Call for Papers: Cognition and Poetics 2013

[Alexander Bergs]

COGNITION AND POETICS 2013

Call for Papers
We invite 20-minute paper submissions for the first international conference on Cognition and Poetics (CaP-12). The conference will take place from the 25-27 April 2013 at the Institute of English and American Studies of the University of Osnabrück, Germany.

The conference is part of the UOS Research Cluster on Cognition and Poetics.

FORMAT
The conference will feature up to six plenary talks by leading scholars. In addition, the conference invites proposals for special workshops and themed panels/sessions.

Scholars interested in organizing a workshop or panel/session should outline the topic and rationale of the project (in no more than 400 words), develop a suitable format, and invite participants to the event. Needless to say, all participants will have to register for the main conference.
Please send proposals to cap at uni-osnabrueck.de by November 30, 2012.

We also invite abstracts for 20-minute papers on topics dealing with cognition and poetics in the broad sense outlined above, including:

	• Cognitive perspectives and cultural history
	• Aesthetics, emotion, affect
	• From sentence to text: linguistic perspectives and the macro level
	• Universals and specifics in cognition and aesthetic experience
	• Creativity and the arts
	• The differentia specifica of the arts
	• Blending
	• Brain versus mind
	• Literature and experience
	• Constructional approaches to language and literature
	• Text types / genres from a cognitive perspective
	• The evolution of the arts
	• Pragmatic perspectives on authors and readers

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Please send 250-word abstracts to cap at uni-osnabrueck.de by 30 November 2012. Abstracts should be sent as anonymized attachments in MS Word format.

You need to specify in your email text:

	• your name,
	• affiliation,
	• email address,
	• title of the talk
Acceptance of papers will be sent out by 31 December 2012.

STIPENDS & WAIVERS
Graduate students and PhD Candidates are particularly invited to send paper and workshop proposals. We offer fifteen (15) grants for graduate students which cover the conference fee and accommodation. These grants will be awarded for the fifteen best proposals.

For further details about the conference please contact Professor Alexander Bergs (abergs at uos.de), Professor Peter Schneck (pschneck at uos.de), or Ms Meike Pentrel, who is in charge of organizing the conference (mpentrel at uos.de).
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Bergs, M.A.
Chair of English Language and Linguistics
 
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (IfAA)
Fachbereich 7 -Universitaet Osnabrueck
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D-49069 Osnabrueck
Germany
 
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