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>From: Comparative Literature Graduate Colloquium 2005 University of
>Toronto <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: Eyedeologies Across Disciplines: En-visioning the
>Readable/Reading the Visual (12/1/04; 4/22/05-4/23/05)
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>The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto
>invites abstracts for its 16th annual Graduate Student Colloquium
>Eyedeologies. ìAcross Disciplines: En-visioning the Readable /
>Reading the Visualì, to be held on April 22-23 2005.
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>The colloquium will explore manifold interactions between literature
>and other disciplines: fine arts, performing arts, television, film
>and video, photography, architecture, graphic design, religious art,
>music, new media fictions of all kinds.
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>Papers may address interdisciplinary theoretical and practical
>issues pertaining to a broad range of topics centered on the
>visual-textual shifting dialectic:
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># Translation, migration, appropriation, transference of elements
>from literature to other disciplines and vice versa
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># Complementarity, antagonism, intersections of image and word,
>sculpture and inscription
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># Narrative paintings, pictorial poetry and prose
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># The literary text and the cinematic screen: text-to-screen
>translation, text-for-screen writing/composition, screen-to-text
>re-adaptation
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># Interactions and counteractions between the dramatic and the
>performance text
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># Re-visioning verbal, visual and musical relationships; operatic
>encounters; the Gesamtkunstwerk and multimedia art
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># Use and misuse of images in Judeo-Christian and Reformation history
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># Visual-verbal syntheses in Medieval and Renaissance texts
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># Word/image dialogues from Romanticism to the fin de siËcle and beyond
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># Aesthetic/psychological/philosophical/political/cultural
>implications of the word/image problematic
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># Image as text and text as image: reading the visual, designing the
>typescript
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>The colloquium has an essentially interdisciplinary character,
>therefore it is open to students from various areas of study such as
>philology, literary studies, classical studies, cultural studies,
>book history, museum studies, visual arts, art history, film
>studies, architecture, music, history, philosophy, religion, drama,
>psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, media
>studies, journalism, communication, or computer science.
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>Papers can be given in any language, as long as a summary in English
>is provided. Questions will be addressed and answered in English.
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>The conference hall will be equipped with resources for digital
>projection of images, VHS and DVD, as well as for the playing of
>various audio formats (CDs, audiotapes). Please indicate at the end
>of your abstract whether you intend to make use of these resources.
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>Abstracts and/or panel proposals (maximum length of 500 words)
>should have a short biographical note attached, and should be sent
>to [log in to unmask] by December 1st, 2004.
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>A selection of papers presented at the colloquium will be published
>in TRANSverse: A Comparative Studies Journal, The Centre for
>Comparative Literature's new journal. Please note that the copyright
>clearance documentation is required for all images that are to be
>published.
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>For more information on the Centre for Comparative Literature and
>the colloquium, please visit www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/

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