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CALL FOR PAPERS

11th International Symposium of the Austrian Association for Semiotics OeGS/AAS

"EUROPE - IMAGE & CONCEPT IN CULTURAL CHANGE"

FROM A SEMIOTIC AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY POINT OF VIEW

Under the Auspices of the International Association for Semiotic Studies IASS-AIS

VIENNA, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2 A-1010 Wien/Vienna, Austria/Österreich

Friday-Sunday, DECEMBER 3-5, 2004
Organized by the Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies ISSS, Vienna, on behalf of the Austrian Association for Semiotics ÖGS/AAS and in Cooperation with the Institute for Political Science, University of Vienna, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Dept. History of Culture, and INST (Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies)

 Organisation: Jeff Bernard
mit/with Gloria Withalm, Sonja Kral, Andreas Pribersky, Karin Liebhart, Leila Hadj-Abdou

Congress Languages: English, German

Plenary Lectures: 40' plus 20' discussion

Section Lectures: 25' plus 15' discussion


TARGETS

According to a decision of the Board of the ÖGS/AAS, its 11th International Symposium is to take place as a complement to the research project "Public Construction of Europe (PCE)" (in the research focus New Orientations in Democracy in Europe NODE of the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture), carried out by the Institute for Political Science, University of Vienna, under the direction of Andreas Pribersky, and in cooperation with the ISSS. Due to the connection between ISSS and ÖGS/AAS it seemed recommended to dedicate the ÖGS/AAS symposium this time to a topic closely related to PCE, to warrant and intensify PCE's culture-theoretical and culture-analytical embedding. Semiotics considers and examines cultural phenomena, structures and processes on the basis of the analytical hierarchy "signs-texts-cultures." The approach of the ISSS is moreover not a formalistic one but focuses particularly on the sociality and historicity of sign systems and sign processes (communications, discourses...) and stresses the social relevance of semiotic research, what means: also its polit/olog/ical aspects.

Therefore, the symposium follows, on the one hand, the presuppositions given by the PCE project, which are: to reconstruct references to underlying cultural patterns, made in political advertising and campaigns on European integration and enlargement, that select a framework for political discourse and influence the political views and perspectives of the civic societies involved; to reconstruct how political campaigns and advertisements concerning the promotion of Europeanization and EU enlargement have been perceived by the citizens, and to critically describe current conceptualizations of the citizens and the civic society in these political campaigns; to advance and disseminate knowledge about, and to initiate a reflexive public discussion on these topics. On the other hand, it is the particular task of this symposium to explore the cultural deep-dimensions of the problems under examination, and to provide a culture-theoretically founded as well as well-exemplified embedding in societal coherences at large. The results will be published.

The SCHEDULE will be specified as soon as all abstracts are delivered. We plan to start on Dec. 3, 13.00, and to finish on Dec. 5, late afternoon, with open end. Beside a certain number of plenary speeches, several parallel sections will be built by selection out of the suggestions given below, added here as motivation. The first provisional program will be distributed at the end of October. At the beginning of the event a printed program and an abstract booklet will be available.

Title and Abstracts

Please send a TITLE & ABSTRACT of maximally 1000 strokes (including interspaces) as soon as possible but NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 15, 2004, and direct it to

<ISSS-Info@MCNon.com>

Please add your affiliation and/or residence and your preferred e-address. You will get an answer concerning acceptance within a very few days.

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