31.802, Calls: Applied Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Spain

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Subject: 31.802, Calls: Applied Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Spain

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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:00:34
From: Jose Sánchez [jasanchez at ua.es]
Subject: Travel Literature and Transatlantic Encounters: “The Iberian Peninsula as seen from North America” (1850-1950)

 
Full Title: Travel Literature and Transatlantic Encounters: “The Iberian Peninsula as seen from North America” (1850-1950) 

Date: 04-Jun-2020 - 05-Jun-2020
Location: Alicante, Spain 
Contact Person: Sara Prieto
Meeting Email: sara.prieto at ua.es
Web Site: https://web.ua.es/es/atlas/upcoming-events/conference-2020/conference-2020.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Mar-2020 

Meeting Description:

This conference is part of the research project ''Exotic Spain: American
Travel Literature about Spain (1900-1950)'' (ATLAS) funded by the Research and
Knowledge Transfer Office of Alicante University (GRE18-14 A). The project
focuses on the study of a corpus of American authors who traveled to Spain in
the first half of the twentieth century, especially on those texts that look
beyond the vision of Spain related to the experience of the Spanish Civil War.

ATLAS addresses, from an interdisciplinary perspective, a variety of literary
texts and analyzes how the vision of Spain has been constructed and how the
uses and customs of the chroniclers—as opposed to local uses— influenced their
writing and their representation of the territory. Following Mieke Bal, who in
Travelling Concepts in the Humanities (2002) invites us ''to explore the
intellectual excitement of interdisciplinary cultural analysis”, ATLAS plays
with the boundaries between literature, linguistics, history, geography,
visual arts and philosophy to explore the perception of Spain within a
particular historical context, which deserves further critical attention. The
project also traces the routes drawn in the different travelogues to construct
the authors’ literary cartographies with an informative and pedagogical
purpose in mind.


Call for Papers: 

This conference aims to be not only a discussion forum on the project itself,
but also an opportunity to further explore both the physical and intellectual
journey that these traveling experiences involved. For this purpose, we
welcome paper and round-table proposals that deal with the presence of
writers, intellectuals and American travelers in the Iberian Peninsula between
1850 and 1950 including, but not restricted to, the following topics:

 - Literary creations—fictional and non-fictional—based on traveling.
 - Testimonial and autobiographical writing, literary chronicles, travel
writing.
 - Contrastive studies on travel writing.
 - Traveling and chronicles in times of war and postwar.
 - Travel experiences and their correlation with visual arts.
 - Philosophical approaches towards travel experiences.
 - The “Self” and the “Other” in travel experiences.
 - Traveling and travel experiences from a gender-based perspective.
 - Spatial criticism, representations of rural and urban spaces.
 - Artistic and architectural tourism.
 - Studies on corpus linguistics and travel literature.
 - Traveling and travel experiences from an ecocritical perspective.
 - Traveling and geography: geocriticism and geolocalization; literature and
cartography and study of the territory.
 - Approaches towards travel experiences within a historical framework.
 - Sociological, anthropological, ethnographic approaches towards travel
experiences.
 -  Travel literature and digital humanities.

Please submit your proposals in English or Spanish (250-300 words and 3-5
keywords) to alicante.atlas at gmail.com by March 10, 2020.

The following plenary speakers have been confirmed:
Dr. Pere Gifra Adoher (Pompeu Fabra University)
Dr. Eulalia Piñero Gil (Autonomous University of Madrid)




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