35.2547, Calls: Reading Visual Devices in Early Books

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Subject: 35.2547, Calls: Reading Visual Devices in Early Books

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Date: 17-Sep-2024
From: Sirkku Ruokkeinen [siruok at utu.fi]
Subject: Reading Visual Devices in Early Books


Full Title: Reading Visual Devices in Early Books

Date: 22-May-2025 - 24-May-2025
Location: Turku, Finland
Contact Person: Sirkku Ruokkeinen
Meeting Email: visualbookconf at utu.fi
Web Site: https://blogit.utu.fi/emodgral/events/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

Turku, Finland / 22-24 May 2025



Call for Papers:

Visual or graphic devices, such as images, diagrams, charts and
tables, often operate between visual and verbal modes to convey
information. In books and documents these devices may be used, for
example, to illustrate and expand upon the text, to support or
distract from the message conveyed by the text, or to aid in the
comprehension of complex concepts which would be difficult to express
through words alone. Although graphic devices may also communicate
through textual elements, their main communicative tools are
structure, symbolism, and cultural imagery.

Our project organises an international conference on the study of
visual and graphic devices in early books, documents and textual
objects in Turku, Finland, 22-24 May 2025.

Keynote speakers:
-       Prof. Andrew M. Riggsby (University of Texas): “The
Segmentation of Roman Documents”
-       Prof. Wendy Scase (University of Birmingham): “Thinking with
Visual Devices in a Late Medieval Gentry Household”
-       Dr Carla Suhr (University of Helsinki): “The Lizard and the
Rat: Images in Early English Printed Texts for Popular Audiences”

We invite contributions from book studies, philology and historical
linguistics, textual scholarship, literary studies, history of
science, art history, and other related fields, including
interdisciplinary approaches. Our main focus is on the medieval and
early modern periods.
We are interested in questions such as: how were graphic devices used,
framed and understood? How were innovations and conventions of data
visualization transmitted across texts and languages? How did the
diachronic or geographical spread of graphic devices progress in
different parts of the world?

Relevant topics and themes include:
•       Visual and graphic devices (e.g. images, tables, and diagrams)
and their design and use (as part of text/supplementing text)
•       Emerging practices and changing conventions: aesthetics,
design, technologies
•       Paratext and metatext: linguistic framing and presentation of
graphic devices
•       Visualising knowledge and information
•       Different audiences, readers, and literacies:
lay/professional, learned/vernacular
•       Use of graphic devices in different domains and genres:
instructional and technical writing, literature, scientific writing,
popular texts, religion
•       Medieval and early modern manuscripts and printed books,
including various physical formats (also broadsheets, pamphlets,
scrolls, letters), also early books from non-European regions and
languages
•       Theoretical and methodological approaches to visual devices:
opportunities and challenges (including digital humanities approaches)
Please send an abstract of c. 300 words to VisualBookConf at utu.fi by
October 15, 2024.

Early Modern Graphic Literacies (EModGraL) is a four-year research
project funded by the Research Council of Finland (2021–25) and based
at the Department of English, University of Turku, Finland. The
project maps the use of graphic devices in early English printed books
to study the development of vernacular graphic literacies and early
strategies of data visualization.



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