29.254, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Ling & Lit, Socioling/Puerto Rico

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Subject: 29.254, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Ling & Lit, Socioling/Puerto Rico

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:45:27
From: Ramón Valle [ramonvallejimenez at gmail.com]
Subject: Caribbean Without Borders Graduate Student Conference

 
Full Title: Caribbean Without Borders Graduate Student Conference 
Short Title: CWB 

Date: 16-May-2018 - 18-May-2018
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico 
Contact Person: Ramón Valle
Meeting Email: cwb2018.uprrp at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.facebook.com/caribbeanwithoutborders/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 02-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

7th Caribbean Without Borders Graduate Student Conference:
Reframing Perceptions of the Greater Caribbean in Popular Media.

The graduate program of the English Department at the University of Puerto
Rico in Río Piedras announces the 7th Caribbean Without Borders Graduate
Student Conference to be held on May 16-18, 2018.

For this installment, we are looking for new interdisciplinary  scholarship on
how the Greater Caribbean is represented in popular media, whether in
literature, film, television, music, news media, social media platforms, comic
books, or video games.


Call for Papers:

7th Caribbean Without Borders Graduate Student Conference: Reframing
Perceptions of the Greater Caribbean in Popular Media.

The graduate program of the English Department at the University of Puerto
Rico in Río Piedras announces the call for papers for the 7th Caribbean
Without Borders Graduate Student Conference to be held on May 16-18, 2018.

For this installment, we are looking for new interdisciplinary  scholarship on
how the Greater Caribbean is represented in popular media, whether in
literature, film, television, music, news media, social media platforms, comic
books, or video games.

Submission requirements for abstracts:

200-300 words for individual presentations
300-400 words for panel presentations
Written in English, Spanish, or French
Author’s name
Email address
Title of the presentation
Academic institution (if applicable)

The deadline for submission is Friday, March 2, 2018 and abstracts must be
sent to cwb2018.uprrp at gmail.com.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

New readings on classic Caribbean writers
Literature of the diaspora, such as novels, essays, poetry and comic books

Language variation, discourse analysis, and pragmatics in social media, such
as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, YouTube, etc.

Dialectology of creole languages in film and television

Caribbean identity in film, television, music, drama and performance, news
media, comic books, video games, etc.

The use of popular media in education

The effect of popular media in Caribbean cultural studies, economics, history,
law studies, the social sciences, and translation




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