International Conference on Literature & the Internet:
New Forms of Electronic Writing / Colloque International Litterature et Internet:
Nouvelles Formes d'Ecriture Electronique

15-16th March 2002

Programme subject to change.

Organised by:
The Sorbonne University (Paris IV) in collaboration with the trAce Online Writing Centre from The Nottingham Trent University (England) and 3am Magazine

Where: Sorbonne, Salle des Commissions, 46 rue Saint Jacques, 75005 Paris

Programme

Friday 15 March 2002
8h30 : Registration - Sorbonne, Salle des Commissions, 46 rue Saint Jacques, 75005 Paris

Chair: François Gallix (Paris IV - Sorbonne)
9h : Sue Thomas (Nottingham Trent University, Director of trAce): " Identity Crisis: How is the Web Changing Writing and Writers ? "

9h30 : Friedrich v. Borries (Technical University, Berlin): " Narrative in Public Space : The Berlin Urban Diary. "

10h : Andrew and Simon Stokes (solicitors, London): " Authorship, Collaboration and Copyright: A View from the U.K. "

10h30 : Coffee Break

11h : Sophie Aymes (London): " Literary Websites: New Media for Pre-Internet Artists (Mervyn Peake and Wyndham Lewis). "

11h30 : Adrienne Eisen (author, New York): " What Clicks: Teaching Students to Write for the Internet. "

12h-14h : Lunch

Chair : Vanessa Guignery (Paris IV - Sorbonne)
14h : Jacques Coulardeau (Paris II - Assas): " The Plant, by Stephen King: a Metaphor of a Local Area Network. "

14h30 : Tom Bradley (Novelist) : "No Baudelaires in Babylon."

15h : Miranda Mowbray (Hewlett Packard Laboratories, U.K.): " Online Writing and the Global Distribution of Intellectual Property. "

15h30 : Coffee break

16h : Michela Ledwige (thequality.com, London):
" Beyond Hypertext : The Future of Web-based film making. "

16h30 : Dusan Velickovic (Yugoslavia): " Http Literary Generation and Political Repression. "

17h : Round table - questions.

Sorbonne, salle des commissions, 46 rue Saint Jacques, 75005 Paris

Saturday 16 March 2002

Chair: Andrew Gallix (Paris IV - Sorbonne)
8h30 : Leonard Schwartz (Bard College, USA): " New Babel : Undercutting Ultra-Nationalism. "

9h : Susana Pajares Tosca (I.T. university of Copenhagen): " Using Hypertext to Teach Literature. "

9h30 : Andy Campbell (Web Developer, U.K.): « Using Flash to Create New Imaginative Fiction. "

10h : Coffee break

10h30 : Alain Cazade (Paris IX - Dauphine) : " Multimedia and Poetry : today's parenthesis, to-morrow's mainstream? (David Jones's In Parenthesis). "

11h : Round table - online magazines:
David Applefield (Paris, Frank magazine)
Andrew Gallix (Paris IV - Sorbonne; 3am Magazine)
Wendy Perkins (Prince George's University, Maryland) internet writing

12h-14h : Lunch

Chair: Sue Thomas (Nottingham Trent University)
14h : Viviane Serfaty (University of Strasbourg III): " Online Diaries: Towards a Structural Approach. "

14h30 : Shaheed Fatima (Barrister, London): " Conceptual Blockbusting: Copyright in Cyberspace. "

15h : Chuck Guilford (Boise State University, USA): " Make it Online: Writing, Reading and Teaching Poetry on the World Wide Web. "

15h30 : Coffee break

16h : Einar Moos (Author): " Kant and the Metaphysics of the Internet. "

16h30 : Suzanne Ebel (Napier University, Edinburgh): " Is an Author a Person? "

17h : Round Table - questions.

17h30 : Cocktail

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