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Reading Images – Imaging Reading
March 13, 2014 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Symposium in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Populäre Kulturen
Seminarraum der Villa Schönberg, Gablerstrasse 14, 8002 Zürich (GAP).
Anmeldungen bitte bis 12. März per Email an Natasha Fischer-Vaiya: natasha.vaidya@uzh.ch
Thema:
In the last years we have seen a fundamental shift in the idea of reading. Due to the Internet and modern technologies we read less books, letters and newspapers and more screen images, text messages, and emails.
The organizers of this symposium believe that it is vital, at this fundamental shift in reading and learning habits, to gather a historical and theoretical understanding of how we have been reading images and how we have been imaging reading over the last centuries. This international symposium is focused on the study and scholarly discussion of the act of reading, as it is depicted in visual media – in books, paintings, manuscripts and other formats. It is the belief of the organizers that the history of reading is incomplete without references to its visual aspects. The focus of the talks will be on phenomena from the 18th to the 21st centuries in both Japan and in Europe, as well as the intercultural connections we see between two worlds.
One important theme of the symposium is to examine the different mechanisms and agendas utilized in both cultural spheres and the exploration of differences and similarities. Through this study, we hope to come to a better understanding of the phenomena of imaging reading and the act of reading itself.
The symposium will comprise three experts from Europe and two experts from Japan, in addition to the two organizers, Professor Alfred Messerli and Professor Hans Bjarne Thomsen, both from the University of Zurich.
Programm:
09:00-09:30: Prof. Dr. Alfred Messerli (University of Zurich)
Grundlagen, Methoden und Ansätze einer Auswertung von Bildquellen für eine Geschichte der Kulturtechnik Lesen
09:30-10:00: Prof. Dr. Hans B. Thomsen (University of Zurich)
Reading the Nation: Ninomiya Sontoku and Japanese Imperial Education
10:00-10:30: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Fritz Nies (Professor Emeritus, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Typisch amerikanisch? Leserbilder aus den USA
10:30-11:00: Prof. Yasuhiro Sato (University of Tokyo)
Examples of Images Reading Books in Japanese Art
11:30-12:00: Prof. Dr. Christine Ott (Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.)
Die Metapher der Bibliographie und ihre erkenntnistheoretisch-metaliterarischen Funktionen in der Moderne (mit einem vergleichenden Blick aufs Mittelalter)
12:00-12:30: Prof. Dr. Ursula Renner-Henke (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Lese-transparencies
12:30-13:00: Prof. Yukata Yabuta (Kansai University)
The Japanese Reading Image as Seen through 19th Century Educational Texts
15:00 – (open end) Round-table discussion
(Die Vorträge finden in deutscher, englischer, und japanischer Sprache statt.)