33.2082, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, General Linguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2082. Wed Jun 22 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2082, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 03:28:24
From: Yoko Hama [hama0094 at umn.edu]
Subject: Calambur: 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference

 
Full Title: Calambur: 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference 
Short Title: Calambur 

Date: 07-Oct-2022 - 08-Oct-2022
Location: Online & Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 
Contact Person: Yoko Hama
Meeting Email: spptconf at umn.edu
Web Site: https://calambur.umn.edu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2022 

Meeting Description:

Calambur is an annual interdisciplinary conference organized and hosted by
graduate students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the
University of Minnesota. Each year graduate students from across the country
and internationally gather to present and discuss their research in the broad
fields of Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics. The
conference features two plenary talks from leaders in the fields of Hispanic
and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, several paper
presentation sessions, a movie screening and Q&A session with the director of
the documentary film, and several workshops and discussion panels.


Call for Papers:

At the start of the 2000s, Mexican sculptor Alejandro Santiago returned to his
birthplace (Teococuilco, Oaxaca) to discover that half of the population had
emigrated. These absences led to the creation of 2501 Migrantes (2007), a work
composed of 2,501 anthropomorphic sculptures representing those that had gone,
those who died migrating and those who occupy the spaces left by those who
could not stay. In thinking of 2501 Migrantes in the present, it is necessary
to consider the circumstances that produced the forced displacement in Mexico
and in other contexts, such as the current human rights crisis, the excessive
exploitation of natural areas that have since become unlivable and the
violence carried out by state actors and organized crime. It also leads us to
consider the repercussions of these migrations and how it was that entire
communities disappeared along with their cultures and languages. Returning to
2501 Migrantes provokes the necessity to consider the relationship between
necropower and the Anthropocene.
In Politiques de l'inimitié (2016), Achille Mbembe develops the concept of
necropower to describe the relational imposition of death on the direct
experience of entire communities. Necropolitics refers to the ability of a
State or group to make live or to let die, and sovereignty consists of
exercising control over mortality and defining life as the display and
manifestation of power. The Anthropocene, then, can be understood as the
concept of an age in which the human species has asserted their will to the
point of it becoming an environmental force exerted over the planet, changing
the course of rivers, drying out seas, inducing earthquakes, and contributing
to the phenomenon of global warming.

>From this point: How do we understand the implications of necropower in
relation to the Anthropocene? What are its implications in the humanities and
social sciences today? How do we express these ideas in the cultures of the
Hispanic and Lusophone worlds? How is language used as a tool at the service
of necropower and environmental exploitation, that is, establishing which
lives have value and which do not? And, what can be done about it?

The Calambur 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference invites you to reflect on
the need for social change in relation to the current disposition of
geopolitical and environmental forces. We encourage presentations based on
cultural, audiovisual, literary, artistic, linguistic, anthropological, and
sociological approaches, among others. This event will be held in a hybrid
format. Send all submissions, under  250 words and written in Spanish, English
or Portuguese, to spptconf at umn.edu before August 15th, 2022.

[conference dates updated]




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