by Jon Lackman | 11 December 2007 | Conferences
Coming this April: “Framing the Other: 30 Years after Orientalism,” a one-day conference at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London:
This one-day conference will focus on the impact of Said’s legacy to analyse visual culture as a crucial component of Orientalism’s (and more generally imperialism’s) political self-justification, in the discursive construction of the Orient. Not only exploring the framework through which ‘otherness’ is constructed and re-presented, we wish to examine how, by ‘clothing in art’ the prejudices of colonial and post-colonial discourses, the fundamental motives of imperialism can be masked.
We welcome papers stemming from the nineteenth century, when imperialism was produced by the development of racial thinking and the rise of European nationalism, to the present period. Addressing the vision of a ‘plural’ West, we invite speakers to take up the issues raised by both obvious and surprising ‘Others’, from the indolent and submissive odalisque to the fierce and dehumanised suicide bomber.
This week the Université du Québec à Montréal will host a colloquium on “Fictions et images du 11 septembre.” Papers include “L’image du ‘falling man’ et l’iconologie de la chute” and “La mort le 11 septembre 2001 : distance et représentation dans la bande dessinée.”
