32.753, Calls: Ling & Lit/Italy

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Subject: 32.753, Calls: Ling & Lit/Italy

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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:28:52
From: Giovanna Carloni [giovanna.carloni at uniurb.it]
Subject: 1920-2020: un secolo di parole e immagini per raccontare / 1920-2020: A century of words and images telling the story of amnesia - International Conference

 
Full Title: 1920-2020: un secolo di parole e immagini per raccontare / 1920-2020: A century of words and images telling the story of amnesia - International Conference 

Date: 23-Sep-2021 - 24-Sep-2021
Location: Urbino, Italy 
Contact Person: Giovanna Carloni
Meeting Email: giovanna.carloni at uniurb.it
Web Site: https://amnesiedautore.uniurb.it/?page_id=229 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Call Deadline: 30-Mar-2021 

Meeting Description:

1920-2020: A century of words and images telling the story of amnesia -
International Conference
23-24 September 2021, Urbino (University of Urbino Carlo Bo)

Degenerative illness(es), 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 correlates to the human need to provide collective
answers to the questions it poses to 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, English- and
French-speaking countries, Germany and Russia. Within the artistic and
literary domains, researchers are invited to discuss the stylistic and
rhetorical strategies employed by artists and writers to describe, narrate and
present oblivion. In linguistic terms, the main focus is on the verbal or
iconic item as a symptom of memory loss.


Call for Papers: 

Sending a proposal for 30 minute talks: 
Every proposal must contain the following items: A) title; B) abstract
(maximum length: 1200 characters including spaces; C) a biosketch (max 10
lines); D) indication of the line of research (1/2).

Deadline: March 30, 2021
Acceptance/Refusal: May 15, 2021
Send to: amnesiedautore at uniurb.it
Languages: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish

Lines of Research: 
Line 1 – LITERARY, VISUAL AND AUDIOVISUAL WORKS – All papers must discuss
works published or released in the last century in Italian, English, French,
German or Russian, with possible reference to classical cultural models. They
must investigate the following phenomena: 1) memory loss caused by
neuro-physiological 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 experiences (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. One of the principal aims of the investigation is analyzing, even
from an anthropological point of view, all the analogies and differences which
 attain to the representation of memory loss in different cultural contexts,
and the ways in which the same narrative and/or symbolic patterns may be
employed (synchronically and/or diachronically) in different situations: to
make an example, the functional evolution of the Oedipus myth in contemporary
culture, with the transformation of the themes of ignorance and guilt into the
traumatic erasure of the very memory of guilt – also thanks to the synchronic
filter of the psycho-analytical re-reading of the myth.

Line 2 – LINGUISTIC INVESTIGATIONS – Starting from a corpus of literary,
multimodal and audiovisual texts which discuss 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 highlighted, as well as
observe the compensating linguistic strategies employed.  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, through a
modification of 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, see e.g. the cases of war veterans, Holocaust survivors and, more
recently, the victims of terror attacks or migrants).




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