LINGUIST List 22.3303 Sat Aug 20 2011 Calls: Romance, Ling & Lit, Socioling/USA Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Christina Agostinelli , Humanities at the Limit Message 1: Humanities at the Limit Date: 19-Aug-2011 From: Christina Agostinelli <c45abuffalo.edu> Subject: Humanities at the Limit E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Humanities at the Limit Date: 04-Nov-2011 - 05-Nov-2011 Location: Buffalo, NY, USA Contact Person: Christina Agostinelli Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://sites.google.com/site/humanitiesatthelimit/home Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics Language Family(ies): Romance Call Deadline: 30-Aug-2011 Meeting Description: SUNY at Buffalo Romance Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Association Annual Conference Humanities at the Limit Dr William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University The institution known as 'the university' derives its name from the Latin universitas meaning 'the whole'. Therefore, the university is an institution comprised of humanities, social sciences, theater arts, and natural and physical sciences. Due to recent closures in modern language departments across the United States, the universitas of the university has been severed. Consequently, there is a need to redefine what the humanities are in the twenty-first century and more specifically the role of the modern languages and literatures departments in the new humanities. In this conference we are looking to re-examine the position of Romance languages, literatures, and cultural studies. The time has come to re-engage the debate on what humanities are, (specifically looking at Romance languages, literatures, and cultural studies) and what our vital function is within the universal whole of higher education. The Humanities at the Limit conference is sponsored by the Romance Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Association. Conference will be held November 4th and 5th, 2011 on the University at Buffalo, North Campus. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures University at Buffalo, North Campus 910 Clemens Hall Buffalo, NY 14221 Call for Papers: Possible subjects include: - How aesthetic representations of lived experience provide an indispensible connection to the Other - Reflections on the 'meta-humanities': how meta-fiction and meta-linguistic knowledge provide a framework for meditating on the humanities - The importance of linguistic studies and knowledge given the unique nature of human language and its role in social interactions - How a particular text contributes to an understanding of what it means to be human - How an analysis of a cultural text/artefact (political speech, architecture, facebook post, etc) might benefit from a multi-faceted approach that incorporates both the humanities and science Send an abstract of 250 words with a proposed title as an attachment in Microsoft Word or PDF to UBRomancegmail.com. All abstracts as well as presentations should be in English. For more information please see our website: https://sites.google.com/site/humanitiesatthelimit/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 20-Aug-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.