Call for papers
CODEX AND CODE:
AESTHETICS, LANGUAGE AND POLITICS IN AN AGE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
(NorLit 2009)
Stockholm, August 6-9, 2009
The Nordic Association for Comparative Literature (NorLit) organizes every
two years an international scholarly conference. The aim of NorLit is to
develop the study of Comparative Literature through Nordic collaboration
both in its own discipline and in Modern Language and Cultural studies.
The next conference will take place in Stockholm, August 6-9, 2009. The
conference is organized by the Department of Comparative Literature,
Stockholm University, the Department of Communication and Culture,
Södertörn University College, and the School of Computer Science and
Communication, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
The theme for the meeting is ”Codex and Code: Aesthetics, Language and
Politics in an Age of Digital Media”. The conference venue is the Royal
Institute of Technology. The conference languages are the Nordic languages
and English.
The conference wants to stimulate interdisciplinary scholarly research of
the literary in a broad sense. We addresse ourselves to scholars in
Comparataive Literature and in Classical and Modern Languages, Aesthetics,
Media and Communication studies, Film and Theatre studies, Philosophy and
adjacent disciplines. We want to encourage a discussion of how literary
studies respond to the ongoing changes in media and technology, politics
and economy. Many argue that the Humanities currently are in a state of
crisis. We argue that the discipline seldom has found itself in such an
interesting and fruitful historical moment.
The principal question for the conference is the challenge that the study
of literature encounters in an age of digitalization and globalization.
The conference also adresses questions of authenticity and originality,
identity and gender, literary genres and reading practices, media and
materiality, culture and popular culture, language and history, world
literature, work aesthetics, translations and canon formation. Several of
these questions have surfaced during earlier media system changes, in
particular during Romanticism and Modernism, which provides the conference
with an historical frame.
Keynote speakers (confirmed):
Professor Patrizia Lombardo, Département de langue et de littérature
françaises, Université de Genève
Professor Haun Saussy, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University
Professor Jochen Hörisch, Seminar für Deutsche Philologie, Universität
Mannheim
Professor Andrea Polaschegg, Institut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt
Universität
Dr. Göran Sommardal, Stockholm.
The conference is organized around a number thematic sessions to which we
invite researchers and scholars to present papers. For each thematic
session there is appointed a chair, who also is the contact person for
this session:
Avant-garde (Per Bäckström, Per.Baeckstrom(at)hum.uit.no)
Asthetics and Phenomenology (Roland Lysell, roland.lysell(at)littvet.su.se)
French Literature (Bengt Novén, bengt.noven(at)fraita.su.se)
Gender studies (Maria Karlsson, maria.karlsson(at)littvet.uu.se)
Classical Literature (Paula Henriksson, paula.henrikson(at)littvet.uu.se)
Crititical Theory (Anders Johansson, anders.johansson(at)glanta.org)
Literature in New Media (Jonas Ingvarsson & Cecilia Lindhé,
jonas.ingvarsson(at)kau.se)
Literature and Narrative Spaces (Christian Claesson,
claesson(at)fas.harvard.edu)
Literature and Science (Kerstin Bergman, Kerstin.Bergman(at)litt.lu.se)
Literature and Religion (Håkan Möller, hakan_moller(at)hotmail.com)
Publics of Literature (Torbjörn Forslid & Anders Ohlson;
torbjorn.forslid(at)mah.se )
Literary Sociology (Johan Svedjedal, johan.svedjedal(at)littvet.uu.se)
Literary studies in Modern Languages (Martin Svensson Ekström,
martin.svensson.ekstrom(at)sh.se)
Literary Writing (Cristine Sarrimo, Cristine.Sarrimo(at)mah.se)
Materiality (Sara Danius, sara.danius(at)sh.se)
Media and Mediality (Leif Dahlberg, dahlberg(at)csc.kth.se)
Narratology and Inter Semiotics (Christer Johansson,
christer.johansson(at)littvet.su.se)
Performativity (Lena Hammargren, Lena.Hammergren(at)teater.su.se)
Popular Culture (Jerry Määttä, jerry.maatta(at)littvet.uu.se)
Pornography (Magnus Ullén, magnus.ullen(at)littvet.uu.se)
Post-colonialism (Stefan Helgesson, stefan.helgesson(at)littvet.uu.se)
Psycho-analysis (Carin Franzén, carin.franzen(at)liu.se)
Queer (Tiina Rosenberg, Tiina.Rosenberg(at)genus.lu.se)
Rhetoric (Otto Fischer, otto.fischer(at)littvet.uu.se)
Law and Literature (Anna Krakus, annakrakus(at)yahoo.com)
Contemporary Aesthetics (Cecilia Sjöholm, cecilia.sjoholm(at)sh.se)
Language Materialism (Jesper Olsson, jesper.olsson(at)littvet.su.se)
Swedish Poetics (Anna Cullhed, Anna.Cullhed(at)littvet.uu.se)
Theory and Hermeneutics (Jan Holmgaard, janholmgaard(at)hotmail.com)
Textual Criticsm and Editions Research (Petra Söderlund,
petra.soderlund(at)littvet.uu.se)
Old Novels (Mats Malm, mats.malm(at)lit.gu.se)
Translation, Theory and Practice (Lars Kleberg, lars.kleberg(at)sh.se)
In order to ensure the quality of the presentations and to stimulate
discussion, the presenters shall submit full papers prior to the
conference. The oral presentation of papers consists of a short summary of
the content (5-10 minutes per paper). Only sessions that receive enough
papers will be carried out.
Deadlines:
Abstract (max 1500 characters with spaces) mailed to session organizer
latest on December 15, 2008. Decisions of accepted papers will be sent on
January 15, 2009. Full papers (max 60 000 characters with spaces) mailed
to session organizer latest on June 6, 2009.
Conference fee: SEK 900 (SEK 1200 after April 30, 2009)
Conference fee students: SEK 500 (SEK 800 after April 30, 2009)
Registration: March 1– June 30, 2009
Website: www.norlit.org
Convenors:
Leif Dahlberg, dahlberg(at)csc.kth.se
Sara Danius, sara.danius(at)sh.se
Roland Lysell, roland.lysell(at)littvet.su.se
Martin Svensson Ekström, martin.svensson.ekstrom(at)sh.se
Petra Söderlund, petra.soderlund(at)littvet.uu.se