The purpose of the conference was to describe the relationship between the state-of-the-art in modern genre scholarship and the founding theoretical texts of decades ago in order to discover what is new in genre scholarship and map out the roads available to further research. At the same time the conference aimed further international and national collaboration within genre studies and examine the possibilities inherent in the fundamentally interdisciplinary character of the research field. Arranged the conference and held an "Emergency Keynote"-lecture when one of our keynotes cancelled at immediately before the coference.