CfP: 14th Conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media
- Ort: Turin, Italien
- Beginn: 21.07.14
- Ende: 25.07.14
- Disziplinen: Literaturwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Französisch, Italienisch, Portugiesisch, Spanisch, Sprachenübergreifend
- Frist: 31.01.14
The International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media (founded in 1987) is aimed at the advancement of empirical literary research through international and interdisciplinary cooperation. The principal duties of the Society are to support scientific projects through information and cooperation, to further personal contact in all areas of research supported by the Society, to support students and junior researchers in the field of empirical literary research, to press for the application of empirical results, and to organize international conferences.
Call for papers
You are invited to send proposals for conference papers and symposia in the following and related fields:
- Literary reading processes (emotion, cognition, personality, etc.);
- The social role of literature and related media (e.g. film, theatre, Internet, multimedia, virtual reality);
- Educational implications of empirical studies of literature and the media;
- Literature and media from an evolutionary perspective;
- Early literary and media socialization;
- Pedagogical and educational aspects of literature and the media;
- The processes of literary and media production, distribution and reception;
- The role of literary and other cultural institutions: past, present and future;
- The empirical study of historical reception and historical readers;
- Digital methods of research on literature and the media (text analysis, corpus studies, hypertext models, etc.).
Paper presentations will last 20 minutes, followed by discussion. Symposia consist of a group of papers in one session or in the number of sessions required. Proposals should be submitted by January 31st 2014. A decision on acceptance will be provided by March 10th 2014.
The journals CLCWeb and Versus will devote special issues to our conference. The Journal of Literary Theory is preparing a special issue (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2015) on empirical methods in literary studies.
Keynote speakers
- Jerôme Bourdon, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Art Greasser, Univ. of Memphis, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
- Arthur Jacobs, Free University, Berlin, Germany
- Elly Konijn, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Winfried Menninghaus, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Scientific Organizing Committee
- John Douthwaite, Univ. di Genova
- Monika Fludernik, Univ. di Friburgo
- Maria Chiara Levorato, Univ. di Padova
- Rosamaria Loretelli, Univ. di Napoli
- Carla Marello, Univ. di Torino
- Aldo Nemesio, Univ. di Torino (Vice President of IGEL, conference organizer)
- Peppino Ortoleva, Univ. di Torino
- Mario Ricciardi, Politecnico di Torino
- Cristina Spadaro, Univ. di Torino
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