34.1138, Calls: OUTBREAKS! Epidemics across African Languages and Cultures

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Subject: 34.1138, Calls: OUTBREAKS! Epidemics across African Languages and Cultures

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Date: 05-Apr-2023
From: Gian Claudio Batic [gcbatic at unior.it]
Subject:  OUTBREAKS! Epidemics across African Languages and Cultures

Full Title: OUTBREAKS! Epidemics across African Languages and Cultures
Short Title: OUTBREAKS!

Date: 19-Oct-2023 - 20-Oct-2023
Location: Napoli, Italy
Contact Person: Gian Claudio Batic
Meeting Email: outbreaks2023 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.unior.it/ricerca/38521/3/outbreaks!-epidemics-ac
ross-african-languages-and-cultures.html

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Ling & Literature
Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic; Khoisan; Niger-Congo; Nilo-Saharan

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2023

Meeting Description:

The COVID-19 pandemic, an event of global magnitude characterised by
extraordinary media coverage, was but one among many epidemic events
throughout human history. Societies react and deal with epidemic
phenomena with a degree of heterogeneity determined by different
material and cultural contexts. Outbreaks penetrate people’s daily
lives and the folds of society to a greater or lesser degree: they
require new or reinvented vocabulary, enter into conversational
exchange, stimulate new types of literary and video-musical
production, and are the subject of negotiation between “modern” and
“traditional”  medical-scientific practices.
Global epidemics like HIV/AIDS, endemic diseases like malaria or Lassa
fever, the occasional outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease, as well as the
more recent COVID-19 pandemic, have marked the African continent in
many different ways and in different epochs. Alongside the purely
epidemiological aspects, these events have become the thematic focus
of a prolific cultural response conveyed by the media, social media,
social interaction, and cultural practices. This response, naturally
heterogeneous and complex, has found aesthetic codification (e.g. in
literary production and the verbal arts) and linguistic-conceptual
codification (e.g., with the creation of neologisms and the metaphoric
conceptualisation of epidemic discourse), and is also part of the
ideological fabric that sees modern and pre-modern instances
contrasting and integrating each other.
The OUTBREAKS! conference intends to focus the discussion on how
African societies have experienced, integrated, and interpreted the
pandemic phenomena of recent decades in artistic-literary production,
language remodelling or adaptation, and cultural negotiation in the
medical-curative domain.

Venue
University of Naples L’Orientale
Department of Asian African and Mediterranean Studies
Palazzo Corigliano – Piazza San Domenico Maggiore 12
Naples, Italy

Conference convenors & organisers
Flavia Aiello, Gian Claudio Batic, Andrea Brigaglia

Important dates
Call for papers: 23 February 2023
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 June 2023
Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2023
OUTBREAKS! conference: 19-20 October 2023

Conference fee
There is no conference fee. Travel and accommodation costs are borne
by the participants.

The conference will be held in presence.

Contact
outbreaks2023 at gmail.com

Call for Papers:

We invite paper proposals concerning epidemic outbreaks across African
cultures and languages from the disciplinary perspectives of
literatures & verbal arts, linguistics, and cultural studies &
anthropology. A list of possible topics includes (but is not limited
to) the following:

– metaphorical conceptualisation of epidemic phenomena;
– the language of epidemics: innovations and adaptations;
– epidemics and linguistics landscape;
– epidemics in literature, arts and music;
– indigenous/local medical understandings of epidemics;
– traditional medicinal practices and epidemics;
– epidemics in religious discourse;
– epidemic discourse in social media;
– epidemics: education, infotainment, and infodemic;

Abstract submission

Abstracts in English or French should be sent to
outbreaks2023 at gmail.com by 1 June 2023. The abstract files (pdf and
doc/docx) will include: author’s name, affiliation, short bio (max 120
words), e-mail address, (surface) mailing address, title of the paper,
and abstract (maximum 500 words, including references).

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