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Sym: 1005.16
Date: 3 mei 2010
From: Johan Oosterman <j.oosterman@let.ru.nl>
Subject: Sym: 1005.16: Symposium 'Text, Transmission, Reception', Nijmegen, do 28 - vr 29 oktober 2010 (Call for papers)
Text, Transmission, Reception, Nijmegen, 28 en 29 oktober 2010 (Call for papers)
Over the past two years, a number of researchers of the Faculties of
Arts, Philosophy, Religious Studies and Theology of Radboud
University have explored common ways to study the function and
meaning of "texts" in the broadest sense of the term. They would
like to share their results with others and therefore invite
scholars from both the Netherlands and abroad to send in abstracts
for papers to be read at a conference that will be held on the
campus of Radboud University on October 28 and 29, 2010. The
language of the conference will be English.
Invited Speakers
Isabelle Kalinowski (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Stephen Nichols (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale di Pisa / University of Chicago)
Steffen Siegel (University of Jena)
Dolf Zillmann (University of Alabama)
Panels
The conference will focus on four themes, to each of which one or
two panels will be devoted:
- Image and Text.
For this panel we are looking for papers that discuss the
triangular relation between images, texts and the medium in which
these occur. Examples of the type of questions we are interested in
are: Do words and images interact differently in books, newspapers,
church frescoes, websites or publicity posters? Can the same type of
information be conveyed in different textual and visual ways
depending on the intended audience? How has the historical evolution
of graphic possibilities determined the way in which words, images
and other visual means have been employed? Both systematic and
historical papers are welcome. Steffen Siegel (University of Jena)
has been invited to comment on the papers in this panel. Please
submit abstracts before June 15, 2010 to Christoph Lüthy
(luethy@phil.ru.nl).
- Narrativity.
Papers are invited that reflect on narratives as serving a
variety of communicative functions. The personal story has for ages
functioned as a basic structure of identity building and emotional
exchange in language, be it in conversation, fiction, religion, or
rhetoric; today, narratives are expanding towards broader
communicative and cross-medial settings such as advertising,
business communication, politics, and journalism. We invite papers
that try to describe what these narrative structures have in common,
and what explanations can be found for their forms, functions and/or
effects in various communicative settings. Commentator on these
papers will be Dolf Zillmann (Univ. of Alabama). Please submit
abstracts for this panel before June 15, 2010 to Hans Hoeken
(h.hoeken@let.ru.nl) and José Sanders (j.sanders@let.ru.nl).
- New Philology.
This panel will be devoted to an approach to textual criticism
that calls itself New Philology, an approach that demands attention
for the dynamic changes, the physical appearance and changing
contexts of literary, philosophical and religious texts. The aim of
this panel is to evaluate the merits of this approach with papers
that combine the study of a particular text with theoretical
reflection in either modern or historical literary, philosophical
and religious studies. Stephen Nichols (Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore) will comment on the papers in this panel. Abstracts for
this panel should be sent before June 15, 2010 to Johan Oosterman
(j.oosterman@let.ru.nl).
- Reception and Literary Infrastructure.
For this panel abstracts are invited about the diffusion and
critical reception of literary, philosophical and religious texts.
Papers may deal either with either modern developments, such as the
(critical) reception of texts and their distribution in different
countries or among different segments of the population, or
historical developments, such as the changing reception of texts
over time. The commentator on the papers in this panel will be
Isabelle Kalinowski (cole Normale Supérieure, Paris).
Abstracts for this panel should be sent before June 15, 2010 to Jos
Joosten (j.joosten@let.ru.nl) and Maarten Steenmeijer
(m.steenmeijer@let.ru.nl).
Submission guidelines
Please send in an English abstract of max. 500 words. The length of
the papers will ultimately be 25 minutes (around 3000 words). After
the delivery of each paper the invited commentator will react to it
(see above), and there will be a general discussion. You are asked
to send your abstract to the organiser(s) of your panel (see above)
before June 15. You will be notified regarding your selection before
July 15. Should your abstract be accepted, you will be asked to
write out a full paper or extended abstract of around 3000 words
before October 1, so that the commentator will have time to prepare
a response to it. All conference-related expenses will be covered.
For more information about the conference, you can contact
André Lardinois (a.lardinois@let.ru.nl).
Organisation
This conference is organised jointly by the humanistic faculties of
Radboud University, i.e. the Faculties of Arts, Philosophy,
Religious Studies and Theology.
Organisers
André Lardinois (Greek and Latin Languages and Cultures)
Jos Joosten (Dutch Language and Culture)
Hans Hoeken (Business Communication Studies)
Christoph Lüthy (Philosophy and History of Science)
Johan Oosterman (Dutch Language and Culture)
José Sanders (Business Communication Studies)
Maarten Steenmeijer (Romance Languages and Cultures)
Important Dates
Abstract submission: 15 June 2010
Notification: 15 July 2010
Full paper or extended abstract: 1 October 2010
Conference dates: 27 October (arrival) - 30 October (departure),
2010
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