[LingGEOG] CFP Graduate Conference 2020

[Giulia Speranza]

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GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2020 (GC2020)
Call For Papers

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(Apologies for Cross-posting)



We invite the submission of contributions for the Graduate Conference 2020 “The
Changing City: Representations, Metaphors, Memory” organised by PhD
candidates at the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative
Studies, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy.



Important Dates:

-  May 31, 2020: Abstract Submission Deadline (300 words; IT or EN)

-  July 15,  2020: Notification of Acceptance

-  October 21-23, 2020: Conference Days



Topic:

“Una città non è disegnata, semplicemente si fa da sola.

Basta ascoltarla, perché la città è il riflesso di tante storie.”
[A city is not designed, it simply creates itself. It is enough to listen
to it, because it is the reflection of many stories.]
(Renzo Piano, 2000)

We invite contributions that address the critical categories of urban space
and gravitate around the Kaleidoscopic experience of the city. Proposed
lines of research include the following:

The multilingual city, The translated city, The narrated city, The mediated
city, The digital city, The ancient city, The city of the future, Imagining
the city,  Rediscovering the city, Mapping the city, Enhancing the city,
Identity and the city, Accessibility and the city ...

These themes can be explored through the following critical approaches,
among others:


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   Linguistic Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Applied
   Linguistics,Comparative Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Discourse
   Analysis, Lexicography;
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   Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature, Ectodics, Philology;
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   Anthropology, Ethnography, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial and Gender
   Studies;
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   Literary Translation Studies, AV Translation, Specialised Translation,
   Machine Translation;
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   Art, Cinema and Theatre;
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   NLP, Data Visualisation, Digital Storytelling, Distant/Close Reading,
   Image Recognition, Social Media Analysis.


For full Call for Papers, click here: https://easychair.org/cfp/GC2020

Submissions:
Authors can submit their abstract (300 words) in English or Italian which
should also include a short bio-note (100 words) and the bibliography, in
.pdf format, using the submission link on Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gc2020
After the Conference, authors will be invited to submit their papers for
the publication of the Conference Proceedings, edited by the Conference
Committee and the Scientific Committee.



COVID-19 Emergency Updates:

The committee will immediately inform participants about possible
modifications related to the event.



Contacts:

For further information, please contact the Conference Committee @
gclorientale2020 at gmail.com

You can also visit the University website and the official social network
outlets of the conference here: Unior
<http://www.unior.it/ateneo/12487/1/graduate-conference.html>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/gclorientale/>, Twitter
<https://twitter.com/graduate_l>
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