Program

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

Here you find a pdf version of our program leaflet. Any changes after the publication of the program leaflet are published on this website.

Overview

Tuesday, April 3 Wednesday, April 4 Thursday, April 5
10.00-11.30: Section 2 10.00-11.30: Section 4
11.30-12.00: Coffee Break 11.30-12.00: Coffee Break
12.00- Registration 12.00-13.00: Section 3 12.00-13.00: Section 4
13.00-14.00: Opening 13.00-14.30: Lunch Break and Poster Session 13.00-14.30: Lunch Break
14.00-15.00: Section 1 14.30-16.00: Section 3 14.30-16.00: Section 4
15.00-15.30: Coffee Break 16.00-16.30: Coffee Break 16.00-16.30: Coffee Break
15.30-16.30: Section 2 16.30-18.00: Section 4 16.30-17.30: Section 4
16.30-17.00: Coffee Break 18.00-18.30: Coffee Break 17.30-18.00: Coffee Break
17.00-18.30: Plenary Lecture 18.30- Public Reading 18.00-19.30: Round Table and Closing
19.30- Conference Dinner

 

Tuesday, April 3

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]

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)

16.30-17.00: Coffee Break

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

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

Wednesday, April 4

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)

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)

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)

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)

18.00-18.30: Coffee Break

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

Thursday, April 5

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)

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)

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]

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)

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)