35.884, Calls: 29th German-Catalan Conference

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Subject: 35.884, Calls: 29th German-Catalan Conference

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Date: 12-Mar-2024
From: Katharina Müller [katharina.mueller at romanistik.uni-giessen.de]
Subject: 29th German-Catalan Conference


Full Title: 29th German-Catalan Conference

Date: 12-Sep-2024 - 15-Sep-2024
Location: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
Contact Person: Katharina Müller
Meeting Email: katalanistentag at romanistik.uni-giessen.de
Web Site: https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb05/romanistik/studium/ka
talanistentag/conference

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Ling &
Literature; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat)
Language Family(ies): Romance

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2024

Meeting Description:

The 29th German-Catalan Conference will place various facets of
biographies at the centre of academic exchange in the area of Catalan
Studies and beyond. Catalan language, literature, culture, history and
society are strongly influenced by the biographical references of
individual actors. Focusing on such references allows the
reconstruction of fine-grained images of past and present realities of
the Catalan-speaking areas.
We invite you to use the interdisciplinary potential of the study of
biographies in history, culture and society, literature, language,
didactics and translation to address topics that are oriented towards
common questions to be worked on together by various sub-disciplines
in Catalan Studies, such as the following:
- How are Catalan language, literature, culture and society
experienced from the internal and external perspective as well as in
transcultural networks? How do social and cultural science
biographical research approaches give access to everyday cultures and
to overarching social structures of meaning in the Catalan-speaking
world? What place do references to the Catalan-speaking areas and
their language have in biographies and their interpretations? To what
extent are they part of life projects and perspectives on the future?
- Which insights to processes of linguistic-cultural identification
and awareness as well as to the acceptance of (language) policy
measures do biographical narratives provide? How does idiolectal
language use change over the course of a person's life, e.g. in terms
of grammatical coding and pragmatic staging of subjectivity?
- Are there typical linguistic biographies of multilingual Catalan
speakers? How are language and culture passed on between generations
and to new speakers of Catalan in an informal or institutionally
controlled way? Which role does language teaching play in this
process? Which role does Catalan play as an economic resource in
employment biographies? Which role do biographical factors play in
language choice in the context of Catalan multilingualism? To what
extent do individual biographies shape the history of the
Catalan-speaking communities and which biographical experiences are
significant for generational understanding?
- How are "Catalan biographies" represented in literature, social
sciences and the media, as well as in the aesthetic treatment of
social conflictuality, migration experiences and diasporic references?
What place does the digital space or the interplay between the
analogue and the digital have in literary and multimodal mediatized
forms of (auto-)biographical narration in literature and film?
Questions of linguistic and, in a broader sense, cultural translation
(including self-translation) can also be addressed against this
backdrop.
- Which role do researchers' individual biographies play in the
development of scholarly engagement with the various fields of
research? How do researchers within and outside the Catalan-speaking
areas find Catalan topics? How do their biographies shape
institutional processes of research and teaching in Catalan Studies?
Under this framework, the 29th German-Catalan conference can become a
place of understanding about one's own research biographies as well.

Call for Papers:

We are planning to host the German-Catalan Conference in person.
Presentations will be grouped according to topic and methodological
approach. Proposals should not exceed 300 words. These should be
submitted in anonymous form for evaluation by the scientific
committee. We also ask you to provide a short biography (max. 50
words).

The submission deadline for proposals has been extended until
01/04/2024. Please use the following website:
https://www.conftool.net/katalanistentag2024/. After the proposals
have been reviewed by the scientific committee, the organization team
will classify each proposal as an individual presentation or as a
contribution to a discussion panel.

Individual presentations are divided into 30-minute slots (a 20-minute
lecture followed by a 10-minute debate). In the discussion panels,
there will be an exchange on presentations/online posters submitted in
advance.

The languages of the conference are German, Catalan (or other Romance
languages), and English.

For further questions please contact:
katalanistentag at romanistik.uni-giessen.de



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