33.1808, Calls: Italian; Ling & Literature/Italy

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Subject: 33.1808, Calls: Italian; Ling & Literature/Italy

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Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 21:08:23
From: Barbara Nicoletti [lilec.graduateconference at unibo.it]
Subject: Sex and Discursive Strategies Between Implicit and Explicit in Literature, Language and Translation

 
Full Title: Sex and Discursive Strategies Between Implicit and Explicit in Literature, Language and Translation 

Date: 26-Oct-2022 - 27-Oct-2022
Location: Bologna, Italy 
Contact Person: Barbara Nicoletti
Meeting Email: lilec.graduateconference at unibo.it
Web Site: https://phd.unibo.it/lingue-letterature-e-culture-moderne/it 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2022 

Meeting Description:

The aim of the graduate conference is to gather contributions that fall within
the three areas of linguistics, translation studies and literary criticism,
without excluding the possibility of interdisciplinary proposals. Doctoral
students and researchers at the beginning of their career are welcome to
submit their presentation proposals on the theme of sex and the discursive
strategies that apply to it, within a continuum between the two extremes of
implicit and explicit.

Censored, displayed, fetishized, reclaimed, sublimated, celebrated: we always
talk about sex in various ways, even when we abstain from pronouncing it. The
discursive strategies that we use to represent it in the collective imagery
change according to the historical, cultural and social context and the
positioning of the writer, speaker and translator. Among these, some
approaches are considered fundamental, such as French philosophy and feminism
of the 1970s, which have recently been advanced by pioneering perspectives
such as those of transfeminist and postcolonial criticism. Today, the
discourse on sex is not limited to theory alone; it rather invades the space
of public discourse, questioning the paradigms through which it has been
conceived, analysed and represented. And moving further, it is precisely the
growing interest of popular culture and transmedial representations of sex
that calls into question highly topical issues, such as identity, consent,
desire, self-representation and self determination. Moreover, in this context,
an extremely important role is played by activist movements which act both at
a national and an international level. In the last ten years, two movements
came to prominence, namely Ni una menos and Me too. They both contribute to
reinforce the struggle against gender-based violence and gender inequality and
they have overturned the ways in which we talk about sex all over the world.

The Graduate Conference aims, therefore, to analyse the theme through
transversal methodological approaches, ranging from queer studies (Judith
Butler, Paul B. Preciado, Jack Halberstam, Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman) and
feminist criticism (bell hooks, Adrienne Rich, Luce Irigaray, Katherine Angel,
Barbara Costa) to discourse analysis (Dominique Maingueneau, George Lakoff,
Norman Fairclough, Kerbat-Orecchioni) and translation theory (Lawrence Venuti,
Luise Von Flotow, José Santaemilia, Olga Castro), taking into account also
perspectives offered by cultural and visual studies.

We accept contributions related to the following themes, without excluding
others that may partially deviate from the guidelines below:
- reappropriation of sex and pleasure in repressive contexts and / or as a
form of
resistance;
- poetics of sex as a celebratory experience, of elation / ecstasy /
jouissance;
- censorship, untold, concealed, taboo, and relation with sexual normativity /
the
discourse on normativity;
- narratives, experiences, and memories of sexual violence, abuse, trauma;
- relationship between sex and power, also in war contexts;
- language and sexuality in education, and processes of disambiguation and
terminological redetermination;
- implicit and explicit in pornography;
- implicitness or explicitness in translation contexts of various kinds
(intralingual,
interlingual and transmedial translation);
- presence (or absence) of sex in paratexts (covers, strips etc.).


Call for Papers:

We accept abstracts for a maximum of 250 words (bibliography excluded) for
15-minute contributions, accompanied by a 150-word biography. Proposals must
be submitted by June 1st to lilec.graduateconference at unibo.it. Acceptance of
the proposals will be communicated by June 15. The languages of the conference
will be Italian and English. The mode of attendance will ideally be in-person,
taking into account any restrictions in place during the period of the
Graduate Conference.




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