Location: Institute of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark; 29-31 October 2014

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the call for papers of the conference Cultural Transfer Reconsidered – Center-Periphery Relations and the Objects of Analysis that will take place at Aarhus University (Denmark) 29-31 October  2014.

Considering your area of research and your competences we thought that you might find the subject interesting and we would be very grateful if you had the opportunity to circulate the attached Call for Papers document among any colleagues or relevant networks that work with subjects related to Cultural Transfer.

More information on the programme and the conference itself is forthcoming and updates will be posted on our website at:

http://dac.au.dk/aktuelt/arrangement/artikel/cultural-transfer-reconsidered-center-periphery-relations-and-the-objects-of-analysis/

If you have any questions relating to the conference, travel arrangements or otherwise, do feel free to email us (emails will be provided below) and we will do our very best to assist you.

Sincerely,

Steen Bille Jørgensen (romsbj@dac.au.dk) & Mats Kamp Jørgensen (engmakj@hum.au.dk)

Call for Papers-Aarhus Mai 12, 2014

Conference, September 25-27.2014 CENS, University of Helsinki

Mapping Europe’s North and South is an under-researched part of image studies within humanities and social sciences. We invite scholars of these fields to present and detect previous and ongoing research tied to the mental mapping of the binary North and South within Europe. The cardinal directions of North and South have been perceived in various ways according to different spatial-temporal perspectives. The ideological production of space lies in the core of mapping practices defining Europe in the past and up to the present.

The North-South dichotomy within European thought has been downplayed, with some notable exceptions, in recent years due to a strong interest in post-colonial analysis. This approach has emphasized the relationships between Europe, or the West, and the rest of the world. Similar hierarchical orderings and mechanisms in the intra-European mental mapping practices as those revealed in a larger global post-colonial analysis have thus been obscured.

Mapping Europe’s internal others and the complex typologies of cultural transfers in both directions, remains a pristine field of research in many ways. The research is somewhat dispersed and one aim of the conference is to start systematic gathering of information about ongoing research in order to initiate an international network.

Potential themes include but are not limited to:

– Early modern mental mapping of Europe’s North and South

– Enlightenment: the upgrading of the North and the invention of Southern Europe.

– Reception of literature and art

– Space and gender

– Cultural transfers and European intellectual history

– Contemporary debates on North and South

Please submit your abstract (300 words) as a [word/pdf] file to Eliel Kilpelä at eliel.kilpela@helsinki.fi. Please include your name, academic affiliation and address in your email. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 30, 2014

Selected participants will be noticed by 15 May.

For more information, please contact:

Professor Peter Stadius, Centre for Nordic Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki peter.stadius@helsinki.fi

Le traité de Kiel, signé le 14 janvier 1814, correspond à un tournant de l’histoire européenne et scandinave dans la mesure où il mit un terme au dernier conflit entre la Suède et le Danemark. À l’occasion de son bicentenaire, ce colloque propose de revenir sur les propagandes nationales et les représentations du pouvoir mises en œuvre à travers la construction et l’utilisation de « représentations » et images du « peuple ». Il englobe la période qui va du XIIIe siècle à 1814, qui vit la stabilisation des royaumes scandinaves, la formation du sentiment d’attachement à la patrie, au souverain ou au pouvoir en place et qui s’acheva avec l’émergence des nationalismes.

Ce colloque, qui se déroulera en novembre 2014 à Paris, est ouvert aux chercheurs de toutes disciplines qui s’intéressent aux espaces nordique et germanique. Les langues de travail sont le français, l’allemand, le suédois et l’anglais. Pour plus d’informations veuillez trouver ci-joint l’appel à contribution complet en français en format .pdf ainsi qu’un lien vers le site du colloque: http://peuplesetpouvoirs.blogspot.fr/.

Appel Peuple(s) et pouvoir(s) en représentation