‘Creativity and Business: Connectivity, Values and Interventions’ in partnership with The British Library.

Monday 12 March 2012, 9.30am – 6.30pm at The British Library and Central St Martins

IBM’s 2010 Global CEO Study found that of 1500 CEOs surveyed, the majority believe the key to navigating today’s volatile, uncertain and increasingly complex business environment is creativity.  The ability to instil creativity throughout an organisation was rated as more crucial than rigor, management, discipline, integrity or even vision as a means to future success. The conference will explore whether this is actually the case. Furthermore, it will consider how the dynamics between creativity, business and research is changing and delegates will be challenged to think about their place within this triangular relationship in new ways and will be provided with a real opportunity to make professional contacts in and beyond their sectors and fields.

It will present a diverse and provocative range of keynotes, panel discussions, case studies and interventions that will explore questions such as:

-       Is creativity really being more sought after now than ever and if so, why?

-       How does the corporate sector value creativity and vice versa?

-       What are the pros and cons of government intervention in cultivating creativity?

Please see attached flyer for registration details.Creativity and Business eflyer

The International Visual Sociology Association’s annual 2012 meeting is in New York, July 6-9th. You can see the call for papers here. Perhaps if inVisio members are going they could reply to this post and hook up at the conference – it would also be great if you anyone going could email swarren@essex.ac.uk so I can equip you with promotional inVisio materials to litter the coffee break hall with!

Saturday, 12 November 2011 from 14.00 to 15.30 GMT an online workshop is dedicated to visual research projects that explore issues of power: ”The Chair. Visual Encounters with Power”

Organizers: MAGMA Contemporary Medium, SEMEISTOS Web-Semiotics Research Group

Online presentations of 10-15 minutes via Skype are welcome, and/or offline written presentations of visual research projects that are aimed at exploring leadership, power, and status issues. We intend to publish these presentations as an e-book and make them available for broader audiences. A live streaming of the workshop will be available at: http://www.livestream.com/magmalive

For details, please contact Rozi Bakó at bako.rozi@gmail.com.

The 5^th William A. Kern Conference on Visual Communication

Rochester Institute of Technology

May 3-5, 2012

When Images Cause Trouble: Visual Communication, Controversy, and Critical Engagement

Call for Papers

When do images cause trouble? One purpose of this conference is to discuss recent controversies in visual communication, including photojournalism, social media, advertising, and the visual arts, invoking issues of privacy, security, censorship, freedom of expression, and religious belief. In addition, as concerns over the power of images are not new, we would seek to historicize and contextualize current debates with historical perspectives, including, as an illustrative example, iconoclasm and the Protestant reformation in Europe –particularly Puritan image smashing in England during the 16th and 17th centuries. Following in the tradition of Kern conferences, we plan a rich program of interdisciplinary scholarship and conversation.
We invite submissions that address this theme from multiple points of views.  How does work in visual communication, visual culture, visual rhetoric, and related fields shed light on controversial issues that surround the production and consumption of images? How can we understand current events in a historical perspective? What are the roles of regulation, oversight, government, and grass roots organizations in thinking seriously about images? What roles do technologies of surveillance play? How can we think about the ethics of representation?
Individual papers, visual presentations, panels and workshop proposals are welcomed.
Send extended abstracts (500 – 2500 words) via email to Jonathan Schroeder (jesgla@rit.edu).

Jonathan E. Schroeder

William A. Kern Professor of Communications

Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester, New York 14623

 I will present on  “Virtual and Visual: Performing the Online Interview” at The Qualitative Report’s 3rd Annual Conference, which will be held at Nova Southeastern University on January 13 and 14, 2012. “Creativity and the Qualitative Researcher” is the theme for TQR 2012, offering an opportunity to explore questions of creativity and the qualitative researcher by featuring works of and on qualitative inquiry that exemplify the ingenuity of this diverse body of work and practitioners.

My presentation will explore visual research methods in online interviews conducted with synchronous, rich media technologies. I’ll draw on the Typology of Online Visual Research I introduced in Online Interviews in Real Time. I hope to see you there!

Hi everyone,

Call for papers from Visual Studies on the 2012 Olympics. Read more at

http://bit.ly/vsolympicsissue