Liebe Doktorand/innen der ersten und zweiten Generation,
da es Probleme mit der Kommunikation über die Doc-internen Listen gab, hier nun nochmals der Call for Participation für den Workshop mit W.J.T. Mitchell.
Für den Workshop mit Tom Mitchell am 29. Juni gibt es einen Call for Participation, d.h. die Teilnahme am Workshop ist gebunden an die Bereitschaft, einen informellen Input von 5 Minuten beizusteuern. Frist zur Einreichung der Beiträge ist der 12. Juni. Doktorand/innen der beiden Kollegs haben bei der Auswahl selbstverständlich Priorität. Alle weiteren Infos sowie der link zur vorbereitenden Lektüre finden sich unten.
Herzliche Grüße,
Svea
Call for Participation
What Do Pictures Want? – Doctoral Workshop with W.J.T. Mitchell
June 29th, 2015, 10 am to 2 pm
Freie Universität Berlin, Grunewaldstr. 34, 12165 Berlin
organized by Dr. Svea Bräunert and Dr. Frauke Surmann
The International Research Training Groups “InterArt” and “Visibility and Visualization” will hold a joint reading and discussion workshop with W.J.T. Mitchell. Mitchell is Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He is editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry, a quarterly devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences. A scholar and theorist of media, visual art, and literature, Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology. His publications include: Cloning Terror (2011); What Do Pictures Want? (2005); Picture Theory (1994) Iconology (1987); and The Language of Images (1980).
If you would like to participate in the workshop, please formulate a 250-word abstract indicating a question, observation or comment you would like to discuss based on your reading of the text. During the workshop, you will be asked to give a 5-minute input briefly explicating your submission.
To apply for the workshop, please send your abstract together with your name, affiliation, field of research, and the title of your dissertation to
inte...@zedat.fu-berlin.de, header line “WS Mitchell”.
The deadline for applications is June 12, 2015. We will notify successful candidates and send out the final program by June 22nd at the latest.
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