[Discussion] UPDATE: Eyedeologies: En-visioning the Readable/Reading the Visual (grad) (12/15/04; 4/22/05-4/23/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

The deadline for the 2005 University of Toronto Comparative Literature
annual Graduate Student Colloquium entitled =93Eyedeologies. Across
Disciplines: En-visioning the Readable / Reading the Visual=93 has been
extended to December 15. Also, the Colloquium date has been changed from
April 22 - 23, to April  7 =96 8, 2005. For more information on the Centr=
e
for Comparative Literature and the colloquium, please visit
www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/, or write to complitcolloq2005@yahoo.ca


The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto
invites abstracts for its 16th annual Graduate Student Colloquium
entitled Eyedeologies."Across Disciplines: En-visioning the Readable /
Reading the Visual", to be held on 7 - 8 April, 2005.

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.

Papers may address interdisciplinary theoretical and practical issues
pertaining to a broad range of topics centered on the visual-textual
shifting dialectic:
- Translation, migration, appropriation, transference of elements from
literature to other disciplines and vice versa
- Complementarity, antagonism, intersections of image and word,
sculpture and inscription
- Narrative paintings, pictorial poetry and prose
- The literary text and the cinematic screen: text-to-screen
translation, text-for-screen writing/composition, screen-to-text
re-adaptation
- Interactions and counteractions between the dramatic and the
performance text
- Re-visioning verbal, visual and musical relationships; operatic
encounters; the Gesamtkunstwerk and multimedia art
- Use and misuse of images in Judeo-Christian and Reformation history
- Visual-verbal syntheses in Medieval and Renaissance texts
- Word/image dialogues from Romanticism to the fin de si=E8cle and beyond
- Aesthetic/psychological/philosophical/political/cultural implications
of the word/image problematic
- Image as text and text as image: reading the visual, designing the
typescript

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.

Papers can be given in any language, as long as a summary in English is
provided. Questions will be addressed and answered in English. 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.

Abstracts and/or panel proposals (maximum length of 500 words) should
have a short biographical note attached, and should be sent to
complitcolloq2005@yahoo.ca by December 15, 2004. A selection of papers
presented at the colloquium will be published in TRANSverse: 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. For more information on the Centre
for Comparative Literature and the colloquium, please visit
www.chass.utoronto.ca/complit/


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