Call for papers – ELO 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, PANELS, ARTWORKS We invite artists, researchers, scholars, PhD candidates, experts and practitioners to submit works, papers, case studies, and media artefacts for presentation at the festival and in the main Conference venue. Possible submissions: papers (presentations), short papers (lightning talks), panels (group presentations or lightning talks), posters and media artefacts. Please submit an abstract for any possible proposal ( click here to submit ). Deadlines: Abstract submission: 7 January 2022 January 31 (no more reschedules) Abstract/panel acceptance: March 7 March 15 Full paper submission: April 25 Conference starts: May 30 Accepted abstracts will be presented in the parallel sessions/tracks of the Conference and full papers will be published in the proceedings of the Conference. The conference organizing committee will provide a selection of the best papers to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. E2Lit: Education and Electronic Literature THEME RATIONALE Forms of fiction and literature underwent a process of disembodiment and cross-fertilization during the revolution from the Gutenberg Galaxy — printed paper, mass distribution — to the McLuhan Galaxy — new media, hypertext, collaborative writing — (Castells, 2003). The dimension of literacy has moved from a semiotically-measured geometry (De Saussure, 1916; Hjelmslev, 1969) to a dislocation and a deconstruction of contents and channels that give expression to new products (Derrida, 1974; Landow, 1994; Bolter & Grusin, 1999). The impact of social media on narratology has redefined the meaning of readership and authorship. The author not only loses his/her traditional role, but becomes an icon of himself/herself, a collective-minded producer that is self-perceived through the extro-flexed eye of the amniotic network in which he/she defines his/her narrative experience (De Kerckhove, 2003). This conference seeks to shed light on digital literature according to the epistemological crisis of authorship and the new dimension of participation and relationship offered by both the Web and new media. The conference will offer keynote speeches and talks to examine specific case studies. Moving from the state of the art, the aim is to investigate the interdisciplinary relations in the field of electronic literature, in order to favour a pattern recognition about theories, technologies, and social dimensions of the phenomena to offer a critical toolkit to understand and map out the emerging knowledge and practices created by this field and the multifaceted dimension of education. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following conference’s tracks: E-lit as Digital Humanities : Digital layers, multifaceted comprehension patterns and critical thought to redefine the e-lit dimension in educative environments. Education beyond the (e)book : The possibilities of participatory culture in educational environments. How can e-lit promote values like democracy, pluralism, participation, diversity and sustainability… Coding education : the use of e-lit to set up essential skills to adapt to the digital age. E-practitioning : Literature and digital practices at crossroads. We are platforms : Rethinking e-lit and its educative role and collaborative practices after the emergence of the pandemic. AIrchive and UXPoetry : E-lit and its preservation between Artificial Intelligence and the need of a new poetic of user experience (UX). Digital Heterotopies : The possibilities within e-lit to present, criticize and denounce everyday social rhetoric. Education on diversity and sustainability : E-lit as cultural practice to educate about integration, gender respectfulness and global sustainability. Politics and Policies : Education on e-lit as a framework for civic engagement and civil society. STEAM- punk : The cross-fertilization among STEAM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics) and the different approaches to e-lit culture. Polysemy and synaesthesia : E-lit forms and works to open a different perspective of meaning and knowledge across multisensorial and plural dimensions of understanding. Electronic Opificium : The Aesthetics of Tech. Experiments and handcrafted works to revitalize the idea behind literature and its digital possibilities. Interdisciplinary contributions are especially welcome. POSSIBLE SUBMISSIONS Papersto be presented and published Submission: 500 words abstract. Full paper submissions should be at most 3500 words long. Abstract accepted can be presented at the conference (15-min presentation). Full paper will be also published in the proceedings (open access publication). Lightning Talksto be presented Submission: 50-100 words descriptions of individual 5-7 minute talks. Lightnings Talks can be presented at the conference in specific panels (7-min presentation). The abstracts of the Lightning Talks will be presented in the proceedings. Postersfor in-presence and online exhibition Submission: 250-word (max) proposal. Full poster submission: 1- page poster – format A2 To be presented during the in-presence exhibition and the online permanent exhibition (elo2022 website poster section). A miniature of the posters will be presented in the proceedings. Panelsfor paper presentations Submission: 250-word overview plus 250-word individual abstracts. A proposal for a complete panel has to include 3 or 4 separate papers on the same general topic. The full papers presented in the panels will be published in the proceedings (open access). Panel: 90 minutes. Lightining Talks Panelsfor short presentations Submission: 250 word overview plus 50-100 word descriptions of individual 5-7 minute talks. A proposal for a complete lightning talks panel has to include 4-6 participants on the same general topic. Lightning Talks panel: 90 minutes. SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL CONFERENCE IN-PRESENCE and ONLINE 15_MINUTES PAPER PRESENTATIONS 7_MINUTES LIGHTNING TALKS 90_MINUTES PANELS 45_MINUTES KEYNOTES CONTACT US Feel free to contact us for the main venue in Como (Italy) or for the other connected activities of the partners. ELO 2022 ConferenceMain Venue and Call for Papers Organization Headquarter Collegio Gallio Via Tolomeo Gallio, 1 22100 Como (Italy) Mail: info@elo2022.com Managing Team H-Studies Research Group University of Jyväskylä Seminaarinkatu 15 FI-40014 Jyväskylä (Finland) Mail: info@hstudies.com Connected EventsELO 2022 Partners' initiatives Finland – University of Jyväskylä finland@elo2022.com Japan – Nagoya University japan@elo2022.com Arab Academic Inst. of Education/Arab Union for Internet Writers aaie@elo2022.com Brazil – Federal University of São Carlos / Santa Catarina brazil@elo2022.com