Call for papers: De L’IMAGE à L’IMAGINAIRE

APPEL à COMMUNICATION:
2 – 4 avril 2009

La Section de langue et littérature françaises de l’Université Hradec Králové, en collaboration avec l’Association Gallica, organise, du 2 au 4 avril 2009, un colloque international sur la littérature de jeunesse qui aura pour thème l’image et ses fonctions dans la littérature d’enfance et de jeunesse.

Le colloque se tiendra dans les locaux de l’Université Hradec Králové. Le colloque se déroulera selon les axes géographiques et culturels de la langue française, seront concernées aussi bien la littérature française que la littérature francophone, notamment québécoise.

L’épanouissement de l’album pour les petits enfants, des jeux interactifs, l’expansion de la BD et, pour ne pas oublier, celle des médias et de l’ordinateur, tous ces faits prouvent l’importance de la perception visuelle et sa position dominante dans le monde de l’enfance et de la jeunesse d’aujourd´hui.

Il est indiscutable que les sensations visuelles ensemble avec celles de l’ouïe transmettent à l’enfant la première expérience, celle de base, du monde. Le visuel qui s’impose partout de façon incomparable est devenu l’un des rivaux puissants de la littérature même. Alors que l’illustration accompagnant les poèmes, les contes et les romans depuis des siècles s’adressait aux lecteurs jeunes tout comme aux adultes, le visuel triomphe dans la bande dessinée, un art qui ne connaît pas de limites d’âge. L’image visuelle concurrence le texte. Une image littéraire, considérée du point de vue de la littérature de jeunesse, serait-elle son homologue ou son esclave, son supérieur ou son inférieur ? La description littéraire d’un paysage, l’art du portrait proposé par le texte, un univers imaginaire qui ressort d´un discours littéraire, sont-ils moins puissants, moins efficaces que l’image donnée par l’art pictural ?

Ce colloque se veut un lieu de discussion concernant l’image en tant que :

a) illustration – moyen d’atteindre une expérience de la réalité et déclencheur d’un monde fictif ;

b) image et texte : dialogue entre l’image et le texte, la dualité / la dialectique du texte et de l’image ;

c) image littéraire et ses fonctions dans la littérature de jeunesse: paysage, portrait, mythe ;

d) imagination et imaginaire, cas spécifiques propres à la littérature de jeunesse.

Les participants sont priés d’envoyer par courriel le bulletin d’inscription, accompagné d’un résumé (10-15 lignes) et d’un CV long d’un paragraphe avant le 15 février 2009 à l’adresse suivante :

kvkunesova@centrum.cz ou kvetuse.kunesova@uhk.cz

Bulletin d’Inscription

De l’image à l’imaginaire
Université Hradec Králové, 2-4 avril 2009
INFORMATIONS PERSONNELLES

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COMMUNICATION

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Note: La langue de la communication est le français. La communication ne doit pas dépasser 20 minutes.

Résumé de la communication

Frais d’inscription (à régler à l’arrivée) : 30 euros (les membres de l’Association Gallica – 15 euros).
Pour toute information complémentaire s’adresser à :

Mme Květa Kunešová
Section de langue et littérature française
Faculté de Pédagogie
Université Hradec Králové
Rokitanského 62
500 03 Hradec Králové 3
République tchèque
Tél. +420 776 700 291, +420 493 331 519
Courriel : kvkunesova@centrum.cz

Call for papers – Yet Another Media Conference 2009 – Adopted/Adapted Images*

Early February 2009 / Berlin / At the short film festival *EMERGEANDSEE /
*In cooperation with the European Media Studies of the University Potsdam
and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

*Adoption/Adaptation*

Against the background of the modern age and the progressing globalisation,
cultures are meeting in films. These allow you to catch a glimpse of
an unknown environment. But in the context of globalisation, can there still
exist any “new” images? Looking at a worldwide media industry, one could
assume that images are recomposed out of past ones and multiply themselves
through reciprocal exchange. One speaks of “Migrating Images”, “Hybrid
Pictures” and similar terms.
The subject of the *Yet Another Media Conference *in February 2009 will be
“Adopted/Adapted Images”, that means the re-interpretation and adaptation of
cultural images through film.

