32.2777, Calls: Ling & Literature/Taiwan

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-2777. Mon Aug 30 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.2777, Calls: Ling & Literature/Taiwan

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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:30:05
From: Josefa Ros Velasco [josros at ucm.es]
Subject: ''I want to die'': The Contemporary Writer and their Suicide

 
Full Title: "I want to die": The Contemporary Writer and their Suicide 
Short Title: ACLA 

Date: 15-Jun-2022 - 18-Jun-2022
Location: Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan 
Contact Person: Josefa Ros Velasco
Meeting Email: josros at ucm.es
Web Site: https://www.acla.org/i-want-die-contemporary-writer-and-their-suicide 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2021 

Meeting Description:

''I want to die'': The contemporary writer and their suicide
Organizer: Josefa Ros Velasco
Contact the Seminar Organizers
https://www.acla.org/i-want-die-contemporary-writer-and-their-suicide

>From the turn of the 20th century to the present, debates over the meaning of
suicide became a privileged site for efforts to discover the reasons why
people commit suicide and how to prevent this behavior. Since Émile Durkheim
published his study Suicide in 1897, a reframing of suicide took place, giving
rise to a flourishing group of researchers devoting their efforts to
understand better the causes and prevention of suicide. A century later, we
still keep on trying to reach such an understanding of suicide and its modern
conceptualization to prevent suicidal behaviors.

Suicide is an act that touches all of our lives and engages with the
incomprehensible and unsayable. In searching for solutions to how to make life
valuable, modern neuropsychiatric research alone is not able to offer such a
chance to people after all. On the contrary, self-reflection and
self-analysis, as those made by contemporary writer who committed suicide,
seem a good alternative. To explore the place where reasons end, in addition
to traditional and clinical suicidology studies, we count on literature and
the experience of authors who committed or tried to commit suicide as
invaluable resources to approach this issue in modern times.

This is a seminar to analyze the social and contextual causes of suicide, the
existential, philosophical, and psychological reasons for committing suicide,
and the prevention strategies we can learn from contemporary writers across
the world who attempted to commit suicide or reached this goal and wrote about
this topic in their biographical notes or artistic pieces. Proposals should
focus on the clues the authors themselves left before committing suicide (or
attempting to) both in their biographical texts and in their literary works,
regardless of the literary genre, the sex of the authors or their nationality.

Such an analysis will serve the purpose of understanding better the phenomenon
of suicide, its most inaccessible impulses, and provide a space to think of
how their suicides might have been prevented from the examined clues found
both in their biography and their masterpieces.


Call for Papers:

This workshop will be the second part of the one held in 2019 at Georgetown
University (with a brief sequel at Harvard University the same year), as part
of the ACLA Annual Meeting, focused on the study of suicide through the
characters of contemporary fictional works. The results of these meetings will
be published in September 2021 by the publisher Springer Nature
(https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030693916). The proceedings of this
second meeting are waiting to be published in another volume with the same
characteristics. 

NOTE: If you are interested ONLY in contributing a chapter to the collective
book, please, reach me at josros at ucm.es.




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