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| Left to right: William Trapani, Bryan Taylor, Oscar Giner, Barbara Biesecker, Peter Ehrenhaus, Joan Faber McAlister, Carole Blair, A. Susan Owan, Bruce Gronbeck, Robert Hariman, Kevin Deluca, Dan Schowalter, James McDaniel, John Lucaites, Anne Demo, Kenry Krips, Brett Ommen. |
Barbara Biesecker (Rhetoric and Communication Studies, U. Iowa)
John Lucaites (Communication and Culture, Indiana U).
August 3-6, 2000 The purpose of this conference is to bring together a small group of scholars who are actively involved in exploring the relationship between rhetoric and visual culture in all of its many forms (advertising, architecture, documentary film, monuments, photograph) and its aesthetic, sociological, and political functions (persuasion, identification, evidence, identity formation, resistance, memorialization) to share their work with one another in a collegial and critically engaged setting.
The primary goal is to move towards the production of a volume of essays that will help to define the emerging sub-field of visual rhetorics and to suggest the problems and possibilities of such work. We presume no particular critical or theoretical perspective, although we do assume that those participating in the conference will be informed by and interested in one or another of the contemporary theoretical and critical conversations concerning rhetoric and visual culture, such as technologies of vision, specularity, the gaze, scopic regimes, ocularcentrism, picture theory, and visual memory.
Sponsoring Organizations: The University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and the Department of Communication Studies.Invited participants include:
- Barbara Biesecker (Associate Professor, Iowa)
- Carole Blair (Professor, California at Davis)
- Kevin Deluca (Assistant Professor, Georgia)
- Anne Demo (Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt)
- Peter Ehrenhaus (Associate Professor, Pacific Luthern)
- Joan Faber-McAlister (ABD, Iowa)
- Oscar Giner (Professor, Arizona State)
- Bruce Gronbeck (Professor, Iowa)
- Robert Hariman (Professor, Drake)
- Henry Krips (Professor, Pittsburgh)
- John Lucaites (Associate Professor, Indiana)
- James McDaniel (Visiting Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois)
- Susan Owen (Associate Professor, Puget Sound)
- Dan Showalter (ABD, Indiana)
- Bryan C. Taylor (Associate Professor, Colorado)
- William Trapani (ABD, Iowa)
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