34.1711, Calls: South Atlantic Modern Language Association

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-1711. Wed May 31 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.1711, Calls: South Atlantic Modern Language Association

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Date: 30-May-2023
From: Troy E. Spier [troy.spier at famu.edu]
Subject: South Atlantic Modern Language Association

Full Title: South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Short Title: SAMLA

Date: 09-Nov-2023 - 11-Nov-2023
Location: Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center
(Atlanta, Georgia), USA
Contact Person: Troy E. Spier
Meeting Email: troy.spier at famu.edu
Web Site: https://samla.memberclicks.net/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 28-Jul-2023

Meeting Description:

South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) 95
(In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies
Thursday, November 9 to Saturday, November 11, 2023
Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center (Atlanta, Georgia)

The 2020s might be called the Age of Insecurity. Barely recovering
from the coronavirus pandemic and suffering its social, psychological,
and economic consequences, and living in fear of environmental
catastrophe and nuclear war, twenty-first-century humanity has little
reason to feel secure. Increasingly powerful surveillance regimes
facilitated by the ongoing digital revolution only heighten the sense
of insecurity and related affective states such as paranoia and
entrapment. In U.S. institutions of higher learning, scholars and
students of literature and language face new threats to their
livelihoods precipitated by politically motivated assaults on tenure
and, by implication, academic freedom. What is the future of the
humanities in such circumstances? Is it to be one of gradual (or
accelerated) obsolescence? What alternative futures might be imagined
for the study of literature and language? For creative writing? For
the teaching of rhetoric and composition? Is it possible to envisage –
and create and sustain – new sorts of security without lapsing into
complacency? Might intimations of insecurity be reimagined as useful
or generative for scholarship and teaching in the humanities? How
might thinking about in/security enhance the way we read texts and
watch films? What new reading or viewing practices might come into
being?

Call for Papers:

Languages simultaneously have the power to reflect the reality that
one perceives and also the ability to impact, positively or
negatively, the ways in which we understand, conceptualize, and
constitute that reality. With this in mind, Thomas Payne (2010)
remarked that languages are like rivers: "Every river rises and falls
with the seasons, and its path changes from year to year. Sometimes it
may be calm and gentle, while other times ranging and violent" (p. 2).
As a result, this special session welcomes submissions on any aspect
of applied or theoretical linguistics from non-literary perspectives.
To this end, abstracts addressing the issue of linguistic
(in)security, which is the theme for this year's conference, are
especially welcome, though submissions on other topics within
linguistics more broadly will also be considered. By July 28, 2023,
please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words, a brief
biographical blurb, and any A/V or scheduling requests to Troy E.
Spier, Florida A&M University, at troy.spier at famu.edu.

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