Symposium "Acts of Writing"
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- Symposium "Acts of Writing"
- 2025-06-04T00:00:00+02:00
- 2025-06-06T23:59:59+02:00
Jun 04, 2025 to Jun 06, 2025 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
Find the schedule and more at this link!
Call for Abstracts
This symposium seeks contributions that will provide new perspectives on the acts or practices of writing. We want to foster a creative and collaborative dialogue amongst our participants and are specifically looking for papers that are not necessarily focus so much on what is in a published text, but the individual, cultural, and material processes that precede and produce it.
Themes that may be discussed include, but are not limited to:
• Historical perspectives on writing and writing professions
• The work of
Aufschreibesysteme (Friedrich Kittler’s ‘discourse networks’)
• Writing cultures and professions
• Didactic, cognitive, and material/technological processes of writing
• Ideas of authorship and the performativity of writing
• Serial writing, collaborative writing, and (cultural) translation
• The ‘spaces’ of writing, i.e. the field, the desk, the library, etc.
• The power and politics of writing acts, i.e. disruptive or founding texts such as the
American Declaration of Independence
• Acts of writing in religious traditions (script, scripture, sacred text)
• New forms of publishing, self-publishing
• Multimodal writing
• The advent of AI and writing in the digital world
• Changes to and in academic writing