Extended deadline: paper proposals for panel at IAWIS 2005 conference*
"Duchamp: Master of Word-&-image Disruption"

This session seeks to highlight the world-renowned Marcel Duchamp collection
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the disruption of word-&-image
relations
he mastered. Speakers are invited to address the ways in which Duchamp's art
subverted visual and verbal meanings and created new ones in their stead. A
wide range of topics and approaches are invited, so as to expose the various
disciplinary models that Duchamp both subsumed and targeted in redefining what
a work of art can be as well as his legacy to contemporary theories and
practices of rupture and dislocation.

Extended deadline for proposal submissions: 1 January 2005.
Please submit proposals (250 words) and short c.v. to:
Professor Lauren S. Weingarden
Florida State University
IAWISplus@msn.com

*International Association of Word&Image (IAWIS) Conference description:
International Association of Word and Image Studies: Elective Affinities
Philadelphia, 23-27 September, 2005

The title of the conference has been borrowed from Goethe's 1809 novel
Elective Affinities. There, the term "elective affinities" is the subject of
an energetic debate. A chemical term that was in currency from the late
eighteenth century, in the novel it extends to human relationships, both
intimate and political. Since this is a novel that foregrounds "mixed media"
such as tableaux vivants (i.e. dramatic performances of artworks) and the
picturesque garden, the concept of "elective affinities" also has profound
implications for the relationship between words and images. Like the alkalis
and acids of which Goethe's characters speak, words and images, though
apparently opposed, may have a remarkable affinity for one another. At the
same time, as one of the protagonists objects, such affinities are
problematic, and "are only really interesting when they bring about
separations." The conference seeks - in the spirit of Goethe's allusive
discussion - to explore word/image interactions in literature and visual arts
from a broad historical perspective, and also as they extend to fields as
diverse as Political Science, Religious Studies, and History of Science.

For additional information:
IAWIS/AIERTI - Conferences - PHILADELPHIA 2005
www.iawis.org/pub/conf_philadelphia.html

International Association of Word and Image Studies / Association
Internationale
pour l'Etude des Rapports entre Texte et Image (IAWIS/AIERTI) website:
http://www.iawis.org