11^th CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF LITERATURE AND RELATED MEDIA

(IGEL WORKSHOP)

JULY 6, 10AM–3PM	Coh-Metrix, by Danielle McNamara, Art Graesser, Max Louwerse, Zhiqiang Cai, Phil McCarthy, and Moongee Jeon (FIT 405)
JULY 7, 10AM–3PM	Text and discourse classification, by Doug Biber (FIT 405)
JULY 8, 10AM–3PM	Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC), by Cindy Chung and Jamie Pennebaker (FIT 405)

TUESDAY JULY 8

4PM–6PM	Registration (FIT lobby)	Demo session of computer analyses of text and discourse (FIT 410)
6PM–7PM	Opening of the conference (Methodist Presentation Theatre)
7PM–9PM	Opening reception (FIT lobby)	Optional demos of computer analyses of text and discourse (FIT 410)

WEDNESDAY JULY 9

8.30AM–9AM	Coffee (FIT lobby)
9AM–10.30AM	KEYNOTE SPEAKER Douglas Biber Using corpus-based analysis to study fictional style: A multi-dimensional analysis of variation among and within novels (Methodist Presentation Theatre) Chair: Max Louwerse
10.30AM–10.45AM	Coffee (FIT lobby)
10.45AM–12.25PM	LITERATURE AND INSTRUCTION (FIT 314) Chair: Marisa Bortolussi Harry Potter’s success—Design and results of an empirical reader study in German bookstores (Silvia Lafontaine) Conceptualizing and composing poetry: Developmental trends in adolescence (Theanna Bischoff, Ravi Thiruchselvam, & Joan Peskin) Deep-level reasoning questions in multimedia presentations: Vicarious learning in high school classrooms (Joah Williams, Joshua Brittingham & Scotty Craig, Wayne Mullins, Darrell Barnes, & Barry Gholson) Hypersegmentation in Brazilian children’s early narratives: A preliminary study (Jane Correa, Sonia Zyngier, & Julie E. Dockrell)	EMOTION I (FIT 316) Chair: Jan Auracher Hedonic response to ambiguity in fiction (Jonathan Leavitt & Nicholas Christenfeld) P for happiness / N for sadness—Universals in sound-symbolism to detect emotions in poetry (Jan Auracher, Sabine Albers, Yuhui Zhai, Gulnara Abdrafikova, & Tetjana Stavniychuk) Responding to Poe: A cross-cultural study (Anna Chesnokova, Samantha Nero, Nataliya Peshko, Juliana Jandre, & Vander Viana) Then somebody appeared: Scenarios, character under-specification, and narrative interest (Catherine Emmott, Anthony J. Sanford, & Fiona M. Smith)
12.25PM–2PM	Lunch (FIT lobby)
2PM–3.40PM	COGNITION I (FIT 314) Chair: Danielle McNamara Mystic affect in readers of Rilke and Eliot (Paul Campbell) Creative metaphors foster attention during reading: Evidence from EEG studies (Jan Auracher) Language allergy: Myth or reality? (Mariya Sergeyeva & Anna Chesnokova)		EMOTION II (FIT 316) Chair: Art Graesser Readers’ response to vulgar language: A comparative study (Erika Coachman & Teresa Weigert) Methodologies to monitor the emotional responses of people while they interact with art (Sidney D’Mello & Art Graesser) Some men read like some women! Further findings from an experimental reception study about the emotional engagement of men and women when reading narrative texts (Oezen Odag) Sensing literature in the body: Empathy and the somatosensory system (Ellen Esrock)
3.40PM–4PM	Coffee (FIT lobby)
4PM–5.30PM	PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS Max Louwerse What literature is from a computational linguistic perspective (Methodist Presentation Theatre)
6.30PM–10.30PM	President’s banquet at the Brooks museum (bus picks up at FIT / drops off at Holiday Inn Hotel)

