[ecrea] CFP: International Conference on Digital Media and Textuality

/Call for Papers //
//International Conference on Digital Media and Textuality //
//3rd to 5th November 2016, Universität Bremen, Germany //
//Dr. Daniela Côrtes Maduro, Chair //
//Deadline for Submissions: 5 July 2016 //
//Conference webpage: https://digmediatextuality.wordpress.com/ //
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//Confirmed Keynote Speakers //
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//Carlos Reis, Director of the Centre for Portuguese Literature, 
University of Coimbra, Portugal //
//Dene Grigar, Washington State University Vancouver, president of the 
Electronic Literature Organization, USA //
//Joseph Tabbi, Electronic Book Review (EBR) Editor in Chief, University 
of Illinois at Chicago, USA //
//Manuel Portela, Director of the Materialities of Literature Program, 
University of Coimbra, Portugal //
//Maria Mencia, ELO Board of Directors, University of Kingston, United 
Kingdom //
//Scott Rettberg, ELMCIP project leader, University of Bergen, Norway //
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//The use of computers as tools of literary and artistic creation has 
produced further paradigms within literary, language and media studies, 
but it has also promoted the resurfacing of a series of age-old debates. 
Digital media and digital technologies have extended the range of 
multimodal reading experiences, but they have also led us to readdress 
deep-rooted notions of text or medium. The dynamic network of media, art 
forms and genres seems to have been once again reconfigured. However, 
practices and debates that have preceded the emergence of the computer 
medium have not been discarded. In fact, they have been incorporated 
into experiences with the medium and have contributed to shaping digital 
artifacts. The “International Conference on Digital Media and 
Textuality” aims to examine this process. This conference seeks to move 
beyond the “old and new” dispute and to help us identify intersections, 
exchanges, challenges, dead-ends and possibilities. In order to achieve 
this goal, the panels of this conference are designed to cover multiple 
topics and fields of research, from media archaeology to teaching in a 
digital age. This event will be sponsored by the Electronic Literature 
Organization (ELO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA). For 
further information, please visit the conference’s website at 
https://digmediatextuality.wordpress.com/ or contact the conference 
chair, Daniela Côrtes Maduro, at (cortesm /at/ uni-bremen.de) 
<mailto:(cortesm /at/ uni-bremen.de)>. //
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//Submission Information //
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//Proposals of 500 words min. and 1000 max. may be uploaded to the 
online reviewing platform Easy Chair at: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdmt2016. The deadline for 
submission is 5 July 2016. Submissions will undergo a double-blind peer 
review process. More information can be found at the conference website: 
https://digmediatextuality.wordpress.com/. //
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//We welcome individual contributions (one per author) in English, no 
more than 20 minutes, which can be included, even if broadly, in one of 
the following panels: //
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//Panel I – ‘Nothing comes of nothing’ - This panel will be comprised of 
presentations that link electronic literature with literary, 
communicative or artistic practices which have preceded and influenced 
digital forms and genres. //
//Panel II - Introspective Texts - For this panel, we will accept 
presentations that focus on the way texts can be self-reflexive and 
mirror the process of their own creation or reading. //
//Panel III - Where is narrative? - This panel will be dedicated to ways 
in which digital media can be used to tell a story or to structure a 
narrative. //
//Panel IV - Trans-multi-inter-meta: the medium - This panel will focus 
on the role of the medium in the production, transmission and 
understanding of text, as well as on the conditions of media 
interaction, convergence, and divergence. //
//Panel V - Teaching the digital - This panel is focused on digital 
literacy and the teaching of electronic literature. //
//Panel VI - Tracking and visualizing texts – This panel is dedicated to 
the collection, archive and preservation of literature. It also aims to 
address ways of analysing and categorizing large amounts of data. //
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//Scientific Committee //
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//Ana Teresa Peixinho – Journalism and Narratology, University of 
Coimbra, Portugal //
//António Sousa Ribeiro – German Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal //
//Chiao-I Tseng – Film Studies and Multimodality, Universität Bremen, 
Germany //
//Espen Aarseth – Game Studies and Electronic Literature, Center for 
Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen. //
//Janina Wildfeuer – Linguistics and Multimodality, Universität Bremen, 
Germany //
//John Bateman – Linguistics and Multimodality, Universität Bremen, 
Germany //
//Jorge Martins Rosa – Cyberculture and Digital Media, Universidade Nova 
de Lisboa, Portugal //
//María Teresa Vilariño Picos – Narratology and Digital Culture, 
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain //
//Ognyan Seizov – Communication Sciences and Multimodality, Universität 
Bremen, Germany //
//Osvaldo Silvestre – Literary Theory and Brazilian Studies, 
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal //
//Paulo Silva Pereira – Baroque and Portuguese Literature, Universidade 
de Coimbra, Portugal //
//Pedro Serra – Cyberculture and Literature, Universidad de Salamanca, 
Spain //
//Sandy Baldwin – Electronic Literature and New Media, Rochester 
Institute of Technology, USA //
//Serge Bouchardon – Communication Sciences and Electronic Literature, 
University of Technology of Compiegne, France/


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