IMAGES IV – Images of the Other: Istanbul – Vienna – Venice

A 2-3-days international and interdisciplinary conference

Call for Papers

After the conferences IMAGES (I) – Films as Spaces of Cultural Encounters (2011), IMAGES (II) – Images of the Poor (2012) and IMAGES (III) – Images of the City (2013), the IMAGES project is planning to focus on Images of the Other as documented in the images/ representations of Istanbul, Vienna and Venice in its 2014 conference.

Starting from the Middle Ages all three cities have been (culturally) mythologized as points of cultural intersection in works of literature, arts and film; be it as the spaces where East meets West, where lines blur between the conscious and the subconscious, between life and death, between the visible/ the seen and the invisible/ the unseen, or as spaces identified with the evil, as the Moloch luring – all these mythologizations being part both of the self-perception documented in the native cultural production and of the perception from the (cultural) “outside”.

Regarding this fact the IMAGES project has decided to discuss the (historically) changing representation and perception of the three cities in its 2014 conference IMAGES (IV) – Images of the Other: Istanbul – Vienna – Venice; the representations being seen as documentations of cultural approaches and also of cultural concepts. Hence, the historically grown mythologizationsof the three cities create a sheer unlimited number of potential cases of both cultural encounters and conflicts, including most of the socially relevant fields in the academic discourse on the topic, like politics, communication, culture, and migration.

In order to discuss issues like the above mentioned IMAGES (IV) – Images of the Other: Istanbul – Vienna - Venice invites scholars, but also architects, photographers, writers, artists and filmmakers to propose papers in the following fields of research and interest:

• The Making of a Myth (theoretical approaches with special reference to the three cities Istanbul, Vienna, Venice)
• The psychology of feeling Istanbulite, Viennese and Venetian
• The psychology of attraction (theoretical approaches with special reference to the three cities Istanbul, Vienna, Venice)
• Istanbul’s, Vienna’s, Venice’s cityscape as a (mythologized) statement
• The impact of the media (news, internet, daily soaps) on the perception of Istanbul, Vienna, Venice
• Images of Istanbul, Vienna, Venice in feature films (present and past)
• Images of Istanbul, Vienna, Venice in the Arts (present and past)
• Images of Istanbul, Vienna, Venice as seen by photographers (present and past)
• Images of Istanbul, Vienna, Venice in literature (present and past)

The conference IMAGES (IV) – Images of the Other: Istanbul – Vienna - Venice is planned as a 2-3 days interdisciplinary international conference.

It will bring together senior scholars with PhD students, postdoctoral academics, and members of the artistic community without following the classical keynote speaker pattern but rather inviting all speakers either to present their research findings in 20 minute (paper) presentations plus 10 minutes for discussion or in 120-150 minute panels (4-5 panelists).

There will be no parallel sessions. All sessions will be plenary sessions.

The conference language is English.

Selected articles of each session/ field of research will be published as a volume of conference proceedings. Münster, Berlin, Vienna and New York based LIT Verlag has already declared strong interest in publishing the conference proceedings. The publication will provide (limited) space for black-and-white illustrations.

Conference site and date:

Istanbul, Austrian Cultural Forum, 02-04 September 2014

Deadline for paper proposals:

20 June 2014 (24.00 MET)

Please, send paper proposals to images-1@gmx.at and cc them to veronika.bernard@uibk.ac.at and otuzun@hotmail.com and gonul.ucele@bahcesehir.edu.tr

Deadline for paper submission (for publication in conference proceedings):

1 month after conference

Planned date of publication of conference proceedings: July 2015

IMAGES project director: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck)

IMAGES (IV) – Images of the Other: Istanbul, Vienna, Venice organizing committee (in alphabetical order):

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria)

Ass. Prof. Dr. Hatice Övgü Tüzün (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul/ Turkey)

Prof. Dr. Gönül Ücele (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul/ Turkey)

Please, find the list of articles below.

Nerma Cridge (London/ UK): images of the city – where else::every where

Nicolas Marque (University of Toulouse, Toulouse/ France): Putting the town outside the town – the redefinition of urbanity

Mladen Stilinovic (architect, Brussels/ Belgium): Being there, yet not being on the map - The representation of the military in the urban imagery

Sandra C. S. Marques (CRIA-IUL, Lisbon/ Portugal): Kolkatascapes: Images of an Indian City

Nilüfer Nahya (Erciyes University, Kayseri/ Turkey)/ Fulya Anılır (Yeni Yüzyil University, Istanbul/ Turkey): The nature and the city – The Image of Nature in Istanbul

Magdalena Łukasiuk (University of Warsaw, Warsaw/ Poland):  The Image of Contemporary Warsaw in Context of Migration Processes and Local Discourse

