Dear
Colleagues,
We write with a call for papers, below, for the Visual Culture Network panels at the German Studies Association conference from October 4-7, 2012, in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Feel free to share this email with colleagues. A distribution of the call on
various listservs and websites will post in the weeks ahead.
We hope to read something "spectactular" from you by the 15 January
deadline!
Best wishes,
Deborah Ascher Barnstone & Thomas O. Haakenson
GSA Visual Culture Network Co-Coordinators
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Spectacle
The Visual Culture Network (VCN) of the German Studies Association (GSA) seeks
papers for a series of panels on “spectacle” as part of the thirty-sixth annual
GSA conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 4-7, 2012.
From battlefield pageantry to political posturing, from Shaufensterhypnose to
cinematic subterfuge, the spectacle has been and continues to be a site of
extreme negotiation and intervention. How does the visual nature of spectacle
inform the citizenry, destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic
convention, and celebrate cultural creativity? What are the limits—aesthetic,
political, social, cultural, economic—of spectacle? How do we explain the
inherently exclusionary, revolutionary, dehumanizing, and utopian elements of
spectacle? And, finally but not exhaustively, what is the relationship between
spectacle and “the spectacular”?
Presentations may explain one or more of the above themes, or other themes that relate to spectacle but are not explicitly stated. Selected presentations will be included in a proposed volume on the spectacle in German visual culture.
Send a 250 word abstracts and a curriculum vitae by 15 January 2012 to the GSA’s VCN coordinators, Deborah Ascher Barnstone (<das...@acm.wsu.edu>) and Thomas O. Haakenson (<thaak...@mcad.edu>)
Presenters will be notified by 1 February 2012. Please note that accepted presenters must be members of the German Studies Association or become members by 15 February 2012. Information on membership is available on the GSA website (www.thegsa.org).
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Minneapolis College of Art and Design
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