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IGEL, the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media, will hold its 10th biennual conference in 2006 (for full information, see the conference website at http://www.redes.lmu.de/igel/). The conference takes place from Saturday 5th to Wednesday 9th August 2006, in the renovated monastery on the picturesque Lady’s Isle (Fraueninsel) in Lake Chiem, near Munich, Germany. Early registration deadline is June 1. Although the deadline for submitting abstracts has passed, there may be room for a late entry if you contact Willie van Peer immediately (vanpeer@daf.uni-muenchen.de).
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.)
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