1st International Visual Studies Conference. (fwd)

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1st International Visual Studies Conference.
Visual Studies in the 21st Century

CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION

Dates: 15th and 16th February, 2004
Venue: ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, IFEMA, MADRID

http://www.visualstudies.net


The 1st International Visual Studies Conference will be held during
ARCO'04, organised by the Amigos de ARCO Association, in collaboration
with the Centro Parraga de Murcia.The Conference is being directed by Jose
Luis Brea, Professor of Contemporary Art Theory at Spain's Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM).

The Conference's will feature a series of Plenary Lectures presented by
some of the most important academics and historians who have been doing
internationally recognised work on Visual Studies and Visual Culture. A
group of specialists will also present a set of preliminary papers on some
crucial issues in the nascent field of Visual Studies, organising the
debates into different panel discussion areas.

Attendance and participation are open to professors, advanced level
students, researchers, and those member of the art and university
community who are interested in attending or presenting a paper. An
Advisory Committee is responsible for accepting papers and organising
these presentations into different areas.

Plenary Lectures

The conference will feature the intervention of the most prestigious
writers and academics who, at an international level, have for some time
been exploring all of these issues: