Edited Volume
Right now we are preparing a proposal for Brill's Studia Imagologica series. Most if not all of the papers we selected were presented at the “New Perspectives on Imagology” conference.
Conference Report
Our colleague Sophie Seidler wrote a wonderful report of the conference for the Vienna Doctoral Academy "Theory and Methodology in the Humanities". Check it out on the VDA Humanities-Blog.
Tuesday, April 3 | Venue: The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Vienna (Volkskundemuseum Wien) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Venue/Room: The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Vienna (Volkskundemuseum Wien) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | "The calm before the storm" – Venue/Room, The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Vienna (Volkskundemuseum Wien) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Elena and Lukas – two of our four highly motivated student assistants in front of the book table [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Tuesday, April 3 | The Buffet [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Katharina Edtstadler and Gianna Zocco preparing the opening speech [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Opening Speeches – Organizing Committee (from left to right): Gianna Zocco, Katharina Edtstadler, Andrea Kreuter, and Sandra Folie [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Tuesday, April 3 | Welcome Speech Norbert Bachleitner, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Katharina Edtstadler, Gianna Zocco, and Andrea Kreuter at the opening (from left to right) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Welcome Speech Peter Becker, VDA Theory and Methodology in the Humanities, University of Vienna [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Welcome Speech Matthias Beitl, Director of the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art (Volkskundemuseum Wien) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Our colleague Christoph Leschanz surprised us with personalized "New Perspectives on Imagology" chocolate bars <3 [Photo credit: Julia Grillmayr]
Tuesday, April 3 | Section 1 "Rethinking Imagological Key Terms" (from left to right): Katharina Edtstadler (chair), Melis Menent (University of Sussex), and Maria Weilandt (University of Potsdam) [Photo credit: Julia Grillmayr]
Tuesday, April 3 | Section 1 "Rethinking Imagological Key Terms" (from left to right): Melis Menent (University of Sussex), and Maria Weilandt (University of Potsdam): „Towards a Critical Imagology“ [Photo credit: Julia Grillmayr]
Tuesday, April 3 | Section 2 "Intersectional Approaches to Imagology: The Multiple Entanglements of Ethnotypes", Panel 1 "Gender: A Useful Category of/for Imagology?" (from left to right): Magdalena Hangel (chair), Barbara Ludwiczak (University of Rzeszów), and Walter Wagner (University of Vienna) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Section 2 "Intersectional Approaches to Imagology: The Multiple Entanglements of Ethnotypes", Panel 1 "Gender: A Useful Category of/for Imagology?": Walter Wagner (University of Vienna): "The Myth of the Orient in Flaubert's 'Voyage en Égypte' and Bachmann's 'Das Buch Franza'" [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Tuesday, April 3 | Coffee Break [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Plenary Lecture Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam): Audience [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Plenary Lecture Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam): Audience [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Plenary Lecture Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam): Audience (from left to right): Gianna Zocco, Andrea Kreuter, Katharina Edtstadler, Julia Grillmayr, and Daniel Syrovy [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Clemens Ruthner (Trinity College Dublin) chairing Joep Leerssen's Plenary Lecture [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Plenary Lecture Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam): "Nationalism and National-Self-Images: Character into Ideology into Doxa" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Plenary Lecture Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam): "Nationalism and National-Self-Images: Character into Ideology into Doxa" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Plenary Lecture Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam): "Nationalism and National-Self-Images: Character into Ideology into Doxa" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Plenary Lecture Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam): "Nationalism and National-Self-Images: Character into Ideology into Doxa" – Discussion (in the picture: Clemens Ruthner and Manfred Beller) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Tuesday, April 3 | Conference Dinner at Prinz Ferdinand [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Tuesday, April 3 | Conference Dinner at Prinz Ferdinand – in the picture (from left to right): Andrea Kreuter and Gianna Zocco from the Organizing Committee [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | New day, new entrance, new signs [Photo credit: Julia Grillmayr]
