[Bilimsel Haber] Empirical Study of Literature and Media

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Conference Call for Papers: International Society for the Empirical Study of
Literature and Media
Location: Germany

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.

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

Visit the website at http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/igel/