Lettres électronique — N° 2 — automne 2004a teamwork focused especially on the main myths ofRomanian national identity materialised in fictionwriting.Workshop 8. Socio-political and Ideological RepresentationsParalleling the evolution of the media, politics havebecome an art of convin-cing and manipulatingthrough images. The political, economic and evenmilitary powers tend to comply with the power ofinformation. The election campaigns have become« super shows » featuring Misses and Misterssponsored and directed by image-makers. Theresearch of this workshop will focus on thestereotypes of political imagination provided by theideology, the mass media and the widespreadliterature in Romania. First and foremost, the relationbetween history and ideology will be considered, asthe ups and downs of the former explain the dynamicsof collective psychological response. While Freudinterpreted hostility in the everyday life of individualsand groups as an Oedipean complex expressed bymental shifts, Erich Fromm distinguished between‘positive aggression’, conceived as a natural drivefunctioning in childhood, adult life and sexualrelations, and the ‘negative’ aspect of it, in whichhostility is related to depressive and psychopathicpersonalities. In both cases, enmity is associated withpsychogenic illness, except for the psychohistoricalperspective, in which the inner or the outer enemyfunctions as a ‘poison container’, helping the group tocleanse itself from real and imaginary pollution. Assuch, the project would be methodologically indebtedto depth psychology, to psychohistory, taken as basesfor an interdisciplinary research including also thefields of imagination studies, political science, and thegeneral historical framework of Cultural Studies.Workshop 9. Religious RepresentationsLong before the positivistic and atheisticconception of the world became dominant, differenthuman civilisations and cultures had apprehended theworld through various religious visions. Still today,many people who pretend to be unbelievers continueto use magical and religious categories of thinking andrepresentation of the world. Analysts have proved thateven contemporary scientism is a diverted and disguisedform of religious behaviour. More over, postmodernrelativism has taught us the modesty of notjudging and rejecting the religious visions of differentpeople of the globe as archaic, obsolete, primitive,etc. Contemporary anthropologists tend to regardreligions as self-sufficient and autonomous cognitivesystems which engender a complete and functionalcomprehension of the world, adapted to the conditionsof life of the communities that share them. They arealternative models of explaining the universe, whichconstitute a reservoir of suggestions and solutionsthat are very useful especially in periods of epistemologicalcrisis. The analysis of religious beliefs is notonly necessary for conserving the cultural diversity ofthe different people entering the European Community(and Romania has a rich heritage to offer to Europe),but it also constitutes a kind of anthropologicalpractice for people who want to remain open tomultiple points of view. The contemporary era ofglobalisation challenges people with multiple perspectivesof the world. Anthropology, ethnology and thehistory of religions could be used as instruments fortraining contemporary people as “multiple subjects”.Workshop 10. Visual Arts RepresentationsAs for the literary representations, the evolution ofEuropean art, from Antiquity and the Middle Ages toModernity and Postmodernity has benefited fromextensive and sound research. Nevertheless, Europeanscholarship has not yet been able to reconstructthe complex system of influences and transmissionsthat permeate and irrigate the whole Europeancultural space. A trans-disciplinary workteam, andlater a multinational team should be capable ofdrawing up the global picture of the relationshipsbetween the various national art movements. Usingpowerful conceptual tools as those of semantic basin,streaming, partition, confluences, etc. created byGilbert Durand and by other analysts of the imaginary,the paradigms of the European visual arts can beuncovered in their mutual historical evolution.This study of collective representations and misconceptionsis of special importance in candidatecountries like Romania, which have emerged from atotalitarian political and social system and do not haveas yet an established tradition concerning atheoretical consideration and the public instruments ofdemocracy. Moreover, this study is of special interestin the Balkans, a strategic zone of Europe, particularlyvulnerable to nationalistic manipulations because ofits extremely composite ethnical texture. In order tokeep under control and, eventually, to renderinnocuous the hazards of majority/minority andnational outbursts and clashes, social and humanisticsciences should provide politicians and publicorganisations with analyses of the constellations ofimages that inform public mentalities, as well as withsurveys of the mechanisms and directions of theirevolution.Courriel : CorinBraga@yahoo.comSite : www.lett.ubbcluj.ro/~phantasma12 Association Recherche sur l’Image — DIJON
