27.1718, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Discourse Analysis, Gen Ling, Ling & Lit, Socioling/Poland

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Subject: 27.1718, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Discourse Analysis, Gen Ling, Ling & Lit, Socioling/Poland

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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:57:04
From: Alina Kwiatkowska [women.piotrkow at gmail.com]
Subject: Witches and Angels – Perception of Women in Ancient and Modern Cultures

 
Full Title: Witches and Angels – Perception of Women in Ancient and Modern Cultures 

Date: 15-Sep-2016 - 16-Sep-2016
Location: Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland 
Contact Person: Alina Kwiatkowska
Meeting Email: women.piotrkow at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2016 

Meeting Description:

This interdisciplinary conference will focus on the different images of women
created throughout history in language, literature, and the media. We would
like to examine the influence of the changes in the observers’ viewpoint and
value hierarchies, the contexts conducive to foregrounding the dark and the
angelic sides of female personality, the different metaphorical
conceptualizations of women, and the media construal and manipulation of the
representations of female characters.

>From Antigone and Cleopatra through Lady Macbeth and the characters created by
Jane Austen, to contemporary feminists and writers representing the female
point of view, the perception of women and their role in family and society
has undergone constant changes. Taking as its point of departure so-called
''women's nature'', often regarded as unfathomable, inscrutable, and
mysterious, our interdisciplinary conference will focus on the different
images of women created throughout history in language, literature, and the
media.  How have they been influenced by the changes in the observers'
viewpoint and value hierarchies? What contexts have been conducive to
foregrounding the dark sides of female personality, and when have women been
viewed as angelic, placid, and weak? What reality is reflected by the
different metaphorical conceptualizations of women? How are mass media
constructing and manipulating representations of women in different domains of
contemporary reality? We hope that a critical look at prevailing stereotypes
will let us see the objects of our attention in a new light.   

We believe that the topics outlined above may be productively discussed on the
basis of various data, from historical and literary materials, through media
texts, to products of pop culture. We would like to welcome participants from
the disciplines of history, linguistics, literary studies, culture and media
studies, psychology, sociology, and other areas involving research on the
perception and representation of women.  

Conference organizers: Prof. Alina Kwiatkowska, Dr Jolanta Dybala, Dr
Agnieszka Stanecka -  Chair of English Studies, Jan Kochanowski University at
Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland


Call for Abstracts:

Please submit your abstract of ca. 200 words by 30 June 2016. The abstracts
(in the form of email attachments) and other correspondence should be sent to
Prof. Alina Kwiatkowska or Dr Agnieszka Stanecka at women.piotrkow at gmail.com .

The conference fee  is 60 Euro.




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