25.2940, Calls: Socioling, Anthropological Ling, Discourse Analysis, Ling & Literature/Germany
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LINGUIST List: Vol-25-2940. Tue Jul 15 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 25.2940, Calls: Socioling, Anthropological Ling, Discourse Analysis, Ling & Literature/Germany
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:15:55
From: Stefanie Jannedy [BIC2015 at gwz-berlin.de]
Subject: Borders & Identity (Urban Fragmentations)
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Full Title: Borders & Identity (Urban Fragmentations)
Short Title: BIC2015
Date: 16-Mar-2015 - 19-Mar-2015
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact Person: Stefanie Jannedy
Meeting Email: BIC2015 at gwz-berlin.de
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 12-Sep-2014
Meeting Description:
Urban fragmentation(s)
Borders & Identity III
Berlin, March 16-19, 2015
The Centers for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Berlin (GWZ) will jointly host the 3rd Borders & Identity conference from March 16-19, 2015 in Berlin (Germany). The conference provides a meeting place for researchers interested in interdisciplinary approaches to exploring Urban Fragmentation(s) from linguistic, literary, sociological, and historical points of view, or a combination thereof. The conference will be organized in three parallel strands, each chaired by a corresponding GWZ-center (ZAS, Center for General Linguistics; ZfL, Center for Literary and Cultural Research; ZMO, Center for Modern Oriental Studies):
1. Literature & Translation (ZfL)
2. Language & Linguistic Creativity (ZAS)
3. Society & Governance (ZMO)
Conference Location: Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany)
2nd Call for Papers:
Abstract submission is now open. For detailed instructions, please visit: http://www.bic2015.de
For a full call for papers, please visit: www.bic2015.de
Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: September 12, 2014
Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2014
We invite abstracts for oral presentations and posters on topics including, but not limited to, the following areas listed below. Interdisciplinary submissions are highly welcome.
Literature & Translation (ZfL):
1. Writing the City
- Urban soundscapes: Fragments, collages, remixes
- Literary interventions in urban society: cutting across town
- Multilingual literatures in pluricultural cities
- Plural topographies in urban literatures and cultures
2. ''The 'Translation' is the Message''
- Translating the self: Writers in exile and migration
- Translating the other: Appropriating foreign forms of cultural expression
- The role and function of cultural mediators (artists, publishers, teachers, etc.)
3. New Subjectivities
- Suburban subjectivities: Figurations of the self in recent post-socialist literature
- (Urban) cultures of affect: Fragmented memories, distorted belongings, violent riots
Language & Linguistic Creativity (ZAS):
1. Linguistic diversity in the city
- Multilingualism in the classroom
- Multilingual cities as loci of language contact and change
- Migration patterns and linguistic fragmentation
2. Citylects
- Linguistic creativity / Multiethnolects
- Language change / Language decay
- Language variation and social networks
3. Language attitudes / Linguistic stereotypes
- Perceptual ethnolectology
- Language ideologies
- Linguistic expressions of style
Society & Governance (ZMO):
1. Negotiating Diversities
- Cultural, ethnic, and religious fragmentation in the city
- Governance of plurality
- Spaces of interaction, spaces of fragmentation
2. Contesting Visions
- Splintering urbanism in networked cities
- Urban contestations and violence
- Unifying and fragmenting visions of urbanism
- Fragmented authenticity of urban heritage
3. Rethinking Marginalities
- Urban centrality and marginality: Concepts and terminologies
- Urban centrality and marginality: Case studies
Please visit www.bic2015.de for further information.
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