IGEL: The International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media, Biennial Conference

Call for papers:

IGEL: The International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media will hold its 8th Biennial Conference at the Janus Pannonius University in Pecs, Hungary, 21-24 August 2002.

The conference will provide an open forum for empirical and systemic research dealing with literature and media. The conference program will include paper sessions and moderated poster sessions. There will also be structured plenary discussion on methods and theory, and keynote addresses by distinguished specialists from different fields in the empirical study of literature and the media. Scholars are invited to submit papers on the following, or related, topics. We would especially welcome junior researchers to present their research on posters or in paper sessions:
Literary reading processes (emotional and cognitive),
Social uses and functions of literature and related media products (e.g., film, theater),
Conditions and 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,
The social and cultural contexts of literature and media,
Literary and media education/socialization,
Qualitative and quantitative methods.

For more information on IGEL, please visit http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/igel/.

Deadline for the submission of paper abstracts (to a maximum of 300 words) is 31 December 2001.

Please address all correspondence to the president of IGEL, Janos Laszlo, Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 398, H-1394 Budapest, Hungary, e-mail: laszloj@mtapi.hu.