Literatures:  from Text to Hypertext - International Seminar

 

The Research Group Literaturas Españolas y Europeas del Texto al Hipertexto (LEETHI) from Complutense University in Madrid and the Committee on Comparative Literature in the Digital Age (CLDA) of the International Association of Comparative Literature (ICLA/AILC) announce this International Seminar.

OBJECTIVES

1.      Value the impact of hypertext and hypermedia on Literary Studies.

2.      Prospectively evaluate the presence of literatures in the World Wide Web, analizing the institutional structure of Gateways and Webpages.

3.      Study transfer relations among the different literatures propiciated by this new cybernetic culture.

4.      Analize the influence of technology on the formation of culture and on individual and social identities.

PANELS

1. “Cambios en los paradigmas”

2. “Literatures as Hypertext before Hypermedia”

3. “Theories of/on Hyper/Texts”

4. “Didactics on Hypermedia”

5. “Cultura, tecnología e hipertexto”

6. “Hypermedia Experiences”

7. “Reading and Reception in Hypertext”

8. “Experiencias literarias con hipertexto en el ámbito hispánico”

DATES: 21-22 September 2006.

TO BE HELD AT: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Edificio A, Facultad de Filología, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain.

ORGANIZER COMMITTEE:

Drª Dolores Romero López (Coordinator) (Spanish Philology II UCM), Drª Amelia Sanz Cabrerizo (Coordinator) (French Philology UCM), Miriam Llamas Ubieto (Secretary) (German Philology UCM), Montserrat Martínez García (Secretary) (English Philology UCM), Mª José Calvo González (Treasurer) (German Philology UCM) and LEETHI Group (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain)

STRUCTURE OF THE SEMINAR: 

1.- Plenary sessions: The following especialists have confirmed their presence: George Landow (Brown University, USA), Tania Franco Carvalhal (Universidade da Porto Alegre, Brazil) Ziva Ben-Porat (University of  Tel-Aviv, Israel), Gerald Gillespie (Standfor University, USA), Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek (Halle, Germany and Boston, USA), Dirk Van Hulle ( Antwerp University, Belgium), Alckmar  dos Santos (Universidade da Santa Satarina, Brazil).

2.- Round Tables: The Scientific Committee invites colleagues to submit proposals for individual papers, on the diverse aspects within the proposed panels. A 20 line summary should be sent, together with the Registration Form before March 31. The Scientific Committee will then select some of the proposals and notify applicants who should then send a printed copy (12 pages) of their paper before 30 May 2006. Proposals should include full name, E-mail and postal address, and professional affiliation.

SEMINAR LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French.

WITH THE COLABORATION OF::

- Internacional Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)

- Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada (SELGyC)
- Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC)
- Vicerrectorado de Relaciones Internacionales (UCM)
- Facultad de Filología (UCM)
- Departamento de Didáctica de las Lenguas y las Literaturas Modernas (UCM)
- Departamento de Filología Alemana (UCM)
- Departamento de Filología Española II (Literatura Española) (UCM)
- Departamento de Filología Francesa (UCM)
- Departamento de Filología Inglesa II (UCM)
PRIVATE SPONSORS:
- Microsoft Ibérica S.A.
 

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