Fwd: CFP: Winter School "Transmedial Worlds in Convergent Media Culture"

From: Jan-Noel Thon <[email protected]>

Call for Papers/Call for Participation

Transmedial Worlds in Convergent Media Culture

Winter School at the Graduate Academy of the University of Tuebingen,
Germany
February 24th to February 28th, 2014

In the last few decades, media conglomerates’ move from vertical to
horizontal integration in concert with a number of technological
innovations have led to an increasingly convergent media culture. One of
the more interesting symptoms of this development seems to be the continued
rise of complex entertainment franchises that transgress media borders,
arranging narrative texts, films, television series, comics, and video
games (among others) into highly interconnected entertainment experiences
as well as facilitating the participation of fans in the negotiation and
re-appropriation of transmedial meaning(s).

Recent examples of these instances of ‘transmedia storytelling’ (Henry
Jenkins) or ‘transmedial worlds’ (Lisbeth Klastrup and Susana Tosca)
include the many installments of the novel-based franchises The Lord of the
Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire, the movie-based franchises Star Wars and
Indiana Jones, the television series-based franchises Lost and Breaking
Bad, the comics-based franchises Batman and Spiderman or the video
game-based franchises Tomb Raider and Warcraft. While these cases are
comparatively well-known, many transmedial franchises have not yet received
sufficient attention.

The Winter School “Transmedial Worlds in Convergent Media Culture” aims to
examine the forms and functions of a wide variety of transmedial worlds
from a range of different (inter-)disciplinary perspectives. To complement
the keynotes on salient aspects of the Winter School’s theme, we hereby
warmly invite junior researchers--advanced M.A. students, PhD students, and
Post-Docs-—to present their own research projects in the form of 15-minute
papers during a number of thematically focused workshops that connect to
the keynotes and are chaired by the keynote speakers.


Confirmed Keynote Speakers
• Espen Aarseth
• Benjamin Beil
• Jens Eder
• Elizabeth Evans
• Lisbeth Klastrup
• Susanne Marschall
• Stephan Packard
• Bernard Perron
• Marie-Laure Ryan
• Klaus Sachs-Hombach
• Jan-Noël Thon
• Susana Tosca

Possible Topics for Paper Presentations
• Transmedial Worlds and Theories of Authorship/Cultural Production
• Transmedial Worlds and Theories of Fiction/Representation
• Transmedial Worlds and Theories of Participatory Practices/Fan Cultures
• Case Studies of Film- or Television-Based Transmedial Worlds
• Case Studies of Comic- or Graphic Novel-Based Transmedial Worlds
• Case Studies of Video Game- or Web-Based Transmedial Worlds


Please send proposals (including a 300-word abstract and a 100-word bio)
for 15-minute papers via email (as a PDF or Word-Document) to
[email protected] no later than October 31th, 2013.

For M.A. and PhD students, a limited number of travel grants up to 500,- €
is available. Please indicate if you want to apply for a travel grant and
whether your participation is or is not contingent on receiving it.

A publication of the keynotes and a selection of additional papers is
planned for late 2014/early 2015.

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