27.4069, Calls: English, Applied Ling, Ling & Lit/UK

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Subject: 27.4069, Calls: English, Applied Ling, Ling & Lit/UK

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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:48:06
From: Fiona Douglas [f.m.douglas at leeds.ac.uk]
Subject: English: Shared Futures

Full Title: English: Shared Futures 

Date: 05-Jul-2017 - 07-Jul-2017
Location: Newcastle, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Bob Eaglestone
Meeting Email: EnglishSharedFutures at englishassociation.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.englishsharedfutures.uk/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Ling & Literature 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

English: Shared Futures
A major conference across the discipline
Newcastle Civic Centre, 5-7 July, 2017

The English Association, University English, the National Association of
Writers in Education and the Institute of English Studies are joining together
to host a major conference for the whole of the discipline of English. We
believe that the study of English - literary studies of every period, language
studies and creative writing - is an important, dynamic and collaborative
enterprise. This is the first ever conference for all of English language,
literature and creative writing in the UK, and it will celebrate the
discipline's intellectual strength, diversity and creativity, and explore its
futures in the nations of the UK and across the world.  

The plenary speakers include:

- Deborah Cameron on Language and the Problem of Female Authority

The conference will host leading and agenda-setting intellectual research and
creative practice, support work in pedagogy and in professional development,
offer access to a range of publishers and agents, feature panels from a range
of our subject associations, and, with sessions from colleagues both inside
and outside the discipline, consider the place of English in the wider
cultural and political world. The conference is especially keen to involve
Early Career Academics and Post-Graduate Research Students and will have many
dedicated sessions designed by and for these groups, as well as involving
colleagues from all areas and career stages of the discipline. 

Organisers:

Gail Marshall (Leicester) (University English)  
Bob Eaglestone (RHUL) (English Association)

Call for Papers:

We invite papers and panels on all areas and periods of English language
studies, literary studies, and creative writing; panels on pedagogy, or
aspects of professionalization; and, in light of the conference’s title,
panels which discuss:

- Emerging, new or challenging research horizons within the subject
- Shared, inter-/cross-/extra-disciplinary research futures for English
studies
- Productive intersections between teaching and research
- The impact of technology on English studies
- The challenges of funding, government, or institutional agendas to the shape
and scope of English in Higher Education.

In addition, as 2017 sees the conference’s host city, Newcastle, commemorate
Martin Luther King’s visit and the award of an honorary degree in 1967, we
also welcome panels which discuss issues around civil rights, anniversaries
and centenaries, regionality, migrancy and borders.

- The conference venue is the stunning Newcastle Civic Centre
http://www.newcastlegateshead.com/things-to-do/newcastle-civic-centre-p167791.
- We have a strand on Politics and the Profession, with speakers from inside
and outside the university sector, responding to government policy, Brexit and
offering ‘horizon-scanning’. 
- We have a strand organised by and for Early Career Academics offering a
Career Development Workshop, and sessions on the subjects affecting ECAs’
lives, including the REF for ECAs and PhDs, and roundtables on Careers Beyond
Academia.
- The HEA will be running sessions on the TEF and on the HEA Fellowship, and
on approaches to teaching and on mentoring. 
- Major publishers will be attending, as well as many other organisations,
small presses and groups invoked in English and Creative Writing.

Your application must include the name, status, and institution of each
speaker, and a brief description of the paper/panel/session’s focus and
objectives. It must not exceed 600 words.

We have had over 120 panel submissions to date and we are especially
interested to receive further submissions from all areas of English
Language/Linguistics.

We are encouraging papers and panels to experiment with new ways of presenting
and engaging in conferences. English: Shared Futures is a pioneering event,
which will have a festival feel as well as demonstrating leading research and
pedagogy. There will also be a programme of cultural fringe events drawing on
the literary strengths of the North-East and the UK more broadly. We are also
keen to explore other kinds of scholarly engagement: shared readings,
workshops, live chat rooms, masterclasses, salons, roundtables, interviews,
dialogues, ‘research in progress’ sessions and any other new and rigorous
scholarly approaches you may want to propose. Please feel free to use the
English: Shared Futures Facebook page and tweet @EngSharedFuture to find
potential partners for sessions.

Each session will last 75 minutes. Your application must include contact
details and a brief description of the panel/session’s focus and objectives.
It must not exceed 600 words. 

Submissions to be sent as soon as possible (final deadline 31 October 2016)
to: EnglishSharedFutures at englishassociation.ac.uk

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