29.862, Calls: Discourse Analysis, General Linguistics/Belgium

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:06:14
From: Lieselotte Brems [lbrems at uliege.be]
Subject: Failing Identities: Identification and Resistance

 
Full Title: Failing Identities: Identification and Resistance 

Date: 20-Sep-2018 - 21-Sep-2018
Location: University of Liège, Belgium 
Contact Person: Research unit L & L
Meeting Email: letl at uliege.be
Web Site: http://www.letl.uliege.be/cms/c_3141291/fr/letl-activites 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

This conference aims to scrutinize, clarify and elaborate upon the concept of
identity, which ranks among the most (ab)used concepts in the humanities since
the end of the 20th century.

The popularity of the concept is, first and foremost, to be situated in the
aftermath of the linguistic turn, which led to identity being conceived of as
the product of discursive interpellations. This theoretical reframing of the
subject constitutes the theoretical basis of multiple strands of discourse
theory and analysis, and of various types of (post)poststructuralist theory.

The pervasive presence of identity as an object of study is, however, and to
an even greater degree, also explained by the postmodern critique of
universality and the concomitant deconstruction of the universal subject as a
fiction subservient to particular (masculine, white, western, heterosexual...)
interests. It is precisely this critique that drives the various forms of
progressive identity politics that are so conspicuously present today.

To put it simply and provocatively: where do we go from here? This fundamental
question translates into a wide range of more specific questions. See CFP

Keynote speakers: 

Vivek Chibber (New York University)
Philippe Hambye (UCLouvain)
Marc De Kesel (Radboud University Nijmegen)


Call for Papers:

Failing Identities: Identification and Resistance

To put it simply and provocatively: where do we go from here? This fundamental
question translates into a wide range of more specific questions, such as:

- Is what (post)structuralism calls the decentred subject a mere passive
recipient of discursive interpellations, or does it resist and, if so, in
which way(s)? How should this resistance be understood – as an inability or
rather as a refusal to accept discursive interpellations? As a rearticulation
and ‘slanting’ of a given discourse? As a form of more or less subtle and
agile negotiation with hegemonic pressures? As the articulation of a
counterhegemonic discourse?

- How easy is it to cancel or replace identifications? Have ‘postmodern
subjects’ really become fluid and endlessly malleable in a ‘liquid modernity’
(Zygmunt Bauman), or are they tough, inert and persistent? Do they have ‘hard
kernels’ and, if so, what would be the nature of these? How important is the
impact of discursive sedimentation on individual subjects, cultures and
societies? How do deliberate or involuntary cancellations of identifications
affect the subject? Are they emancipatory or destructive – or both?

- What are relevant methodological underpinnings of research on identity and
identification? Which linguistic means can be observed to index identity (as
one of their multiple functions), and how can we classify them meaningfully?
For example, how can such phenomena as taboo expressions, metaphors, language
varieties (e.g. sociolects and slang), language contact and learner languages
enhance our understanding of identity and identification? What about language
policy and (official and unofficial) puristic movements?  

Abstracts (in English or French) should not exceed 300 words and be submitted
along with a brief biobibliographical note (100 words max.) by 1 April 2018 to
the following address: letl at uliege.be. Participants will be notified by 1 May
2018.




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