visual culture

"A new effort from the Library of Congress has digitized and organized photos and illustrations from centuries of news using state of the art machine learning.

Led by Ben Lee, a researcher from the University of Washington occupying the Library’s “Innovator in Residence” position, the Newspaper Navigator collects and surfaces data from images from some 16 million pages of newspapers throughout American history."

Japan Forum caught up with Franz Prichard to talk about his new book Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1979s Japan.

Japan Forum caught up with Franz Prichard to talk about his new book Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1979s Japan.

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The Film and Visual Culture Department at the University of Aberdeen welcomes applications for a New Kings Studentship, to support doctoral research within the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture. Three open-topic studentships are available for PhD research within the School. The studentships comprise a fee waiver plus an annual stipend of £6000 for the 3 years of supervised study, and are open to UK/EU students beginning their studies in October 2020. The extended deadline for applications is 1 June 2020.

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Due to disruptions caused by the current Coronavirus crisis, we have extended the deadline for abstracts for the 25th September 2020 symposium- Supermodels of the World: RuPaul’s Drag Race as International Phenomenon. 

Dependent on further developments, online participation may become our primary method for all to engage in this one day event. We will, of course, update accordingly.

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Call for Papers:

Supermodels of the World: RuPaul’s Drag Race as International Phenomenon

A One-Day Interdisciplinary Symposium

L’avventura

International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes

CALL FOR ESSAYS

Issue No. 2/2020

Deadline for abstract proposal: May 31, 2020
Full essay due by: July 15, 2020

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The new issue of Japan Forum 32.1 is now available online at:  https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjfo20/current

Visual Culture in Japan