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Source: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/Wiss/FB/09/KunstgeS/wordimage.html ___________________________________________________ Universität Hamburg - Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar Orientations - Word & Image Studies The Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar of the University of Hamburg will host the 6th conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies in Hamburg 21-27 July 2002. The general theme is Orientations: Word and Image Studies. IAWIS was founded in 1987 in Amsterdam by a group of scholars interested in the comparative study of text and images and their interaction. The association, bilingual English and French, is today corncerned with cultural developments as studied across a broad range of disciplines. The association`s triennial publications are internationally acknowledged and are established as sites for theoretical debate and innovative research in a wide variety of fields. The association has a biannual bulletin, Interactions, and maintains close links with the journal Word & Image. Previous venues of the association`s triennial conferences, which alternate between both sides of the Atlantic, were Amsterdam, Zurich, Ottawa, Dublin and Claremont/Los Angeles.The conferences last one week and include contributions in English or French from up to 150 scholars and welcome up to 200 participants, coming from over twenty different countries in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australsia. The aim of the Hamburg conference will be in particular to draw colleagues from Eastern Europe into interdisciplinary discussions, involving scholars not only of literature, the history of art, media studies and semiotics, but also historians, scientists and scholars of cultural studies in a broad sense. The Hamburg conference will offer a new forum for Word & Image in the Sciences providing the possibility of discussion and exchange between scientists and historians of science concerned with the media aspect of their work, and the association`s more traditional core of literary, art historical and media specialists. Given the fundamentally different languages spoken in sciences and the humanities, a dialogue of this kind is not easy to initiate, so positive suggestions and initiatives in this area will be particularly welcome. Other areas which will receive particular emphasis at the Hamburg conference include: Cartography (as science and metaphor); Classification and Labelling; Film; Print and Electronic Media; Contemporary Art and Performance Art. The Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar at the University of Hamburg is particularly well suited to hosting this interdisciplinary congress as most of its members are themselves engaged in word & image studies and are committed to participating in the 2002 event. Funding sources such as the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Getty Trust and the EU Department for Development will be approached; there will be substantial stipends in particular towards facilitating the participation of East European scholars. IAWIS invites all scholars committed to exploring the interdisciplinary currents of word and image relations to share their findings at the Association's Sixth International Conference to be held in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg in July 2002. Conference Organiser: PD Dr. Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg, Germany, e-mail: [log in to unmask] For Information on IAWIS www.let.uu.nl/scholar_assocs/iawis/main.html