Call for papers:‘To fasten words again to visible things’: the American imagetext

A two day conference held by the American Studies department at the University of East Anglia
18th-19th June 2011

Keynote speakers:
Professor WJT Mitchell (University of Chicago) and
Professor Miles Orvell (Temple University)

Please send a one-page abstract for a 20-minute paper that may address, but not be restricted to, any of the following:

• Naming and captioning
• Reading the visual and verbal
• The photographic essay or book
• Graphic design; the graphic novel
• Lettrism, Hypertexts – fiction and poetry, concrete poetry
• Environments and spaces of reception and display- eg the gallery, the museum, the classroom, the church, the home
• Ekphrasis
• Philosophy
• Anthropology and archaeology
• Literary use of the physical or imagined image
• The use of verbal signs in the visual arts
• Verbal and visual ontology
• Illustrated texts – fiction or non-fiction
• Illuminated manuscripts
• Artists’ notebooks / scrapbooks
• Performance and installation art
• Iconography and iconology involving word and image
• Image and text in digital media
• Image and text in the visual arts, including theatre, film, photography and television
• The manifesto as imagetext
• Newspapers and broadsides
• Street art and graffiti

Full details available at American-image-text.blogspot.com.

Please send abstracts to Dr Catherine Gander and Dr Sarah Garland at americanimagetext@gmail.com by

February 28th 2011. Panel suggestions are also welcome.