31.491, Calls: English; Anthropological Linguistics/France

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Subject: 31.491, Calls: English; Anthropological Linguistics/France

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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:51:52
From: ABDENBI LACHKAR [ABDENBILACHKAR at YAHOO.FR]
Subject: The Ancient and the New Silk Roads: Discourse and Knowledge

 
Full Title: The Ancient and the New Silk Roads: Discourse and Knowledge 
Short Title: ANSR.1 

Date: 12-Nov-2020 - 14-Nov-2020
Location: Montpellier, France 
Contact Person: ABDENBI LACHKAR
Meeting Email: ABDENBILACHKAR at YAHOO.FR

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 25-May-2020 

Meeting Description:

The Silk Roads constitute one of the most important communication and human
development networks in the world. Stretching from the Chang'an-Tianshan
Corridor, these routes have always contributed in bridging gaps between
several regions, countries and continents and developing ancient and modern
civilizations and societies. Extending from the Far East, the Near East and
the Middle East to Africa and Europe, especially the Mediterranean, these
roads have striven through the ages to connect the East to the West and even
the North to the South, thanks to their multiple development and expansion
strategies. These efforts aimed at opening up to new horizons, cultures,
empires (Chinese, Roman, Arab, Muslim, etc.) and spaces from Antiquity to
nowadays. This rapprochement began with short and long-distance trade, with
the circulation of materials, goods and valuables (porcelain, tea, spices,
silk, etc.), which led to the exchange of experiences, knowledge and know-how
in different fields (science, literature, architecture, urban planning,
economy, etc.). This not only led to the discovery of new markets but also
promoted the movement and migration of populations towards new geographical
and cultural areas, in the search for the new and the ancient, the modern and
the authentic, for what is different and what is similar. 
This movement of goods and populations, with their diversities and variations,
has also contributed to the transmission of languages, beliefs, religions,
ideas and ideologies as well as to changes in the foundations of societies on
the Silk Roads or those related to it,  thus implying the influence of
linguistic, communication, and socio-cultural practices, notably the practice
of power in a totally evolving world. It is a world mainly stimulated by
technological change and the conquest of new spaces and centers of wealth and
influence without borders, a world that is more and more prone to interactions
between the West (represented by the USA and its European, African and Arab
allies) and the East where China takes central stage with its new alliances in
Asia, in the Middle East and Africa.


Call for Papers: 

The first edition of the “Silk Roads” International Conference, which is a
continuation of the “Languages, Cultures and Media in the Mediterranean”
International Conference that opened to China in its previous edition, 
welcomes contributions and unpublished research related to linguistic,
discursive, cultural, historical and sociological characteristics, as well as
Silk Road policies and geostrategies. With a special focus on
trans-disciplinarity and multi-disciplinarity   priority will be given to
proposals that approach the Silk Roads through the following research areas:
- History of the Silk Roads and their management by ancient and new societies
- Geopolitical issues related to the new Silk Road
- Languages and discourse: plurilingualism and language contact, circulation
of words and concepts, lexicon and lexicography
- Political and media discourse: practices, perceptions and representations
- Texts, discourse, translation and terminology: interculturality,
stereotyping and representations in society
- Teaching-learning of languages-cultures, migration, translation
- Modern and ancient literatures, translation and translation studies: the
single and the multiple, borrowing and transfer,
- NICT, application and assessment methods 
- Mainstream media, new media, geopolitics and societies: analytical skills
and applications in the field
- New media, innovation, intelligence and identity: security and
sustainability
- Digital and/ or language tools: design, evaluation methods, theoretical and
strategic issues.
- Traditions, heritage, communication and interculturality.

350-500 words proposals in French, English, Arabic or Chinese, and a one-page
CV, may be sent by May 25, 2020 to: lachkarabdenbi at gmail.com
The Scientific Committee will examine these proposals and give their answers
by June 30, 2020.

A conference website is under construction and will soon be ready!




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