Giovanni Comoglio (Polytechnic University of Turin, Turin/ Italy): Metamorphosis and multiplication of an imaginaire – Mutations in concepts of urban habitat, town/countryside distinction and image of city in contemporary Shanghai

Gönül Bakay (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul/ Turkey): The Industrial city in Dickens’ Hard Times and Gaskell’s Mary Barton

Burcu Alkan (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Writing Istanbul – A Diachronic Narrative

Lisa Maria Teichmann (University of Leiden, Leiden/ NL): Reflecting on Istanbul in Turkish Literature – A Comparative Approach to the Issue of Urban Change in Turkish Novels from the Republican Period and the 1930s

Hatice Övgü Tüzün (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul/ Turkey): Celebrating Multiculturalism: London in Zadie Smith’s white teeth

Souad Baghli Berbar (Tlemcen University, Tlemcen/ Algeria): From Reality to Myth – the City of Alexandria in Lawrence Durrell’s Justine (1957)

Massimiliano Gaudiosi (University Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples/ Italy): Film as a Map: Cinema, City and Transmedial Geographies

Anna Notaro (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee/ UK): The Magic Line in Matteo Pericoli’s ‘Unfurled Cities’

Daniele Campobenedetto (Paris Est University, Paris/ France and Polytechnic University of Turin, Turin/ Italy): The satirical line – The image of the city as a cultural and social paradigm through the New Yorkers’ cartoons 1968-1978

Jakub Machek (Charles University and Metropolitan University Prague, Prague/ Czech Republic): New Metropolitans and their Popular Press in Fin de siècle Prague

Nicole De Togni (Polytechnic University of Turin, Turin/ Italy): When architecture was the world – Specialized Magazines Shaping the Image of Milan in the Second Post-war Period

Peter Volgger (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria): The Sleeping Beauty -­ Imaging the City in the Context of Neo-Colonialism

To be included after (successful) revision:

Shaida Ghomashchi (artist and researcher, Tehran/ Iran)/ Farzaneh Bahrami (EPFL ENAC INTER LAC, Lausanne/ Switzerland): Horror Vacui

Going into second jury reading after revision:

Parama Ghosh Roy: CULTURAL IDENTITY AND IMAGE OF THE CITY : KOLKATA CASE STUDY

Kunal Rakshit: THE CHANGING SPATIAL IMAGE OF THE CITY: Study of slums taking Kolkata as a case

The IMAGES project directors wish all some good last days in 2013 and a good start into 2014!

Dear colleagues,

the deadline for article submission has expired.

Thank you to all who sent their articles in time to be considered by the jury.

The jury's final decision will be put online second week of january 2014.

Dear colleagues,

thank you very much for your presentations which made the conference such a success.

For all of you who signalled us their interest in publishing their papers as articles in our conference proceedings, please, keep to the below guidelines.

All of you who are not planning to submit articles, please, inform us by end of this week (8^th November 2013) latest so we can plan more precisely.

As the publication is limited to a certain number of pages due to production costs we will only be able to include a selection of articles submitted.

The decision which articles will go to the volume is with a peer jury including the editors of the volume.

Please, note: In case a submitted article is longer than the number of characters/ pages given below we will return it immediately for shortening/ cutting and will only consider it in the selection procedure after receiving a shortened version.

The deadline for article submission is: 15 December 2013, 24.00 (MET)

Please, send your articles to our e-mail address: images-1@gmx.atand cc them to veronika.bernard@uibk.ac.at, otuzun@hotmail.com and gonul.ucele@bahcesehir.edu.tr

Guidelines for paper submission

Please, note:

The following minimum/ maximum calculation is valid for articles including text only.

In case you are including illustrations the maximum length of the final layouted article (done by publishing house) must not exceed a maximum of 10 pages.

This means: The more illustrations you include the less text you can write …

For guidelines concerning illustrations, please, also see below.

Length of articles (text only):

maximum length (incl. author, title, endnotes and 100 words abstracts): 20 500 characters including blanks

mimimum length (incl. author, title, endnotes and 100 words abstracts): 16 500 characters including blanks

Length of articles (including illustrations):

maximum length (incl. author, title, endnotes, 100 words abstracts and illustrations): 9 pages

mimimum length (incl. author, title, endnotes, 100 words abstracts and illustrations): 5 pages

Format of papers:

Please, send your documents in the .doc or .docx format

Illustrations:

• Black and white only
• Only illustrations/ photos you have the copyright for, i.e. photos you have shot yourself. We cannot allow any photos which may cause expense for copyright or for violation of copyright!
• For technical reasons photos have to be sent as separate jpg files, 300 dpi (If you include them in the article, please, also send them separately).

Notes:

Please, make it endnotes

Citation:

Please, stick to the citation you are used to