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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Announcing a one-day conference, University of Canterbury, July 23,
2005</span></font></b></p>
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size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>What is the Contemporary Now?</span></font></b></p>
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size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:16.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Current Issues in Visual Culture</span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ
style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>Visual culture
as a field of investigation is usually held to be concerned in some way with
the contemporary, whether in art, other visual media or everyday life. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>But in these
haunted and disjointed times, what does the contemporary mean? </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>How does the
study of visual culture include the past's contemporaneity without merely
replicating the practice called history?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>With which
times are we together and with what others out of step? How are 'we'
constituted by our time?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>In the
presumed “real time” of globalization are there still places and
spaces that are out of time? </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>Do the
canonical indicators of late-20th-century cultural territory - gender, race and
class - have any uses for this 21st-century field? </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>What might be
the place of Maori and other South Pacific cultures within the contemporaneity
envisaged by visual culture? </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>Does the field
already suffer from an Anglo-Australian-American hegemony?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>What do the
disjunctures of now look like? Are they only too familiar or peculiar to the
moment?</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>Proposals for
papers (lectures or seminars) are invited that address these and other related
questions. Speakers may focus on any visual culture form, medium or material
and should prepare for a 20-30-minute presentation. Interested participants are
asked to submit a 200-word abstract to the conference organisers by 31 May. It
is hoped that the the conference proceedings will subsequently be published.</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>Plenary
Speakers:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a name=0415098017></a><a name=0415166705></a><a
name=0415158761></a><a name=0415252229></a><a name=0415343100></a><font
size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black'> </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Carol Mavor, Professor
of Art History, </span></font>University of North Carolina,</b> <font
color=black><span style='color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic'>Pleasures Taken:
Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs</span></font></i><font
color=black><span style='color:black'> (1996), <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Becoming the Photographs of Clementina , Viscountess Haywarden</span></i>
(1999).</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>on ‘</span></font><span
lang=EN-NZ>Happiness with a Long Piece of Black Leader: Chris Marker's <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Sans Soleil</span></i>, 1982.’</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ
style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ
style='font-size:12.0pt'>(Chris Marker's <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Sans
Soleil</span></i> and <i><span style='font-style:italic'>La Jetée</span></i>
will be screened the previous evening as a pre-conference event.)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ
style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Art and Art Professions, New York University. </span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;font-style:italic'><a
href="http://www.frontlist.com/detail/0415098017"><font color=black><span
style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Bodyscape</span></font></a>: Art,
Modernity and the Ideal Figure </span></font></i><font color=black><span
style='color:black'>(1995),<i><span style='font-style:italic'> <a
href="http://www.frontlist.com/detail/0415166705"><font color=black><span
style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Diaspora and Visual Culture</span></font></a>
</span></i>(1999),<i><span style='font-style:italic'> <a
href="http://www.frontlist.com/detail/0415158761"><font color=black><span
style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Introduction to Visual Culture</span></font></a>
</span></i>(1999),<i><span style='font-style:italic'> <a
href="http://www.frontlist.com/detail/0415252229"><font color=black><span
style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>The Visual Culture Reader (2nd ed.)</span></font></a>
</span></i>(2003), <i><span style='font-style:italic'><a
href="http://www.frontlist.com/detail/0415343100"><font color=black><span
style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Watching Babylon</span></font></a>:
The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture</span></i> (2005)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>on ‘</span></font><span
lang=EN-NZ>The Place of the “South”: Minority and Visual
Rights’</span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>His paper: ‘</span></font><span
lang=EN-NZ>The Place of the “South”: Minority and Visual
Rights’</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ
style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nick writes: “I would hope that the theme would
allow for some discussion of the place of Maori and other South Pacific
cultures within the frameworks advocated by visual culture as well as the place
of Pakeha society within the frame of Anglo-Australian-American hegemony.”</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>A webpage will
be loaded in a week or so, containing a registration form and accessible
through <a href="http://www.culs.canterbury.ac.nz/">http://www.culs.canterbury.ac.nz/</a>
</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>Registration
is likely to be $60, $40.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:12.0pt'>Abstracts of
up to 200 words to <a href="mailto:howard.mcnaughton@canterbury.ac.nz">howard.mcnaughton@canterbury.ac.nz</a>
, specifying whether a lecture or seminar-type presentation of up to 30 mins
is proposed.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Howard McNaughton</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Head of School of Culture, Literature and Society</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>University</span></font> of Canterbury</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>PO Box</span></font> 4800</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Christchurch</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Aotearoa New Zealand </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><a href="http://www.engl.canterbury.ac.nz/people/mcnaughton.shtml">http://www.engl.canterbury.ac.nz/people/mcnaughton.shtml</a>
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