[ecrea] Literature, Media, Sound

Literature, Media, Sound
Aarhus University, Denmark, November 28-30 2013
The conference intends to discuss the relation between literature, media 
and sound in various perspectives and constellations, thereby hoping to 
establish stronger links between different theoretical positions, such 
as Media Studies, Comparative Literature, Intermediality Studies and 
Sound Studies.
The relation between literature, media and sound is facing severe 
changes and new challenges due to technological developments. E-books 
and audiobooks are currently through smartphones, tablets and online 
streaming making rapid gains in popularity and distribution.
Discussions revolving around the connections between media, literature 
and sound are not a new phenomenon. Sound has been an important issue to 
poetry at several levels throughout history. Recorded literature is 
another evident topic to investigate in the area between literature, 
media and sound. In a wider perspective the relationship between media 
and literature has been a central issue in writings on modernism as a 
formal matter, i.e the literacy of literature. Comparably one could 
consider the book as a medium in itself, accentuating a material 
perspective when studying the role and historical developments of e.g. 
book covers.
However, technological developments such as e-books, digital audiobooks 
and apps are radically reframing the relationship between media and 
literature, thereby underscoring the necessity of conceiving the new 
literary practices as both a technological, an aestehetic and a 
sociological matter (Mitchell & Hansen, Critical Terms for Media 
Studies, 2010). The e-book is relatively well described and this 
conference wishes to bring this research together with the developing 
field of sound studies, discussing questions like the new roles of 
literary practices and reading cultures.
We invite all scholars and doctoral candidates to present papers that 
thematize the relationship between literature, media and sound from 
perspectives including, but not limited to:
- Historical: for instance reading cultures, recorded literature.
- Institutional: for instance mediatization, change of cultural 
practice, literary institutions, publishers, libraries.
- Methodological; how to develop new analytical tools which afford us a 
better understanding of the new media landscape.


- Interdisciplinarity: given severe changes in the field of research 
(e-books, digital audiobooks and apps) do we need to bring together 
different theoretical paradigms?

Invited keynote speakers are:
Mark B.N. Hansen, Professor of Literature and Arts of the Moving Image, 
Duke University.
Steven Connor, Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of 
Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Matt Rubery, Associate Professor at Queen Mary, University of London.
Stig Hjarvard, Professor of Media Studies, Copenhagen University
Maria Engberg, Associate Professor, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola.


The time for paper presentations is strictly limited to 20 minutes, 
followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The official language of the 
conference is English.
Please send your abstract (around 300 words) including a short CV as an 
attachment to (litmedia /at/ hum.au.dk).
The deadline for paper proposals is June 1, 2013.

Please let us know also if you wish to be registered as a participant 
without presenting a paper.
The conference fee will be EUR 120 including conference dinner. A 
preliminary conference program will be published September 1. Please 
visit the website of the conference, which will be continuously updated 
www.conferences.au.dk/literaturemediasound.

The conference is kindly hosted by AU Ideas (The Digital Audiobook ñ A 
new medium, new literary experiences, new users?) and the Department of 
Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University.

Conference organizers: Iben Have and Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen.
Conference Committee: Tore Rye Andersen, Nina Christensen and Anne Myrup 
Munk, Department of
Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University.

Hi,
Yes, if you follow the format requirements at www.ecrea.eu/mailinglist
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On 21/05/2013 11:49, Birgitte Stougaard wrote:


To Nico Carpentier!

Would you be so kind to publish this call for papers on your ecrea 
mailing list?

It would mean a lot to the visibility and success of our conference.

All the best,

Birgitte Stougaard

<(nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)> writes:
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Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen
Ph.d., Associate Professor
Department of Aesthetics and Culture - Interdisciplinary Aesthetic Studies
University of Aarhus
Langelandsgade 139, 3.
DK - 8000 Aarhus C
+45 87163028
+45 30113386

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http://www.soundeffects.dk/
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