The University of Luxembourg is hosting the 12th International conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies / Association Internationale pour l’Etude des Rapports entre Texte et Image. IAWIS/AIERTI seeks to foster the study of Word and Image relations in a general cultural context, and especially in the arts in the broadest sense.
“Water and Sea in Word and Image” has been selected as the conference topic. We are living in an era in which water scarcity is threatening us all and the mainland is affected even in the depths of its epicenter by what is happening on its shores, it felt important and necessary to propose this subject, both acutely topical and strongly tied to the collective imagination.
Keynote speakers are:
- Marah Hardt (James Cook University, Australia, Research Director at Future of Fish): An Intimate Act: Sex, Sustainability, and the Future of Our Planet Ocean
- Jean-Jacques Wunenburger (University Jean Moulin (Lyon III), France, Centre Gaston Bachelard de recherches sur l’imaginaire et la rationalité): Poétique de la mer, l’impensé bachelardien
- Massimo Venturi Ferriolo (Professor emeritus of the Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Italy), introduced by Paola Capone (University of Salerno): Fons vitae. L’acqua sorgente di paesaggi
- Habib Ben Salha (Manouba University, Tunisie): La Méditerranée est-elle un mythe?
- Bertrand Westphal (University of Limoges, France, Director of the Espaces Humains et Interactions Culturelles laboratory): Le liquide et l’effroi
- Olivier Francis (University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg, Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication): Freezing Days in Antarctica: Embarking on a Journey Towards the End of the World
More information and registration: https://waterandsea2021.uni.lu