LINGUIST List 25.2940
Tue
Jul 15 2014
Calls: Socioling,
Anthropological Ling, Discourse Analysis, Ling
& Literature/Germany
Editor for this issue:
Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 14-Jul-2014
From: Stefanie Jannedy
<BIC2015
gwz-berlin.de>
Subject: Borders &
Identity (Urban Fragmentations)
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Full Title: Borders & Identity (Urban
Fragmentations)
Short Title: BIC2015
Date: 16-Mar-2015 - 19-Mar-2015
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact Person: Stefanie Jannedy
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological
Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Ling &
Literature; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 12-Sep-2014
Meeting Description:
Urban fragmentation(s)
Borders & Identity III
Berlin, March 16-19, 2015
The Centers for Advanced Studies in the
Humanities in Berlin (GWZ) will jointly host
the 3rd Borders & Identity conference from
March 16-19, 2015 in Berlin (Germany). The
conference provides a meeting place for
researchers interested in interdisciplinary
approaches to exploring Urban Fragmentation(s)
from linguistic, literary, sociological, and
historical points of view, or a combination
thereof. The conference will be organized in
three parallel strands, each chaired by a
corresponding GWZ-center (ZAS, Center for
General Linguistics; ZfL, Center for Literary
and Cultural Research; ZMO, Center for Modern
Oriental Studies):
1. Literature & Translation (ZfL)
2. Language & Linguistic Creativity
(ZAS)
3. Society & Governance (ZMO)
Conference Location: Humboldt University,
Berlin (Germany)
2nd Call for Papers:
Abstract submission is now open. For detailed
instructions, please visit:
http://www.bic2015.de
For a full call for papers, please visit:
www.bic2015.de
Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: September 12,
2014
Notification of acceptance: October 31,
2014
We invite abstracts for oral presentations and
posters on topics including, but not limited
to, the following areas listed below.
Interdisciplinary submissions are highly
welcome.
Literature & Translation (ZfL):
1. Writing the City
- Urban soundscapes: Fragments, collages,
remixes
- Literary interventions in urban society:
cutting across town
- Multilingual literatures in pluricultural
cities
- Plural topographies in urban literatures and
cultures
2. ''The 'Translation' is the Message''
- Translating the self: Writers in exile and
migration
- Translating the other: Appropriating foreign
forms of cultural expression
- The role and function of cultural mediators
(artists, publishers, teachers, etc.)
3. New Subjectivities
- Suburban subjectivities: Figurations of the
self in recent post-socialist literature
- (Urban) cultures of affect: Fragmented
memories, distorted belongings, violent
riots
Language & Linguistic Creativity (ZAS):
1. Linguistic diversity in the city
- Multilingualism in the classroom
- Multilingual cities as loci of language
contact and change
- Migration patterns and linguistic
fragmentation
2. Citylects
- Linguistic creativity / Multiethnolects
- Language change / Language decay
- Language variation and social networks
3. Language attitudes / Linguistic
stereotypes
- Perceptual ethnolectology
- Language ideologies
- Linguistic expressions of style
Society & Governance (ZMO):
1. Negotiating Diversities
- Cultural, ethnic, and religious fragmentation
in the city
- Governance of plurality
- Spaces of interaction, spaces of
fragmentation
2. Contesting Visions
- Splintering urbanism in networked cities
- Urban contestations and violence
- Unifying and fragmenting visions of
urbanism
- Fragmented authenticity of urban heritage
3. Rethinking Marginalities
- Urban centrality and marginality: Concepts
and terminologies
- Urban centrality and marginality: Case
studies
Please visit
www.bic2015.de for
further information.
Page Updated: 15-Jul-2014