Call for papers til konference om genrestudier den 14.-15. november 2013 på Københavns Universitet.
Is the Study of Genre Still Front Line
Research?
Or: Where is the Front Line in Genre
Research?
Call for papers
Purpose: As a cultural phenomenon genre is
prolific and thus a relevant field of study for a broad array of
scholarly disciplines. Over the last decades the study of genre has
spread from literary studies to a number of other disciplines
ranging from linguistic anthropology via pragmatics to rhetoric and
didactic fields, and it has even wider potential as genre and
related concepts play vital roles in a number of the social
sciences and in the study and interpretation of law.
Most of the progress made in genre studies, however, rest upon
theoretical definitions of the concept made several decades ago and
it is debatable whether progress has been made within the core
study of genre itself. The purpose of the conference is to describe
the relationship between the state-of-the-art in modern genre
scholarship and the founding theoretical texts of two decades ago
in order to discover what is new in genre scholarship and map out
the roads available to further research. At the same time the
conference will further international and national collaboration
within genre studies and examine the possibilities inherent in the
fundamentally interdisciplinary character of the subject.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Charles Bazerman, Department of Education, University
of California, USA
Professor Jean-Marie Schaeffer, The École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales in Paris,
France.
Paper proposals: The organizing committee of Is
the Study of Genre Still Front Line Research encourages submissions
of research papers related to all aspects of genres theory,
especially the discussion of the relationship between the founding
theoretical text of genres theory and state-of-the-art in modern
genre scholarship.
Paper presentation: Each paper presenter is
allowed 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for
discussion.
Date: November 14.-15. 2013
Location: Faculty of Humanities, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark
Hosts:
Research Group for Genre Studies, Department of Scandinavian
Studies and Linguistics,
University of Copenhagen
Royal School of Library and Information Science.
PhD School at the Faculty for the Humanities, University of
Copenhagen
Submission: Paper proposals must be sent to
Susanne Kemp: fms637@hum.ku.dk
Submission deadline: March 1st 2013.
Arrangement committee:
Jack Andersen, PhD, Pro-rector and Head of Department, Royal
School of Library and Information Science. jan@iva.dk
Sune Auken, Dr.Habil., Research Group for Genre Studies,
Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics, Head of the PhD
School, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. auken@hum.ku.dk
Susanne Kemp, PhD Student, Department of Scandinavian Studies
and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. fms637@hum.ku.dk