34.1449, Calls: Framing Nature: discourses past and present of nature and the environment. A sustainability perspective - A Clavier event

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Date: 09-May-2023
From: Paola Catenaccio [paola.catenaccio at unimi.it]
Subject: Framing Nature: discourses past and present of nature and the environment. A sustainability perspective - A Clavier event

Full Title: Framing Nature: discourses past and present of nature and
the environment. A sustainability perspective - A Clavier event
Short Title: Framing Nature - Clavier 2023

Date: 23-Nov-2023 - 24-Nov-2023
Location: Sesto San Giovanni - Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Contact Person: Paola Catenaccio
Meeting Email: Clavier2023 at unimi.it
Web Site: http://www.Clavier2023.unimi.it

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2023

Meeting Description:

The Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations at
the University of Milan, and the CLAVIER (Corpus and LAnguage
Variation In English Research) interuniversity research centre are
pleased to announce the Clavier 2023 Conference, devoted to Framing
Nature. The conference will take place in Milan on 23 and 24 November
2023 and will be devoted to representations of nature and the
environment at a time in history when the relationship between human
beings and the natural world is strained to say the least.

The conference will bring together scholars from different fields to
identify and analyse the frames deployed in environmental discourses
past and present. The aim of the conference is to contribute to the
rich field of discourse-oriented scholarship on representations of
nature and the environment by focusing specifically on the notion of
framing as applied to environmental discourse, and on its implications
both in terms of our understanding of nature, and in terms of
practices, behaviors and choices.

2nd Call for Papers:

Extended deadline! The deadline for the conference has been extended
to June 1st 2023

Among the problems troubling the 21st century, particularly salient
are those concerning the environment. In what is commonly referred to
as the Age of the Anthropocene, the relationship between human beings
and the natural world is at the heart not only of extensively debated
problems such as climate change and the depletion of natural
resources, (micro-)plastic pollution and the consequences of nuclear
disasters, but also of issues such as the management of the global
economy and the likelihood of the emergence of novel diseases, of
which Covid-19 is only the latest. The very concept of environmental
sustainability – quite possibly one of the defining concepts of 21st
century policy thinking – revolves around this relationship, and it is
on the way we understand it that our approaches to addressing
environmental issues depend.

This understanding is shaped by a broad array of beliefs, assumptions
and convictions which vary, evolve, stratify and cross-fertilize
across times and cultures, all of which come to bear – at least
potentially – on contemporary environmental discourse. Indeed, the
plethora of issues which fall within such discourse make for a complex
scenario riddled with tensions, many of which originate from the
different ways in which environmental problems are “framed,” i.e. how
specific aspects of such problems are selected and given salience in
discourse so as “to promote a particular problem definition, causal
interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation for
the item described” (Entman 1993: 52).  The multiple framings that can
be identified differ in terms of values, priorities, perspectives and
predictions – and therefore, following Entman, the remedies they
suggest and the recommendations they put forth to avoid what is
increasingly recognised as impending disaster.

Identifying and analysing the frames deployed in environmental
discourse, as well as their historical, cultural and philosophical
roots, is therefore crucial not only to understand underlying
assumptions about the relationship between human beings and the
environment, but also to explore the way in which the need for
behavioural change (or lack thereof) both on a collective and an
individual level can be convincingly argued. Moreover, since framing
is a decisive step in the construction of arguments which affect the
outcome of a debate (van Eemeren and Houtlosser 1999), it is all the
more essential to analyse its role in a form of discourse which is
inevitably mobilised in the service of action (or inaction).

This call for papers invites contributions on the above-mentioned
topics. We are seeking research papers, case studies, and theoretical
contributions that address the framings and understandings of nature
and the environment across time, space, media and discourses.
We welcome submissions (max 300 words plus five references) from
scholars and researchers in the fields of linguistics, translation,
and interpreting, discourse analysis, argumentation theory, rhetoric
and related disciplines, as well as from other associated fields.
Interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome. As part of the
Clavier event series, the conference will feature a special strand on
corpus linguistics approaches.
Proposals can be submitted for individual papers (20 minutes + 10
minutes for discussion), posters and panels. Proposals for panels fo
for up to 5 papers (for a 2-hour session) should include a short
description of the panel (150 words max) and the titles of the
individual papers included in the panel. Panel organizers should
pre-select panel contributions.

Confirmed pleanary speakers:
Jonathan Charteris-Black, UWE Bristol
Giuliana Garzone, Univeristà IULM
Martin Reisigl, Universität Wien
Arran Stibbe, University of Gloucestershire

For the full call for papers and submission guidelines, please visit
the conference website - http://www.clavier2023.unimi.it.

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