34.3159, Calls: After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics

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Subject: 34.3159, Calls: After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics

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Date: 24-Oct-2023
From: Joanna Ryszka [joanna.ryszka at us.edu.pl]
Subject: After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics

Full Title: After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and
Linguistics

Date: 10-Jun-2024 - 11-Jun-2024
Location: Edificio Marco Polo, Viale dello Scalo S. Lorenzo, 82, 00159
Rome, Italy
Contact Person: Organising Committee
Meeting Email: aftershock2024 at us.edu.pl
Web Site: https://aftershock2024.us.edu.pl

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 24-Dec-2023

Meeting Description:

In the face of ongoing disasters including the climate crisis, the
pandemic, war in Europe and conflicts worldwide, as well as blatant
manifestations of social injustice taking place on both a localised
and a planetary scale, we might be prone to think that we have reached
a capacity of response that is beyond shock, that we have become numb
to events that affect us both directly and indirectly. Can literature
continue to make felt and bring home the intolerability of everyday
events that may otherwise pass without remark? Does our
‘response-ability’ depend on our being shocked, and how is such a
response figured in language?

‘Shock’ has endured as a key term in literary studies for over a
century. Its status as the sensation proper to modernity emerged in
medical discourse in the nineteenth century and was then cemented by
clinical studies of shell-shock after the First World War. It remains
central to what Jeffrey T. Schnapp described as ‘prevailing
traumatocentric accounts of modernity’ (Jeffrey T. Schnapp, ‘Crash
(Speed as Engine of Individuation)’, Modernism/Modernity 6, no. 1
(1999): 4). These accounts pass through a number of shocks: from early
attempts to pathologise shock as a literal wound or tearing of
tissues, to competing theories of shock as a result of enervation or
overstimulation, up to post-Freudian understandings of shock as a
traumatic penetration of the psyche’s defences and Walter Benjamin’s
notion of the ‘shock experience’ as integral to urban life. If
modernity is excessive, shock is the measure of that excess.

>From a linguistic perspective, addressing shock and its consequences
requires a multifaceted approach. ‘Shock’ may describe reactions to
sensationalism or representations of extreme events in mass media, or
responses to disturbing or taboo material. Researchers face challenges
when investigating such sensitive topics and approaches will vary
depending on the source of shock, the content of shocking material,
the form it takes, and reactions to it. A proper categorisation of
shock might explore how it is registered linguistically: how does it
influence prosody and language choices? How do we communicate when we
are shocked, and does it influence our efficiency? What linguistic
elements make a statement shocking, and how can we recognise a shocked
language user?

With this Graduate Forum, we hope to ignite a conversation not only on
representations of shock and shocking representations in literature
and language, but also on what comes after shock, lingering on
responses to shock which search for new forms of response to events
that once seemed extreme. What new sensations and responses might
contend with shock in the twenty-first century? Recognising the
numerous and diverse ways in which shock manifests itself in daily
lives, the Organisers of the Graduate Forum of the 37th cycle of the
PhD Programme in English Literatures, Language and Translation welcome
contributions from both the fields of literary studies and linguistics
that revolve around the concept of ‘shock’.

Call for Papers:

After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics
(Rome, 10th and 11th June 2024)

Where, When and How:

The Graduate Forum will take place in a hybrid form and will be held
at the Edificio Marco Polo, Viale dello Scalo S. Lorenzo, 82, 00159
Rome, on the 10th and 11th June 2024. The language of the conference
will be English.

Application Process:

Applicants must send their proposals as an attachment to
aftershock2024 at us.edu.pl by the 24th December 2023. The file must
include: Name(s), surname(s), affiliation(s) and brief
biobibliographical profile of the author(s) (up to 150-200 words);
Title of the paper; Abstract (up to 250-300 words, excluding
references).
Accepted authors will be notified by the 15th February 2024, and will
have 20 minutes each for their talk.
Conference registration will be free of charge.

Important Dates:
24th December 2023: proposal submission deadline
15th February 2024: author notification

If you have any questions, please write to us at
aftershock2024 at us.edu.pl.

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