The Horizon of Reception Studies: Literature and Beyond
Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research Symposium
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Ben Gurion University
The Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics
This forum invites presentations by doctoral students and recent PhDs examining literature as part of a continuous range of other communicative and artistic media, focusing on the ‘receiving end’ of the communicative act: the reader, the viewer, or the listener. We will be particularly interested in exploring and debating how methodologies of reception study can be used to shed light on the myriad ways in which audiences make meaning out of diverse genres of mass communication, whether film, TV-series, talk-shows, news, songs, blogs, or fan fiction, as well as literature. Are there definable differences between how we should approach reception of textual, visual, or audio media (not to speak of the various combinations between them)? And can we achieve a new synthesis between theoretical insights in each field?
The symposium aims at bringing together scholars interested in audience and/or individual reception from all disciplines within the humanities and social sciences (literary scholars, historians and book historians, media and communication researchers, as well as psychologists and anthropologists - and this list is by no means closed) to share not only specific case studies, but also the methodological and theoretical challenges they encounter in their work. We hope that the interdisciplinary exchange will address some of these difficulties in innovative ways and allow researchers to move inquiry beyond disciplinary divides to find mutually beneficial concepts, ideas, and perhaps even collaborations.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
The symposium aims at bringing together scholars interested in audience and/or individual reception from all disciplines within the humanities and social sciences (literary scholars, historians and book historians, media and communication researchers, as well as psychologists and anthropologists - and this list is by no means closed) to share not only specific case studies, but also the methodological and theoretical challenges they encounter in their work. We hope that the interdisciplinary exchange will address some of these difficulties in innovative ways and allow researchers to move inquiry beyond disciplinary divides to find mutually beneficial concepts, ideas, and perhaps even collaborations.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- psychological and social aspects of reception
- the shifting place of literature among other media
- the history and the future of the alliance between literature and mass print
- social hierarchies, cultural and symbolic capital issues in reception
- “high-brow” and “low-brow” media orientations
- viewer-oriented vs. reader-oriented criticism and theories of reception
- reception and audiences of singer-songwriters vs. poets
- theorizing fan fiction and fan art as reception
- the usefulness and limitations of approaching reception of media as “consumption of media”
Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words as an attachment along with contact information, institutional affiliation, academic degree, email and phone number, by December 20, 2011 to shlomi.deloia@gmail.com and olga.kuminova@gmail.com
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