Interdisciplinary conference: Urban Symbolic Landscapes: Power, Language, Memory

[Magda Romera]

Mar, ¿has visto este anuncio de conferencia? Estoy pensando en que se podría
mandar algo relacionado con el género y los espacios urbanos para el mismo.
Hablamos, igual podríamos hacer algo divertido, hmmm!
M./

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Barbara Johnstone <bj4 at andrew.cmu.edu>wrote:

> *** Please circulate. Apologies for cross-postings. ****
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Urban Symbolic Landscapes: Power, Language, Memory
> International symposium, University of Helsinki, 3-5 May 2011
>
> The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies invites the submission of
> paper proposals for its cross-disciplinary symposium on urban symbolic
> landscapes. The symposium targets, inter alia, scholars in
> linguistics, geography, history, political science, anthropology, and
> sociology. The event is co-organised with the Department of Politics
> and Economic Studies and the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and
> Scandinavian Studies at the University of Helsinki.
>
> In recent years, the entanglements of power, language and space have
> become increasingly popular topics in the academia. The symposium aims
> to contribute to the recently burgeoned cross-disciplinary research on
> the symbolic and linguistic aspects of urban spaces and processes. In
> particular, institutional strategies, marketing aspirations and
> everyday meanings associated with past and contemporary cities will be
> addressed at the symposium in ways that are attuned to the operation
> of various forms of power.
>
> We invite presentations that deal particularly with the following three
> foci:
>
> - Spaces of/for Linguistic Identities
> - Power, Space and Memory
> - Urban Symbols and Marketing
>
> These topics can be approached from a variety of perspectives. The
> symposium will host three thematic sessions. In them, attention will
> be paid to the above dimensions of power, language and memory in the
> symbolic construction of cities and urban places.
>
> If you would like to present a paper at the symposium, please send
> your abstract (max. 300 words) to urbanlandscapes-2011 at helsinki.fi by
> 17 January 2011. Abstracts will be reviewed by the symposium's
> scientific committee. You will be notified by 1 February 2011 whether
> your paper has been accepted. By March 2011, we will also send you
> more detailed information on the symposium's program and practical
> arrangements. The conference will begin on 3 May at 2pm with one of
> the keynote speeches and end by 1pm on 5 May.
>
> The symposium language is English.
>
> Invited keynote speakers:
>
> - Maoz Azaryahu from the University of Haifa, Israel
> - Barbara Johnstone from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US /
> Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
>
> Prof. Azaryahu's research includes the geographies of national myths
> and public memory in different national settings, landscapes of
> popular culture, and the cultural history of places and landscapes. In
> particular, his studies on street names as political symbols have
> played a key role in bringing to the forefront more critical analyses
> of naming and language in the disciplines of geography and history.
>
> Prof. Johnstone is a sociolinguist, whose research record covers a
> wide-ranging spectrum of topics relevant to the symposium, from the
> relationship of language and space, discourse analytic methods and the
> role of the individual in language and linguistic theory to the
> rhetorical construction of place and local identities through
> discourses about local speech.
>
> The symposium fee is 80 euros. It includes a conference lunch, a
> banquet reception and refreshments during coffee breaks.
>
> Coordinator and contact person:
>
> - Jani Vuolteenaho, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies,
> University of Helsinki, email: jani.vuolteenaho[at]helsinki.fi
>
> Other members of the organising committee:
>
> - Prof. Jan-Ola Östman (Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and
> Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki)
> - Dr. Emilia Palonen (Department of Political and Economic Studies,
> University of Helsinki)
> - Dr. Johanna Vaattovaara (Language Centre & Department of Finnish,
> Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki)
>
>
> --
> Barbara Johnstone
> Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics/Director of Graduate Studies
> Department of English
> Carnegie Mellon University
> 5000 Forbes Ave.
> Baker Hall 259
> Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
> bj4 at andrew.cmu.edu
> http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/
>



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Dra. Magdalena Romera
Dpto. de Filología Española
Universidad de las Islas Baleares
Ctra de Valldemossa Km. 7.5
E-07122 Palma de Mallorca (Baleares)
SPAIN

E-mail: mromera at uib.es
Tel.: (+34) 971- 17 28 65
Fax.: (+34) 971- 17 34 73
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