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[ecrea] IGEL Call for Papers

Mon Nov 02 16:02:25 GMT 2009




THE EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF
LITERATURE AND MEDIA

UTRECHT UNIVERSITY ? THE NETHERLANDS
7-11 JULY 2010

ABOUT IGEL
The International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media (Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturwissenschaft und Medien, IGEL) aims at building bridges between the Humanities (e.g., literary studies, film studies) and the Social Sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, anthropology) using quantitative and qualitative research methods in the study of (response to) literary texts and media. 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, and to press for the application of empirical results. IGEL has been meeting these goals in a variety of activities. The biennial conferences of the organization are a unique forum for the exchange of ideas in the empirical approaches to literature, media and historical reception studies, as well as computer science and artificial intelligence.


CONFERENCE TOPICS
IGEL invites you to send in proposals for conference papers, symposia, and posters on the following topics, such as:
   * Literary reading processes (emotion, cognition, personality, etc.)
* The social role of literature and related media (e.g. film, theatre, Internet, multimedia, virtual reality);
   * Literature and media from an evolutionary perspective;
   * Early literary and media socialization;
   * Pedagogical and educational aspects of literature and the media;
   * Processes of literary/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;
* Computational analyses of literature and the media (corpus studies, hypertext models, etc.).

Proposals need to be based on research finished around the time of presentation. The research needs to be empirical in nature or theoretical but informed by empirical research.

Submissions
Deadlines for conference paper and poster, as well as applications for the Summer Institute (3-7 July) are set at 1 February 2010. Please submit proposals in English using the submission system that will be launched shortly at the conference website: <http://www2.hum.uu.nl/congres/igel/index.html>http://www2.hum.uu.nl/congres/igel/

Proposals should include the following information:
1. The title of the presentation
2. Names and institutional affiliations, including email addresses, of all authors
3. Contact address of the presenting author
4. Presentation Preference (?Poster?, ?Paper? or ?Either?)
6. A 75-word abstract of the presentation, for publication in the abstracts booklet. 7. A summary of the presentation with a title but no author information (max. 1000 words, including bibliographic references).

Further instructions will be posted on the website of the conference. As to proposals for symposia or sessions, please contact the local organizer Frank Hakemulder directly at <mailto:(Igelconference2010 /at/ gmail.com)>(Igelconference2010 /at/ gmail.com)


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

JOAN PESKIN - SUSANNE JANSSEN - JEFF GREENBERG


Focus and keynotes
The focus of the conference will be on social relevance of the empirical study of literature and media. For this purpose a number of renowned speakers will address the topic from different perspectives. Joan Peskin (Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto) has a special interest in the study of cognition during literary interpretation (development of metaphor processing, symbolic thinking during writing and reading poetry), as well as theory of mind and education (relationship between theory of mind and thinking about one?s reader?s mind in early writing development; advanced theory of mind in the literary arts). In other words, issues central to the purpose of the conference. Another key to our understanding of the main topic of the conference will be the keynote address by Susanne Janssen (Sociology of Media and Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam). She will address issues related to evaluation processes and the study of digitization of culture. Jeff Greenberg (Department of Psychology, University of Arizona) coined the concept of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_Management_Theory>Terror Management Theory with two of his colleagues (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Pyszczynski>Tom Pyszczynski and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Solomon>Sheldon Solomon), leading to robust evidence for the effects awareness of our own mortality has on our psyche and behavior. From this perspective Greenberg has been asked to reflect on the functions of literature and culture in general. Wiljan van den Akker (Dean of the hosting Faculty of Arts at Utrecht University) will open the conference, talking about the role numbers can play in the Humanities. More information on these and other keynote lectures will follow soon. For more information about the focus of the conference, please refer to the website: <http://www2.hum.uu.nl/congres/igel/index.html>http://www2.hum.uu.nl/congres/igel/
Special Interest Sessions
Sessions are in preparation on a variety of subjects, such as effects of literary education, the uses of stories in information and education (?edutainment?), intercultural perspectives on reading behavior, cultural competence, and differences in literacy competences of multilingual, multicultural classrooms, literature and medicine, literature and coping, ethics in documentary making, theatre and empathy, empirical approaches to evolutionary literary theory. For more information or other suggestions please contact the organization ((igelconference2010 /at/ gmail.com)).

Outstanding Student Paper Awards
The Board of IGEL will decide on two awards for the best presentation of junior researchers (graduate or PhD student).

Regular Poster Session and Knowledge Market
Two poster sessions will be part of the program: one regular, academics only; and one in which organizations, profit and non-profit, present their posters to the participants of the conference. This innovative event is aimed at matching researchers and social partners. We invite organizations to formulate their questions and translate them into research problems. This process will be supported by the local organization (IGEL in collaboration with the Science Shop, Utrecht University). Researchers will be asked to respond in terms of possible solutions based in available studies, or generate new and/or joint research projects. Prior to the conference, abstracts for both poster sessions will be made available.

Conference Venue
The conference will be hosted by Utrecht University. Keynotes and poster sessions will take place at the University Hall (Aula of the Academiegebouw, 1462), a historical site where in 1579 the Union of Utrecht was signed, the very beginning of the Republic of the Netherlands; and buildings along the drift, where Louis Napoleon had his palace (1808).


IMPORTANT DATES
·   Deadline for proposals (Papers, Posters, Symposia)1 February 2010
·   Summer Institute: 3-7 July 2010
·   IGEL Conference: 7-11 July 2010





ORGANIZED BY IGEL in COLLABORATION WITH

Utrecht University- Institute for Media and Culture Studies

Dutch Reading Foundation ? STICHTING LEZEN

Science Shop ? Kennispunt Geesteswetenschappen

John Benjamins Publishing Company


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