21.2053, Calls: Anthro Ling, Discipline of Ling, Socioling/Tunisia

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Date: 29-Apr-2010
From: Mansour Khelifa < evaluation.sousse at laposte.net >
Subject: Value and Evaluation
 

	
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:26:56
From: Mansour Khelifa [evaluation.sousse at laposte.net]
Subject: Value and Evaluation

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Full Title: Value and Evaluation 

Date: 25-Nov-2010 - 27-Nov-2010
Location: Sousse, Tunisia 
Contact Person: Nessima Tarchouna
Meeting Email: evaluation.sousse at laposte.net

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics; 
Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-May-2010 

Meeting Description:

This international conference is meant to be an academic event which aims 
to address, from different perspectives, a host of issues relating to 
linguistics, cultural studies, literature, and literary criticism.

Venue: The English Department of the University of Sousse - Tunisia 

Call for Papers

Conference on Value and Evaluation
English Department, University of Sousse
25, 26, 27 November 2010

Since the coming of the new millennium and the advancing globalization of 
our contemporary world, issues of value and evaluation in descriptions and 
discussions of cultural production and activity have become even more 
urgent and complex than they were previously. The English Department of 
the University of Sousse welcomes papers in the fields of linguistics, 
civilization, and literature that examine the extent to which 'value and/or 
evaluation' are crucial, even controversial dimensions of the pedagogical 
experience and the world beyond the walls of academia.

Even a shortlist of topics inspired by the often intertwined categories of 
value and evaluation suggests some of the varied directions that can be 
pursued: the relationship between interpretation and evaluation; cultural 
studies and moral evaluation; aesthetic value; aesthetic evaluation; value-
free scholarship; role of evaluation in linguistic theory; the devaluation and 
mechanization of language; assessment and evaluation; evaluation of 
cultural competence; culture-specific and culture-general values; pop 
culture; popular literature and sous genres (fantasy, science fiction, 
detective fiction, etc.); research methods in evaluation; research ethics; 
deconstructionism and the 'trans-valuation of all values'; hermeneutics; 
literary canonicity; ethical dimensions of literature; the value of cultural 
studies; the development of hybrid cultures; lifestyle choices; the influence 
of modernity/modernism; the influence of post-modernism/ post-modernity; 
evaluation of the content of civilization studies; political correctness; 
evaluation of the notion of multiculturalism; evaluation of the significance of 
identity markers (race, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion); imperialist 
assumptions in radical criticism; re-evaluation of Orientalism; ideologues of 
science/ideologues of religion; secular societies; the value of politically 
engaged intellectual work; etc.

Please send a short abstract (250 words) either by snail mail to : Pr. N. 
Tarchouna / Dr. M. Khelifa / Dept. of English / Faculté des Lettres & 
Sciences Humaines, 4029 Sousse B.P. : 547 - Tunisia, or by e-mail to: 
evaluation.sousse at laposte.net

The submission deadline is May 31, 2010
Participants will be notified by June 30, 2010
Date: 25, 26, 27 November 2010





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