Dear Colleagues,
This conference is specifically aimed at graduate
students. This is an interesting opportunity for
students working on media topics and genre issues
to meet students from other fields with similar
interests.
This will interest doctoral candidates who subscribe
to PhD-Design.
If you are a supervisor or a tutor, please pass this
on to your students.
Best regards,
Ken Friedman
The graduate students of the Department of German at Princeton
University announce a graduate conference to be held on April 2-3,
2004. We invite abstracts from graduate students in German studies
and other disciplines in the humanities.
MEDIA AND THE FUTURES OF GENRE:
The increased interest in media such as film, television, radio, and
the World Wide Web has shifted the status of literature in our
culture and compelled us to inscribe literary history within a more
encompassing media-historical framework. To the extent that it
remains a useful category, the notion of genre must now be re-
considered in terms of its standing with regard to a wider range of
media manifestations.
The relationship between genres and media can be approached in many
ways. Theories of tragedy and other literary forms have been
privileged sites for the formulation of aesthetic ideals, or for
normative claims concerning the possibilities for works of art in a
social context. Some, moreover, have theorized genres as set patterns
of communication that structure the expectations of a readership. One
can also trace within genre theory an increasing awareness of the
historical nature of genres and how they merge in an all-encompassing
encyclopedic work of art. How does media theory continue or
discontinue these traditions? Conversely, does the emergence of new
media force us to reconsider traditional strategies of defining
genres with respect to form or content, for instance by exposing how
media specificity has been implicit in conceptions of genre? We
invite papers that discuss such issues in general theoretical terms
or by means of close attention to specific works.
Topics can include:
- A new medium - a new aesthetic ideal?
- The concept of a medium
- Transpositions of genres in media
- Genre - gender - medium
- Genre hybridity - multimediality - intermediality
- Theorizing new media - theorizing in new media
- Manifestos for media
- Gesamtkunstwerk
- Reading media
- Genres/media as institutionalized orders of production and reception
Presentations will be 20 minutes in length. Please send 250-word
abstracts by January 15th to [log in to unmask] Please copy the
abstract in your e-mail message text and do not send it as an
attachment. For additional information, please visit the German
Department webpage at
http://german.princeton.edu
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