Patron: President of Austria, Dr. Heinz Fischer

KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and
Transformations of Societies

Vienna, 6 to 9 December 2007

S E C T I O N S

The travel: knowledge, communication and/or power

Section Chair/ Abstracts, suggestions to:

Le voyage: connaissance, communication et/or pouvoir

Responsable de la section/S'inscrire pour une communication auprès de:

Carmen Andras („Gheorghe Sinca Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mure_, Romania)

Email: carmen_andras@yahoo.com

 
ReferentInnen / Speakers / Orateurs   >>

ABSTRACT:

 

Travel studies play an important place among academic fields of research, owing to its trans-disciplinary character. Our section approaches the subject of travel from the perspectives of literature, history, geography, imagology, cartography, anthropology, sociology, political sciences etc. World history is in a great measure both a history of travels, mobilities, migrations, including their integration in new topographies (journeys, exodus, nomadism, pilgrimage, emigration, exploration, dislocations of the labour force etc.), and the reading or writing of these experiences (travel literature and cartography, documents, maps, illustrations, etc.). The section will focus upon the relationship between knowledge and power in the discursive construction of the Other and the effects of the “imperialism of the imagination” (Vesna Goldsworthy) or the imaginative “creation of the Other”, upon the transformation or marginalization of the observed societies and international relations at times of war or peace. Themes of discussion: histories of travel and travel of histories, travel/power/war/peace, spaces of intercultural and international communication/conflicts of interests, maps of travel and travel of maps, travel - knowledge - power, discourses of identities and/or difference, travel accounts: documents and/or literature, poetics of the exile.

 

Les études viatiques ont acquis récemment une place importante en tant que discipline académique grâce au caractère pluridisciplinaire. Notre section va aborder le sujet en question des points de vue de la littérature, l’histoire, géographie, imagologie, cartographie, anthropologie, sociologie, les sciences politiques etc. L’histoire du monde est en grande mesure l’histoire des voyages, des mobilités, migrations, y compris leur intégration dans de nouvelles topographies si bien que la lecture et l’écriture de ces expériences (littérature de voyage et cartographie, documents, cartes, illustrations etc.). La section a l’intention de se concentrer sur la relation entre connaissance et pouvoir dans la construction discursive de l’Autre et les effets de « l’impérialisme de l’imagination » (Vesna Goldsworthy) or la création imaginaire de l’Autre, sur la transformation or marginalisation des sociétés observées dans les époques de guerre ou de paix. Thèmes de discussion : histoire des voyages et voyage des histoires, voyage/pouvoir/guerre/paix, les espaces de la communication interculturelle et internationale, les conflits d’intérêts, la relation voyage - connaissance - pouvoir, discours de l’identité et de la différance, poétique de l’exile etc.


ReferentInnen / Speakers / Orateurs

  • Why come to Romania? Dystopian representations of communism in British literature
    Carmen Andras („Gheorghe Sincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mure_, Romania)
    ABSTRACT

  • A Voyage Through and With Floating Man-Made Islands
    Sonia Andras (“Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
    ABSTRACT

  • Fictional worlds, political borders: exilic identities in postcolonial and post-communist literature
    Anca Baicoianu (University of Bucharest)
    ABSTRACT

  • Psalmanazar’s Formosa: A Pseudo-Historical Narrative and Multiple Identity Games
    Elena Butoescu (University of Craiova, Romania)
    ABSTRACT

  • Enciclopedia zmeilor – The Encyclopedia of Dragons: The Allegoric Journey
    Luminita Chiorean („Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romana)
    ABSTRACT

  • The imperialism of the imagination: the case of Transylvania
    Marius Crisan (University of Turin, Italy)
    ABSTRACT

  • War Writing and Travel Writing: Americans in Vietnam
    David Espey (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
    ABSTRACT

  • Discourses of Difference in Philip Glazebrook’s Journey to Kars (1984)
    Atalay Gunduz (Ege University, Turkey )
    ABSTRACT

  • Between Errancy and Stasis: Tristram Shandy and the Discourse of Travel
    Alexandru Dragoş Ivana (University of Bucharest, Romania)
    ABSTRACT

  • Mihai Eminescu - Lucifer or The Road to the Center
    Mioara Kozak (“Unirea” College, Targu Mures, Romania)
    ABSTRACT

  • Journey into the Peninsula – Identity and Self-Awareness in the Balkan Literature
    Marius Nica (University of Ploiesti, Romania)
    ABSTRACT

  • Queen Marie of Romania and her Travels
    Mariana Ploesteanu („Gheorghe Sincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania)
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Patron: President of Austria, Dr. Heinz Fischer

KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and
Transformations of Societies

Vienna, 6 to 9 December 2007