Wednesday, April 4 | Section 2 "Intersectional Approaches to Imagology: The Multiple Entanglements of Ethnotypes", Panel 2 "Ethnotypes and Beyond: Colonial, Feminist, and Queer Interventions" (from left to right): Sandra Folie (chair), Kifah Hanna (Trinity College), Ivana Drmik (University of Bonn), and Dora Nunes Gago (University of Macau) [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Wednesday, April 4 | Section 2 "Intersectional Approaches to Imagology: The Multiple Entanglements of Ethnotypes", Panel 2 "Ethnotypes and Beyond: Colonial, Feminist, and Queer Interventions": Discussion [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Wednesday, April 4 | Section 3 "Imagology in a Transnational, Post-Colonial, Globalized World", Panel 1 "Diasporic Perspectives and National Stereotypes" (from left to right): Gianna Zocco (chair), Johan Schimanski (University of Oslo), and Kata Gyuris (Eötvös Loránd University) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | Section 3 "Imagology in a Transnational, Post-Colonial, Globalized World", Panel 1 "Diasporic Perspectives and National Stereotypes": Johan Schimanski (University of Oslo): "Migrating Images of the North" [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Wednesday, April 4 | Section 3 "Imagology in a Transnational, Post-Colonial, Globalized World", Panel 1 "Diasporic Perspectives and National Stereotypes": Kata Gyuris (Eötvös Loránd University): "Imagined Communities and National Stereotypes in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'Americanah'" [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Wednesday, April 4 | Poster Session – Opening (from left to right): Katharina Edtstadler (chair), Andrea Kreuter (chair), and Federica Casalin (Sapienza University) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | Poster Session: Federica Casalin (Sapienza University): "Italy in Chinese Sources (1584-1898): Hetero-Images, Intertextuality, ... and National Stereotypes" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | Poster Session (from left to right): Federica Casalin (Sapienza University), Mengji Cheng (Peking University), and Julia Schneidhofer (University of Vienna) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | Poster Session: Mengji Cheng (Peking University): "Images of Japan in Late Imperial China: Focusing on Dianshizhai Pictorial" [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Wednesday, April 4 | Poster Session: Julia Schneidhofer (University of Vienna): "In Between Frames: Ivan Turgenevs 'Pervaja ljubov'" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | Poster Session: Lucia Filipova: "Auto-Images and Stereotypes in Spanish Crime Fiction through the Eyes of Petra Delicado" and Katharina Edtstadler (chair) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | Poster Session: Iryna Zabiiaka (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv): "Chosen Identity in the Ukrainian Novel 'The Neat Samples of Writing from Archduke Wilhelm'" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | Poster Session (from left to right): Roxanne Bakowsky (University of Vienna): "Imagology of Florence in English, German, French and Italian Literature" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | Poster Session:
Audience [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Wednesday, April 4 | Section 3 "Imagology in a Transnational, Post-Colonial, Globalized World", Panel 2 "The European Conception of Imagology Seen from Its Borders" (from left to right): Josip Kešić (Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies), Manfred Beller (University of Bergamo), Laura Laurušaitė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore), and Wolfgang Müller-Funk (chair) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | Section 3 "Imagology in a Transnational, Post-Colonial, Globalized World", Panel 2 "The European Conception of Imagology Seen from Its Borders": Audience [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Wednesday, April 4 | Section 3 "Imagology in a Transnational, Post-Colonial, Globalized World", Panel 2 "The European Conception of Imagology Seen from Its Borders" (from left to right): Manfred Beller (University of Bergamo), Wolfgang Müller-Funk (chair), and Josip Kešić (Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies): "Transnational Imagology of National Stereotypes: The European Centre-Periphery Logic in Spain and the Balkans" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 1 "Rethinking Traditional Imagological Genres" (from left to right): Giacomo (Ulrike Köhler's dog and secret conference star), Károly Kókai (chair), Ulrike Kristina Köhler (Leuphana University), Mateusz Orszulak (Munich University), and Wenjun Zhu (Université libre de Bruxelles) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 1 "Rethinking Traditional Imagological Genres": Wenjun Zhu (Université libre de Bruxelles): "A Study on 'The Travel Journal and Pictures: Danlin Li's Image of Foreign Lands and Cultures" [Photo credit: Julia Grillmayr]
Wednesday, April 4 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 1 "Rethinking Traditional Imagological Genres": Audience [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Wednesday, April 4 | Public Reading, Doron Rabinovici: "Die Außerirdischen" (2017) – Audience [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Wednesday, April 4 | Public Reading, Doron Rabinovici: "Die Außerirdischen" (2017) – Audience [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Wednesday, April 4 | Public Reading, Doron Rabinovici: "Die Außerirdischen" (2017), from left to right: Daniel Syrovy (chair) and Doron Rabinovici [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Wednesday, April 4 | Public Reading, Doron Rabinovici is reading from "Die Außerirdischen" (2017) and "Ohnehin" (2004) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Thursday, April 5 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 2 "Imagology Meets Musicology: A Promising Connection?" (from left to right): Renée Vulto (Ghent University), Carolin Krahn (University of Vienna), Norbert Bachleitner (chair), and Andrea Horz (University of Vienna) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Thursday, April 5 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 2 "Imagology Meets Musicology: A Promising Connection?" (from left to right): Norbert Bachleitner (chair), Andrea Horz (University of Vienna), and Renée Vulto (Ghent University): "Singing the Dutch - Constructions of 'Dutchness' in Political Songs (1775-1825)" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Thursday, April 5 | The Organizing Committee (from left to right): Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, Andrea Kreuter, Gianna Zocco, and Sophie Mayr [Photo credit: Julia Grillmayr]
