After the conferences IMAGES (I) – Films as Spaces of Cultural Encounters (2011), IMAGES (II) – Images of the Poor (2012), IMAGES (III) – Images of the City (2013) and IMAGES (IV) – Images of the Other: Istanbul-Vienna-Venice (2014), the IMAGES project is planning to focus on images of (cultural) values in its 2015 conference.

Our focus within the IMAGES project is on the ways in which the cultural values involved in the cultural categorizations of our world have been visualized, i. e. turned into images and/ or symbols present in the several fields of our everyday lives. Hence, the IMAGES project’s 2015 conference IMAGES (V) – Images of (Cultural) Values will discuss the (historically) changing representation and perception of images of (cultural) values; the representations of (cultural) values being seen as documentations of cultural concepts and also of cultural approaches. This creates an unlimited number of potential cases of both cultural encounters and conflicts, elaborated by an academic discourse within socially relevant research fields such as politics, communication, culture and migration.

In order to discuss issues like the above mentioned IMAGES (V) – Images of (Cultural) Values invites scholars, but also architects, photographers, writers, artists and filmmakers to propose papers in the following fields of research and interest:

• The relativity of cultural values and their communicational relevance (theoretical approaches and/ or case studies)
• The relevance of cultural values symbols in constructing images of the (cultural) self and the (cultural) other  (theoretical approaches and/ or case studies)
• The psychology of a felt affiliation to images/ symbols of (cultural) values (theoretical approaches and/ or case studies)
• Images of (cultural) values in public space as a statement
• The impact of the media (news, internet, daily soaps) on the images of (cultural) values
• Images of cultural values in feature films (present and past)
• Images of cultural values in the Arts (present and past)
• Images of cultural values as seen by photographers (present and past)
• Images of cultural values in literature (present and past)

The conference IMAGES (V) – Images of (Cultural) Values is planned as a 2 days interdisciplinary international conference with a minimum of 25 and a maximum of 35 speakers.

The conference will be open to the public.

The conference 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 to present their research findings in 20 minute (paper) presentations plus 10 minutes for discussion.

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

The conference language is English.

Please, send paper proposals to images-1[at]gmx.at and cc them to veronika.bernard[at]uibk.ac.at, smerrell[at]brookes.ac.uk and otuzun[at]hotmail.com