25.2418, Calls: Socioling, Philosophy of Lang, Historical Ling, Translation, General Ling/Finland

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Subject: 25.2418, Calls: Socioling, Philosophy of Lang, Historical Ling, Translation, General Ling/Finland

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Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:18:56
From: Nestori Siponkoski [nessip at uwasa.fi]
Subject: VAKKI Symposium 2015: Borders under Negotiation

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Full Title: VAKKI Symposium 2015: Borders under Negotiation 

Date: 12-Feb-2015 - 13-Feb-2015
Location: Vaasa, Finland 
Contact Person: Nestori Siponkoski
Meeting Email: symposium2015 at vakki.net
Web Site: http://www.uva.fi/en/sites/vakki/symposia/symposium2015/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2014 

Meeting Description:

The University of Vaasa Research Group for Translation, LSP and Multilingualism (VAKKI) arranges a Symposium on February 12-13, 2015 under the theme of Borders under Negotiation.

Keynote Speakers:

- Professor Jaakko Husa (Faculty of Law, University of Lapland) 
- Professor Helge Jordheim (Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo) 
- Professor Michael North (Department of History, University of Greifswald)

The working languages of the symposium are Finnish, Swedish, English and German.

The 2015 Symposium website can be found at:

http://www.uva.fi/en/sites/vakki/symposia/symposium2015/

Call for Papers:

We would like to welcome proposals for presentations and workshops which discuss the theme from different points of view, for example:

- The concept of border and its function
- Visible and invisible borders
- The construction, movement and breaking of borders
- The ethical dimensions of borders
- Research and boundaries: multi-, cross- and interdisciplinarity
- The boundaries of objectivity
- The boundaries of knowledge, understanding and expertise
- Drawing methodological boundaries
- The boundaries of linguistic variation
- Identity
- Borders and boundaries in time
- Spaces, borders and boundaries
- Multilingualism and multilingual communication
- Translating, translation and translator
- Interpreting, interpretation and interpreter
- The boundaries of genres and narration
- The boundaries of texts and their interpretation
- Multimodality
- Mediation and adaptation
- Transnationalism and hybridity

In addition to these, all proposals relating to VAKKI’s research fields are welcome.

Participants may contribute with a presentation (20 min + 5 min discussion) or a poster (the minimum size is A1, ca. 60 cm x 84 cm). The symposium also features workshops. The presentations will be compiled into a double blind refereed symposium volume which will be published in printed and electronic open access form.

For information on submission please see the call for papers posted on the conference website:

http://www.uva.fi/en/sites/vakki/symposia/symposium2015/cfp1/

For information about previous symposia and VAKKI, please visit the research group website at:

http://www.uva.fi/en/sites/vakki/.







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