The emphasis is not on questioning the origin of images, but on examining the
productivity of such processes, as the conference title suggests. The gesture
of adoption is used as a central question. Does adoption mean to give shelter
or to take possession? How do adaptation and adoption correspondent to each
other? Not the Remake should be in focus, but cultural images and the
potential of their reception, transformation or re-interpretation.

*Production/reception of images*

Globalisation and cinematic Post-Modernism have not only brought us a new
production attitude but also a new reception attitude of films. The task
today is to handle the images that roam about, to use them, to reflect them
and to be aware of the possibly existing incongruence between production and
reception.

Our everyday reception is increasingly based on cinematic images that are no
longer assigned to another culture, but that are re-interpreted as a part of
our own culture of reception. The question arises again if the origin is
registered into the image? Can images be newly implemented in other cultures?
Will they receive any change there? How do we understand “foreign” images? Or
do we just find what we are looking for, anyway?

On the side of the production, both global and local interests accompany the
creation of films. Not only in the field of film funding and international
co-production. How much does its production environment influence a film and its
images, but also its reception? Does film play with these influences or does
it respond to the requirements of a market? Are images globally
market-orientated or are they developed through an intercultural exchange?

*Yet Another Media Conference*

The focus of the conference is on the mechanisms, which stand behind
adoption/adaptation. Which ways do cultural identities take (or that what
pretends to be an identity)? Which need stands behind the gradual
re-interpretation of “the other”?

What happens to the structures and mechanisms of cultural comprehension? Do
frontiers appear through the world wide cultural exchange? Which problems and
disturbances are possibly arising?

*/Conditions/*

* Lecture: 20min + 20min discussion
* One page A4 abstract has to be handed in
* Conference language: German or English (in case of a German
lecture we ask for an English summary as handout)
* Deadline: 30.11.2008
* Short CV: relevant stages of scientific/professional background__
* informations: conference@emergeandsee.org

Call for papers: Conference on the Historical Use of Images

Where? FARO – Vlaams Steunpunt voor Cultureel Erfgoed (Brussels)
When? 11th of March 2009

This international workshop addresses the importance, significance and value
of images for contemporary historical and archaeological research and the
study of cultural heritage (1880-1980), focusing both on the positive
insights that might be garnered from visual material as well as on the
possible difficulties.

Photographs, posters, drawings, comic book illustrations et cetera will be
examined on different levels: the author and his/her intentions, the
representation of a reality, the construction of identities, rights and
inequalities and the reception of images. The workshop aims at debating and
evaluating various methodological and theoretical approaches to using images
as historical sources and interpret the images as valuable historical
evidence that is equal to and supplements other sources available to
historians, archaeologists and researchers in the field of cultural
heritage.

The morning session consists of a masterclass, conducted by dr. Anne Cronin
(Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK) ), and a lecture by
dr. Marga Altena (Working group Visual Culture) (under reserve) . In the
afternoon, dr. Kees Ribbens (historian, The Netherlands Institute for War
Documentation) will talk about his experience in the field of popular
culture and cultural heritage and about how visual sources determine our
vision of the past. Thereafter, PhD and Master students and other
researchers are invited to present their research.

We invite paper submissions on a range of topics related to the use of
images as historical evidence and encourage papers on the following themes:
- aspects of everyday life (e.g. housing)
- material culture and the cultural life of objects
- advertising
- the impact of visual sources on our vision of the past
- cultural and representational issues (gender, ethnicity, sexuality,
power)
- consumer culture
- methodological approaches to visual sources
- images as cultural heritage

The format is a 20 minute paper presentation followed by 10 minutes of
questions and discussion. PhD and Master students and other young
researchers are particularly encouraged to respond. The language of
communication is English.

A selection of the papers will be published (in English) in a special issue
of the Revue Belge de Philologie et d¹Histoire.

Abstracts and papers
Interested students and researchers are expected to submit a short
curriculum and an abstract in English of approximately 300 words in
electronic form to: c-him@vub.ac.be by 20 Octobre 2008. Submission should
inlcude the author’s name, affiliation, address, phone number and e-mail.
Succesful applicants will be notified by 25 Octobre 2008 and are asked to
submit a paper of approximately 6000 words in electronic form to the same
address by 4 March 2009