International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media (IGEL) 2006 Conference, Chiemsee, near Munich, Germany: August 5-9; Summer Institute for junior scholars, July 30-August 4. Information available at http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/igel/, or contact Willie van Peer, vanpeer@daf.uni-muenchen.de. Deadline for proposal submissions is March 31, 2006.
Conference Call for Papers: International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media
Location: Germany
Call for Papers Date: 2006-03-31 (in 21 days)
Topics are invited in the following and related fields:
* Literary reading processes (emotion, cognition, personality, etc.)
* The social role of literature and related media (e.g. film, theatre, Internet, multimedia, virtual reality)
* Literature / media from an evolutionary perspective
* Early literary / media socialization
* Pedagogical and educational aspect of literature and the media
* The processes of literary/media production, distribution and reception
* The role of literary and other cultural
institutions: past, present and future
* The empirical study of historical reception and historical readers
* Digital methods of research on literature and the media (text analysis, corpus studies, hypertext models, etc.)
Abstracts for papers should be about 300 words, and include the name(s) of the author(s), institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email address. For a proposed symposium or workshop, please provide a 300-word description of the topic, the full details of the organizer as above, and in addition the names of contributors, their institutional affiliations, mailing address, and email address, and the titles and abstracts of their proposed contributions.
Willie van Peer
Department of Languages and Communication
Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU)
D-80539 Munich
Germany
vanpeer@daf.uni-muenchen.de
Email: vanpeer@daf.uni-muenchen.de
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