IGEL Summer Institute 

Interdisciplinary Empirical
Studies of Literature

July 30 - August 2

Sponsored by:

International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature

Association Internationale pour l'Etude Empirique de la Littérature

Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturwissenschaft

All sessions will be held in P226 Biological Sciences Bldg. at the University of Alberta

Program

Thursday, July 29

14:00-16:00	Registration
16:00-17:00	Introduction to the Structure of the Institute (Kuiken)
17:00-19:00	Reception

Friday, July 30

9:00-10:00	Experimentation involving Text Manipulation (Dixon)
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-11:30	Experimentation without Text Manipulation (Miall)
11:30-12:00	The Distinctiveness of Literary Texts (Dixon/Miall discussion)
12:00-13:00	Lunch and Informal Round Table Discussion: Interdisciplinary Research: Case Study I (Miall/Kuiken)
13:00-13:30	Approaches to Genre in Literary Theory (Bortolussi)
13:30-14:30	Empirical Studies of Genre (Dixon)
14:30-15:00	Forming Participant Research Groups
15:00-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-18:00	Faculty-guided Discussion in Research Groups: Identifying Common Objectives

Saturday, July 31

9:00-10:00	Research Design in Studies of Reading across Cultures (van Peer)
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-11:30	Interdisciplinary Studies of Reading Cultural History (Laszlo)
11:30-12:00	Methods in the Study of Reading Culture (van Peer/Laszlo discussion)
12:00-13:00	Lunch and Informal Round Table Discussion: Interdisciplinary Research: Case Study II (van Peer)
13:00-13:30	Archival Methods in Studies of the History of Reading (Miall)
13:30-14:00	Interpretations of the Reliability of Interpretation (Kuiken)
14:00-15:00	The Limitations of Significance Testing (Dixon)
15:00-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-18:00	Faculty-guided Discussion in Research Groups: Articulating Research Possibilities

Sunday, August 1

9:00-10:00	Qualitative/Quantitative Complementarity (Cupchik)
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-11:30	Qualitative/Quantitative Syntheses (Kuiken)
11:30-12:00	The Goals of Methodological Hybridity (Cupchik/Kuiken discussion)
12:00-13:00	Lunch and Informal Round Table Discussion: Interdisciplinary Research: Case Study III (Dixon/Bortolussi)
13:00-14:00	Narrative Content Analyses of Literary Texts (Laszlo)
14:00-15:00	Foregrounding Analyses of Literary Texts (van Peer)
15:00-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-18:00	Faculty-guided Discussion in Research Groups: Articulating Research Programs

Monday, August 2

9:00-10:00	Evaluation of the Curriculum: Undeveloped Possibilities?
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-11:30	Planning the IGEL Poster Session
11:30-12:00	Poster Design Tutorial
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-16:00	Poster Preparation