26.3932, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 26.3932, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics/USA

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Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:31:04
From: Rosalba Nodari [rosalba.nodari at sns.it]
Subject: The American Comparative Literature Association's 2016 Annual Meeting

 
Full Title: The American Comparative Literature Association's 2016 Annual Meeting 
Short Title: ACLA 

Date: 17-Mar-2016 - 20-Mar-2016
Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, MU, USA 
Contact Person: Alessandro Giammei
Meeting Email: giammei at princeton.edu
Web Site: http://www.acla.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 23-Sep-2015 

Meeting Description:

The American Comparative Literature Association's 2016 Annual Meeting will take place at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts March 17-20, 2016.

The ACLA's annual conferences have a distinctive structure in which most papers are grouped into twelve-person seminars that meet two hours per day for three days of the conference to foster extended discussion. Some eight-person (or smaller) seminars meet just the first two days of the conference. This structure allows each participant to be a full member of one seminar, and to sample other seminars during the remaining time blocks. Depending on space availability, we may also consider accepting a limited number of one-day seminars, especially if they are innovative either in presentation format or in terms of theme. The conference also includes plenary sessions, workshops and roundtable discussions, and other events.

Call for Papers:

The portal will open for seminar submissions in early July, with a deadline of August 31. Individuals interested in participating in a particular seminar are encouraged to be in touch with the organizers over the summer; paper submissions through the portal will open September 1 and close September 23.

Possible topics for paper include:

- Southern characters and locations in literature, art, film
- Southern accents and their functions in movies and tv
- Southern identities in social interactions and self-representation
- Prejudice, stereotypes, and paternalism in the description of the South
- Local identities and social enregisterment of southern accent features
- Production and perception of Southern dialects and vernacular
- Traveling to the South: tourism, exploration, colonialism
- Anthropological description of Southern rituality (dia de los muertos, tarantism, los hermanos penitentes) and pop-culture re-elaborations
- Representation of Southern moral values
- Cultural motifs and clichés (the redneck, the guido, the migrant, etc.)
- Pop-culture themes (mafia, narcotrafico, voodoo, etc.)
- Visualizations of the South in art, commercials, postcards, etc.
- Southern pride/discrimination of Southern cultures 
- Urban and rural Southern sceneries
- Clothing, hairstyle, and other social markers
- Folk music and Southern styles
- Colonial and postcolonial representations of the South 
- Marginality and minority in relation with Southern identities




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