[ecrea] International Conference on Latin American Cybercultural Studies: Exploring New Paradigms and Analytical Approaches

> > FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
> >
> > International Conference on Latin American Cybercultural Studies:
> > Exploring New Paradigms and Analytical Approaches
> >
> > THURSDAY 19&  FRIDAY 20 MAY 2011
> > UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, UK
> >
> > The School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of
> > Liverpool is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on Latin
> > American Cybercultural Studies. This conference, the first of its kind
> > in the UK, will focus on the growing field of Latin American
> > cyberculture, including literary blogs, digital storytelling, digital
> > poetry, hypertext novels, hypermedia fiction, net.art, and online
> > performance art, amongst others, and aims to explore analytical and
> > theoretical approaches to these new media works. Combining presentations
> > by practitioners and scholars alike, the conference aims to provide an
> > important counterpart to the Anglophone-dominated arena of cybercultural
> > studies, and will include workshops on hypermedia narrative and digital
> > poetry, as well as the opportunity to reflect on research-led teaching
> > in digital media.
> >
> > Confirmed Speakers Include:
> > Diego Bonilla (California State University)
> > Andrew Brown (Washington University in St Louis)
> > Debra Castillo (Cornell University)
> > Margaret Clarke (University of Portsmouth)
> > Luis Correa-D?az (University of Georgia at Athens)
> > H?ctor Perea (UNAM)
> > Thea Pitman (University of Leeds)
> > Scott Weintraub (University of Georgia at Athens)
> >
> > Papers are especially invited on, but are not restricted to, the
> > following areas:
> > ? Locality and Embeddedness in Hispanic Cyberliteratures
> > ? Latin American Digital Poetry and Hypermedia Narratives
> > ? Remixing and Mash-Ups in Latin American net.art
> > ? Latin American Literature in the Age of Re-mediation and Inter-mediation
> > ? Countering the Importation of Cybercultural Paradigms
> > ? Research-Led Teaching in the Digital World
> >
> > The organizers welcome proposals both for panels and for individual
> > 20-minute papers, which may be given in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
> > Alternative formats ? round tables, discussion papers, work-in-progress,
> > multimedia presentations ? are positively encouraged, as are
> > postgraduate submissions. Abstracts for individual papers should be
> > between 300-350 words; proposals for panels should include panel title,
> > names of panel members and abstracts. Postgraduates are eligible to
> > apply for the Postgraduate Conference Grant, and should apply using the
> > attached form.
> >
> > Abstracts and panel proposals should be sent by 1 December 2010 to the
> > conference organizer, Dr Claire Taylor ((c.l.taylor /at/ liv.ac.uk)).
> >
> > The conference organizers would like to thank the Modern Humanities
> > Research Organization, and the University of Liverpool International
> > Collaboration Fund for their contributions to the conference.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tori Holmes
> > PhD student in Latin American cyberculture
> > School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
> > University of Liverpool
> >
> > personal university page: http://bit.ly/6ZDAN
> >
> > Latin American cyberculture and cyberliterature research project:
> > http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/research/lacyberculture/index.htm
> >

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