The 8th William A. Kern Conference on Visual Communication
\nRochester Institute of Technology
\nApril 26-28, 2018<\/p>\n
Design, Sound and Vision in Midcentury Media<\/strong><\/p>\n Call for Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n The 2018 Kern conference will be focused on the topic of \u201cmidcentury media.\u201d The traditional focus of the Kern conference is visual communication, and this year\u2019s aims to reveal how the visual intersects with broader dimensions of media, such as design, literature, and music. Further, we want to do some \u2018looking backward\u2019 to historicize visual culture by focusing on the midcentury period, roughly between the 1940s and the 1960s. We are looking for papers on topics of how media technologies were introduced, visualized and promoted; how design, photography, print, and other visual technologies created glamourous imagery, often of midcentury media objects themselves; how the midcentury literary and popular imagination elicited and relied upon visual displays and representations; and how Cold War anxieties, ideal lifestyles, and optimism for the future impacted midcentury media. We aspire to promote efforts to think about design and modernism within a larger frame of visual culture. We are particularly interested in under researched areas, case studies, and figures.<\/p>\n We encourage submissions that:<\/p>\n Preliminary list of invited speakers:<\/p>\n Greg Barnhisel, Department of English, Duquesne University Following in the tradition of Kern conferences, we plan a rich program of interdisciplinary scholarship and conversation.<\/p>\n Conference Chairs: Jonathan E. Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor of Communications, Rochester Institute of Technology and Janet Borgerson, City, University of London<\/p>\n Submission deadline: January 15, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n Send extended abstracts (500 \u2013 2500 words) via email to Jonathan Schroeder: jesgla@rit.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Call for submissions to ‘Design, Sound and Vision in Midcentury Media’, the 8th Kern Conference on Visual Communication due to take place at Rochester Institute of Technology in April 2018. Abstracts by January 15, 2018 Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[265,460,1274,1275,1267,1273,1271,1272],"class_list":["post-2391","consumption","type-consumption","status-publish","hentry","category-all","category-announcements","tag-conference","tag-design","tag-institute-of-technology","tag-media","tag-midcentury","tag-rochester","tag-sound","tag-vision"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consumption\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consumption"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/consumption"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consumption\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3981,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consumption\/2391\/revisions\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journalofculturaleconomy.org\/charisma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nMichael Brown, Department of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
\nJohn Covach, Institute for Popular Music, University of Rochester
\nKeir Keightley, Faculty of Media & Information Studies, Western University, Canada
\nKristin L. Matthews, Department of English, Brigham Young University
\nTom Perchard, Department of Music, Goldsmiths, University of London
\nRoger Remington, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
\nJennifer Trontz, Writer, Brooklyn, New York
\nPenny M. Von Eschen, Department of History, Cornell University<\/p>\n