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• 30 sep 2016

  Grenoble

  Call for papers - Language

  FASP (fiction à substrat professionnel) and beyond

  Fictional and non-fictional narratives related to professional communities and specialized groups

  Situated in the socio-discoursal and socio-cultural approaches to LSP studies (Belcher 2004), this international conference engages with the dual objective of pursuing enquiry related to studies in FASP (fiction à substrat professionnel), a genre of fiction identified and codified by Michel Petit (1999) and Shaeda Isani (2004), on the one hand and, on the other, exploring new avenues of reflection regarding other narrative forms, both fictional and non-fictional of potential interest to ESP studies.

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• 20 mar 2016

  Münster

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Four Visiting Fellowships for Postgraduates "Cultures of Decision-Making"

  The Integrated Graduate School of the Collaborative Research Centre/SFB 1150 “Cultures of Decision-making”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the University of Muenster since July 1^st 2015, is offering  four visiting fellowships for postgraduates/doctoral candidates  in 2016 for a period of up to six months, starting in April 2016. The closing date for applications is March 20^th 2016.

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• 17 mar 2016

  18 mar 2016

  Nice

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Staging American Bodies

  For this seventh International Symposium on Staging America, we invite scholars to explore the various ways in which American bodies have been staged and represented throughout history and through various media. From P.T. Barnum’s freak shows to modern-day tattoo conventions, from Carson McCullers’ and Flannery O’Connor’s grotesque characters to twenty-first century sideshows, bodies have always been a source of both attraction and repulsion. The fascination triggered by deformities – whether natural or self-inflicted – reveals as much about Americans’ conceptions of normality, hence of identity, as it does about the nature of the body itself.

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• 03 avr 2016

  Liège

  Summer School - Early modern

  Editing Renaissance Letters on Digital Support

  Summer Seminar Epistolart 2016

  From 4 to 8 July 2016, at the University of Liège, the EpistolART team is organising a seminar devoted to the publishing and study of letters from Italian Renaissance artists. During the seminar, participants will take part in the complete publishing of one or more epistolary documents. This work will result in a nominative publication in the EpistolART database.

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• 25 fév 2016

  Reims

  Call for papers - History

  The circulation of popular culture between Ireland and the USA (18th-21st centuries)

  Dans le système de culture mondialisée qui caractérise les sociétés contemporaines, l'organisation d'un colloque international invite à concentrer l’attention sur un cas d’étude, la circulation des diverses formes de culture populaire entre Irlande et États-Unis. L’ancienneté, la constance et de l’intensité des échanges culturels entre les deux nations sont en effet largement antérieurs à la mondialisation culturelle ultra-contemporaine. Cette singularité inscrite dans la longue durée permet de mettre en perspective les phénomènes contemporains tout en les interrogeant.

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• 18 jan 2016

  Batna City

  Call for papers - Language

  Foreign language teaching and intercultural awareness

  In the era of globalization, foreign language teaching has become a worldwide concern for diverse reasons. As language vehicles thought; foreign culture is also assumed to be transmitted as a consequence of the teaching/learning process. Intercultural awareness then is an undeniable issue to be discussed in any foreign language teaching atmosphere. The issue identified above is expected to be significant for teachers, learners, researchers and educationists in general. The importance of the subject will be seen in the exchange of experiences and expertise among local and foreign interveners in a way that raises the students’ awareness in the English department that debates on intercultural issues will serve them in many sorts of ways. This meeting provides an excellent opportunity to share the results of the teachers and students research with a varied audience.

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• 31 jan 2016

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Thought

  Utopia(s): worlds and frontiers of the imaginary

  Second International Multidisciplinary Congress Proportion Harmonies Identities (PHI) 2016

  Five hundred years ago, on the 20^th October, Thomas More published the princeps edition of Utopia. To celebrate this event, The Research Centre in Architecture, Urban Landscape and Design (CIAUD) of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon (FA-ULisboa), The Histoy Centre for Global History (CHAM) of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Universidade dos Açores (FCSH-UNL- UA) invite researchers from different areas cultures to gather in Lisbon, the October 20^th to 22^nd, 2016, for the International and Multidisciplinary Congress Proportion Harmonies Identities 2016 – Utopia(s): Worlds and the Frontiers of the Imagination.

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• 20 déc 2015

  Leuven

  Call for papers - Representation

  Pseudotranslation and Metafictionality

  "Literaire interferenties" journal, no. 19, november 2016

  Throughout literary history authors have presented their texts as translations of an imaginary original rather than as original texts of their own making. Yet, as a phenomenon that has taken on a wide variety of forms, pseudotranslation has persistently occupied a marginal position in both literary scholarship and translation studies, and still today begs more systematic study. As simulacrums, they provide a unique mode of representing and/or criticizing prevailing literary practices, and it is this metafictional dimension of pseudotranslations that we aim to address in this special issue. Since pseudotranslation is an essentially transcultural phenomenon that presupposes a (imaginary) cultural transfer, the editors wish to include case studies from a wide variety of cultural and historical backgrounds. 

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• 04 mar 2016

  Paris

  Call for papers - Language

  Sorbonne Nouvelle University Graduate Linguistics Symposium (SNUGLS) 2016

  The goal of the conference is to bring together junior researchers and give them an opportunity to practise their presentation skills in English and discuss their work with specialists in their field. Topics relevant to the conference encompass all fields of linguistics focusing on the English language, including, but not restricted to, first and second language acquisition, language teaching and learning, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, lexicology and lexicography, translation and interpretation, and phonetics. Different perspectives can be adopted (methods of data collection, multimodality, etc.). Contributions exploring the questions of "affect", "stance" and "intersubjectivity" or any other related subjects (dialogicity, expression of emotions, modality, etc.) will be greatly appreciated.

