31.3810, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit, Socioling, Translation/Online

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Subject: 31.3810, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit, Socioling, Translation/Online

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:11:24
From: Clara Bichon [cbichon at umd.edu]
Subject: Resistance and Resilience : Envisioning the Future

 
Full Title: Resistance and Resilience : Envisioning the Future 

Date: 05-Mar-2021 - 06-Mar-2021
Location: Zoom, USA 
Contact Person: Clara Bichon
Meeting Email: umd.sllc.colloq at gmail.com
Web Site: https://resistance-and-resilience-umdsllc.weebly.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2021 

Meeting Description:

This interdisciplinary graduate conference seeks to investigate how literary,
cinematic, and other mediums interrogate, shape, and embody strategies of
resistance and resilience and imagine alternative futures in contemporary and
historical contexts across the globe. In the midst of a deadly pandemic, among
other social, political, economic, and environmental crises on local and
global scales, envisioning the future can become an act of resilience and
resistance. From travel narratives and utopias to autofiction and speculative
fiction, resistance and resilience take many forms. As Donna Haraway argues,
this work of envisioning the future requires “staying with the
trouble”—reconfiguring and reimagining our relations to the world around us.
Envisaging the future thus requires not only resilience—“bouncing back” or
recovering from present or historical difficulties—but also resistance,
refusing to accept the status quo, taking action to change one’s situation or
the world more broadly. Emerging from positions of precarity, such as the
isolation of quarantine or personal or collective trauma, stories of
adaptation, translation, dissent, compromise, and solidarity can envision
varied potential futures for the individual and for society at large.  

The conference’s keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr. Nicole Seymour,
author of Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age


Call for Papers: 

Submissions and presentations should be in English. Abstracts of 250-300 words
describing the paper, media project, or artistic work should be emailed to
umd.sllc.colloq at gmail.com no later than January 15, 2021. Creative submissions
may include a 1-2 minute video excerpt to accompany the abstract, if desired.
Submissions should include the presenter’s contact information and
affiliation, as well as any accessibility needs. 

Possible topics and approaches may include, but are in no way limited to:
 - World literatures and film
 - Transformation and Transcendence through the Arts
 - Migration, Immigration, Transnationalisms
 - Translation and adaptation 
 - Utopias and dystopias
 - Models of sociability 
 - Narratives of resilience 
 - Speculative fiction and science fiction
 - Travel narratives and parodic/fake travel narratives
 - Graphic narratives and comics studies​
 - Environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and medical humanities
 - Notions of identity
 - LGBTQ and Queer studies
 - Social and political movements 
 - History / Historical revisionism
 - Linguistic changes or resistance to change
 - Gender studies and feminist studies
 - Postcolonial studies
 - The arts and artistic exploration
 - Digital humanities and digital studies

The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is pleased to offer free
registration for this conference.

Note that paper presentations of 15-20 minutes as well as collaborative
presentations, creative submissions, digital posters of up to ten minutes, and
multimedia projects are welcome. 

More information can be found on our website :
https://resistance-and-resilience-umdsllc.weebly.com/




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