of human >expression and thought. Presentations may address >aspects of image production and image reception in the >humanities, whether the image be printed, projected, >digitized, rendered artistically, imagined, or >destroyed. Topics may include exploration of pictorial >as opposed to written or oral expression; the ways in >which images may fill interstices in language, music, >and thought; the centrality of different forms of >picture making in human history, society, and culture. >We encourage papers that range across the spectrum >from detailed case studies to theoretical syntheses. >The Glasscock Center particularly encourages proposals >that will appeal to an interdisciplinary humanities >audience. Abstracts of up to 500 words should be sent, >along with a 2-page cv, to the following address by >Friday, 23 September 2004: > >Melanie Hawthorne >Department of European and Classical Languages and >Cultures >Texas A&M University >4215 TAMU >College Station, TX 77843-4215 >email: [log in to unmask] >fax: 979-845-6421 > >Featured speakers at the conference include Carol >Mavor (Department of Art History, University of North >Carolina - Chapel Hill); Frances Ferguson (Department >of English, University of Chicago) and Ingrid Rowland >(Department of Art History, American Academy in Rome). > > ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Meghan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html