** CALL FOR PAPERS **

The 4th Conference of the European Narratology Network

April 16 to 18, 2015
Pre-Conference Doctoral Master Class April 14 and 15, 2015
Ghent, Belgium
http://www.enn4.ugent.be

Confirmed keynote speakers: Thomas Pavel (University of Chicago), Monika Fludernik (University of
Freiburg), David Herman (Durham University)

Confirmed speaker doctoral master class: Jan Christoph Meister (University of Hamburg)

ENN 4 Baseline: Modelling Narrative across Borders

Narratologists are increasingly faced with the situation that the concept of narrative varies widely across
borders. This is a happy circumstance for the relevance and vitality of narratological concepts. At the
same time, however, this situation means that any easy lateral compatibility of concepts such as
narrator, (un)reliability, focalization, etc. across different media such as the printed book, film or
the digital media, among others, can no longer be taken for granted. Carrying on with the debates that
got underway at the 2013 Paris conference, ENN 4 will address these issues by exploring conceptual
models and inputs from various disciplines and methodologies such as rhetoric and stylistics, but also
more recent developments including the cognitive sciences, media studies, the digital humanities and
many more. In doing so, the ENN aims to act as an on-going forum for discussing narrative theory across
borders conceptual, disciplinary, national, cultural, historical.

Paper submission and selection procedure

Deadline for submission of panels: September 1, 2014
Deadline for submission of proposed papers or posters (200 words): October 1, 2014

Abstracts present a theoretical outlook (and if applicable: a case study) and should contain title,
authors name and affiliation.
Pre-organized panels for consideration should additionally contain
- a summary paragraph along with proposed session title
- name of a panel chair (this may be one of the speakers)
- abstracts of 3 or max 4 papers per panel
For a poster, please submit a 200-word abstract and a CV. There will be separate poster
sessions.

Send submissions to the conference organisation committee via

enn4@ugent.be (please write ENN Conference: Submission in the subject line.)

Acceptances will be sent out by November 15, 2014
Registration for the Conference will open on November 15, 2014
Deadline for registration: January 10, 2015
Registration fee: 165 PhD students: 85

In order to take part in the conference, participants must be members of the ENN.
To register as a member, please consult the ENN website How to join the ENN

http://www.narratology.net/join-ENN

The official languages of the Conference are English, French and German.
The Pre-conference and Conference will take place at Ghent University, Belgium.

Pre-Conference Doctoral Seminar April 14 and 15, 2015

In conjunction with the 4th Conference of the European Narratology Network, a new pre-conference
doctoral seminar on interdisciplinary narrative theory will be offered. The seminar will feature as
confirmed speaker Professor Jan Christoph Meister (Hamburg University). The master class will be
devoted partly to the theoretical discussion of narratological parameters and partly to the application of
these parameters to (automated) narrative analysis. It will involve a hands-on introduction to tools for
computational narratology and collaborative narratological annotation (in cooperation with the Ghent
Centre for Digital Humanities @GhentCDH ).

Applicants for participation in the seminar (who must be enrolled as doctoral students in a degree-
granting institution during the 2014-2015 academic year) doing research on any topic of narrative
relevance in any medium are eligible.
Prospective participants are asked to send a 2- to 3-page description of their doctoral research together
with their rsums and name of institution to the following address: enn4@ugent.be. Please write ENN
Conference: Master Class in the subject line. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2014.

Ph.D. students completing the course will receive a diploma. The course counts as 2 ECTS.
Price: The course is free of charge, but participants will need to pay the (student) conference registration
fee to

Further information and links

Inquiries concerning the conference can be sent to enn4@ugent.be

Main conference convenor: Prof. Gunther Martens (Ghent University).

For more information, visit the conference website (under construction):

http://www.enn4.ugent.be

Check back soon for additional information concerning accommodation etc.

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