Please, mind that tomorrow is the last day on which you can submit paper proposals for our IMAGES 2012 conference "Images of the Poor".

Please, find below the CFP for our Images of the Poor conference which is planned to take place in Istanbul at the Austrian Culture Forum 5-8 September 2012.

CFP

IMAGES (2) - Images of the Poor Conference: Austrian Culture Forum, Istanbul/ Turkey, 5-8 September 2012

At a time when the economic development and the (negative) consequences of globalization are causing the gap between rich and poor rather to widen than to shrink poverty and social inequality have gained public attention again. While movements like ATTAC and OCCUPY highlight the relevance of social inequality and poverty due to their material aspect as existential issues of a developed civil society, it is for other groups to deal with the cultural aspect of the issue and to discuss the perception of poverty by modern society as a case of cultural encounter.

The IMAGES (2) – Images of the Poor conference will focus on exactly this perceptive relativity of poverty: Which are the Images of the Poor – historically and currently? What does aesthetisizing and idealizing the poor in the Arts, in film, photography and literature tell about the quality of the cultural encounter between the well-to-do and the dis-privileged? What does the integration of elements associated with poverty in design and fashion tell about this relation? In which way does your own standard of living and status influence your idea of where to draw the (material) line between rich and poor and your perception of what makes a person rich or poor in a non-material sense?

In order to discuss questions like these IMAGES (2) – Images of the Poor invites scholars, but also writers, artists, filmmakers and photographers to propose papers coming from the following fields of research and interest:

Images of the poor in feature films (present and past)

Images of the poor in the Arts (present and past)

Images of the poor seen by photographers (present and past)

Images of the poor in literature (present and past)

The psychology of feeling and defining rich or/ and poor

The impact of the media (news, internet, daily soaps) on the standards of wealth and poverty  

The conference IMAGES (2) – Images of the Poor is planned as a 3 days interdisciplinary and international conference.

It will bring together senior scholars with PhD students, postdoctoral academics, and members of the artistic community without following the classical keynote speaker pattern but rather inviting all speakers either to present their research findings in 20 minute (paper) presentations plus 10 minutes for discussion or in 120-150 minute panels (4-5 panellists).

There will be no parallel sessions. All sessions will be plenary sessions.

The IMAGES (2) – Images of the Poor conference is part of the IMAGES project (project developers and directors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veronika Bernard/ University of Innsbruck, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhan Oksay/ Kadir Has University)

Please, find more on the IMAGES project at: http://images-1.over-blog.org

The conference language is English.

Selected articles of each session/ field of research will be published as conference proceedings.

During the time of the conference the two IMAGES project exhibition “Images of the Poor” will be showing at the conference site.

Please, mind:

Participation in the conference is free of charge.

Due to the severe cuts on funding opportunities the conference organizers are not able to refund any travel or accomodation expense.

Participants are kindly asked to apply for funding at their universities and institutions.

Please, take this into account before submitting a paper proposal. 

Conference date and venue:

5-8 September 2012, Austrian Culture Forum, Istanbul/ Turkey

Please, send paper proposals (= 150-200 words abstract plus 150 words Bio) to:

images-1@gmx.at and cc it to serhano@serhanoksay.com

Deadline for submission of abstracts plus Bios: 25 May 2012

Deadline for submission of full articles for publication in conference proceedings: 1 month after conference

Planned date of publication of conference proceedings: July – October 2013

Our IMAGES exhibitions "Cultural Encounters" and "Images of the Poor" are showing at Kufstein University of Applied Sciences from 12-23 March 2012, daily from 9 am to 5 pm.

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Offer: IMAGES (2) – Images of the Poor

Description:

Abstract:  

At a time when the economic development and the (negative) consequences of globalization are causing the gap between rich and poor rather to widen than to shrink poverty and social inequality have gained public attention again. While movements like ATTAC and OCCUPY highlight the relevance of social inequality and poverty due to their material aspect as existential issues of a developed civil society, it is for other groups to deal with the cultural aspect of the issue and to discuss the perception of poverty by modern society as a case of cultural encounter. IMAGES (2) – Images of the Poor focuses on exactly this perceptive relativity of poverty: Which are the Images of the Poor – historically and currently? What does aesthetisizing the poor in the Arts, in film, photography and literature tell about the quality of the cultural encounter between the well-to-do and the dis-privileged? In which way does your own standard of living and status influence your idea of where to draw the (material) line between rich and poor and your perception of what makes a person rich or poor in a non-material sense?  

Find more on the IMAGES conference series, the IMAGES publication series, the IMAGES exhibition series and the IMAGES 2011 exhibitions on http://images-1.over-blog.org/pages/IMAGES_The_Conference_Series_20112014-5155410.html, http://images-1.over-blog.org/pages/images---the-exhibition-series-2011-2014-5155457.html, http://images-1.over-blog.org/pages/IMAGES_20112012_Exhibition_Cultural_Encounters-5093272.html, http://images-1.over-blog.org/pages/IMAGES_20112012_Exhibition_Images_of_the_Poor-5093286.html

Target partner sought and current state of project development:

Discussing questions like the above one makes IMAGES (2) – Images of the Poor a genuine interdisciplinary project inviting scholars from all fields of the humanities and related fields (social and political science, economics etc) and preferably coming from universities in the NL, Belgium, the UK and the Scandinavian countries to join in with our planned activities, starting off from the results of a photo contest on cultural encounters and images of the poor which the IMAGES project developers and directors Veronika Bernard and Serhan Oksay launched in 2011 (Images of the Poor being Serhan Oksay’s contribution to the project idea) and leading towards an interdisciplinary and international conference and a publication focussing on Images of the Poor.

