Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia:

Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives

 

Department of Fine Arts, University of Hong Kong

8-9 June 2009

 

 

The Department of Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong will host an international conference on Rethinking Visual Narratives from 8-9 June 2009. The conference will bring together approximately fifteen scholars presenting new and original research to discuss how visual narratives function in different cultures and exploring connections and interactions between the arts of Asia and that of Asia and the West. The papers and discussion will consolidate academic understanding of visual narrative theories and augment them through analysis of their potential as a tool for exploring inter-cultural interactions and questioning cross-cultural assumptions. The focus will be on the visual with a cross-cultural dimension and dating to any time period within a broadly defined art historical discipline and material culture studies.

 

Possible panel topics include, but are not limited to –

The place of narrative: architecture and the disposition of imagery

Theories of narration

Word and image: illustration and interpretation

Printed texts and images: semiotic dialogue

The social embeddedness of narrative

Narratology

The role of non-narrative or anti-narrative elements in imagery

 

Papers will be hosted on the conference website by the end of April 2009. It is expected that a conference proceedings will be published.

 

Abstracts due on 5 September 2008 by email to -

 

Dr. Alexandra Green

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Fine Arts, University of Hong Kong

Email: greenar@hkucc.hku.hk