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• 01 mar 2016

  Créteil | Saint-Denis | Paris

  Call for papers - Language

  On Homophonic Translation

  For the past fifty years, homophonic translation (traduction homophonique, sound translation, Oberflächenübersetzung) has been practiced internationally by an ever-increasing number of writers from the USA, the UK, Germany, France and beyond. Following pioneers such as Louis Zukofsky, Ernst Jandl and members of the Oulipo group, this heterodox genre (between translation and creation) has spread widely, to the point where it is among the exercises practiced in creative writing classes. Although some consider it as an unacceptable, illegitimate, and unethical practice, it is nonetheless true that such an approach to translation has acquired a crucial place within experimental writing, and notably in the poetic field.

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• 13 nov 2015

  Paris

  Study days - Language

  Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Emotion Studies in Linguistics

  The goal of this workshop is to bring together different cognitive and functional linguistic approaches to emotion studies that are currently prominent in this field of research. The workshop will open with a lecture by one of the most important contributors to linguistic theory on emotions, which will be followed by three representative empirical studies that employ different approaches to observational data.

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• 31 déc 2015

  Beni Mellal

  Call for papers - Language

  Shakespeares: Critical Perspectives Past and Present

  On the occasion of the 400^th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the Research Laboratory on Culture and Communication is devoting its annual international conference to "Shakespeares: Critical Perspectives Past and Present". 

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• 30 nov 2015

  Glasgow

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Language Learning and Ethnographic Fieldwork

  Learning a new language or working in a second or third language is a crucial aspect of carrying out ethnographic fieldwork. The workshop aims to provide an opportunity for researchers at all career stages to discuss a wide range of issues relating to language learning ad ethnographic fieldwork.

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• 16 nov 2015

  Melbourne

  Call for papers - Representation

  Old Time Accomplices: Mentors and Mentees

  Mentoring in the arts, humanities, social sciences and the professional world

  Despite living in societies increasingly marked by individualism and selfishness, in the modern world we see an increase in mentoring programs. Mentoring is grounded on a mutual commitment towards professional and intellectual development and forges a bond between mentor and mentee. This pattern exists in the academic, professional and private sectors, where coaches of all kinds multiply. We wish to explore the mentor-mentee relationship in an interdisciplinary context. We invite papers which explore the theme and the practice of mentoring in literature, history, art, performing arts, social sciences, and in the professional world.

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• 25 sep 2015

  Paris

  Study days - Language

  Negation, Singlish and Negation in Singlish

  Cette journée d'étude de linguistique est consacrée à la négation et au contact des langues en anglais de Singapour (Singlish). Plusieurs grands spécialistes internationaux de ces questions présenteront leur recherche : Peter Siemund, Tania Kuteva, Bao Zhiming, Johan van der Auwera, Viviane Deprez, Luwen Cao et Debra Ziegeler.

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• 31 déc 2015

  Call for papers - America

  All Fontanarrosa: The Work of a Complete Humourist

  When the Argentine Roberto Fontanarrosa passed away in 2007, a national day of mourning was declared and his funeral was attended by thousands. Although Fontanarrosa was much loved and both the man and his works have received public recognition time and again, there are very few published academic works on his œuvre to this day. This proposed anthology seeks to fill this gap by paying attention to Fontanarrosa’s work as a whole

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• 31 aoû 2015

  Vienna

  Call for papers - Europe

  Mapping Multilingualism in XIXth-Century European Literature: Closing the Gap between Past and Present

  International Comparative Literature Association XXIst Congress

  This section of International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA – July 2016, Vienna, Austria) proposes an investigation into XIX^th-century European literary multilingualism, particularly into the period from 1800 to 1880. All areas of European literature will be considered. The term "multilingualism" as used in this section includes all kinds of code-mixing, either in single literary texts or in multiple texts produced by the same author.

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• 08 sep 2015

  Poitiers

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Writers as Builders

  Alcuinus and the Carolingian Monumental Poetry – Medieval Ekphrasis, between East and West, Antiquity and Modernity

  The sessions would like to explore the formal connections between the poetic production of medieval writers and the works of art they describe, evoke or invent in these texts. The academic separations of visual studies from the textual ones have been erasing for many years the relationship existing between the two kinds of com-position. From the V^th to the end of the XII^th century, from Paulinus of Nola to Baudri of Bourgueil, a rich corpus of these texts has been composed by some of the most prestigious writers of their time and stages some of the richest works of art from medieval Europe: the wall paintings in St Gall abbey and Mainz cathedral, the Bayeux tapestry, the stained glasses in St Denis basilica…

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• 15 sep 2015

  Leeds

  Call for papers - History

  Medieval Equestrianism: Theory and Practice

  Thematic Sections at International Medieval Congress (Leeds 2016)

  We invite paper proposals for sections on medieval equestrianism, to take place during the International Medieval Congress at Leeds 2016. 

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• 04 sep 2015

  Medellín

  Call for papers - Language

  Rewriting: logic of repetition?

  III International Conference in Narratives

  The third International Conference in Narratives, organized by Universidad EAFIT (Medellín, Colombia) and Università degli Studi di Padova, proposes rewriting as an object of reflection from the arts, humanities, social sciences and communication sciences. To interrogate the gesture of writing a text again, it involves accounting for an operation that, in its apparent simplicity, shows the experience of time and repetition, the recording of memory, the tension between imitation and difference, and the means of reproduction and creation. Along its relationships, objects and notions that it implies, the gesture of rewriting is exemplary and heuristic; it has become a model for understanding various phenomena and cultural practices.

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