29.18, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 29.18, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:53:00
From: Joanna Chojnicka [joanna.chojnicka at uni-bremen.de]
Subject: Queer Contradictions - Global Perspectives Panel

 
Full Title: Queer Contradictions - Global Perspectives Panel 

Date: 15-Jun-2018 - 16-Jun-2018
Location: Bremen, Germany 
Contact Person: Joanna Chojnicka
Meeting Email: joanna.chojnicka at uni-bremen.de

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

German language studies at the University of Bremen (Germany), Åbo Akademi in
Turku (Finland), Warsaw University (Poland) and Stockholm University (Sweden)
are launching a series of conferences on discourse and contradiction under the
heading of Bremen-Turku-Warsaw-Stockholm Series on Studies in Discourse and
Contradiction. The first conference “Queer Contradictions” will take place on
June 15-16 2018 in Bremen. The conference language will be German.

The conference will also include an English-speaking panel “Global
Perspectives” that this call for papers is concerned with. To see the call for
papers for the general conference (in German), please go to:
http://www.woc.uni-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/CFP-QUEER-CONTRADICTIONS-BTWS-
1-%E2%80%93-UNIVERSIT%C3%84T-BREMEN-JUNI-2018.pdf


Call for Papers:

Queer Linguistics emerged as a coherent field of study in the 2000s, adopting
ideas from Queer Theory and using them as the basis for critical linguistic
research. At its beginning, it took a critical view of the role language plays
in the formation of the dominant discourses of heteronormativity and gender
binarism. Today, Queer Linguistics is concerned with disrupting social,
intellectual, political and cultural discourses by challenging any - not only
those related to gender and sexuality - normativities that underpin and
regulate them (Motschenbacher 2012). Queering linguistics means here a nagging
disposition to transform linguists' obsessions with essentializing dualisms
and binaries (Scherer 2012). QL thus appears to be the perfect discipline to
explore the concepts, discourses and practices of contradiction:
discrepancies, disproportions, aporiae, deviations, differences etc., declared
contradictory in fields of contested knowledge (WoC 2017). The constructive
(i.e. creative) deconstruction of multi-faceted, intersecting identities at
the centre of the queer movement is, after all, a contradiction itself.
As a critical discipline aiming at disrupting normativities, QL positions
itself against the hegemonic, neoliberal and neo-colonial status of
(Northern/Western) academia (see Milani and Lazar 2017), and is clearly
invested in working towards inclusion and social justice (Fabrício et al.
2017). In this spirit, we offer the panel ''Queer Contradictions - Global
Perspectives'' for all scholars interested in participating in the conference
who work outside the German studies (Germanistik) or who do not (want to)
present in German. Especially welcome are presentations that challenge the
Northern/Western academic biases by
focusing on Southern/Eastern languages and discourses and/or use alternative,
innovative, interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies.

We are especially interested in discussing the following four dimensions of
queer discourse and linguistic studies:

1. Contradictions within the conflict area of queer discursive homogenization
and queer diversity
2. Queer identity construction vs. queer deconstruction
3. Marginal queer voices vs. organized queer Voice
4. Queer everyday life, identity debates and dynamics of community formation

We invite both theoretical considerations and empirical research concerned
with spoken, textual and multimodal discourses. Interdisciplinary
contributions are welcome.

Conference contributions may take not only the form of a regular paper, but
also of a short filmic documentation, literary readings and many other (queer)
formats.

Please send an abstract (200-300 words) with information on your affiliation
and a list of one to three publications until January 15 2018 as a PDF or DOCX
file to:
joanna.chojnicka at uni-bremen.de .

Notifications of acceptance will be sent on March 1 2018. Please note that the
organizers cannot cover any travel or accommodation costs.




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