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TWENTIETH CENTURY EUROPEAN NARRATIVES:
TRADITION & INNOVATION
Sixth Conference of the
International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI)
Haifa, Israel, 16. - 21. August 1998
Prof. Dr. Ezra Talmor
Conference Chair
Haifa University, Mount Carmel
Haifa, Israel 31905
Tel: +972-3-938. 6445 / Fax: +972-3-902.4402
email: talmore @ post.tau.ac.il
Dr. Martin Potschka
Workshop Chair
Porzellangasse 19-2-9
Vienna, Austria A-1090
Tel. + Fax.: +43-1-317.5713
email: A8421DAG @ helios.edvz.UniVie.ac.at
CALL FOR PAPERS
workshop: Self-image and popular narrative on science
Subject of this workshop are the function, means, context, possibilities
and limitations of expert knowledge and its popularization; their respective
textual structures; and the self-perception and identity of the scientist
contrasted by the image of science as rendered in artistic accounts,
the mass media and socio-anthropological studies - today and in historic
precedent.
These issues shall be surveyed and scrutinized with a plurality of methods
and from all conceivable disciplinary angles resulting in a novel
interdisciplinary discourse at the discussions of the workshop. Experts of all
fields are invited to consider potential relevance of their specialty and what
it may contribute to the scope of the workshop. Hence our transactions include
but shall not be limited to:
-representations of the subject matter in popular press, literary fiction,
motion pictures and the fine arts,
-popularization as a translation problem and as autonomous discourse,
-specific aspects of mass media culture,
-continued adult education,
-the language game of science fiction,
-the sociology of the scientific enterprise,
-gender aspects,
-tracing the topic throughout history,
-intercultural differences in management of knowledge,
-authentic testimonies by practicing scientists, in particular by those of
prototype "hard" natural sciences.
Hence this invitation extends to: comparative literature, linguistics,
semiotics, philology, history, philosophy, sociology, psychoanalysis
(as generic term), cultural criticism, to educators, journalists and to
scientists themselves.
Please submit a brief abstract to the workshop chair (Dr. Martin Potschka) now,
but no later than January 1998. Your contribution will be reviewed and you will
be notified of acceptance. Extended abstracts will be published as part of the
ISSEI conference proceedings, selected full length papers that develop from
this workshop project will tentatively be published as a special volume of the
journal boundary 2.
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