34.3753, Confs: Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism

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Subject: 34.3753, Confs: Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism

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Date: 12-Dec-2023
From: Mayar  Ahmed [mayar.ahmed at pua.edu.eg]
Subject: Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism


Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism

Date: 01-Mar-2024 - 02-Mar-2024
Location: Alexandria, Egypt
Contact: Marginality Conference
Contact Email: marginalitypua at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://www.pua.edu.eg/faculty-of-languages-and-translati
on/conference-2024/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General
Linguistics; Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description:

Pharos University in Alexandria, Egypt – in collaboration with Trinity
College Dublin, Ireland, and the University of New Mexico,
USA–cordially invites you to participate in its international
conference titled “Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism,” to
be held onsite from 1 – 2 March 2024.

The term “marginal” is rooted in the Medieval Latin word “marginalis,”
which means on the margin or situated on the border. Coined by
sociologist Robert Park in 1928, the concept referred to human
migrants and the peculiarity of their peripheral situation. Since homo
sapiens first walked out of Africa, migration and its discontents have
remained a thorn in the side of humanity. More comprehensively,
marginality describes the precarious position of excluded and deprived
groups but also helps construct the limitations of their
socio-cultural involvement. The marginalization of individuals,
languages, and cultures is a global phenomenon that results in
discrimination and inequalities. The term has gained momentum in the
context of rising inequality in a post-colonial, post-liberalized, and
post-feminist globalized world.



Among other topics to be explored in “Rethinking Marginality:
Inclusion and Ableism” is the marginality of mother tongues in favor
of centering languages of established economic/political powers,
resulting in marginalizing and disadvantaging cultures over others,
affecting decisions on which texts are worthy of translation and which
are not. This also extends to marginalizing minority groups in
education and how it can affect their academic performance and
peer-to-peer interaction and disrupt their sense of belongingness.
This year, we are emphasizing disability and ableism in the contexts
of marginality and Access Ability. While there is growing care and
support for different kinds of impairment, much remains to be done,
especially in harnessing technology and AI in learning and inclusion.



“Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism” welcomes scholars to
submit research on marginality and diversity in literature, cultural
studies, pedagogy, translation, and linguistics. We are looking for
abstracts that focus on individuals or cultures with precarious
positions in society, including those who are physically or mentally
disabled, women, minorities, and other intersectionalities with fringe
places that may be liminal and problematic.

A post-conference event will be held on the 3rd of March, 2024 with
separate fees.



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