27.963, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Tunisia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-963. Wed Feb 24 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.963, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Tunisia

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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:14:06
From: Sayf Mohamed [contact at taels.org]
Subject: Discourses on Migration & Mobility

Full Title: Discourses on Migration & Mobility 

Date: 25-Nov-2016 - 26-Nov-2016
Location: hammamet, Tunisia 
Contact Person: sayfeddine mohamed
Meeting Email: contact at taels.org
Web Site: http://www.taels.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 31-May-2016 

Meeting Description:

The number of international migrants and internally displaced people has
soared in the last few years because of major political and social upheavals
in various parts of the world. From Africa, the Middle East, Burma to the
Americas and the Caribbean, huge waves of migrants put their lives at risk
trying to reach the shores of “a promised land”. This new international
movement has contributed to the emergence of new discourses on migration and
mobility. 

The growing presence of these discourses on the radar of cultural, literary
and media studies articulates the need to examine, evaluate and reassess
dominant discourses in favour of thresholds and contact zones. The
interdisciplinary theme this conference addresses is meant to bring under
scrutiny the multi-dimensional aspect of migration and mobility in a
globalised world dominated by trans-national movement and cross-border
mobility. The conference will build upon the initial power and intensity of
recent scholarship to further explore the politics and poetics of migration
and mobility as represented in literary works as well as with regard to other
discourses and academic fields. 

Locating migration and mobility at the cross-roads between literary, cultural
and media studies, this conference offers a vibrant research platform for
scholars from different areas of study to provide critical input on the
versatile patterns of migration and mobility. However, as migration and
mobility could offer gateways of hope, they could possibly entail piercing
traumatic experiences. Our understanding of migration and mobility trespasses
the cartographic mapping (i.e. physical and geographical dimensions) to
address aesthetic, conceptual and discursive representations. Seeking a
connection between cultural identities, political sensitivities and
comparative studies, this two-day conference prospects to lay the foundations
for a constructive dialogue covering a multiplicity of migration-related
issues.

Call for Papers: 

The steering committee welcomes proposals related, but not limited, to the
following topics:

- Cross-border mobility
- Types of migration
Immigration and Globalization
Migration and development
Borders and migration policies
- Asylum seekers and refugee crisis
- Travel narratives
- Socio-cultural mobility
- Media Studies and mobility
- Media coverage of migratory experiences
- Literary representations of diasporic experiences
- Transnational identities
- Migration, exile and liminality
- Laws of migration
- Refugees Agencies and humanitarian law.

Participants are invited to send a 250-word abstract for a 20-minute
presentation and a short biographical note to submissions at taels.org  no later
than May 31, 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by June 15, 2016.

We accept abstracts and papers written in English, Arabic and French. 
TAELS editorial board will select a number of papers that will be published
after peer-reviewing in a collective volume on the proceedings of the
conference.

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