29.80, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 29.80, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:52:51
From: Marisol Bayona Roman [bayonaroman at utexas.edu]
Subject: On the Edge: Borders as Both Products and Producers

 
Full Title: On the Edge: Borders as Both Products and Producers 

Date: 02-Mar-2018 - 02-Mar-2018
Location: Austin,TX, USA 
Contact Person: Marisol Bayona Roman
Meeting Email: bayonaroman at utexas.edu

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The present conference hosted by the Graduate Association of Germanic Language
Students at the University of Texas at Austin takes up borders and walls in
both material and metaphysical senses, and addresses the persistence of their
demarcations. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
geographical borders; borders between categories (phonological markers, ethnic
boundaries, gender identities, social stratification); intra- and
interdisciplinary boundaries and distinctions; categorization of cultural
artifacts according to genre, periodization, and medium; borders around and
within texts (margin/center, interior/exterior); and discourses of
inclusion/exclusion/othering that create oppositional identities.

Sponsored by Dr. Sabine Hake and Dr. Kit Belgum of the same department, with
keynote speaker Dr. Kerstin Somerholter


Call for Papers:

7th Biennial Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Germanic Studies
at The University of Texas at Austin, March 2nd, 2018
 
Discussions about borders and identities have returned to the front pages of
the world’s newspapers. Between the advent of the European migrant crisis,
reevaluations of the US-Mexico border, and Catalonia’s push for
self-determination, it becomes evident that, in an era of globalization and
neoliberal political economics, borders carry implications that transcend mere
delimitation. Even borders that long ago ceased to exist physically continue
to exert influence in myriad ways (e.g. the Berlin Wall that “fell” in 1989
but which, almost 30 years later, still marks societal, economic, and cultural
divides).
 
The present conference hosted by the Graduate Association of Germanic Language
Students at the University of Texas at Austin takes up borders and walls in
both material and metaphysical senses, and addresses the persistence of their
demarcations. Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

 - Geographical borders
 - Borders between categories (phonological markers, ethnic boundaries, gender
identities, social stratification)
 - Intra- and interdisciplinary boundaries and distinctions
 - Categorization of cultural artifacts according to genre, periodization, and
medium
 - Borders around and within texts (margin/center, interior/exterior)
 - Discourses of inclusion/exclusion/othering that create oppositional
identities
 
This conference thus hopes to open up interdisciplinary, transnational, and
historically nuanced explorations of the manifestations and ramifications of
borders. We are looking for papers that add nuance to the all-too-frequently
essentialized or literal discussions of walls, especially in the fields of
literary studies, linguistics, history, philosophy, geography and other
interpretive social sciences, and gender and identity studies.
 
Presentations should not go on for longer than 15 minutes. Abstract proposals
should be no more than 250 words in length and should be submitted as a PDF
document to bayonaroman at utexas.edu by January 15, 2018, accompanied by a brief
150 word biography, suitable for a conference introduction.




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