[lg policy] calls: Dialogue Under Occupation V

[Harold Schiffman]

Dialogue Under Occupation V
Short Title: DUO V

Date: 04-Aug-2011 - 08-Aug-2011
Location: Okinawa, Japan
Contact Person: Daniel Broudy, Peter Simpson
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.dialogueunderoccupation.org

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 18-Mar-2011

Meeting Description:

Dialogue Under Occupation V
August 4-8, 2011: Okinawa, Japan

The focus of 'Dialogue under Occupation V' is on ways of communicating
in and about areas of the world confronting occupation. Engaging in
'dialogue' under occupation does not mean that the less powerful or
powerless are accepting the occupation in any way, shape, or form, but
that people are willing to confront their occupiers in an effort to be
recognized as having equal human rights, including the ability to make
autonomous decisions about how they should live and pursue their own
definition of happiness. However, 'under occupation', these rights are
undermined by the power differential between the occupier and the
occupied.

We welcome professionals working in applied linguistics, pragmatics,
and discourse analysis.

2nd Call for Papers:

If dialogue under occupation is to succeed in overturning injustice,
circumstances must be created for the occupied to speak and act
against occupation. It is within this space for action that we welcome
presentations from activists, academics, and the general public for
the forthcoming conference in Okinawa in August 2011.

Send submissions in English or Japanese to duo5dialogueunderoccupation.org.

For all proposals, send an abstract of 250-300 words and a separate
cover sheet including your name and organizational affiliation by
March 18, 2011 (Notifications sent by April 15).

Strands:

Please identify which of the following four strands best relates to
your presentation.

- Enactment: The domains wherein the politics and policies of
occupation are enacted, realized through institutions attributed with
and exercising power over other institutions and the public (e.g.,
governments, religious organizations, education departments and
agencies).

- Transaction: The domains wherein information about policies is
reproduced, disseminated, endorsed, and/or challenged in an effort to
inform (or misinform) the occupied and the occupiers (e.g., media
sources, schools, churches).

- Reaction: The domains wherein daily life under occupation occurs
(e.g., the community, the workplace), loci where positioning of the
"self" vs. the "other" - ingroup, outgroup, and/or intergroup
status—transpires, and where historical narratives of occupation are
revisited.

- Resolution: The locus of peacemakers and peacekeepers, those who
would peaceably resist occupation and find ways to resolve conflict,
as well as those who advocate resignation, acceptance, and
coexistence.

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