[ecrea] Panel submissions sought for Reception Study Society conference

The 5th annual conference (Milwaukee, Sept 2013) of the *Reception Study 
Society*  promises a fascinating agenda-- of interest to all of us 
interested in any aspect of media audiences. Fields of research they 
welcome include - reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception 
history, history of reading and the book, audience and communication 
studies, institutional studies, and gender, race, ethnic, sexuality, 
postcolonial, religious, and other studies.
The call for papers is currently open (please see below for the full 
call) and I am looking at submitting a panel focused on *concepts in 
reception studies -- from theories of reading to the age of 
multimodality*. Potential topics could include --

   * Multimodality, visual culture and the challenges posed to
     text-based reception theory
   * empirical insights on doing reception research in the age of the
     internet and what that means for our conceptual repertoires
   * the changing connotations of intertextuality in reception studies
   * Genre -- as a concept and analytical tool in reception theory,
     across changing conditions of mediation
   * Interactivity in reception studies: conceptual and methodological
     challenges
   * Historical perspectives/critical reviews on the way we have
     changed our understanding of reception/interpretation over time
   * And other ideas most welcome!

If you are interested in submitting an abstract for a pre-formed panel 
along these lines, please get in touch with a title, a 250 word abstract 
and a brief 75 word biog at (rd207 /at/ le.ac.uk) <mailto:(rd207 /at/ le.ac.uk)> by 
*15th December 2012* (of course you'd have to be prepared to head to 
Milwaukee at the end of next summer, should this panel be selected!)

Best,

Ranjana

Dr. Ranjana Das
Lecturer
Department of Media and Communications
Bankfield House 1.02
132 New Walk
Leicester
LE2 3EN
E: (rd207 /at/ le.ac.uk)
W: www.ranjanad.wordpress.com <http://www.ranjanad.wordpress.com>
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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fifth Biannual conference of the RECEPTION STUDY SOCIETY

Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 26-29 2013


The Reception Study Society promotes informal and formal exchanges
between scholars in several related fields: reader-response
criticism and pedagogy, reception history, history of reading and the
book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies, and
gender, race, ethnic, sexuality, postcolonial, religious, and other studies.

Proposals for panels and papers in any of these areas are now
welcome. Please submit proposals of 250 words or less, along with a
one-page cv, to Amy Blair at
<mailto:(amy.blair /at/ marquette.edu)>(amy.blair /at/ marquette.edu) 
<mailto:(amy.blair /at/ marquette.edu)(%3Eamy.blair /at/ marquette.edu)> by April 15, 
2013.


Keynote Speakers will be:

John Carlos Rowe
Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, University
of Southern California
"The Reader Writes back: Interactivity and the New
Dynamics of Reception"
His current scholarly projects include The Rediscovery of America:
Multicultural Literature and the New Democracy
and Blackwell's Companion to American Studies.

Ernest Mathijs
Associate professor of film studies at the University of British
Columbia (Vancouver)
"Between Interpretive and Affective Communities:
Cultists, the Aesthetic Experience, and Reception Studies."
He has recently published The Cinema of David Cronenberg: From Baron
of Blood to Cultural Hero (2008); with Xavier
Mendik (eds), The Cult Film Reader (2007); and with Martin Barker
(eds), Watching The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien World Audiences (2007).

Joan Rubin
Professor of History, University of Rochester
"Print Culture and the Cosmopolitan Reader"
She has written Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America
(2007) and a collaborative History of the Book in America (2000).

Reduced rate rooms will soon be available from the Doubletree Inn in
downtown Milwaukee (414-273-2950 or 414-727-1575).

Selected conference papers will be solicited for publication in the
RSS journal Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, which will
be published by Penn State University Press as of the fall of
2013. For information about the RSS, including membership
information, or the journal, please visit our website:
<http://receptionstudy.org/>http://receptionstudy.org/ 
<http://receptionstudy.org/%3Ehttp://receptionstudy.org/>.


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