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International Congress
International
Society for the Empirical Study of Literature
(IGEL)
Association Internationale pour l'Etude Empirique de la Littérature
Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturwissenschaft
Edmonton, Canada: August 3-7, 2004
Detailed program and abstracts
available
(last updated: July 26th 2004)
The 9th International Congress of IGEL will be held August 3-7 2004
at the Delta Edmonton Centre Suite Hotel, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. A
form for registration is now available (see Registration page). Please
take a look at the call for papers (below). As an
additional facility, we also provide details of calls for contributions
to symposia and workshops below. Elsewhere on this
website you will also find details of the conference site at the Delta
Hotel, notes on our distinguished keynote speakers, the arrangements for
the conference banquet, and views of Edmonton and Alberta. We look forward
to welcoming you to Edmonton next summer!
-- David S. Miall (University of Alberta). David.Miall@Ualberta.Ca
Conference Committee: David S. Miall (President), Marisa
Bortolussi, Peter Dixon, Don Kuiken, Uri Margolin, Jamie Gifford.
 Call
for papers
Proposals for papers and for a symposium or a workshop are invited. Abstracts
for papers should be 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.
Papers will be scheduled for 20 minutes, with additional time for questions
and discussion. A symposium or workshop will be scheduled for 1 1/2 or
2 hours, depending on the number of participants.
Topics are invited in the following and related fields:
- Literary reading processes (emotion, cognition, personality, etc),
empirical and theoretical studies
- Social role of literature and related media (e.g. film, theatre, Internet,
multimedia, virtual reality)
- Educational implications of empirical studies 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.)
Proposals should be submitted by February 12th 2004. They can
be sent either by email or by ordinary mail, to:
Dr. David S. Miall
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
Canada T6G 2E5
David.Miall@Ualberta.Ca
A decision on acceptance will be provided by March 15th 2004.
Calls for contributions to a symposium or a workshop
Workshop: Do Empirical Studies in Literature
Practically Affect Society? Sibylle Moser
Panel: The aesthetics of social movement in modern
societies. The media as the media of protest, an intercultural comparison:
Kathrin Fahlenbrach
Panel: Emotions and literature/media/aesthetics:
Susanne Hübner and Anne Bartsch
Links to calls in Newsletter 13 (click on your brower's BACK button to
return):
Symposium on foregrounding:
Jèmeljan Hakemulder, Will van Peer
Symposium: Perspectives on three
decades of Cognitivist efforts: Outline for a debate: Els Andringa
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