Our meeting will be devoted to exploring the main problems of contemporary literary culture. Embracing the foundational principles of Stefan Żółkiewski and equally foundational, though alternative, suggestions by Janusz Sławiński, we perceive it as an integral part of global social/cultural communication (the roles of writers, models, and the circulation of literature) along with specialized infrastructure (publishing, institutions, magazines/media, the literary market – the so-called literary life). It is also a dynamic system of author-reader relations and a set of dispositions/skills (knowledge, taste, competence) enabling a sense-making engagement with literary texts.

The fundamental research question here would be the functioning of broadly understood literary culture in the new space of social communication dominated by the internet and digital media. Therefore, we are interested in attempting to answer questions such as: who is the contemporary reader, immersed in the online environment?; how do authors define themselves and how do narratives about creative activity function socially?; what does literary life (the infrastructure of literary communication) look like currently?; how is literary culture (understood as a set of skills in dealing with literary texts) present in modern education and teaching?

We invite proposals on the following thematic areas:

1. E-textuality: virtual creations of authors, narratives about creativity (autopoiesis) in contemporary literature, (im)materiality of text on the internet.

2. Literature – what does it mean in the online "here and now"? (definition, role, functions); reception as a way of defining "literariness" (does what we read/reward as "literature" become "literature"?); the specificity of contemporary literary audiences, the sociology of literature.

3. Institutions of literary life today: literary magazines, societies and other forms of associations, literary awards, libraries – reconfiguration in the context of civilizational, social, technological, cultural, economic transformations, etc.

4. Literary culture in contemporary education: the role and significance of new technologies in teaching literature and the Polish language; students as recipients and creators.

The publication of post-conference texts is planned in the "Media and Society" journal (70 points).

A conference fee of PLN 250 (on-site participation) and PLN 120 (online participation) applies, to be made after receiving confirmation of acceptance.

Please submit presentation proposals (title and abstract) by December 15, 2023, to the email address: kult_liter@ubb.edu.pl