The Nordic Society for Metrical Studies (NordMetrik) & Østfold University College
are happy to invite you to The 12th Nordic conference on Metrics
Metrical Studies Today: Topics, Tools and Theories
an international conference
hosted by Østfold University College, Halden, Norway
16 - 18 June 2010
The 1st Nordic conference on Metrics was arranged in Gothenburg 1987 under the heading "Metrics Today", aiming at gathering Nordic scholars from various disciplines to show samples of the most vital research within the field of metrics and versification. A good two decades later it is time to take stock again: what is the status of Metrical Studies today?
The conference would like to encourage a discussion of how metrical studies respond to the developments of contemporary poetry, popular culture and digitalization as well as to new knowledge and theories within the fields of cognitive science, semiotics, linguistics, phonology and aesthetic disciplines such as musicology and performance studies.
Central questions will be:
• In what ways are metrics and concepts of versification affected by recent developments within cognitive studies?
• How can metrics refine its analytical models in order to improve their explanatory adequacy such as to better account for prosodic variation and complexity?
• What are the impacts of visual and concrete poetry on versification studies?
• In what ways has digital technology affected metrical analysis?
• To what extent have contemporary cultural phenomena such as hip-hop, rap and slam poetry re-actualised metrics as a scholarly discipline?
• In what ways may new-classical and new-formalist tendencies in contemporary poetry affect versification studies?
• How do translation practice and theory benefit from prosodic knowledge?
Invited keynote speakers (confirmed):*
Reuven Tsur, Tel Aviv University
Maria-Kristiina Lotman, University of Tartu
Frank Kjørup, University of Copenhagen
Anne Danielsen, University of Oslo
Other scholars will present 25 minute papers in English.
Advisory committee:
Professor Eva Lilja, Göteborg
Professor Tomas Riad, Stockholm
Assoc. Prof. Sissel Furuseth, Trondheim
Contact person:
Jon D. Orten, Associate Professor
Høgskolen i Østfold/ Østfold University College
NO-1757 Halden, Norway
jon.orten@hiof.no
Halden is a town situated at the Norwegian-Swedish border (http://www.visithalden.com/) between Oslo (ca. 120 km) and Gothenburg (ca. 200 km) and can easily be reached by train. Most airlines offer flights to Oslo Airport Gardermoen. Norwegian and Ryanair even have flights to Moss Lufthavn Rygge (http://www.en.ryg.no/), located 55 km from Halden.
The conference starts on 16 June with lunch and ends on 18 June in the afternoon. The conference dinner will be on 17 June.
Conference registration
You register by paying and filling in the Registration form.
Payment details:
NOK 500 (conference fee) or NOK 850 (conference fee plus conference dinner) to
Bank: DnB-NOR, Norway, account - IBAN: NO1476940500571, BIC (Swift address): DNBANOKK
Payment from within Norway, account no:76940500571. Mark the payment:
"Halden Conference 00104". Registration is open until 7 June.
In case of special dietary requirements for the conference dinner, please e-mail jon.orten@hiof.no
Updated practical information will be posted at the home page of the conference: http://hiof.no/metricalstudies
The conference is sponsored by the Faculty of Business, Languages and Social Sciences at Østfold University College.
Conference accommodation
To get the prices quoted below, please inform the hotel at the time of booking that you will attend the Halden conference at Østfold University College 16-18 June.
KASERNA, Fredriksten Fortress.
Single room with breakfast NOK 525.
Double room with breakfast NOK 700,-
Phone: +47 928 64 797
Email: post@kaserna.no
Web: www.kaserna.no
Grand Hotell, Halden, next to the train station:
15 percent discount on NOK 950 for a single room and on NOK 1150 for a double room per night, including breakfast buffet. Phone: +47 69 18 72 00 , fax 69 18 79 59. Email: grandhotell@halden.net or post@grandhotell.net.
Thon Hotel, Halden, a new hotel in the town centre:
NOK 1115 per room, incl. breakfast buffet, double room, incl. breakfast NOK 1415.Phone/fax: +47 69 21 33 00/01. halden.booking@thonhotels.no
Web: www.thonhotels.no
Park Hotel, Halden, within walking distance from the college: NOK 995 for a single room and NOK 1295 for a double room per night including breakfast. This includes free internet, free parking and free access to the sauna/fitness area. Phone: 69211500. Fax 69211501. Email: info@park-hotel.no Web: www.park-hotel.no
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* Reuven Tsur is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature at Tel Aviv University. He has developed a comprehensive theory of Cognitive Poetics, including a theory on versification, and is probably best known for his books Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics (1992/2008) and Poetic Rhythm: Structure and Performance (1998). He was awarded the 2009 Israel Prize in the category "General Literature", for his contributions to Cognitive Poetics and Poetic Prosody.
- Maria-Kristiina Lotman is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Tartu. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2003 with a thesis on "Iambic trimeter: versification systems, metre, rhythm, semantics" (in Estonian), is co-editor of the on-line journal Studia Humaniora Tartuensia and organized the international conference Frontiers in Comparative Metrics (2008).
- Frank Kjørup is the author of Sprog versus sprog (in Danish, 2002) and co-editor of the journal Cognitive Semiotics' special volume on Cognitive Poetics (Spring 2008), in which he has contributed to the theoretical understanding of enjambment and so-called run-on lines, i.e. verse-syntactic heteromorphy. Kjørup is also a poet (Edition After Hand, Århus).
- Anne Danielsen is Professor in Popular Music Studies and Head of Research in the Dept. of Musicology, University of Oslo. She has published articles on rhythm, groove and sound production in post-war African-American popular music, and is the author of Presence and Pleasure: The funk grooves of James Brown and Parliament (Wesleyan
University Press, 2006), for which she received the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music. She is also the editor of the forthcoming anthology called Musical Rhythm in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Ashgate, 2010). From 2010 she is a member of the editorial board of Music Theory Spectrum.
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