LINGUIST List 26.553

Mon Jan 26 2015

Calls: Portuguese, Spanish, Cognitive Sci, Discourse Analysis, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/USA

Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>

Date: 23-Jan-2015
From: Ana Anderson <spptconfumn.edu>
Subject: (Up)Rooted and (Un)Moored: Discourses of Belonging in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures
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Full Title: (Up)Rooted and (Un)Moored: Discourses of Belonging in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures

Date: 10-Apr-2015 - 11-Apr-2015
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Contact Person: Ana Anderson
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://spanport.umn.edu/grad/GradConf2015.html

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Portuguese; Spanish

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2015

Meeting Description:

2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference
April 10-11, 2015
“(Up)rooted and (Un)moored: Discourses of Belonging in Hispanic
and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics”

Due to its fluidity, the often used category of identity is, to say the least, unstable, malleable, and always dependent on the existence of an Other. In thinking of belonging as a set of discourses that mobilizes individuals and groups, this year we would like to examine and challenge the notions of rootedness and mooring in traditional discourses that have dominated the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds. What are some ways in which literature, culture, and linguistics respond to these discourses? In what ways do the intersecting subcategories of identity contribute to (up)rooting and (un)mooring? We invite papers that broadly tackle this theme.

Call for Papers:

“Identity is constructed both through belonging and through exclusion as a choice or as imposed by others and, [...] it involves various degrees of emotional attachment to a range of communities and groups.” (Montserrat Guibernau, Belonging: Solidarity and Division in Modern Societies)

We invite papers that broadly tackle this theme and focus on, but are not limited to, any of the following topics:

- Race
- Religion
- Diaspora/borders
- Second language acquisition
- Gender/sexuality
- (Post)colonialism
- Genocide & mass violence
- Language policy
- Nationalism/national identities
- Refugees/exile humor & emotions
- Linguistic assimilation
- Spanish/Portuguese in the US
- Phonology
- Language variation
- Language contact

Please submit an abstract no longer than 250 words in extension by email to spptconfumn.edu before February 1, 2015. In a separate document please include your name, academic affiliation and contact information. Presentations may be delivered in English, Spanish or Portuguese and should be 20 minutes in length. Conference registration for selected participants will be $20 before March 1, 2015 and $30 after.

For more information about the conference, please visit http://spanport.umn.edu/grad/GradConf2015.html.


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