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Conference Announcement
Images of the North
17-19 February 2006
Reykjavik, Iceland
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 20 October 2005
For further information, please go to:
http://www.akademia.is/imagesofthenorth/NORTHWORKSHOP/INDEX.htm
The Reykjavik Academy in collaboration with the Reykjavik Winter
Festival has organized an international conference on "Images of the
North" in Reykjavik, Iceland, 17-19 February 2006.
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore the
various issues surrounding image construction, identity making and
representations of the North, as well as the interconnectedness between
those issues. The aim is to elucidate the multiple aspects of the idea
of the North, both as a mythological space and a discursive system
created and shaped by cultures outside the North as well as from within.
The North, whether an imaginary place or geographical locus, constitutes
a fascinating multiple mosaic shaped by myth, image, text, and
experience. In contemporary discourse the complex and often
contradictory images of the North co-exist at the same time, and as
their representations they have been in constant construction, shifting
and re-shaping through time and space.
Submissions must have a focus on the images, identities, and/or
representations of the North, either in local, regional, or global
perspective. Topics can relate either to a specific geographical
location or to a more abstract idea of the North.
Papers are invited on issues related to the following themes:
- Images of single countries or specific regions in the North
- Tourism and the media
- Cultural heritage and institutions
- Nature and environmental issues
- The gendered North
- Urban culture and everyday life
- Multiculturalism and globalization
- Visual arts and literature
- Subsistence, food, and culture
Please send in an abstract in English (max 500 words) by 20 October 2005
to olof_gerdur [at] yahoo.it. The abstracts will be reviewed by a reviewing
committee and presenters will be informed about acceptance on or before
20 November 2005. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full
draft paper should be submitted by 17 January 2006. All papers presented
at the conference will appear on the conference homepage.