Under Construction: Digital Literatures and Theoretical Approaches

The UOC is a completely virtual university which is leading several research projects related to the new technologies and different areas of knowledge (e-learning, e-crime, net-art, e-literature, etc.) "Hermeneia" is an international group consisting of eighteen researchers from Italy, France, England, Finland, United States and Spain. Detailed information about the research group can be found on our web page.

Hermeneia held its first internal research workshop last April entitled Electronic textualities : NewSettingsforLiterature
(http://www.uoc.edu/in3/hermeneia/activitats.htm).

We are now organizing a second meeting, which will be an international conference. This will take place in Barcelona (15-17 April 2004) and the proposed title is: Under Construction: Digital Literatures and Theoretical Approaches. Some of the most significant researchers in the field such as Jean-Pierre Balpe, Markku Eskelinen, Raine Koskimaa, George P. Landow, Xavier Malbreil, Susana Pajares Tosca, Roberto Simanowski or Alain Vuillemin, have confirmed their participation.

A CFP can be found on our web page and we invite you to submit your proposal on any of the following thematical areas:

- Internet and Literary Studies
- Digital Technologies and Poetry
- Electronic Textualities
- Text, Hypertext, Cybertext
- Narrative Hyperfiction
- New Literary Genres? Computer Games
- Theoretical Approaches to Texts on Digital Literature
- Literary e-learning?

The deadline for submitting abstracts (600-1000 words) is February 1st 2004. These can be in Catalan, Spanish, French, English or Italian but must be accompanied by a version in English. The time scheduled for each paper is 15 minutes, plus 5-10 minutes for discussion.

Dr. Laura Borràs Castanyer
Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature