Montreal August 2011 - theme The Imaginary - deadline - 2010-10-15

The 9th International Conference on Word and Image Studies, L'imaginaire /
The Imaginary, will be held at the Université du Québec à Montreal, from
august 22-26 2011.

The conference will be held under the auspices of FIGURA, the Research
Center on Text and the Imaginary, of NT2, the Reseach Laboratory on
Hypermedia Arts and Literature, of CRILCQ, the Interuniversity Research
Center on Québec Literature and Culture, and the Faculty of Arts.

THE DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF A PAPER HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO
OCTOBER 15TH 2010

Theme : The Imaginary

Centred on the Imaginary, whether this concept is understood as an
interface between the subjective position and the world, as a register of
thought or as the universe of images and signs, texts and objects of
thought, this conference will explore the relationship between text and
image in a transformative context that finds us more and more decisively
crossing from a book-centred to a screen-centred culture.

In this context, the imaginary affirms itself as a way of interpreting the
world; it is clearly inscribed at the heart of our relationships with art,
literature and culture. The conference will enable us to explore this
theme through theoretical inquiries that seek to define and conceptualize
this notion, as well as through the practices of analysis and
interpretation of texts and images, in both historical and contemporary
perspectives, at the intersection of visual and textual culture studies,
through interdisciplinary and intermedial approaches.

Please visit http://aierti-iawis-2011.uqam.ca
for full details of all
sessions
Contact us at iawis2011gmail.com

Executive Committee (IAWIS/AIERTI)

Véronique Plesch
Catriona MacLeod

Organizing Committee (Montréal)

Co-convenors: Bertrand Gervais (Études littéraires, UQAM) and Dominic
Hardy (Histoire de l'art, UQAM)

Marie Fraser (Histoire de l'art, UQAM)

Vincent Lavoie (Histoire de l'art, UQAM)

Céline Poisson (Design, UQAM)

Coordination

Lise Bizzoni, Coordinator, CRILCQ
Isabelle Caron, Coordinator, NT2
Bronja Hildgen, Coordinator, FIGURA

Dominic Hardy
Professeur, Département d'histoire de l'art
Université du Québec à Montréal
CP 8888, Succursale Centre-ville
Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8
Téléphone: (514) 987-3000, poste 6448
Télécopieur: (514) 987-6515
hardy.dominicuqam.ca
www.histoiredelart.uqam.ca