27.4709, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit/Lebanon

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Subject: 27.4709, Calls: Disc Analysis, Ling & Lit/Lebanon

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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:29:11
From: Maria Nasr [maria.m.nasr at balamand.edu.lb]
Subject: The Question of Borders

 
Full Title: The Question of Borders 

Date: 23-Nov-2017 - 25-Nov-2017
Location: Balamand, Al-Kurah, Lebanon 
Contact Person: Maria Nasr
Meeting Email: borders at balamand.edu.lb
Web Site: http://www.balamand.edu.lb/Academics/Faculties/FASS/NewsEvents/Pages/QuestionOfBorders/QuestionOfBorders.aspx 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Question of Borders: Among the Resident, the Passer-by and the
Intermediary

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Balamand
(Al-Kurah, Lebanon) is organizing an international, multi-disciplinary and
tri-lingual (Arabic, French, English) conference on the question of “borders”
in today’s world. The conference will be held from 23 to 25 November 2017.

The word ''border'' (limit, boundary, frontier etc…) carries several
overlapping and yet contrastable meanings and connotations. Any scholarly
study of this subject needs to be a multidisciplinary one, drawing on several
disciplines within the field of humanities. Such a study would address and
examine the contexts and conditions of border-related phenomena, such as
separation, delineation and determination, arbitration, as well as crossing
from one space to another—be it geographical, natural, symbolic, legal,
linguistic—or between different genres of discourse, whether philosophical,
literary, artistic, cultural, interpretive, political, religious, economic,
psychological, educational, or any other type of discourse. Therefore, the
issue at hand is a broad and complex one that begs many questions, including
the origin of borders, the conditions that gave rise to their existence, their
evolution, uniformity and variability, transformation, their operation systems
and those who operate them, as well as border legitimacy—all issues that
deserve to be discussed at a multi-disciplinary conference open to multiple
examination methods and different approaches.

It can be argued that a “border” is meant “to set apart” two spaces of
different nature, or two domains with dissimilar values and dimensions.  In
this context, we can speak of two inseparable matters: 1) the segregation of
two spaces, in order to distinguish them from one other 2) the determination
of limit that can be reached within a given space, or that prevents one from
passing through to the other space. Thus, “border” stands as a symbolic
representation of what is possible and admissible, prohibited and permissible,
as well as of specification and differentiation, boundaries and their
transgression, limits and limit-breaking, desire and legal constraints, and
all these aspects taken together.

A wide array, these meanings of “border” have themselves multiple connotations
that point to separation, hierarchy, elimination, distinctness, imposition,
settlement, and other related matters; they are also related to customs,
traditions, laws and regulations governing various transactions, discourses,
and forms of conduct.  


Call for Papers:

Abstracts of up to 500 words, in any one of the three conference languages,
should be emailed to the Scientific Committee by the end of January 2016
(borders at balamand.edu.lb). Applicants should receive a reply conveying the
Committee’s decision by the end of March 2017.  

Please take the time to explore the website for more details, check on
important dates, and keep yourself up to date on recent changes.
(www.balamand.edu.lb)

Kindly add the following information to your proposal:

First Name:
Last Name:
Title:
Position:
Affiliation (University or Organization):
Nationality:
Postal Address
Street and Region:
City:
Country:
Phone (international format): 
Email:
Paper title:




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