Braga 2010 - Visual Culture Emerging Theme Call for Papers

braga_2010The Group of Visual Culture, Emerging Theme at IAMCR would like to invite submissions for IAMCR Congress in Braga, Portugal from July 18 to 22, 2010. The general theme of the 2010 conference is 'Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change'.

We welcome papers related to the general theme as well as theoretical and empirical research on visual culture in national, regional, international and cultural entities.

We are particularly interested in issues of visuality and cultural identity viewing from the non-western or no ethnocentric perspectives. We also welcome studies on mediated and/or non mediated visual culture.

Abstracts should be sent to the section chair through the conference website by the 31st of January, 2010. We will notify you the acceptance by the mid March. Full papers should be sent by the end of April. Abstracts should have a maximum length of 400 words.

If you have any further question, please contact the section head, Sunny Yoon at sunny33[AT]naver.com.

Sunny Yoon, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Communication
Hanyang University
Seoul, South Korea

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