[ecrea] CFP International Conference on Digital Media and Textuality (ICDMT2016)

Call for Papers

International Conference on Digital Media and Textuality
3rd to 5th November 2016, Universität Bremen, Germany
Deadline for Submissions: 5 July 2016
Website:https://digmediatextuality.wordpress.com/

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Carlos Reis, Director of the Centre for Portuguese Literature, 
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dene Grigar, President of the Electronic Literature Organization, 
Washington State University Vancouver, 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

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 is 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, (atcortesm /at/ uni-bremen.de).

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Proposals of 500 words min. and 1000 max. may be uploaded to the online 
reviewing platform EasyChair at: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdmt2016. The deadline for 
submission is 5 July 2016. Submissions will undergo a double-blind peer 
review process.

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:

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 analyzing and categorizing large amounts of data.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
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, University of 
Oslo, Norway
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 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 Compiègne, France

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