34.994, Calls: Seismic Shifts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mountaineering

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Subject: 34.994, Calls: Seismic Shifts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mountaineering

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From: Sven Leuckert [sven.leuckert at tu-dresden.de]
Subject: Seismic Shifts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mountaineering

Full Title: Seismic Shifts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
Mountaineering
Short Title: Seismic Shifts

Date: 23-Nov-2023 - 26-Nov-2023
Location: Dresden, Germany
Contact Person: Sven Leuckert
Meeting Email: seismicshifts2023 at tu-dresden.de

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Lexicography; Ling &
Literature; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 14-Apr-2023

Meeting Description:

23-26 November 2023
TU Dresden, Germany

Organisers: Sven Leuckert & Franziska Röber

In a salute to Edmund Hillary and the explorers of the past, Richard
Banks laments that George Mallory’s famous reason “because it is
there” has ceased to be a good enough reason behind ascending the
highest peaks in the world. He seems to mourn a time when
man-against-nature and the mystery that shrouded the routes up to the
major peaks characterised climbing; a time that stands in sharp
contrast to contemporary mountaineering. After all, nowadays the
routes are established, the technical difficulties are reduced, and
virtually everyone with enough money and time can pay a guiding
service to be led up the mountains. Nevertheless, assertions of the
heroic act of climbing, of strive and hardship – all attributes which
have governed (self-)descriptions of all kinds of exploration – and
the discourses that underpin them still play a significant role in
drawing audiences and inspiring new practitioners.

Despite such claims, (high-altitude) mountaineering as a sport has
continued to rise in popularity (Schöffl 2022), with the 21st century
marking a range of dichotomies and cultural, political, and social
shifts: While climbing and popular accounts of ascends are still
considered the preserve of men, recent decades have seen a rise in
female mountaineering; while the sport draws attention to the global
South, where the world’s highest mountains are located, it has also
become a fundamentally capitalist enterprise; while it promises
physical benefits, it is also a highly risky activity; and while it
has the potential to propel social change, it is also still subject to
substantial social barriers.

The inter- and transdisciplinary conference ‘Seismic Shifts’ held at
TU Dresden intends to shine a light on the various dichotomies and
shifts that characterise mountaineering and the study of
mountaineering in the 21st century, particularly in the humanities and
the social sciences. Such shifts occur, for instance, in terms of
perspectives (e.g. from the northern hemisphere to the global South),
in terms of the voices in mountaineering and mountaineering studies
(e.g. with regard to gender; Apollo 2021), and in terms of knowledge
transmission (e.g. with regard to the language(s) of mountaineering
and cultural products).

Call for Papers:

We invite contributions from cultural studies, historical science,
literary studies, linguistics, media studies, sociology, and related
disciplines that engage with mountaineering in any way relevant to the
overall theme of the conference.

We welcome submissions for contributions (20 minutes for presentation
+ 10 minutes for discussion) addressing one or more of the following
aspects:

- mountaineering and cultural memory,
- mountaineering and gender,
- mountaineering and ageing,
- (social) media representations of mountaineering,
- travel writing and mountaineering,
- language variation and multilingualism in mountaineering,
- mountaineering terminology,
- further topics that relate to the conference theme.

Please submit your abstract of max. 500 words (including references)
via e-mail to seismicshifts2023 at tu-dresden.de by 14 April 2023.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out by 28 April 2023.

Please note that we intend to publish an edited collection based on
this conference. Please let us know in your submission e-mail if you
would be interested in being part of this publication project.

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