Image&Word

The MAD-faculty (KHLim and PHL) is one of the organizers of the 4th Screenwriting Research Network Conference on 8, 9 and 10 September 2011, in Brussels. “Beyond Boundaries: Screenwriting Across Media” is the topic of this fourth conference.

We would like to invite submissions on (but not limited to) these topics:

- Screenwriting history research (and archiving)
- Theorizing screenwriting and the screenplay
- Rethinking screenwriting in intercultural perspective
- New approaches to developing the screen idea

• Non-linguistic screenplays (video-art, comics, etc.)
• Writing for television: tv-series nowadays seem to be the avant-garde of narrative experimentation
• Transmedial scriptwriting: coping with medium-specific features
• Screenwriting for animation; how it differs from traditional screenwriting

- Pedagogics of screenwriting: can it be taught? And how? Also: practice as research and how to teach screenwriting theory and practice within an academic or practice based contex
- How theory and practice of screenwriting can collaborate for better screenwriting: panel (meeting/discussion) between theoreticians and practitioners

Confirmed keynote speakers:

- David Bordwell (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Steven Price (Bangor University)
- Marida di Crosta (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)

Read more about the Screenwriting Research Network or the entire call for papers (Word document).

The eighth in a series of biennial international and interdisciplinary symposia organized by the Iconicity Research Project since 1997, this meeting will once again focus on iconicity – understood as form miming meaning and form, and meaning miming form and meaning – in language and in literature. It will especially welcome proposals for papers dedicated to the issues of intermediality and multimodality, discussing iconicity mediated by, for instance, different material, sensorial and spatiotemporal modes. Previous symposia have, on the one hand, concentrated on iconicity as a driving force in language on all grammatical levels, on language acquisition, and on language change. On the other hand, they have addressed the various mimetic uses of more concrete and creative iconic images and/or more abstract iconic diagrams and metaphors at all levels of the literary text, in both narrative and poetic forms, and on all varieties of discourse (literary texts, historical texts, political texts, advertising, language and music, word and image, etc.). These possibilities remain open for the 2011 symposium.

Call for Papers: Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture
PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Joint Conference, April 20-23, 2011, San Antonio, TX

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