[ecrea] CFP: Winter School "Transmedial Worlds in Convergent Media Culture"

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Call for Papers/Call for Participation

Transmedial Worlds in Convergent Media Culture

Winter School at the Graduate Academy of the University of Tuebingen,
Germany
February 24th to February 28th, 2014


In the last few decades, media conglomerates’ move from vertical to
horizontal integration in concert with a number of technological
innovations have led to an increasingly convergent media culture. One of
the more interesting symptoms of this development seems to be the
continued rise of complex entertainment franchises that transgress media
borders, arranging narrative texts, films, television series, comics,
and video games (among others) into highly interconnected entertainment
experiences as well as facilitating the participation of fans in the
negotiation and re-appropriation of transmedial meaning(s).

Recent examples of these instances of ‘transmedia storytelling’ (Henry
Jenkins) or ‘transmedial worlds’ (Lisbeth Klastrup and Susana Tosca)
include the many installments of the novel-based franchises The Lord of
the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire, the movie-based franchises Star
Wars and Indiana Jones, the television series-based franchises Lost and
Breaking Bad, the comics-based franchises Batman and Spiderman or the
video game-based franchises Tomb Raider and Warcraft. While these cases
are comparatively well-known, many transmedial franchises have not yet
received sufficient attention.

The Winter School “Transmedial Worlds in Convergent Media Culture” aims
to examine the forms and functions of a wide variety of transmedial
worlds from a range of different (inter-)disciplinary perspectives. To
complement the keynotes on salient aspects of the Winter School’s theme,
we hereby warmly invite junior researchers--advanced M.A. students, PhD
students, and Post-Docs-—to present their own research projects in the
form of 15-minute papers during a number of thematically focused
workshops that connect to the keynotes and are chaired by the keynote
speakers.


Confirmed Keynote Speakers
• Espen Aarseth
• Benjamin Beil
• Jens Eder
• Elizabeth Evans
• Lisbeth Klastrup
• Susanne Marschall
• Stephan Packard
• Bernard Perron
• Marie-Laure Ryan
• Klaus Sachs-Hombach
• Jan-Noël Thon
• Susana Tosca


Possible Topics for Paper Presentations
• Transmedial Worlds and Theories of Authorship/Cultural Production
• Transmedial Worlds and Theories of Fiction/Representation
• Transmedial Worlds and Theories of Participatory Practices/Fan Cultures
• Case Studies of Film- or Television-Based Transmedial Worlds
• Case Studies of Comic- or Graphic Novel-Based Transmedial Worlds
• Case Studies of Video Game- or Web-Based Transmedial Worlds


Please send proposals (including a 300-word abstract and a 100-word bio)
for 15-minute papers via email (as a PDF or Word-Document) to
(jan.thon /at/ uni-tuebingen.de)  no later than October 31th, 2013.

For M.A. and PhD students, a limited number of travel grants up to 500,-
€ is available. Please indicate if you want to apply for a travel grant
and whether your participation is or is not contingent on receiving it.

A publication of the keynotes and a selection of additional papers is
planned for late 2014/early 2015.


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