IGEL, the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media, will have its 10th biennual conference in Munich in 2006. The conference takes place from Saturday 5th to Wednesday 9th August 2006, in the renovated monastery Lady's Isle (Fraueninsel) in Lake Chiem.

Please send your proposals for papers, for a symposium or a workshop to the address below not later than 13th February 2006. 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.

Papers will be scheduled for 20 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for questions and discussion. A symposium or workshop will be scheduled for 1 1/2 or 2 hours, depending on the number of participants. For more information about the conference schedule see http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/igel/index.htm

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.)

Proposals should be submitted by February 13th 2006. They should be sent by email to Wiilie van Peer:

A decision on acceptance will be provided by March 15th 2006.