LINGUIST List 27.3067
Tue Jul 26 2016
Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 26-Jul-2016
From: Daniel Schmidt-Brücken <schmidtbruecken
uni-bremen.de>
Subject: Contradiction Studies: Mapping the Field Inaugural Conference on Concepts of Contradiction
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Short Title: CSMF
Date: 09-Feb-2017 - 11-Feb-2017
Location: Bremen, Germany
Contact Person: Daniel Schmidt-Brücken
Meeting Email:
< click here to access email > Web Site:
http://www.woc.uni-bremen.de/conference
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics
Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2016
Meeting Description:
This international and interdisciplinary conference seeks to outline the new field of Contradiction Studies'' in the Humanities, focusing on the interactions between seemingly contradictory socio-cultural phenomena and practices. This will allow an understanding of distinct, yet related categories such as antagonism, paradox, antimony, and their uses within and beyond disciplinary boundaries. Participants will explore material instances and aspects of contradiction, as well as its theories and practice(s).
We are happy to announce that the following distinguished scholars are invited to address the conference as keynote speakers:
Prof. Dr. Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga (EHESS, Paris, France – invited, to be confirmed)
Prof. Dr. Jane Burbank (New York University, USA – invited, to be confirmed)
Dr. Stefan Müller (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany – confirmed)
Prof. Dr. Barbara Schmenk (University of Waterloo, Canada – confirmed)
2nd Call for Papers:
Research questions may include, but are not limited to:
- In what ways are contradictions genuine elements and objects of knowledge pro-duction in the Humanities and beyond?
- Why and to what extent can practices and institutions of knowledge sustain contra-dictions?
- How are contradictions negotiated in institutions, and what is the role of the Hu-manities in these practices?
- How do contradictory aspects of power influence the paradigmatic developments in the Humanities?
- What are significant contradictions in power relations among social, historical, and/or cultural agents?
Accepted paper proposals will be arranged with respect to the above-mentioned aspects in three sessions: Fields of Contradiction, Structures of Contradiction, and Practices of Contra-diction.
We invite presentations of no longer than 20 minutes. Please submit your abstracts and pro-posals (max. 1,500 characters including spaces) at
www.woc.uni-bremen.de/conference, or send an e-mail, along with your contact information, to woc
uni-bremen.de. The submission deadline is August 31, 2016.
There will be a poster session for young researchers, and for presentation of work in progress. Poster proposals (max. 1 page) should be submitted as PDF files, no later than October 31, 2016.
Conference registration at
www.woc.uni-bremen.de/conference will be open from July 1, 2016, until December 15, 2016. The website will also carry information concerning the conference venue, accommodation, travel, and conference dinner.
Attendance fees are set daily, at 40 EUR per conference day. A reduced fee for students, independent scholars, and the underemployed is set at 20 EUR per conference day.
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