The Dept. of English and American Studies has launched a new academic journal in 2009. The name of the journal speaks in multiple ways. Its Latin opens up in an interpretation full of oxymorons. On the one hand, as a dead language, which no one in the world speaks anymore, on the other hand as the language that still surfaces in a number of disciplines and is traditionally associated with scholarship and science.
The word ars delineates the scope of the journal. It is our aim to discuss the questions of art, the way it forms and deforms our experience, our perception of the world, our position in the world. Art here is understood in a broader and more traditional sense as a skill, stratagem, craft or science and therefore allows for the fusion of discussions from various scholarly disciplines.
The journal is open to contributions of scholars across various disciplines; we would like to establish a platform where the linguists could interact with historians, literary scholars with art historians, philosophers with mathematicians.There would not be art without creativity and that is also the quality we assume that each individual paper will strive for -- to become intellectually stimulating and illuminating.
The word aeterna has been always linked to Art. The works of art not only transgress any time – subjective, seasonal, or mechanical. They have the ability to dislocate their viewers and percipients from a time flow and in that touch the eternity.
Therefore discussions, analyses, and interpretations of works of art and other cultural products generate a discourse where the world is dealt with as an eternal idea, which comes to existence in myriad forms through the culture, people, and politics or education.
Across cultures / across centuries - acknowledging the difference
Vol. 1, No. 2 / 2009
Art in Memory, Memory in Art
