31.2998, Calls: Anthro Ling/Croatia

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Subject: 31.2998, Calls: Anthro Ling/Croatia

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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 13:36:52
From: Roswitha Kersten-Pejanić [roswitha.kersten at gmx.de]
Subject: Semiotic Landscapes of Southeastern Europe

 
Full Title: Semiotic Landscapes of Southeastern Europe 

Date: 28-May-2021 - 29-May-2021
Location: Cres, Croatia 
Contact Person: Roswitha Kersten-Pejanić
Meeting Email: roswitha.kersten-pejanic at uniri.hr

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

The Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe (CAS SEE) at University
of Rijeka in conjunction with the Berlin Centre for Transnational Border
Research “Border Crossings – Crossing Borders” at Humboldt University is
organizing a two-day conference (May 28-29, 2021) in Moise Palace on the
Island of Cres.

Studying the diversities of human meaning-making on public display allows for
expedient insights into visualized social patterns and allows for a wide range
of possible research subjects from different disciplines. Drawing on
Halliday’s observation that “there can be no semiotic act that leaves the
world exactly as it was before” (2002: 254), any instance of shaping the
landscape can in itself be seen as both a cause for and a consequence of
political, cultural, economic and other meaning-making. The planned conference
aims at bringing together recent research considering any such semiotic acts
and their interpretation(s) in Southeastern Europe.

The concept of semiotic landscapes, although initially mainly appealing work
on writing and image in the public space (Jaworski & Thurlow 2010: 2), neatly
embraces various possible occurrences of humans shaping place and creating
space. Verbal as well as nonverbal modes of engaging with the outer world may
create very particular semiotic landscapes, while possibly alluding to more
specific concepts such as semiotic regimes (van Leeuwen 2005: 53),
geosemiotics (Scollon & Wong Scollon 2003) or semiospheres (Lotman 2002/1982).
The diverse geographical and social premises of Southeastern Europe, where
hegemonic discourses have been both questioned and changing in (recent)
history, provide a promising frame for researching the sign and the public
space in all their potential interconnection. 


Call for Papers: 

Possible topics when contributing to this workshop include (but are not
limited to):
- visual cultures of everyday life
- public discourses and memoryscapes 
- linguistic landscape studies and graffscapes
- activist encounters in public space
- manifestations of the urban/rural divide 
- communist and post-communist public space-making
- socialist vs. capitalist semiotic meaning-making
- ideological accounts and claims of public space

Drawing on a growing number of research initiatives and outcomes on visually
tangible discourses in Southeastern Europe, this workshop aims at providing
room for exchanging academic, artistic, activist work on semiotic landscapes
in Southeastern Europe.
Please send your abstract of up to 500 words to
roswitha.kersten-pejanic at uniri.hr and cas at cas.uniri.hr by November 15, 2020.
Papers may be in Croatian, English, or German.
We will publish a (peer-reviewed) volume, for which proposals will be welcomed
at a later stage. More information on this publication project will be
communicated at the beginning of 2021.

There will be compensation for participants for travel expenses and
accommodation, whether this will be full or in part reimbursement depends on
ongoing fundraising efforts.




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