30.4275, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Ling & Literature, Ling Theories/Italy
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Subject: 30.4275, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Ling & Literature, Ling Theories/Italy
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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:53:44
From: Giulia Magazzù [giulia.magazzu1 at gmail.com]
Subject: Taboo Conference 2020
Full Title: Taboo Conference 2020
Short Title: TaCo 2020
Date: 30-Sep-2020 - 02-Oct-2020
Location: Rome, Italy
Contact Person: Giulia Magazzù
Meeting Email: giulia.magazzu1 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://taco2020.grupposymposia.it
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Linguistic Theories
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2020
Meeting Description:
The Taboo Conference series (TaCo) is an interdisciplinary conference aimed at
bringing together scholars of various aspects of taboo in a variety of
academic fields. The project was originated at the Department of
Interpretation and Translation of the University of Bologna, Italy, where the
first edition was held in 2012. The following editions were held every two
years in Durham (UK), Barcelona (Spain) and Bertinoro (Italy). For its fifth
installment the conference will be held in Rome. We hope you’ll be able to
join us this year to discuss all the multifaceted ramifications of taboo in
language, culture and communication.
The Conference will be held at University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
The working language for the conference is English.
For further information, please visit the website:
http://taco2020.grupposymposia.it
If you are interested in submitting a pre-organized panel, please contact us
at the site above and by the deadline indicated below.
Call for Papers
In a world that seems continuously to be stretching the line of what is
acceptable to the inhabitants of specific linguistic and cultural contexts,
this interdisciplinary conference acknowledges the importance of investigating
taboos and their reinforcement/breaking in various areas of language, culture,
literature and society, and across different cultures. We propose to explore
the delicate balance and subtle boundaries between the need for inclusion and
respect for different ethnic, religious, sexual backgrounds – which seem to
be at the basis of modern multicultural societies – and a conscious (or
unconscious) push towards the breaking of existing taboos, for example for
shock value, as in the case of comedy and art. In such contexts, investigation
of the linguistic, cultural, social, institutional and personal implications
of taboo reinforcement/breaking appears of extreme value.
For its fifth edition, the Taboo Conference series will specifically address
the intricacies of taboo in language, culture, literature and communication in
its various occurrences from the points of view of production, performance,
and perception/reception. The subject of taboo in language, culture,
literature and communication seems to have become especially relevant in the
last few years, in which political correctness at both the institutional and
individual level has been seen, on the one hand, as a crucial tool in
protecting people from verbal abuse and in preventing the reinforcement of
stereotypes and, on the other, as a set of measures and a way of thinking
which significantly curtail free speech in many aspects of the public sphere.
The 2020 conference seeks to explore the shifting boundaries of the
acceptability of taboo in their various incarnations as produced and perceived
in today’s multicultural society, from cinema and television, to news,
videogames, literature and different kinds of online content. The study of
taboo in the past, for example through the medium of literature, is also
relevant to the conference. Possible areas of inquiry include, but are not
limited to, political orientations and political satire, identity and gender
politics, ethnic stereotypes, different kinds of non-normative behaviour,
political correctness and the discourse surrounding it, and the debate between
real and perceived offense through comedy.
We welcome individual proposals or pre-organized panels from different
disciplines pertaining – but by no means limited – to the following thematic
areas and their intersections in various mediatic forms:
- Sex and sexuality (e.g. nudity, non-normative sexual practices, pornography)
- Racism and sexism (e.g. white supremacy, gender discrimination, transphobia)
- Death and dying (e.g. mortality, ageing, funerals and burials, fatal
accidents)
- Sickness, disability, and deformity
- Scatology (e.g. excreta/effluvia)
- Politics (e.g. political corruption, political incorrectness, prejudice,
gender discrimination)
- Religions and blasphemy (rituals, prejudice, afterlife)
- Addiction
- Money (greed, graft, exploitation, waste, extravagance, poverty)
- Changing social attitudes towards violence, exploitation and abuse
(prostitution, slavery, trafficking, rape, children’s rights)
- Censorship, reactions to it, and its effects.
Each paper presentation should be scheduled for 15 minutes to be followed by
5-minute question time to the panel.
Please submit your contribution (a 300-word abstract and a brief bionote) at
the following link:
https://www.conftool.org/taco2020/index.php?page=login&ismobile=true
For further information, please visit the website:
http://taco2020.grupposymposia.it
If you are interested in submitting a pre-organized panel, please contact us
at the site above
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