Call for Papers: "Metrical Studies Today: Topics, Tools and Theories"

[AROUI Jean-Louis]

Call for Papers

The Nordic Society for Metrical Studies (NordMetrik) & Østfold University
College
are happy to invite you to The 12th Nordic conference on Metrics

Metrical Studies Today: Topics, Tools and Theories

an international conference
hosted by Østfold University College, Halden, Norway
16 - 18 June 2010

The 1st Nordic conference on Metrics was arranged in Gothenburg 1987 under
the heading “Metrics Today”, aiming at gathering Nordic scholars from
various disciplines to show samples of the most vital research within the
field of metrics and versification. A good two decades later it is time to
take stock again: what is the status of Metrical Studies today?

The conference would like to encourage a discussion of how metrical
studies respond to the developments of contemporary poetry, popular
culture and digitalization as well as to new knowledge and theories within
the fields of cognitive science, semiotics, linguistics, phonology and
aesthetic disciplines such as musicology and performance studies.

Central questions will be:
In what ways are metrics and concepts of versification affected by recent
developments within cognitive studies?
How can metrics refine its analytical models in order to improve their
explanatory adequacy such as to better account for prosodic variation and
complexity?
What are the impacts of visual and concrete poetry on versification studies?
In what ways has digital technology affected metrical analysis?
To what extent have contemporary cultural phenomena such as hip-hop, rap
and slam poetry re-actualised metrics as a scholarly discipline?
In what ways may new-classical and new-formalist tendencies in
contemporary poetry affect versification studies?
How do translation practice and theory benefit from prosodic knowledge?

Invited keynote speakers (confirmed):*
Reuven Tsur, Tel Aviv University
Maria-Kristiina Lotman, University of Tartu
Frank Kjørup, University of Copenhagen
Anne Danielsen, University of Oslo

Other scholars are invited for 25 minute papers in English.

Deadline for submission of abstracts (about 300 words): February 1, 2010.

Contact person:
Jon D. Orten, Associate Professor
Høgskolen i Østfold/ Østfold University College
NO-1757 Halden, Norway
jon.orten at hiof.no

Halden is a town situated at the Norwegian-Swedish border
(http://www.visithalden.com/) between Oslo (ca. 120 km) and Gothenburg
(ca. 200 km) and can easily be reached by train. Most airlines offer
flights to Oslo Airport Gardermoen. Norwegian and Ryanair even have
flights to Moss Lufthavn Rygge (http://www.en.ryg.no/), located 55 km from
Halden.

Conference fee: ca. 1000 NOK (ca. 120 EURO), dependent on external funding.

Updated practical information will be posted at the home page of the
conference: http://hiof.no/metricalstudies
-- 
Jean-Louis AROUI
Université Paris 8
UFR des Sciences du Langage
2, rue de la liberté
93200 Saint-Denis
FRANCE
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/-Aroui-Jean-Louis-.html
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