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• 12 jui 2017

  13 jui 2017

  Bristol

  Conference, symposium - Africa

  Paper, airwaves, screen: from text to audience in African popular culture

  This conference aims to reflect on the critical spaces of reading and listening that occur in and around popular cultural texts in Africa – from songs, magazines, romance fiction, and hip-hop lyrics, to blogs, facebook posts, and urban inscriptions. Drawing on the methods of cultural studies, material print cultures, and the sociology of reception, we seek to engage with the critical vocabulary generated by those spaces of reception at a time of transition for the book object and the reading practices which accompany it. How can this material be researched (archives, interviews, ethnographic observation, digitisation, databases)? How is/might it be integrated into teaching across disciplines? 

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• 26 jui 2017

  Metz

  Call for papers - Modern

  Activism speeches in environmental controversies: social constructions, legitimisations, limitations

  Judging by their increase, envirnomnental controversies are a social phenomenon (Notre-Dame-des-Landes Airport, the Sivens dam in France, or the industrialization of goldbearing mines in French Guiana, the exploitation of shale gas in Algeria, the Dakota Access Pipeline in the USA…). Each of them is based on a series of individuals who rise up and express themselves in favor of or against these projects. This symposium aims to study controversies both rhetorical process and means of publicising. We would like to observe how activists forge their discourses and argumentations, how they justify their speeches, as well as the effects of these speeches in the public arenas.

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• 01 nov 2017

  Call for papers - Europe

  First issue of new journal “Early Modern Low Countries”

  In the spring of 2017, Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) will publish its first issue. The new open access journal will appear in two installments every year, containing high-quality, original scholarship for an international readership on any aspect of the history and culture of the Low Countries between 1500 and 1800. The successor of two well-reputed Dutch-language journals (De Zeventiende Eeuw and De Achttiende Eeuw) EMLC aspires to publish papers by scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds working anywhere in the world.

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• 01 fév 2017

  Alicante

  Call for papers - Language

  Linguistic ideologies in the written press (ILPE 3) - the example of romance languages

  L'exemple des langues romanes

  Ce colloque s'intéresse à la presse écrite (imprimée et numérique) comme lieu de production et de diffusion d’idéologies linguistiques et comme moyen de standardisation de la langue. Le thème de la langue revêt indubitablement un intérêt particulier pour toute communauté linguistique. En raison des liens étroits qui existent entre les locuteurs et les contextes dans lesquels ils évoluent, la langue donne lieu à des débats et des polémiques variés. En plus de se traduire par des questions concernant la norme et la correction de la langue, l’usage ou encore l’histoire des mots, les préoccupations s’étendent aux enjeux liés aux politiques linguistiques et à leurs effets sur les pratiques langagières des locuteurs.

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