Imagology is one of the earliest fields of comparative literature, introduced from the beginning with the perspectives of François Villemain (1790-1870) in French theory. The central issue of imagology is the understanding of "self" or "us" from the perspective of "the other." In this context, whenever a writer in the literature of one nation speaks about another nation or land, they enter the realm of comparative literature. Therefore, these realms and their associated characteristics in imagology have significant potential: political characteristics (such as the governing system of a society and the relationships of those in power), socio-cultural characteristics (such as anthropology, including beliefs, customs, etc.), artistic characteristics (such as literature, music, painting), religious characteristics (such as divine and metaphysical beliefs), economic characteristics (such as financial relationships among individuals in a society, the monetary system of a country, the livelihood status of that people, etc.), and geographical characteristics (such as climate, vegetation, and animals).

In this seminar, articles can be presented in the following fields:

• The essence of imagology and its new research fields.

• Methodology of imagology.

• Imagology and interdisciplinary research.

• The relationship between imagology and women's studies/colonialism and post-colonialism.

• Examining a foreign ethnic group in the literature of another nation.

• Self-knowledge through the descriptions of others in one's literature.

• Stereotypes and factors influencing one nation's perception of another.


Selected articles will be published by the Iranian Society for the Promotion of Persian Language and Literature Press.