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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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