The University of Sydney and Art Gallery of New South Wales
October 28, 2011 – October 29, 2011
In the last twenty years the relationship between the visual and the verbal has become a key issue in the humanities in general and, in particular, in the creation of new inter-, multi- or transdisciplinary areas of study. Reaction to the growing presence of images in contemporary culture has, thus, led to a flourishing of publications, conferences and academic courses on the varied interactions between text and image. Yet, a comparative investigation on the way the East and West perceive the interrelation between the visual and the textual still needs particular attention.
The purpose of the symposium is to bring together scholars and researchers from different backgrounds (historical, literary, theoretical or philosophical) in order to discuss and compare the mutual interdependence of words and images, the mixed mediality of the visual and the verbal, and the way they have been interlacing in different geographical and cultural areas, from Europe and the US to the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region, throughout the years.
Discussions will therefore focus on the different modalities one medium has been included in the other in the Western and Eastern cultures, as well as the way the interaction of word and image has contributed to challenge the East/West binary.
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The conference is organized by Giorgia Alù and Francesco Borghesi (Department of Italian Studies, The University of Sydney). It has been generously supported by the China Studies Centre (The University of Sydney), as well as by the School of Languages and Cultures, the Power Institute, the School of Letters, Art, and Media (The University of Sydney), the China Research Centre (University of Technology, Sydney) and the International Association of Word and Image Studies Association.
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| Download a document containing abstracts of each of the presentations, and profiles of the symposium speakers: Abstracts and Speakers document |
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