[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Space of Garden - Space of Culture (Poland) (1/31/06; 5/13/06-5/15/06)
Sule Tarakcioglu
suletar@kulturad.org
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:34:04 +0200
From: Jaroslaw Pluciennik <jarrek@uni.lodz.pl>
We are pleased to inform you that between May 13th and May 15th, 2006,
Katedra
Teorii Literatury [Department of Theory of Literature] of Instytut Teorii
Literatury, Teatru i Sztuk Audiowizualnych [Institute of the Theory of
Literature, Theatre and Audio-Visual Arts] of Uniwersytet
�ódzki [the
University of �ódź] organizes an international conference
devoted to:
Space of a Garden - Space of Culture
The notion of Garden has been a long-standing element in the literary and
artistic tradition. It is a significant thematic inspiration and introduces
important axiological, epistemological and aesthetic problems.
The Garden's meaning is revealed in the form of a metaphor which
underlies both
the scholarly discourse of contemporary humanities and the elementary
verbalizations of the world around us. The multiplicity of iconic
representations makes us treat the Garden's meaning as an obvious topos
while
its universality and specific rhetorical function remain hidden. The
paradox of
the petrified and forgotten meaning opens the discussion of the past of this
notion, but also on the new senses, confirmed by its irreducible presence in
contemporary culture.
The Garden is represented in many different artistic languages. This
points to
the universality of the problem as well as to the transgression of arts
which
preserve the Garden's semantic function. The Garden is not only the
subject of
many artworks but also a construction which gives coherence to a work of
art -
let us mention only the tradition of the literary pleasure garden or the
attempts at making a city the architectural equivalent of the Garden.
Spatial
dependence of the Garden and the text may be seen in the attempts at
conducting
a narrative, therefore letting us discuss the questions of the identity
of the
speaking subject.
Thus the Garden becomes an intersemiotic problem that opens the
discourse on the
correspondence of arts and problematizes the questions of semantic identity,
connected with specific means of expression and the problems of their
translation.
Large number of artistic representations (literature, art, film,
theatre) makes
the Garden a form of a notional model. This concept of the Garden lets us
discuss its axiological and ontological functions.
The universal presence of iconic and textual representations of the
Garden in
culture makes it possible to discuss its rhetorical representation. This
problem
might be called "an emblematic dilemma," based on the mutual motivation
of the
image and the text. It is all the more important today, in the face of
multimedia culture.
The anthropological universality of the problem of the Garden reaches
beyond the
traditional limits of Mediterranean culture, becoming a significant
motif of the
new branch of thought called transcultural aesthetics.
The complex nature of the problem in question encourages us to invite to our
conference literary scholars, art historians, film and theatre scholars
as well
as philosophers interested in in the anthropological aspects of culture.
We will do our best to publish a volume of texts presented at the
conference.
The conference will take place in Le�ny Zak�ad
Do�wiadczalny SGGW Arboretum in Rogów.
The registration fee is 300 z�, payable to the account of the
University
of �ódź:
PKO S.A. II O/�ódź
14124030281111001004347782
(supplemented by a note: o ogrodach [about gardens])
You are kindly requested to send your application, a suggested title of the
article and its short abstract before February 2006 to the following
address:
Instytut Teorii Literatury,
Teatru i Sztuk Audiowizualnych U�
Ul. Franciszka�ska 1/5,
91 � 431 �ódź
Poland
tel. (042) 66-55-133
or to the e-mail address given below.
We cordially invite everyone interested in this topic to take part in
the event.
Prof. dr hab. Grzegorz Gazda
Kierownik Instytutu Teorii Literatury
[Director of the Institute]
Teatru i Sztuk Audiowizualnych U�
Dr Mariusz Go��b
Important information:
There is a direct airway from London to �ódź.
--
Dr hab. Jaroslaw Pluciennik
Assoc. Professor
University of Lodz
Chair of Theory of Literature
Institute of Theory of Literature,
Theatre and Audio-Visual Arts
Palac Biedermanna, Franciszkanska 1/5
91-431 Lodz, Poland
e-mail: jarrek@uni.lodz.pl
Work: +48 42 665 51 33
Fax: +48 42 665 51 32
Home: +48 42 617 13 42
Cellular: +48 503 549 223
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