[ecrea] Call for Paper Media Mutations 8 - A cognitive approach to TV series

Call for Papers - Media Mutations 8. A Cognitive Approach to TV Series
Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti, Salone Marescotti, May 25th and 26th 2016

Organized by the University of Bologna, in collaboration with the 
Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and the research 
project Theoretical Innovation Strategies in the Analysis of Narration 
in Television Series.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Jason Mittell (Middlebury College), Jaak 
Panksepp and Anesa Miller (Washington's State University) and Hannah 
Chapelle Wojciehowski (The University of Texas at Austin)

Programme committee: Margrethe Bruun Vaage (University of Kent), Michele 
Guerra (Università di Parma), Veronica Innocenti (Università di 
Bologna), and Héctor J. Pérez (Universitat Politècnica de València).

The 8th edition of the Media Mutations International Conference is 
entitled “A Cognitive Approach to TV Series”. Some recent studies have 
begun developing a cognitive approach to TV series, but nevertheless 
much is yet unexplored. This conference aims at aiding this nascent 
field in firmly establishing itself as an interdisciplinary approach in 
media studies. We encourage papers on topics such as the nature and the 
role of emotions in TV series, the cognitive processes elicited by 
serial narrative, the viewers' participation and paratextual creation, 
and finally the relationship between cognitive TV studies and other 
relevant theoretical approaches such as that of narrative ecosystems and 
so-called embodied narratology.

Media Mutations 8 encourages proposals on the following subjects:

• The cognitive, affective and moral dimensions of viewers' engagement 
with characters in TV series (e.g., compared to stand-alone artwork such 
as film)
• The role played by memory in TV series engagement
• The varieties of emotional experience with serial narratives
• Cognitive explorations of participatory experiences in serial 
narratives (e.g., engagement through paratexts)
• Text vs. paratext – author intentions vs. audience creation
• Philosophical and theoretical investigations of contemporary TV series 
(e.g., complex TV; narrative ecosystems; vast narratives)
• Cognitive approaches to the process of construction and development of 
narrative ecosystems
• Narration and Embodiment (embodied and affective aspects of stylistic 
features)

The official languages of the conference are English and Italian. 
Abstracts (250-1000 words for 20-minute talks) should be sent to 
mediamutations.org [at] gmail.com by January 5th 2016. Please attach a 
brief biography (maximum 150 words) and an optional selected 
bibliography (up to ten titles) relevant to the conference topics. 
Notification of acceptance will be sent to proponents between 1.-15. 
February. A registration fee will be requested after notification of 
acceptance (€40 for speakers; admission to the conference is free for 
students). A selection of papers will be included in an edited 
collection to be submitted to an international publisher. For more
information on the previous editions of Media Mutations, please see the 
conference website, www.mediamutations.org.

This Conference is financially supported by: Centro Dipartimentale La 
Soffitta and Dipartimento delle Arti, Università di Bologna; Research 
project Theoretical Innovation Strategies in the Analysis of Narration 
in Television Series (CSO2014-51872-R), funded by the Spanish Government.





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