31.589, Calls: Neuroling, Psycholing/Italy

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Subject: 31.589, Calls: Neuroling, Psycholing/Italy

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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:32:46
From: sergio guerra [sergio.guerra at uniurb.it]
Subject: 1920-2020: un secolo di parole e immagini per raccontare l'amnesia

Full Title: 1920-2020: un secolo di parole e immagini per raccontare l'amnesia 

Date: 22-Sep-2020 - 24-Sep-2020
Location: Urbino (PU), Italy 
Contact Person: Cristina Pierantozzi
Meeting Email: amnesiedautore at uniurb.it
Web Site: https://amnesiedautore.uniurb.it/?page_id=229 

Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2020 

Meeting Description:

1920-2020: A century of words and images telling the story of amnesia
International Conference 22-24 September 2020, Urbino (University of Urbino
Carlo Bo)  

Degenerative illness, pain and death pose bio-ethical problems that cannot be
tackled by medical science alone. Literary, multimodal and cinematic texts can
also provide new, promising and complex perspectives on the ethical dilemmas
connected to these facts of life, and may be vital to our understanding of
their full implications. The creative presentation and re-elaboration of
illness is a function of the human need to provide collective answers to the
questions it asks of each individual – and it may go a long way towards
promoting a much-needed debate on the topic, as well as a series of
interdisciplinary exchanges between such diverse academic fields as bioethics,
cognitive science, cultural theory, literary criticism, visual culture and
linguistics. 

The theme of the conference is the literary, multimodal and audiovisual
representation of memory loss in all its forms – whether caused by
neurological conditions (e.g. Alzheimer’s or other kinds of dementia) or by
personal and/or historical trauma. The organizing committee welcomes
contributions on the cultural and linguistic manifestations of memory loss
with reference to the classical world as well as Italy, the English- and
French-speaking worlds, Germany and Russia. In the artistic and literary
domains, researchers are invited to work on the stylistic and rhetorical
strategies employed by artists and writers to describe, narrate and present
oblivion. In linguistic terms, the focus is on the verbal or iconic item as a
symptom of memory loss.  

Scientific Committee:

Giulia Affede (Università di Urbino) Margareth Amatulli (Università di Urbino)
Alessandra Calanchi (Università di Urbino) Giovanna Carloni (Università di
Urbino) Roberto Danese (Università di Urbino) Riccardo Donati (Università di
Salerno) Gloria Cocchi (Università di Urbino) Claus Ehrhardt (Università di
Urbino) Giuseppe Ghini (Università di Urbino) 
Sergio Guerra (Università di Urbino) Maryline Heck (Université de Tours) Brian
Hurwitz (King’s College London) Massimiliano Morini (Università di Urbino)
Aurélie Moioli (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) Cristina Pierantozzi
(Università di Urbino) Flora Sisti (Università di Urbino) Salvatore Ritrovato
(Università di Urbino) Shawn Wong (University of Washington) 

Organizing Committee:

Giulia Affede (Università di Urbino) - Emilio Campagnoli (Università di
Urbino) - Giovanna Carloni (Università di Urbino) - Sergio Guerra (Università
di Urbino) - Cristina Pierantozzi (Università di Urbino)

Contacts: amnesiedautore at uniurb.it

Call for Papers:

Lines of Research:
In view of all the above, the Conference organizers propose to explore all
questions related to memory loss in two main directions – one having to do
with literary, visual and audiovisual narratives, the other with the
linguistic dynamics of amnesia. All speakers are expected to conform to one or
both of these lines of research. No proposal will be accepted that has no
direct bearing on the main theme of the conference and these two lines. 

Line 1 – literary, visual and audiovisual works – All papers must discuss
works published or released in the last century in Italian, English, French,
German and Russian, with possible reference to classical cultural models. They
must investigate the following phenomena: 1) memory loss caused by
neurophysiological degenerative illnesses (e.g. Alzheimer’s); 2)
post-traumatic amnesia and psychological erasure (including allomnesia and
memory illusions), due to historical events (the two World Wars, the Shoah,
international terror, migration) and/or to personal vicissitudes (illnesses,
accidents, bereavement). The perspective can be either diachronic (the
evolution of the problem, of its representation or self-representation) or
synchronic (different contemporary presentations of the problem). Novels,
autobiographies and autofictions, poems, graphic literature, songs, films, TV
series and stage plays/theatrical productions are all viable analytical
objects.  

Line 2 – Linguistic Investigations – Starting from a corpus of literary,
multimodal and audiovisual texts which foreground the theme of memory loss,
the proposed contributions must proceed to explore the linguistic levels
(syntactic, lexical, morphological, discursive, suprasegmental) at which the
symptoms and consequences of memory loss are most in evidence, as well as
observe the compensating linguistic strategies employed by fictional
sufferers.  Contrastively, the contributions will compare the findings thus
obtained with the linguistic production of real patients with aphasia,
Alzheimer’s and other conditions and illnesses, with the general purpose of
showing how fiction, by helping to modify the perception of amnesia and memory
loss, can produce both individual and collective resilience (in its
figurative, interpretive, curative or even cathartic dimensions). Fictional
words and images are thus important in terms of cultural awareness, recovery,
and the integrity of the self, but also because they show the impact that
post-traumatic amnesia and neurodegenerative illnesses have on the
preservation of cultural memory (in this sense, the cases of war veterans,
Holocaust survivors and, more recently, of the victims of terror attacks or of
displaced persons are all exemplary). 

Sending a Proposal:
Acceptance/Refusal: 30 May 2020. 
To: amnesiedautore at uniurb.it 
Languages: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish 

Every proposal must contain the following: A) title; B) abstract (maximum
length: 1200 characters including spaces; C) biosketch (max 10 lines); D)
indication of line of research (1/2). The scientific committee will verify the
appropriateness of each proposal with regard to the topic and methodological
structure of the conference. All proposed contributions must be about the
themes expounded above, articulating their arguments in an interdisciplinary,
interdiscursive or intermedial perspective, and with reference to one of the
cultures and geographical domains mentioned above. The program of the
conference will appear before the end of July 2020 on this website
www.amnesiedautore.it The contributions will be published in a peer-reviewed
volume.

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