CFP: Transmediations! Communication across Media Borders

Call for papers
The Linnæus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) invites researchers and research students to attend the conference Transmediations! Communication across Media Borders arranged at Linnæus University, campus Växjö, Sweden, 13–15 October 2016 (from Thursday 9.30 am to Saturday 4 pm).

The conference Transmediations! will include keynote speeches by Gunther Kress, João Queiroz, and Marie-Laure Ryan.

Official language of the conference is English. Each paper will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Proposals for both individual papers and preconfigured sessions of two or three papers are welcome. There will be a strict selection of papers. As our goal is to attract participants from a broad area of research, papers and session with a marked interdisciplinary approach will be prioritized.

Call for papers in full (can also be found on the conference website)
Conference website

Please send your abstract (around 300 words, including an informative title and a short bio) to ims@lnu.se. The conference fee is 100€, which will cover lunches, a conference dinner, and other arrangements.

Welcome!

Please note that Linnæus University will be releasing a new homepage on February 15, 2016. As a result the current conference page will also be moved, but can continuously be reached on the direct link http://lnu.se/transmediations

Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2016.
Notification of acceptance: 18 March 2016.
Publication of preliminary conference program: 3 June 2016.
Deadline for registration and conference fee: 1 September 2016.