Call for Papers
Language, Literature and the Imaginaire
Annual Conference of
An Scoil Teanga agus Litríochta / School of Language and Literature
National University of Ireland, Cork, 2-4 May 2003
The Imaginaire may be defined as a pre-discursive level of experience which underpins culture; a set of images. The aim of this conference is to study diverse forms of the manifestation of images in literary, artistic, visual and cognitive representations. These would include the transmission of cultural and aesthetic models; memes and memetics; the imaginaire of communication; cognitive anthropology and archaeology; cognitive linguistics; image as memory; myth, symbol and culture; metaphor, emotion and implicature; the semiotics of human universals; theories of acquisition, artifact and civilisation.
We aim to discuss aspects of the topic Language, Literature and the Imaginaire in relation to all forms of cultural practice at this interdisciplinary and international conference to be held in University College, Cork, Ireland on 2-4 May 2003. Proposals are welcome from scholars and critics working in all periods. Papers should be no longer than 30 minutes. Please submit abstracts of approximately 250 words by Friday 14th February 2003, to:
Dr Angela Ryan Agrégée de l'Université
Department of French
University College Cork, Ireland
telephone: +353 21 490 2579 facsimile: +353 21 490 3284 email: ar@ucc.ie