30.933, FYI: Call for Papers: International Multidisciplinary Miscellanea ''Hidden writings, invisible writings, invented writings. When the medium doesn't send the message''.

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Subject: 30.933, FYI: Call for Papers: International Multidisciplinary Miscellanea ''Hidden writings, invisible writings, invented writings. When the medium doesn't send the message''.

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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:40:20
From: Simona Marchesini [s.marchesini at alteritas.it]
Subject: Call for Papers: International Multidisciplinary Miscellanea ''Hidden writings, invisible writings, invented writings. When the medium doesn't send the message''.

 
In all writing traditions there are cases in which the written message cannot
or must not intentionally be read, in the past and in the present. Artists’
signatures, texts written with invisible ink, encryptions, inscriptions for
the gods, texts reserved to confidential readers, invented writings are all
examples of an eccentric relation between the medium and its message. They do
not match with the general theory of communication, which distinguishes
source, message, medium and target among the essential constituent of a
communication act. Moreover, in the constant dialectic between medium and
message, code-switching and cultural interferences can be observed, both at a
graphic and a linguistic level, which can totally or partially hide the code.

The environment in which the message is conceived, made up of physical,
cultural, religious, pragmatic aspects, defines and clarifies the use of this
peculiar communication strategy, which finds an extreme case in the subliminal
advertising. Alteritas and the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” are pleased to
announce the call for papers for an international and interdisciplinary
miscellanea. The e-book, which will be published in 2020 as open access
resource at Alteritas, will include contributions of scholars of different
disciplines within the broadest chronological span: epigraphy, linguistics,
anthropology, communication sciences, history, history of arts, communication
design. Applicant are invited to send an abstract (max 200 words) and a short
CV to s.marchesini at alteritas.it by April, the 15. Selected contributions will
be double blind peer-reviewed.

The following topics can be proposed: 

- Hidden texts
- Encrypted inscriptions and texts 
- Damnatio memoriae
- Subliminal texts
- Texts for the gods 
- Invented writings.

Not included in the selected topics are magic texts and defixiones, which
deserve a special consideration.

Timeline:

31 May 2019: deadline for presentation of abtracts 30 June 2019: selected
abstracts will be notified 30 October 2019: deadline for paper presentation
May 2020: e-book publication
June 2020: Presentation/Round table.

Promoter Committee: 
Alteritas, Università di Roma Tor Vergata. Editors: Alessandro Campus, Simona
Marchesini, Paolo Poccetti.

Editors: 
Alessandro Campus, Simona Marchesini, Paolo Poccetti.

Scientific Committee: 

Maria Giulia Amadasi (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), Edoardo Barbieri
(Università Cattolica di Milano – Brescia), Francisco Beltrán (Universidad de
Zaragoza), Alfredo Buonopane (Università degli studi di Verona), Alessandro
Campus (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”), Michel Fuchs (Université de
Lausanne), Pierre-Yves Lambert (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris),
Gianfrancesco Lusini, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Simona Marchesini
(Alteritas Verona), Paolo Poccetti (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Writing Systems





 



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