The Empirical Studies of Literature and Media

IGEL 2010 – Conference for the Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturwissenschaft und Medien

Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

7-11 July 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

The main theme of the biennial conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media in 2010 is valorization of research. Conference topics include:

• Literary reading processes (emotion, cognition, personality, etc.);

• The social role of literature and related media (e.g. film, theatre, Internet, multimedia, virtual reality);

• Literature and 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;

• Historical reception studies;

• Digital methods of research on literature and the media (corpus studies, hypertext models, etc.).

Deadline for proposals (Papers, Posters, Symposia) is 1 February 2010.

For further information please visit the conference website:

http://www2.hum.uu.nl/congres/igel

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