Thursday, April 5 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 3 "Comics – Identity under Construction" (from left to right): Daniel Brandlechner (University of Vienna), Paul Ferstl (chair), and Christine Hermann (University of Vienna) [Photo credit: Sophie Seidler]
Thursday, April 5 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 3 "Comics – Identity under Construction" (from left to right): Daniel Brandlechner (University of Vienna), Paul Ferstl (chair), and Christine Hermann (University of Vienna): "National Images in Visual Narratives. The (Re)presentation of National Characters in the Flemish Comic Series 'Suske en Wiske'" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Thursday, April 5 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 3 "Comics – Identity under Construction": Discussion – Johan Schimanski speaking [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Thursday, April 5 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 3 "Comics – Identity under Construction" (from left to right): Julia Grillmayr (radio broadcaster) and Daniel Brandlechner (University of Vienna): "#JeSuisAmatrice – Identity through a Landscape of Wounds" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Thursday, April 5 | Völkertafel - "The Original" (or at least one of them) [Photo credit: Julia Grillmayr]
Thursday, April 5 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 4 "Imagining National Stereotypes in Educational Contexts" (from left to right): Andrea Kreuter (chair), Kristína Kállay (Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences), Krisztina Péter (Eötvös Loránd University), and Tünde Varga: "Creating and Reinforcing Visual Stereotypes of a Nation" (The Hungarian University of Fine Arts) [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Thursday, April 5 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 4 "Imagining National Stereotypes in Educational Contexts" (from left to right): Andrea Kreuter (chair), Tünde Varga (The Hungarian University of Fine Arts), Krisztina Péter (Eötvös Loránd University), and Kristína Kállay (Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences): "The Brave Rabbit in Africa: Fashioning Colonial Subjectivity in Slovak Inter-War Children's Literature" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Thursday, April 5 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 4 "Imagining National Stereotypes in Educational Contexts" (from left to right): Discussion - Davor Dukić speaking [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Thursday, April 5 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 5 "Posthuman Meets Postnation – New Perspectives on the Other": Video Presentation of Aleksandr Sautkin and Elena Philippova (Murmansk Arctic State University): "The Indispensability of the Difference: The Image of the Other in the Mondialist Setting of the Late Soviet Science Fiction" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Thursday, April 5 | Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology", Panel 5 "Posthuman Meets Postnation – New Perspectives on the Other": Christine Ivanovic (University of Vienna): "The Image of the Animal in Beast Fables – Just Another Case For Imagological Research?" [Photo credit: Sandra Folie]
Thursday, April 5 | Round Table (from left to right): Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (University of Vienna), Federico Italiano (Austrian Academy of Sciences & Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich), Davor Dukić (University of Zagreb/University of Vienna), Gianna Zocco (chair), Laura Laurušaitė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore), and Herbert Justnik (The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Vienna) [Photo credit: Katharina Edtstadler]
Thursday, April 5 | Round Table (from left to right): Davor Dukić (University of Zagreb/University of Vienna), Gianna Zocco (chair), Sandra Folie (chair), and Laura Laurušaitė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore) [Photo credit: Katharina Edtstadler]
Thursday, April 5 | Round Table (from left to right): Sandra Folie (chair), Laura Laurušaitė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore), and Herbert Justnik (The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Vienna) [Photo credit: Katharina Edtstadler]
Thursday, April 5 | Round Table (from left to right): Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (University of Vienna), Federico Italiano (Austrian Academy of Sciences & Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich), Davor Dukić (University of Zagreb/University of Vienna), Gianna Zocco (chair), Sandra Folie (chair), and Laura Laurušaitė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore) [Photo credit: Katharina Edtstadler]
Thursday, April 5 | Round Table (from left to right): Sandra Folie (chair) and Laura Laurušaitė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore) [Photo credit: Katharina Edtstadler]
Thursday, April 5 | Round Table (from left to right): Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (University of Vienna), Federico Italiano (Austrian Academy of Sciences & Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich), Davor Dukić (University of Zagreb/University of Vienna), and Gianna Zocco (chair) [Photo credit: Katharina Edtstadler]
Thursday, April 5 | Round Table: Giacomo – the secret star of the conference [Photo credit: Katharina Edtstadler]
Thursday, April 5 | Lukas walks Giacomo for the last time: Goodbye! [Photo credit: Katharina Edtstadler]