We are proud to present our conference program, which includes even more new and fascinating perspectives on the topic of imagology than we dared to hope for. Our conference speakers come from 14 different nations and cover all levels of academic experience – from master student to professorl

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12.00- Registration

13.00-14.00: Opening

Welcome Speeches by the Organizing Committee, Norbert Bachleitner (Head of the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna), Peter Becker (Representative of the VDA - Theory and Methodology in the Humanities, University of Vienna), and Matthias Beitl (Director of the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Vienna)

14.00-15.00: Section 1 "Rethinking Imagological Key Terms" – Chair: Katharina Edtstadler (University of Vienna, Austria) [substituting for Achim Hermann Hölter]

• Melis Menent (University of Sussex, UK): Images as Clusters of Meaning

• Maria Weilandt (University of Potsdam, Germany): Towards a Critical Imagology

15.00-15.30: Coffee Break

15.30-16.30: Section 2 "Intersectional Approaches to Imagology: The Multiple Entanglements of Ethnotypes"

Gender: A Useful Category of/for Imagology? – Chair: Magdalena Hangel (University of Vienna, Austria)

• Barbara Ludwiczak (University of Rzeszów, Poland): To See the Gender of the Other – Introduction of the Imagological Model Alter/Altera – Alius/Alia

• Walter Wagner (University of Vienna, Austria): The Myth of the Orient in Flaubert’s Voyage en Égypte and Bachmann’s Das Buch Franza

16.30-17.00: Coffee Break

17.00-18.30: Plenary Lecture – Chair: Clemens Ruthner (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

• Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands): Nationalism and National-Self-Images: Character into Ideology

19.30- : Conference Dinner in Prinz Ferdinand (Bennopl. 2, 1080 Vienna)

10.00-11.30: Section 2 "Intersectional Approaches to Imagology: The Multiple Entanglements of Ethnotypes"

Ethnotypes and Beyond: Colonial, Feminist, and Queer Interventions – Chair: Sandra Folie (University of Vienna, Austria)

• Dora Nunes Gago (University of Macau, Macau): Imagological Intersections: English, Chinese and Macanese Ethnotypes in the Works of Two Portuguese Writers, Maria Ondina Braga and Rodrigo Leal de Carvalho

• Ivana Drmic (University of Bonn, Germany): Representation of Balkan Women in War: Victim Feminism in Grbavica and In the Land of Blood and Honey

• Kifah Hanna (Trinity College, USA): Self and Other in Queer Arabic Literature

11:30-12:00: Coffee Break

12:00-13:00: Section 3 "Imagology in a Transnational, Post-Colonial, Globalized World"

Diasporic Perspectives and National Stereotypes – Chair: Gianna Zocco (University of Vienna, Austria)

• Johan Schimanski (University of Oslo, Norway): Migrating Images of the North

• Kata Gyuris (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary): Imagined Communities and National Stereotypes in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

13.00-14.30: Lunch Break and Poster Session

• Posters by Laura Arenas García (University of Alcalá, Spain), Roxanne Bakowsky (University of Vienna, Austria), Federica Casalin (Sapienza University, Italy), Mengji Cheng (Beijing University, China), Elisaveta Iovu (University of Academy of Sciences of Moldova), Lucia Filipova (University of Vienna, Austria), Julia Schneidhofer (University of Vienna, Austria), and Iryna Zabiiaka (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

14.30-16.00: Section 3 "Imagology in a Transnational, Post-Colonial, Globalized World"

The European Conception of Imagology Seen from Its Borders – Chair: Wolfgang Müller-Funk (University of Vienna, Austria)

• Manfred Beller (University of Bergamo, Italy): Immigration and Imagology or Nationalisms Abandoned
• Laura Laurušaitė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuania): Reimagining the Baltic Literary Studies: Potential for Imagology
• Josip Kešic (Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies, The Netherlands): Transnational Imagology of National Stereotypes: The European Centre-Periphery Logic in Spain and the Balkans

16.00-16.30: Coffee Break

16.30-18.00: Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology"

Rethinking Traditional Imagological Genres – Chair: Károly Kókai (University of Vienna, Austria)

• Ulrike Kristina Köhler (Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany): A Production-Oriented Imagology: Genre, Nation and English Romanticism

• Wenjun Zhu (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium): A Study on The Travel Journal and Pictures: Danlin Li’s Image of Foreign Lands and Cultures

• Mateusz Orszulak (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany): Image of the Ottoman Culture: Travel Genres and Their Interaction with Imagology

18.00-18.30: Coffee Break

18.30- : Public Reading – Chair: Daniel Syrovy (University of Vienna, Austria)

• Doron Rabinovici: Die Außerirdischen (2017), followed by a wine reception

10.00-11.30: Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology"

Imagology Meets Musicology: A Promising Connection? – Chair: Norbert Bachleitner (University of Vienna, Austria)

• Andrea Horz (University of Vienna, Austria): "... the first singer, a born German" – National Imaginations as a Field of Conflict in Operatic Music of the 1770s

• Carolin Krahn (University of Vienna, Austria): Blurring Stereotypes: Italian Characters in German Music Historiography

• Renée Vulto (Ghent University, Belgium): Singing the Dutch – Constructions of 'Dutchness' in Political Songs (1775-1825)

11.30-12.00: Coffee Break

12.00-13.00: Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology"

Comics – Identity under Construction – Chair: Paul Ferstl (University of Vienna, Austria)

• Christine Hermann (University of Vienna, Austria): National Images in Visual Narratives. The (Re)presentation of National Characters in the Flemish Comic Series Suske en Wiske
• Daniel Brandlechner (University of Vienna, Austria): #JeSuisAmatrice – Identity through a Landscape of Wounds

13.00-14.30: Lunch Break

14.30-16.00: Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology"

Imagining National Stereotypes in Educational Contexts – Chair: Andrea Kreuter (University of Vienna, Austria) [substituting for Emer O'Sullivan]

• Tünde Varga (The Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Hungary): Creating and Reinforcing Visual Stereotypes of a Nation
• Krisztina Péter (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary): "Hungarians Especially Like Watermelons Because They Come in the National Colours." Images of Nations in Hungarian Elementary School Textbooks Between the Two World Wars
• Kristína Kállay (Institute of World Literature, Slovakia): The Brave Rabbit In Africa: Fashioning Colonial Subjectivity in Slovak Inter-War Children’s Literature

16.00-16.30: Coffee Break

16.30-17.30: Section 4 "Stereotypes, Nation Building, Landscape Depiction – How Different Genres Interact with Imagology"

Posthuman Meets Postnation – New Perspectives on the Other – Chair: Sabine Schönfellner (Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Austria & University of Gießen, Germany)

• Video Presentation: Aleksandr Sautkin and Elena Philippova (Murmansk Arctic State University, Russia): The Indispensability of the Difference: The Image of the Other in the Mondialist Setting of the Late Soviet Science Fiction
• Christine Ivanovic (University of Vienna, Austria): The Image of the Animal in Beast Fables – Just Another Case For Imagological Research?

17.30-18.00: Coffee Break

18.00-19:30: Round Table and Closing – Chair: Sandra Folie (University of Vienna, Austria) [substituting for Sophie Mayr] and Gianna Zocco (University of Vienna, Austria)

• Davor Dukić (University of Zagreb, Croatia & University of Vienna, Austria)
• Federico Italiano (Austrian Academy of Sciences & Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
• Herbert Justnik (The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Vienna, Austria)
• Laura Laurušaitė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuania)
• [Emer O'Sullivan, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany] - earlier departure
• Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (University of Vienna, Austria)