30.4186, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics/Italy

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Subject: 30.4186, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics/Italy

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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 06:16:02
From: federico sabatini [federico.sabatini at unito.it]
Subject: Inclusiveness in and through Museum Discourse

 
Full Title: Inclusiveness in and through Museum Discourse 
Short Title: IMD 

Date: 20-Feb-2020 - 22-Feb-2020
Location: Torino, Italy 
Contact Person: FEDERICO SABATINI
Meeting Email: federico.sabatini at unito.it

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 21-Dec-2019 

Meeting Description:

As civic institutions “in service to society” (ICOM 2007), museums are now
going beyond the basic functions of collecting, exhibiting and interpreting
cultural heritage, becoming primary agents of social inclusion and cultural
change. This leads them to critically reflect upon their practices and seek
innovative approaches: what strategies can museums adopt to be more inclusive
and equitable organizations? How can museums establish positive relationships
with socially disadvantaged people, or with people who are still
under-represented in museum audiences? How can they innovate external
communication also from the ethical point of view, using both digital and
non-digital tools?

The Conference explores the strategic role played by museums in setting forth
discursive practices of inclusion, tolerance, social equality, and,
consequently, in pursuing ethical objectives also through the language they
choose to adopt. While fostering reflection on the actual effectiveness of
those textualizing processes favouring inclusiveness, the aim of the
Conference is to underscore the linguistic potential of Museum Discourse in
its imbrication with human rights discourse and pedagogic discourse. Such an
imbrication actualize the museum as an agent of social change that appears as
paramount in the new course of inclusive didactics.

A museum active in the cultural process through its “communicative actions”
presupposes the study of its language and its construction of messages and
“discourses”, explicit or hidden, in the displays, exhibitions, practices,
community activities. From the perspectives of Linguistics, Discourse
Analysis, Sociology and Sociolinguistics, Translation Studies, Anthropology
and Anthropological Linguistics, as well as Curatorship proper, Museum
Discourse will be approached as a process of communication and signification,
leading to the construction of relevant social functions.  

Forging closer connections, and developing greater mutual understanding
between scholars and practitioners, can serve to strengthen both academic
research and museum practice. Museum Discourse research can be applied to help
shape museum practice, as results can be fed back in the form of
recommendations to practitioners; vice versa, museum professionals can provide
scholars with valuable insights into their practices, presenting case studies
and relevant examples of written, oral, non-verbal and digital communication
taking place in museum settings. As practising members of the museum discourse
community, professionals serve as ‘specialist informants’ (Bhatia, 1993) to be
consulted in order to gain access to data and provide feedback on research.

Scholars, experts and practitioners in the museum field are invited to submit
proposals.

Conference themes include:

1. Museum inclusive textuality (e.g. fact-sheets, publications, web documents
and blogs, social media, mission statements, press releases)
2. Museum involvement with children and teenagers (including those with
special needs)
3. Museum involvement with refugees and asylum seekers
4. Museums addressing xenophobia, sexism, homophobia
5. The role of story-telling
6. Cognitive and pedagogic implications
7. Synergy of verbal and visual grammar in the construction of inclusive
communication
8. Museums actively seeking the construction of interculturality through
several disciplines (science, art history, performance, politics, ecology,
history and literature, language studies, etc.)

The Conference is organized by Federico Sabatini and Cecilia Lazzeretti within
the framework of the Italian Research Project “Museum Discourse: Towards
Social Inclusiveness” (2018-2020) promoted by Department of Cultures, Politics
and Society, University of Turin, and financed by Compagnia San Paolo


Call for Papers:

Submission Guidelines:

Submissions are to be received by  21 December and should be directed to:

federico.sabatini at unito.it

and

cecilia.lazzeretti at unito.it

For all submissions, please clearly indicate:

- Abstract title, author names, and full institutional affiliations of the
responsible (presenting) author and collaborating authors.
- Contact e-mail address for the responsible author.
- One or two conference themes.

Abstracts are expected to be no more than 250 words. Oral presentations will
typically be scheduled in 90-minute sessions, with 30 minutes (20 min.
presentation + 10 min. discussion) allocated to each individual presentation.

Proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria:

- relevance of the topic to the conference theme;
- background contextualisation of the study;
- relationship between title and content, structural organisation;
- theoretical/methodological appropriateness;
- clarity and originality of claims/findings.

All proposals will undergo a double blind peer-review process.

The deadline for submission is December 21, 2019.

Decisions about acceptance will be communicated by December 31 , 2020.
Following formal acceptance, the responsible (presenting) authors must
register for the conference prior to the finalisation of the conference
programme.




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