28.227, Calls: English, Ling & Lit/Italy

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Subject: 28.227, Calls: English, Ling & Lit/Italy

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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:59:31
From: Gloria Cappelli [gloria.cappelli at unipi.it]
Subject: Worlds of Words: Complexity, Creativity, and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture

 
Full Title: Worlds of Words: Complexity, Creativity, and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture 
Short Title: AIA Conference 

Date: 14-Sep-2017 - 16-Sep-2017
Location: Pisa, Italy 
Contact Person: Marcella Bertuccelli
Meeting Email: marcella.bertuccelli at unipi.it
Web Site: http://www.fileli.unipi.it/2017aiaconference/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

This conference is organized by the Italian Association for English Studies
(Associazione Italiana di Anglistica).

If conventionality and creativity have always represented crucial topics for
discussion in the history of linguistic, literary and cultural studies,
complexity is perhaps the most outstanding feature of the contemporary world.
The bulk of the relationships and connections that characterize our lives,
behaviours, ideologies, and shape our social, cultural and linguistic
interactions point to complexity at the same time as an object of
investigation and as an analytical tool for research.

Indeed, complexity theories as developed by empirical sciences have elaborated
a number of theoretical points that make up a specific paradigm of research,
distinct from mainstream approaches. In more recent times, complexity issues
have been raised in social and human sciences, too. Whatever the field of
application, complexity is a way of looking at the world that places emphasis
on the observation that apparently simple things often emerge out of  profound
intricacies, that small things may make for big differences, that
understanding never rests on single-factor accounts and may call instead for
imaginative and creative processes, that a great number of variables mutually
influence each other following non-linear paths of interaction, that systems
adapt to ever changing contexts while conventions give them  temporary
stability, and that meanings emerge dynamically, sometimes in unpredictable
ways.

The concept of complexity thus provides an articulated framework through which
cultural, literary and linguistic themes may be looked at from a new angle and
by means of which new phenomena may be brought to the fore to be more finely
or newly analysed. Within this context, we believe that words play a most
significant role: therefore, reference to English literary, cultural and
ordinary language texts as complex “worlds of words”, above and beyond the
evocation of John Florio’s complex figure, will engage our audiences in a
challenge that will hopefully unveil new horizons of research.

The conference is organized in the three traditional sections of AIA
conferences: literature, culture and language.


Call for Papers:

Please see the website for a detailed description of the topics accepted in
the language workshop, in the literature workshop and in the culture workshop.

Abstract should be min. 350 and max. 500 words (excluding references). They
should be sent attached to an email message entitled “2017 AIA CONFERENCE” to
the conveners’ addresses with the following information:

Name, Institution, Present Appointment, Contact details (email, telephone)
Title of the individual abstract or panel proposal
Indication of the thematic section in which the proposal falls (Language,
Literature, Culture)
Abstract or panel proposal (500-600 words, not including references and data)

Panel proposals will consist of a brief outline (min. 250 and max. 500 words,
not including references and data) of the theme and purpose of the panel, with
indication of the participants, and the titles and abstracts of their
contributions. The number of presentations planned for one 60-minute session
is three. The maximum number of 90-minute sessions is five.




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