Conference " 'Meter and Rhythm -- Rhythm and Meter", Vechta (Germany), 21-23 July 2008

[AROUI Jean-Louis]

International Conference on

Meter and Rhythm – Rhythm and Meter

Hochschule Vechta, 21– 23 July 2009


Organization: Prof. Dr. Christoph Küper, Institut für Geistes- und 
Kulturwissenschaften, Hochschule Vechta, Driverstr. 22, D-49377 Vechta, Tel. 
++49-4441-15301,
e-mail: metrics.conference at uni-vechta.de. Please address all Conference 
correspondence to him.
Conference Languages: English and German.
Goals of the Conference:
The conference offers an opportunity to scholars of meter and rhythm to 
present the results of their recent research and at the same time to learn 
about the research activities of their colleagues. The conference is thus 
analogous to the First International Conference on Metrics, which took place 
at the university of Vechta in 1999. The title of that conference served also 
as the title of the book in which the conference papers were collected and 
published: Meter, Rhythm and Performance – Metrum, Rhythmus, Performanz, ed. 
Christoph Kueper (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2002). 
This, the Second International Conference on Metrics, extends an invitation to 
scholars world-wide to meet and address a variety of issues regarding rhythm 
and meter. For example: single-language verse systems, the metrical style of 
specific literary epochs, single writers or single works or the connections 
between and among them (genesis, influences, interdependencies etc.). 
Empirical investigations of free rhythm and rhythmic prose are included as 
well. The conference is directed toward both specialists in metrics (be they 
in literature departments or in language departments that deal with issues of 
meter and rhythm) as well as linguists who (departing from the phonological 
analysis of speech rhythm) conduct research on topics of metrically-regulated 
verse rhythm.
Whereas the conference is open to many themes and approaches, there is a focus 
specifically on the area of “theoretical aspects of meter.” That focus arises 
from the need to take stock of various competing theories and leading 
proponents of these views are requested to present the results of their 
latest research at the conference. It is hoped that these speakers establish 
connections to other theories and models so that scholars of different 
persuasions can talk to one another. In the end it is hoped that 
compatibilities as well as divergences clearly emerge. The procedure of 
extensive discussions after each paper and perhaps also a panel discussion 
will aid the participants in understanding and evaluating the potentials of 
the various theoretical starting points, the validity of their premises and 
their relevance for concrete verse analysis.

Plenary lectures: 45 minutes + 15 minutes discussion
Length of a lecture: 30 minutes + 15 minutes discussion
OR
20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion

If you offer a paper, please send a short abstract (up to 300 words) by the 
end of February to the above address.
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