25.3473, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Philosophy of Lang/Italy

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Subject: 25.3473, Calls:  Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Philosophy of Lang/Italy

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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:03:29
From: Cristina Ciucurescu [office at euroacademia.eu]
Subject: Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities

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Full Title: Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities 

Date: 17-Oct-2014 - 18-Oct-2014
Location: Florence, Italy 
Contact Person: Cristina Ciucurescu
Meeting Email: application at euroacademia.eu
Web Site: http://euroacademia.eu/conference/second-identities-and-identifications/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 12-Sep-2014 

Meeting Description:

The Second Euroacademia International Conference 
‘Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities’ 

Florence, Italy
Villa Victoria – Palazzo dei Congressi
17 – 18 October 2014

Identity is one of the crown jeweleries in the kingdom of ‘contested concepts’. The idea of identity is conceived to provide some unity and recognition while it also exists by separation and differentiation. Few concepts were used as much as identity for contradictory purposes. From the fragile individual identities as self-solidifying frameworks to layered in-group identifications in families, orders, organizations, religions, ethnic groups, regions, nation-states, supra-national entities or any other social entities, the idea of identity always shows up in the core of debates and makes everything either too dangerously simple or too complicated. Constructivist and de-constructivist strategies have led to the same result: the eternal return of the topic. Some say we should drop the concept, some say we should keep it and refine it, some say we should look at it in a dynamic fashion while some say it’s the reason for resistance to change.

If identities are socially constructed and not genuine formations, they still hold some responsibility for inclusion/exclusion – self/other nexuses. Looking at identities in a research oriented manner provides explanatory tolls for a wide variety of events and social dynamics. Identities reflect the complex nature of human societies and generate reasonable comprehension for processes that cannot be explained by tracing pure rational driven pursuit of interests. The feelings of attachment, belonging, recognition, the social processes of values formation and norms integration, the logics of appropriateness generated in social organizations are all factors relying on a certain type of identity or identification. Multiple identifications overlap, interact, include or exclude, conflict or enhance cooperation. Identities create boundaries and borders; define the in-group and the out-group, the similar and the excluded, the friend and the threatening, the insider and the ‘other’.

Call for Papers:
 
Deadline for paper proposals: 12 September 2014

The Second Euroacademia International Conference ‘Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities’ aims to scrutinize the state of the art in collective identities research, to bring once more into debate the processes of identity making, identity building in both constructivist or de-constructivist dimensions. It is the aim of the conference to open the floor to dynamic multi-dimensional and inter-disciplinary understanding of identities today. 

For more details please see:

http://euroacademia.eu/conference/second-identities-and-identifications/







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