The Humanities Department of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania is happy to announce that it is organizing the fourth international conference on imagology to be held in Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania on 19-20 April 2013. Co-organizers are the Romanian Comparative Literature Association and the Doctoral School of History and Ethnography of the University of Debrecen. The conference will host presentations delivered in Hungarian, Romanian and English (also in the virtual panel). The main focus will be on the historical and temporal aspects of the images of ethnic, national, religious and cultural otherness. Topics will be related (but not restricted) to: imagology and interculturality, imagology and crisis awareness, the transformation of national myths, self-myths and distorted images of nations, stereotypes in ironical reading, the East’s image of the West and vice versa, the alterations of images of nations in works in the domain of history, in the media, the formation of images of nations in film, imagology – bilingualism – linguistic landscape.
Topics proposed for the lectures:
– The indispensability of stereotypes and prejudices in the Gadamerian sense and the risks of their unreflected use.
The lectures will be published in Hungarian and Romanian conference volumes at accredited publishing houses and in English in the 2013 issues of the internationally listed Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica.
Please express your intention to participate by filling in the registration form until 25 February 2013. We will inform you on acceptance and information for authors no later than 18 March 2013.
Registration fee is 25 Eur / 100 Ron, to be paid upon arrival in Ron (or, for participants of the virtual panel, together with your study until 19 April 2013, in Eur or Ron).
Conference Chair:
Dr. Zsuzsa Tapodi, Director of Institute, associate professor: tapodizsuyahoo.com
We will be honoured to host your lecture at our conference. Please forward the call for papers to other researchers interested.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Miercurea-Ciuc!
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SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA
The Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania is the independent university of the Hungarian community in Romania, which aims at providing education to the members of our community and performing scientific research on a high professional level.
Sapientia University, Faculty of Economics and Socio-Human Sciences and Engineering
Miercurea Ciuc, judeţul Harghita, Piaţa Libertăţii nr. 1., 530104
Tel.: +40-266-314-657, Fax: +40-266-372-099
E-mail: miercureaciuc
uni.sapientia.ro
