VI Annual Languages Graduate Student Association Conference
University of Connecticut
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CALL FOR PAPERS
At the Crossroads: Mapping Dichotomies in Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Date: November 6, 2015
Venue: Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
This year’s LANGSA conference aims to explore how space intersects with literatures, cultures, and languages. This event seeks to investigate space as a broad category, from the physical to the abstract, as a locale where different realities merge, co-exist or collide. Papers with a focus on mapping space in a variety of mediums, styles, and forms are encouraged. Contributions which consider the metaphorical or intersemiotic mapping of identity, ideas, or images across space and time are particularly welcome.
We encourage submissions across all disciplines that engage with space as a complex ground for connecting, hybridizing, or confronting realities. In addition to languages, literatures, and cultural studies, relevant fields may include the following: architecture, fine arts, art history, cognitive science, digital media studies, education, environmental studies, film studies, gender studies, geography, history, human rights, journalism, linguistics, music, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, and theater, among others.
Relevant themes and topics may include but are not limited to:
Anthropological approaches to literatures and cultures
Borders: physical, psychological or cultural boundaries
Cartography
Comparative literature
Cognitive linguistics
Diaspora, displacement and migration
Digital media and design
Eco-criticism
Family Studies
Film and media studies
Human rights and territories
Identity studies and/or identity politics
Language, society and territories
Law and demarcations
Literature and other arts
Medieval studies and history
Memory and space
Multilingual cultures and literatures
Pop culture
Post-colonial studies
Science fiction and fantasy worlds
Travel literature
Urban geography
Virtual reality and videogames
Women and gender studies
Area studies, including (but not limited to): Latin American Studies, Asian American Studies, Indian Studies, Chinese Studies, Eastern European Studies, Africana Studies, etc.
We welcome abstracts of individual papers or proposals for panels of 3 papers in English. Individual presentations will be limited to 15 minutes (7 double-spaced pages maximum), and panels to 45 minutes. Abstracts must have a title, contain between 100-200 words, and follow MLA style. They must also be accompanied by the following information: author’s name, affiliation, e-mail address, a telephone number, and a short biography.
Please send abstracts to langsa.uconn@gmail.com by Monday, September 7, 2015
For more information, contact: LANGSA at langsa.uconn@gmail.com