29.5006, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Greece

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Subject: 29.5006, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Greece

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:15:20
From: Evangelos Kourdis [ekourdis at frl.auth.gr]
Subject: Signs of Europe

 
Full Title: Signs of Europe 

Date: 01-Nov-2019 - 03-Nov-2019
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece 
Contact Person: Gregory Paschalidis
Meeting Email: 2019hellenic-semiotics at symvoli.gr
Web Site: https://www.2019hellenic-semiotics.gr/en/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

Since their inception, in 1979, the International Conferences of the Hellenic
Semiotic Society, have addressed topics directly relevant to the concerns and
challenges of the day. True to this tradition, this particular Conference aims
to reaffirm the importance of semiotics as an analytical-critical approach to
socio-cultural phenomena, and encourage the investigation and understanding of
the semiotic work and practices involved in both the making and the current
unmaking of the European integration project.


Call for Papers:

Since antiquity Europe is not so much a place as an idea, a myth, an
imagination, a sign. Variously conceived and represented throughout the
centuries by scholars, politicians, artists and travellers, and home to the
most radical forms both of particularism and universalism, exceptionalism and
cosmopolitanism, Europe has been consistently challenged by diverse kinds of
fragmentation, hegemonic expansionism, antagonism and contestation, as well as
by the recurring question of its identity. The European integration project
has been widely perceived as a watershed in the tumultuous history of Europe,
offering an internationally unique experiment in transnational governance and
cooperation. However, the European integration narratives of reconciliation,
solidarity and ‘unity-in-diversity’ have proved inadequate and controversial.
They were contested both from without, by geopolitical visions such as the
Global South, and from within, especially during the recent crisis of the
eurozone, of Brexit and of migration. Their survival, in the face of the
ensuing wave of illiberalism, populism, nationalism and nativism across
Europe, is becoming more and more uncertain.

The Conference invites proposals for individual papers (15-20 minutes long) or
panels (incl. 3-4 individual papers) that relate to the following main themes:

I. EU symbolic discourse and practices: the making of EU-identity through the
diverse symbols, discourses, practices, media and branding strategies
developed by EU-related institutions.

II. Unmaking the European integration project: investigation of the recently
revitalized semiotic orders of nationalism and nativism, illiberalism and
populism, as well as the related phenomena of xenophobia, islamophobia,
anti-semitism, counter-terrorist rhetoric etc, across the different genres of
political, cultural and media communication
 
III. Images, Sounds and Narratives of Europe: investigation of all kinds of
contemporary cultural texts that variously deal with the failures and
contradictions, envisionings and identity of Europe, as well as emerging
narratives, imaginaries and concepts that attempt to re-define the ‘old
continent’ and perform a ‘post-crisis Europe’.

IV. Under  Western  and  Non-Western  Eyes:   the  semiotic   construction  
and/or deconstruction of European Union from the perspective of non-member
states, whether in the Western or non-Western world.

Conference Keynote Speakers:

Ulf Hedetoft, Professor & Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism,
Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, Unversity of Copenhagen
Johan Fornäs, Professor of Media and Communication, Södertörn University,
Stockholm
Eric Landowski, Professor, Director of Research at the Centre de recherches
politiques de Paris (Science Po), Paris

Submissions:

Proposals should be submitted electronically in English, French and Greek to
the Conference website: 
https://www.2019hellenic-semiotics.gr/en/

For all additional information/inquiries please address your messages to:
2019hellenic-semiotics at symvoli.gr




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