35.188, Calls: Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing (1500 - 1920)

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Subject: 35.188, Calls: Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing (1500 - 1920)

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Date: 15-Jan-2024
From: Dario Del Fante [dario.delfante at unife.it]
Subject: Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing (1500 - 1920)


Full Title: Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing (1500 - 1920)
Short Title: Remedical2024

Date: 18-Jun-2024 - 19-Jun-2024
Location: University of Ferrara, Italy
Contact Person: Dario Del Fante
Meeting Email: dario.delfante at unife.it

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics;
Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2024

Meeting Description:

Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing (1500 - 1920)

18-19 June 2024

Department of Humanities - University Language Center
University of Ferrara
(FIRD Grant)
remediesconference2023 at unife.it

The conference is organized as part of the FIRD project “Il rimedio
tra divulgazione scientifica e fake news in Francia e in Inghilterra
nel XVI e nel XX secolo”, which is financed by the Department of
Humanities at the University of Ferrara.

Scientific and Organizing Committee: Dario Del Fante (Principal
Investigator), Anna Anselmo, Daniele Speziari, Vera Gajiu.

Call for Papers:

This conference aims to discuss the representation of epidemic
remedies in medical writing in England and in France between 1500 and
1920. Prospective presenters are invited to address epidemic remedies
across five centuries, bearing three main methodological observations
in mind. Firstly, the pivotal role of the plague and the Spanish
influenza as opening and closing points to the selected timeframe.
Secondly, the working definition of “remedy” as a cure “for a disease,
disorder, injury, etc.; a medicine or treatment that promotes healing
or alleviates symptoms.” (OED, remedy 2). This comprehensive
definition intends to allow for historical specification and
diachronic terminological variation, which the prospective presenters
are invited to explore and specify. Thirdly, the definition of
representation as “the process by which members of a culture use
language (broadly defined as any system which deploys signs, any
signifying system) to produce meaning” (Hall 1997: 61), with
particular emphasis on language use at lexical and discourse level, as
well as the interaction between semiotic systems (e.g. word and
image).
A vast body of research has explored medical writing across the
centuries. Several of these studies have delved into how text types,
discourses, and specialised vocabulary evolve diachronically (Gotti,
2006; Taavitsainen, 2006; Taavitsainen & Pahta, 2011; Taavitsainen et
al., 2022) as well as into how they manifest synchronically (Gotti &
Salager-Meyer, 2006). Remedies, too, have been addressed from a
diachronic perspective (Jacobus et al., 1990; Laycock, 2008; Mullini,
2013).
The present aim is not only to offer a diachronic perspective on the
linguistic and visual representation of remedies, but also to focus on
remedies prescribed during epidemics, with a view to better
understanding the history of medical and health communication.
Potential research questions straddle multiple standpoints -
historical linguistics, the analysis of discourse, the analysis of
lexis, as well as images - and multiple text types (medical treatises,
medical dictionaries, periodical publications, medical advertisements
through time).  They include but are not limited to:
The lexical description of remedies in medical writing
The metaphorical description of remedies in medical writing
The rhetorical construction of ethos in medical writing dealing with
epidemic remedies
The visual representation of remedies in medical writing
The visual representation of remedies in newspapers/magazines
The linguistic-visual construal of remedies in texts containing
multiple semiotic systems (i.e. advertisements)
the insurgence of misinformation and disinformation in/about health
communication (these categories may be epistemologically relevant in
papers dealing with the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries)
We invite proposals from a wide range of methodological perspectives.
To name but a few: corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis,
critical discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, historical
lexicography and terminology, new historicism, cultural theory,
epistemology, philosophy of science, gender medicine, and gender
theory.
Please submit a one-page abstract (ca. 200 – 300 words excluding
references). Presentations (in English or in French) will consist of a
20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
All research papers should be delivered in person. All abstracts
should be submitted to remediesconference2023 at unife.it. All abstracts
should be anonymised and include a title and up to five keywords.
Key dates:
The call for papers opens on 15 January 2024.
The deadline for abstract submission is 15 March 2024.
Notification of acceptance (or rejection) will be sent out by 15 April
2024.
Registration commences on 1 May 2024.



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