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*FROM*: Freie Universitat Berlin and Museum of Asian Art, Berlin State
Museums
*TOPIC*: Moving signs and shifting discourses: Text and image relations
in East Asian art
International Conference
June 26-28, 2013,
Funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation
The International Conference "Moving signs and shifting discourses: Text
and image relations in East Asian art" addresses acts of visual and
textual communication embedded in and transmitted by artifacts in East
Asia. Text and image relations are understood in this context as the
relation of visual and textual signs and semiotic systems within a
single artwork as well as the negotiation of meaning in the dialogue
between artworks and their audience. Centering on the inherent
relationship between text and image among art theories and practices in
East Asia, the conference aims at a wide array of regionally and
historically interwoven topics ranging from characteristics of
narratology and figuration in artifacts over aspects of iconicity and
literaricity to intermedia relations between literature and art.
The conference theme is broad and inclusive, welcoming different
methodological approaches to various genres and forms of East Asian
artworks with regard to text and image relations. Investigating the
notions and meanings of text and image, the conference seeks to trace
shifts in the art historical discourse and to reflect the current state
of the field, thereby reacting to the transcultural and
interdisciplinary orientation to be currently observed among academia
and the humanities worldwide. The conference further aims to provide a
platform for promoting the exchange and expansion of expert scholarly
knowledge among individual specialists of related fields of East Asian
art and art history; to strengthen existent institutional ties and
partnerships, and enable the building of new networks on a multinational
educational level.
The initiation of East Asian Art History as an independent discipline at
Freie Universitat Berlin was made possible by supporting funds of the
Gerda Henkel Foundation in 1999. The conference is to take place on the
occasion of the tenth anniversary of the succeeding establishment of the
Professorship of East Asian Art History at the Institute of Art History
in 2003.
Admission to the conference is free. Registration is required by June
20, 2013, under: [log in to unmask]
*LINK:* http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/khi/abteilung_ostasien/
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CONTACT:* Shao-lan Hertel [log in to unmask]
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Dr Sarah Dauncey
Lecturer in Chinese Studies
Careers, Alumni and Marketing
School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield (Times Higher Education University of the Year)
http://www.shef.ac.uk/seas/
Honorary Secretary, British Association for Chinese Studies
Commissioning Editor of JBACS
http://www.bacsuk.org.uk/
6-8 Shearwood Road
Sheffield, S10 2TD
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)114 22 28436
Fax: +44 (0)114 22 28432
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