Martin Myrone<\/a>\u00a0(Tate Britain)<\/p>\nTopics may include (but are not limited to)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n- Re-envisioning Romanticism: looking back and looking forward<\/li>\n
- Visions and the visionary: perception, prognostication, projection, speculation, the speculative<\/li>\n
- Ways of looking: reading, conceptualizing, observing, peeping, gazing, categorizing, examining, recognizing and misrecognizing<\/li>\n
- Visual culture, philosophy, and aesthetics: objects of sight, spectacle, the spectacular, the sublime and the beautiful<\/li>\n
- Reading methods and histories: careful, close, distant, surface; plagiarism, copyright law<\/li>\n
- Print culture in its social, theoretical, and physical aspects (e.g. text, design, structure, layout); manuscripts, letters, journals, scrapbooks, books, journals, newspapers<\/li>\n
- The seen and the unseen: noumena, phenomena, the spirit world, apparitions and appearances<\/li>\n
- Romantic iconoclasm and anti-representationalism; ocularcentrism and \u201cthe tyranny of the eye\u201d<\/li>\n
- Visual communication: text, numbers, notation (e.g. musical), images, sign language, placards, banners, flags, gestures, hieroglyphs, emblems, insignia<\/li>\n
- Questions of form and representation<\/li>\n
- Fashionable looking: costume, hair, makeup, manner, style, taste, places to see and be seen<\/li>\n
- Visualizing gender and sexuality: identity, performance, politics<\/li>\n
- Visual and scenic arts: sculpture, painting, illustration, graphic satire, print shops, pornography, broadsheets, dioramas, panoramas, architectural and landscape design<\/li>\n
- Theatre and performing arts: set design, lighting, visual effects, costume, body movement, dance, pantomime, attitudes, tableaux vivants<\/li>\n
- Art collection and assessment: museums and curation, connoisseurship, formal and evaluative concerns (e.g. light, color, pattern, shape, scale, proportion)<\/li>\n
- Visualizing class: social hierarchies and signifiers (e.g. clothing, heraldry, pageantry), occupational and economic segregation<\/li>\n
- Instruments of looking: lenses, spectacles, quizzing glasses, spy glasses, Claude glasses, prisms, mirrors, telescopes, microscopes, orreries, windows<\/li>\n
- Forms of illumination and darkness: lightning, electricity, candlelight, lamps, gas light, spotlights, limelight, torches, fireworks; shade, shadow, twilight, gloom, obscurity<\/li>\n
- Religious vision(s): prophecy, revelation, enthusiasm, sermons and hymns, public and private devotion, natural and revealed religion<\/li>\n
- The science of the eye: vision, optics, visual anatomy, medicine, pathology, disability, blindness<\/li>\n
- Data visualization (e.g. land, economy, population studies): mapping, cartography, geography, geolocation, charts, diagrams, categorization, numerical and pictorial statistics<\/li>\n
- Visualizing race: slavery, racism, racialization, minoritization<\/li>\n
- Vision and ecopoetics: seeing nature (vistas, prospects, the picturesque); noticing and reading features of land, water, and sky; watching weather and recognizing climate; the animal gaze<\/li>\n
- Envisioning space and place: the local and the global, home and abroad, the peripheral and transperipheral<\/li>\n
- Envisioning (the ends of) empire: imperialism, colonialism, sites and sights of war; decolonization, indigenization<\/li>\n
- Political and military forecasting, strategy, optics, campaigns, battlegrounds, political theatre<\/li>\n
- Imagining the future of Romanticism; strategizing its work in the humanities, in the university, and in society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
EMAIL CONTACT:\u00a0nassr2020vision@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n**The deadline for general submissions is\u00a024 January 2020<\/u>.**<\/strong><\/p>\nWe look forward to receiving your proposals!<\/p>\n
Sincerely Yours,
\nTerry F. Robinson (and on behalf of John Savarese and the NASSR 2020 conference committee)<\/p>\n
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