Lettres électronique — N° 2 — automne 2004CRAIOVA – ROUMANIE – Centre deRecherches sur l’Imaginaire et laRationalité Mircea EliadeDir. Ionel BUSE et Ion CEAPRAZ Conférences :‣ VLADUTESCU Gheorghe, L’Imaginaire de Platon,Centre Mircea Eliade, le 10 novembre 2004‣ BUSE Ionel, Mythes politiques de l’Europe, CentreMircea Eliade, le 15 mars 2005.‣ WUNENBURGER Jean-Jacques, Imaginaire etrationalité II, Centre Mircea Eliade, le 15 juin 2005 Séminaires :‣ Kant et la philosophie des images, Centre MirceaEliade, le 20 novembre 2004.‣ Mircea Eliade et la postérité critique, Centre MirceaEliade, le 27 février 2004.‣ Les philosophes roumains et l’imaginaire, CentreMircea Eliade, le 12 mai, 2005 A paraître :* BUSE Ionel, Figures de l’imaginaire dans la créationlittéraire de Mircea Eliade, Dacia, Cluj, 2004* Symbolon N° 3 « Actualité de la philosophie deBachelard » s. dir. Ionel Buse, Ed. Universitaria, 2005,Craiova* Carrefour des littératures s. dir. Dana-Marina DumitriuEd. Universitaria, 2005.DIJON – FRANCE – Université deBourgogne – Centre GastonBachelard de recherches surl’imaginaire et la rationalitéDir. Maryvonne PERROT Colloque international Puissances de l’image,Jeudi 28 Avril 200510 h accueil et ouverture du colloqueDEGUY M., Collège Int nal de Philosophie, Puissancesdu poète, pouvoirs des motsSLATMAN J., Univ. Maastricht, Pays-Bas, Parlerjuste : sur l’expression et l’imaginaireDE COOREBYTER V., Univ. Bruxelles, Belgique, Lesmots et les images chez SartreLLOYD R.E., Cambridge Univ., Angleterre, Les Grecset les pouvoirs du poétiquePERROT M., Univ. Bourgogne, Bachelard et la déformationdes imagesGOUX-GACKOWSKI M., Houston Art Museum, Etats-Unis, Kandinsky ou la spiritualité en peintureDIDI-HUBERMAN G., EPHESS, Paris, Images malgrétoutVendredi 29 avril 2005COM<strong>ET</strong>TI J.-P., Univ. d’Aix-Marseille-I, La "fin de l’art"et la survivance des imagesCARBONE M., Univ. Milan, Italie, La puissance dessimulacresLICHTENSTEIN J., Univ. Paris-IV-Sorbonne, La politiquedes images au « Grand Siècle »NESCHKE A., Univ. Lausanne, Suisse, Pouvoir politiqueet jeu des imagesWUNENBURGER J.-J., Univ. Lyon-III, titre à préciserGOSVIG-OLESEN S., Univ. Copenhague, Danemark,Socio-économies de l’imageSEVE B., Lycée Louis-le-Grand et IRCAM, Paris, Musiquesactuelles et (dé)construction des imagesGERMAIN-DAVID P., Productrice à France-Musiques,Y a-t-il des images musicales ?CERISUELO M., Univ. Paris-Jussieu, Sur Le Méprisde J.-L. Godard : puissance de la ‘méta-image’TIBERGHIEN G., Paris-I-Sorbonne, Land-Art et topographiesimaginairesRICHIR M., FNRS, Bruxelles, Belgique, L’imaginationcomme puissance instituante chez HusserlGUENANCIA P., Univ. Bourgogne, Education de laraison et puissance de l’image chez DescartesGOUX J.-J., Rice Univ., Houston, Etats-Unis, De la frivolitéde l’image au narcissisme philosophiqueSamedi 30 avril 2005RODRIGO P., Univ. Bourgogne, Sémantiques del’image : idoles, icônes et simulacresCOULOUBARITSIS L., Univ. libre Bruxelles, Belgique,L’image à l’âge de sa politisationPOIRIER J., Univ. Bourgogne, Imaginaires littéraireset théorisations philosophiquesBRANCACCI A., Univ. Roma-La Sapienza, Italie, Philostrateet nous : le « Traité des Images »DECULTOT E., CNRS, Paris, titre à préciserDASTUR Fr., Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Hölderlin etl’imaginaire de l’origine grecqueMONTEBELLO P., Univ. Toulouse-2, Immanence etimage de la pensée chez DeleuzeDIXSAUT M., Univ. Paris-I-Sorbonne, Pour une réhabilitationdu platonismeDENIAU G., Univ. Nantes, H.-G. Gadamer. Herméneutiqueet imagination originaireTHOUARD D., Univ. de Lille-3, titre à préciserLORIES D., Univ. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, Le Criticismeet l’Einbildungskraft. Amorce d’une relectureRODI F., Univ. Bochum, Allemagne, Imaginaires del’Idéalisme allemand du XVIII e siècleSYLVESTRE J.-P., Univ. Bourgogne, Approche sociologiquedes structurations imaginaires de la nationGENS J.-Cl., Univ. Bourgogne, Conclusion colloque etanimation de la Table Ronde finale Colloque international L’écriture de scénario hieret aujourd’hui, 31 mars et 1 er avril 2005Association Recherche sur l’Image — DIJON 13