Our publications of 2010-2011 can be found at the following libraries and universities:

IMAGES – Films as spaces of cultural encounter. The 2011 Images Project Publication 2011. Innsbruck 2011

ÖNB - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien (AT)

http://search.obvsg.at/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ONB_aleph_acc003840338&indx=1&recIds=ONB_aleph_acc003840338&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=0&vl(1UI0)=contains&onCampus=false&query=addsrcrid%2Ccontains%2CAC08835188&loc=local%2Cscope%3A(ONB)&dstmp=1324551192027&lang=ger&vl(freeText0)=AC08835188&vid=ONB&institution=ONB

ULB - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Innsbruck (AT)

https://aleph.uibk.ac.at/F?CON_LNG=ger&local_base=ubi01&func=find-c&ccl_term=IDN=AC08835188

Niederösterreichische Landesbibliothek (AT)

http://opac.noe.gv.at:8080/xSearch&context=@sfile_=TIT&Search=&pool=BIBL&id1=BAS&va1=bernard,veronika&op1=%23O&id2=SWT&va2=p.bernard,veronika*&ord1=Titel/Stichwort

Universitätsbibiothek Wien (AT)

Library at the University of Tilburg (NL)

Library at Lessius Antwerpen (B)

Bibliothek der Universität St. Gallen (CH)

Library at the Anglia Ruskin University (UK)

Cinej special issue 1 (2011): IMAGES – Films as spaces of cultural encounter. The 2011 Images Project Publication 2011. Pittsburgh 2011

http://cinej.pitt.edu

http://www.univerciencia.org/index.php/browse/index/136  

http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/jass/zotero.php?rfr_id=info:sid/journaltocs.ac.uk:suncat&rft.issn=2159-2411&maximumRecords=100&rft_volume=&rft_issue=&range=&select=&query_issn=Submit+Query

IMAGES. The 2011 Exhibitions. The Catalogue. Innsbruck and Istanbul 2011

ÖNB - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien (AT)

http://search.obvsg.at/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ONB_aleph_acc003839526&indx=1&recIds=ONB_aleph_acc003839526&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=0&vl(1UI0)=contains&onCampus=false&query=addsrcrid%2Ccontains%2CAC08835194&loc=local%2Cscope%3A(ONB)&dstmp=1324549901477&lang=ger&vl(freeText0)=AC08835194&vid=ONB&institution=ONB

ULB - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Innsbruck (AT)

https://aleph.uibk.ac.at/F?CON_LNG=ger&local_base=ubi01&func=find-c&ccl_term=IDN=AC08835194

Deutsche Nationalbibiothek Frankfurt a. M. (D)

Library at the University of Tilburg (NL)

Library at Lessius  Antwerpen (B)

Library at the Anglia Ruskin University (UK)

Breaking the Stereotype. The Conference Proceedings. Innsbruck: IUP 2011

ULB - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Innsbruck (AT)

https://aleph.uibk.ac.at/F/YUDJCV9IY4HCLTQEB29UIK7888VVM6TJCFX8Q4RPHMLA7LF15Q-44847?func=full-set-set&set_number=001751&set_entry=000002&format=999

ÖNB - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien (AT)

http://search.obvsg.at/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?vid=ONB&institution=ONB&query=addsrcrid,contains,AC08499927&indx=1&loc=local,scope:(ONB)&onCampus=false&lang=ger

http://search.obvsg.at/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&vl(1UI0)=contains&scp.scps=scope%3A(%22ONB%22)&frbg=&tab=default_tab&dstmp=1308575374707&vl(45589618UI1)=all_items&srt=rank&ct=search&mode=Basic&dum=true&tb=t&indx=1&vl(freeText0)=bernard%2C%20veronika&fn=search&vid=ONB&vl(41472419UI0)=any

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main (D)

https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm;jsessionid=6002F13AA568E411B40A0A075B245A2D.prod-worker5?method=showFullRecord&currentResultId=bernard%2C+veronika%26any&currentPosition=0

breaking the stereotype. The exhibition catalogue. istanbul 2010

ULB - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Innsbruck (AT)

https://aleph.uibk.ac.at/F/YUDJCV9IY4HCLTQEB29UIK7888VVM6TJCFX8Q4RPHMLA7LF15Q-09908?func=full-set-set&set_number=001700&set_entry=000003&format=999

ÖNB - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien (AT)

http://search.obvsg.at/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ONB_aleph_acc003839579&indx=1&recIds=ONB_aleph_acc003839579&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=0&vl(1UI0)=contains&onCampus=false&query=addsrcrid%2Ccontains%2CAC08455413&loc=local%2Cscope%3A(ONB)&dstmp=1324551311691&lang=ger&vl(freeText0)=AC08455413&vid=ONB&institution=ONB

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt a.M. (D)

Bibliothek der BiTS Iserlohn (D)

The print edition of "IMAGES - Films as Spaces of Cultural Encounter. The IMAGES project 2011 publication" will be available very soon as a CEnT - Cultural Encounters and Transfers and KiK - Cultures in Contact Publication.

Veronika Bernard, Serhan Oksay (Eds.); Vedat Akman, Murat Akser (Co-Eds.)

IMAGES - Films as Spaces of Cultural Encounter. The IMAGES Project 2011 Publication. A CEnT - Cultural Encounters and Transfers and KiK - Cultures in Contact Publication

Innsbruck 2011

ISBN 978-3-200-02462-5

The volume will exclusively go to libraries and universities.

table of contents 

abstracts

Our exhibitions "IMAGES - Cuzltural Encounters" and "IMAGES of the Poor" have been integrated as course material for a cross cultural training in the course "Intercultural Competencies" at the University of Applied Sciences BiTS - Business and Technology School Iserlohn in the Wintersemester 2011-2012.