CALL FOR PAPERS
Literary Semantics: Past, Present, Future?
The 6th conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics (IALS) will take place at the University of Kent, Canterbury, from Thursday 3rd to Saturday 5th July 2014.
2014 will mark the 22nd anniversary of the first IALS conference in 1992, which was also held at Eliot College at the University of Kent. Also, in 2014 the University of Kent celebrates its 50th anniversary. In keeping with the spirit of marking milestones, the theme of the conference will be general, and diachronic in orientation. We will be interested in any abstracts that make use of language-based explorations of how literary works get and/or make their meanings, and, particularly, in discussions of potential future directions for work at the language/literature border (for example, within the domain of multimodality).
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Prof. Dr. Beatrix Busse (University of Heidelberg)
Dr Billy Clark (University of Middlesex)
Prof. Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University)
Abstracts for 20-minute papers (plus 10 minutes discussion) may be submitted by email to IALS2014@kent.ac.uk, preferably as an attachment in Word or similar, from now onwards.
Submitted abstracts should include the submitter’s full name (including any academic title), their mailing address as well as their email address, their university affiliation if applicable. If applicable, they should also state whether they are a registered student (BA, MA, or Ph D) and identify the university and department in which they are studying. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words (excluding title and references), and should be sent by 31 January 2014.
It is important that submissions supply all of the above information.
Please contact the organising committee in relation to any questions that might arise, or with proposals for panels.
Please send all queries to: IALS2014@kent.ac.uk
The conference website is at: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/conference-literary-sematics/
Address: Rutherford College, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NX
