Frontiers in Comparative Metrics IV

Kalle Paalits bänner

Call for papers

Frontiers in Comparative Metrics IV

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The conference Frontiers in Comparative Metrics IV will be held on September 16-17, 2022, in Tallinn. It is organized by the Departments of Classics and Semiotics at the University of Tartu and the Department of Cultural Theory at Tallinn University. The language of the conference is English.

Conference venue: Tallinn University, Mare building, room M-648, Uus-Sadama 5, 10120, Tallinn
https://www.tlu.ee/en/campus

 

Registration form

 

Conference program

 

We invite proposals for papers on the following topics:

  •     Statistical method in verse studies
  •     Automatized analysis of versification
  •     Theory and typology of verse forms
  •     Comparative metrics: theory and interpretations
  •     Frontiers in Indo-European and Fenno-Ugric metrics
  •     Non-European poetic systems
  •     Prosody and poetics of oral versification
  •     Semantics of metre and rhythm
  •     Rhythmification of prose
  •     Dramatic verse in original and in translation
  •     Poetic forms in translation

Other proposals for papers that are related to the usual themes of the conference are also welcome.
The time allotted for each speaker is 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion).

The already-accepted abstracts will be kept for the September 2022 conference. If you wish to submit, replace or update your abstract(s), please send it by April 15, 2022 to maria.lotman@ut.ee. Be sure to include your contact info and details with your abstract (first name, last name, title, email, affiliation, field of research, postal address, and phone number).

Acceptance for the new participants will be notified personally via email by June 30, 2022.

Book of abstracts

Keynote speakers

Barry Scherr, Darthmouth College
Igor Pilshchikov, UCLA
Frog, University of Helsinki

Honorary speaker

Marina Tarlinskaja, University of Washington

Participation fee

75 EUR, free for students and Eastern European participants

Publication of Papers

After the conference, the papers presented can be submitted for publication in Studia Metrica et Poetica (an open access journal published by the University of Tartu Press and indexed by the Web of Science and Scopus).

Organizing committee

Mihhail Lotman
Maria-Kristiina Lotman
Igor Pilshchikov
Mikhail Trunin