35.2935, Calls: 45th Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) - Speaking Out: Identity, Resistance and Silencing

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Subject: 35.2935, Calls: 45th Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) - Speaking Out: Identity, Resistance and Silencing

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Date: 21-Oct-2024
From: Isabel Ermida [iermida at elach.uminho.pt]
Subject: 45th Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) - Speaking Out: Identity, Resistance and Silencing


Full Title: 45th Conference of the Portuguese Association of
Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) - Speaking Out: Identity, Resistance
and Silencing
Short Title: APEAA2025

Date: 28-Apr-2025 - 30-Apr-2025
Location: Braga - University of Minho, Portugal
Contact Person: Isabel Ermida
Meeting Email: iermida at elach.uminho.pt
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/apeaa25

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Ling &
Literature; Pragmatics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

The Department of English and North American Studies of the University
of Minho at Braga, Portugal, is proud to host the 45th Conference of
the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies (APEAA), which
will be held on 28-29-30 April, 2025.

The APEAA conference -- a traditional annual meeting, with a long
history dating back to 1980 -- is open to non-members of the
Association as well, both from Portugal and abroad. It wishes to
provide a lively forum for academic debate and intellectual dialogue
on a national and an international level.

The general theme of this year's conference is "Speaking Out:
Identity, Resistance and Silencing", a description of which can be
found on the Call for Papers together with suggestions of possible
topics to address. Participants wishing to contribute with papers on
other issues regarding English Literature, Language, or Culture, are
also welcome.

Call for Papers:

Literature has portrayed countless struggles against domination and
control, reproducing at length the voices and woes of many generations
of rebels and nonconformists. However, it has also been the target of
domination and control. The banning and public burning of books
stained history not only at the time of the Inquisition or during
fascist and communist regimes, but also very recently. In 2019, the
American Library Association reported a petition for removal of
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) from public library
shelves, on the grounds of profanity, vulgarity and sexual overtones
in the text. Twentieth-century examples of attempts at silencing
uncomfortable writers are legion, from the banning of D.H. Lawrence’s
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) to the Salman Rushdie affair in the
late eighties. Indeed, literature has long suffered a tug-of-war
between artistic and intellectual freedom on the one hand, and
intolerance, bigotry and censorship on the other. Cultural history is
also laden with movements and periods of nonconformity and resistance,
revolution and defiance, from pop culture to various alternative forms
of communication (e.g. online) and underground views and practices of
art, all paired with the usual mainstream reactionary backlash. And
even the use of language has been subjected to prescriptivism, the
fetters of the ever-elusive “norms”, the frowning upon new words and
new usages, upon youths’ linguistic creativity, non-standard English,
and the unstoppable evolution of the way speakers speak.

In light of this, the 45th Annual Conference of the Portuguese
Association of Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) invites 250-word
abstracts in English, by APEAA members and non-members, for 20-minute
oral presentations, followed by 10-minute discussions, OR for poster
displays, addressing issues related to literary, cultural, and
linguistic identity, resistance, and silencing. Proposals of panels,
roundtables and book presentations are also welcome.  The conference
will include the 2nd APEAA Doctoral Symposium.

We warmly encourage papers from any of the three scientific areas of
the Association: English Literature, Culture, and Linguistics. Within
these, we welcome contributions from a large range of fields and
theoretical frameworks: Discourse analysis, Pragmatics,
Sociolinguistics, Literary theory, Literatures in English, Gender
Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Translation Studies, and Cultural
Studies (including Media, Film, Performance, Visual and Music
Studies), among others.

A collection of selected papers is expected to be published, hopefully
as a special issue of an international journal.

Please send your 250-word abstracts, together with a bio-note, to
apeaa2025 at gmail.com, with the “Subject” reading “Abstract submission”,
no later than 31 January 2025.

We look forward to receiving your proposals! If you have any queries,
please feel free to contact us at apeaa2025 at gmail.com.



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