THURSDAY JULY 10

9.30AM–10AM	Coffee (FIT lobby)
10AM–11.30AM	KEYNOTE SPEAKER Roz Picard From Tin Man to Cyborg: Technology and emotional intelligence (Methodist Presentation Theatre) Chair: Art Graesser
11.30AM–11.45AM	Coffee (FIT lobby)
11.45PM–12.35PM	PERSONALITY (FIT 314) Chair: Wiliel van Peer Are the eyes of the beholders the same? Reactions of university students and workers to literary texts (Willie van Peer, Nabihe Aqiqi, & Sybille Kuda) Reading with a difference? Reading styles and strategies in relation to gender (Margrit Schreier, Oezen Odag, & Yvonne Thies-Brandner)	COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES I (FIT 316) Chair: Janos László Rue with a difference: A stylistic analysis of the rhetoric of suicide in Hamlet (Scott Crossley & Thomas Anderson) Visualizing patterns in literary stylistics (Meng Ji)
12.35PM–2PM	Lunch (FIT lobby)

2PM–3.15PM	THEORY OF MIND (FIT 314) Chair: Melanie Green Reader differences in the response to free indirect discourse in Middlemarch (Paul Sopcak, Don Kuiken, & David Miall) The need for social cognition (Jordan Carpenter & Melanie Green) **Outstanding Student Paper Award** Finding the mind’s construction in the face: Acting and theory of mind (Thalia Goldstein)	REDES SYMPOSIUM (FIT 316) Chair: Willie van Peer The international REDES project: Cultural networks (Anna Chesnokova & Juliana Jandre)
3.15PM–4PM	Coffee (FIT lobby)
4PM–5.30PM	Presentation Festschrift “Directions in Empirical Literary Studies. In Honor of Willie van Peer” (Methodist Presentation Theatre) (Art Graesser, Paul Sopcak, Erika Coachman, Vander Viana, Mariya Sergeyeva) Chair: Sonia Zyngier
5.30PM–7.30PM	Festschrift reception (FIT lobby)
7.30PM–9.30PM	Governing Board meeting

FRIDAY JULY 11

8.30AM–9AM	Coffee (FIT lobby)
9AM–10.40AM	COGNITION II (FIT 314) Chair: Catherine Emmott Gender and story evaluation (Marisa Bortolussi & Peter Dixon) Identification and implicatures (Peter Dixon & Marisa Bortolussi) Narrative empathy and inter-group relations (János László & Ildikó Somogyvári) Content and continuity: Investigating the multidimensional nature of situation models (Sara Gilliam, Joe Magliano, & Peter Foltz)	PEDAGOGY (FIT 316) Chair: Sonia Zyngier Providing artistic justifications to Chinese Modernist poetry through linguistic means (Yan Jiang) The metaphoric processing of poetic texts: A developmental intervention study (Joan Peskin & Rebecca Wells-Jopling) Poetic awareness and poetic code: A key to understanding foreign poetry? (Anna Chesnokova) The neverending reading: Mark Z. Danielewski’s “House of Leaves” and its readers (Maciej Maryl)
10.40AM–11AM	Coffee (FIT lobby)
11AM–12.40PM	COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES II (FIT 314) Chair: Joris van Zundert Lexical diversity and canonicity: A corpus-based approach to literature (Vander Viana, Natália Silveira, & Sonia Zyngier) A Coh-Metrix analysis: Is “Einstein’s Dreams” more like science or narrative? (Moongee Jeon, Art Graesser, & Zhiqiang Cai) Chapter to chapter coherence in fiction and non-fiction (Nick Benesh, Bin Zhang, & Max Louwerse) Bootstrapping empirical literary research at the Huygens Institute (Joris van Zundert & Karina van Dalen-Oskam)	FILM & TELEVISION (FIT 316) Chair: Luuk Lagerwerf The effects of film dramas and the influence of the viewer’s reception modes and coping strategies (Benedikt Till, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Arno Herberth, Gernot Sonneck, & Peter Vitouch) Narrative genres in TV commercials: An empirically established genre typology and viewers’ appreciation (Luuk Lagerwerf & Peter Vorderer) Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) and the hermeneutic spiral (Robert Belton)
12.40PM–2PM	Lunch (FIT lobby)
2PM–3PM	Business meeting and closing (Methodist Presentation Theatre)