Attached and printed below is the revised Call for Papers for Vol. 3 of
Octopus: A Visual Studies Journal. Note that the new deadline is May =
1,
2007. Please distribute to faculty, graduate students, artists, =
listservs,
and others who may find it of interest. =20

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Any questions may be directed to: octopusjournal_at_gmail.com

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Thank you,

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Ginger Hill

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On behalf of=20

Visual Studies Graduate Students

University of California, Irvine

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Call for Papers: Import/Export

Octopus (Volume 3) Fall 2007=20

www.octopusjournal.org <http://www.octopusjournal.org/>=20

Deadline for Submissions: May 1, 2007

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Octopus: A Visual Studies Journal invites submissions for its third =
volume,
Import/Export. What do the registers of the visual and the aesthetic
contribute to contemporary and historical perspectives on globalization,
immigration, economics, culture, and artistic practice=97especially as =
they
relate to questions of exchange, influence, traffic, regulation, =
control,
the porous, the impenetrable, and the transgressive? Our efforts to =
make
these issues more tangible also compel us to investigate the stakes of
cultural transmission and problematize forms of cultural exchange.
Explorations of what occurs between these historical, geographical, and
conceptual spaces are also encouraged. =20

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We are interested in the ramifications for import/export in the art =
world.
It is crucial that we rethink received modernist lineages of artistic
influence and recover the place of Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the
Caribbean world in the legacy of modernity and modernism. Moments of
cross-cultural artistic exchange or collaboration offer another mode for
thinking about artistic import and export. The continuing popularity of
strategies of appropriation and recuperation demonstrates the vitality =
of
the import/export question in visual and artistic practice.

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Octopus encourages work that questions the notion of =93import/export=94 =
or
rephrases the question in fruitful ways from a diverse range of =
historical,
theoretical, methodological, disciplinary, and interdisciplinary =
approaches.

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Paper topics may include but are not limited to:

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- Globalization: cultural and economic processes

- Pirates and Piracy: exchange/sharing of information

- Trade in historical perspective

- Transportation

- World bank, IMF

- Travel, tourism, souvenirs, and collecting

- Appropriation, rehabilitation, and recuperation

- Processes of selection and access

- Politics of space

- Pilgrimage, Ecotourism, destination shopping

- Rethinking the canon and modernism

- Data and new media

- Satellite television, Internet, viewer reception=20

- Nationalism, borders, and mestizo cultures

- Immigration debates

- Cultural export- and importation

- Center/periphery model and its limitations

- Imperialism and the colonial legacy of political importation

- Simulation, re-creation, re-enacting, anachronism

- Translation, reinterpretation

- Intellectual exchange: debates, =E9migr=E9s, =93schools of thought=94

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Deadline for Submissions: May 1, 2007.

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Submission Guidelines:

All submissions must include the title of the contribution, the name(s) =
of
the authors, and the postal address, e-mail address, and phone numbers =
for
the author who will serve as the primary contact with the editors on
revisions.=20

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Electronic submissions should be sent as Microsoft Word .doc or Rich =
Text
Format attachments to octopusjournal_at_gmail.com. Please put the word
=93submission=94 somewhere in the subject line.

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Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be accompanied by an
abstract of no more than 150 words, six keywords, and a short biographic
entry about the author(s). Please provide a brief history of the
manuscript; whether it is part of a dissertation or thesis, book-length
project, conference presentation, etc. Because Octopus follows a policy =
of
blind peer-review, no material identifying the author(s) should appear
anywhere other than on the detachable title page. Manuscripts should =
conform
to CHICAGO formatting standards.

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For book reviews and criticism [~750 words] please include title of =
book(s),
retail price, and ISBN at the beginning of the review. Art/show reviews
should include the gallery, curator, and dates. For film and video/media
reviews, include the director, production company (if applicable), and =
year
of production.=20

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Manuscripts and reviews submitted to Octopus should not be under
consideration at any other journal. Written permission to reproduce film =
and
video stills, artworks, photographs, song lyrics, or any other copyright
protected materials must be obtained by the authors from the
copyright-holders before submission.=20

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Subscriptions/Advertising:

For subscription or advertising requests, please contact
octopusjournal_at_gmail.com

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Octopus is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published by the
graduate students of the Program in Visual Studies at the University of
California, Irvine. The journal is devoted to work by emerging scholars
engaged with visuality, culture, history, and theory from a range of
contexts, disciplines, and methodologies. In addition to submissions on
=93Import/Export,=94 Octopus welcomes scholarship and criticism =
addressing
questions regarding the politics of vision, the historicity of visual
practices, and the cultures and theories of vision and visuality on an
on-going basis.=20

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www.octopusjournal.org <http://www.octopusjournal.org/>=20

octopusjournal_at_gmail.com

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