University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Project "Imagological research of the Croatian literature"
University of Zadar, Department for Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
International conference
History as a Foreign Country: Historical Imagery in the South-Eastern Europe
Zadar, 22 – 24 March 2012
Encouraged by the results of the conference „Imagology Today: Achievements, Challenges, Perspectives“ held on 2 – 4 September 2009 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, during which leading imagologists highlighted respectable theoretical potentials and research possibilities of imagology in contemporary social sciences and humanities, we wish to explore, from the imagological viewpoint, the representational/inscenational aspects of history as the temporal otherness in cultures of south-eastern Europe. The organisers propose that the papers and discussions focus on the following topics:
1. Uses, functions and meanings of historic imagery: construction of identity and alterity; mnemonic structures and practices; (un)imaginability of trauma;
2. Configurations of historic imagery: historic myths, symbols, processes of (de)heroisation, lieux de mémoire;
3. Media and genres of representation/inscenation of historic imagery
The conference venue is at the main building of the University of Zadar. Participation at the conference is possible only by direct invitation. Accommodation expenses will be covered by the organisers, and the participants will be kindly asked to pay for their transportation costs. More detailed information about conference financing and accommodation will be available in due course.
Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for discussion after each paper. The conference languages are English and German.
If you wish to accept our invitation, we kindly ask you to send the title of your paper and a proposal of no more than 200 words to
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by 15 June 2011.
With kind regards,
Conference organisers
