The Centers for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (GWZ) will jointly host the 3rd Borders & Identity conference (BIC) from March 16th to 19th, 2015, at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany). BIC2015 provides a meeting place for researchers interested in interdisciplinary approaches to exploring Urban Fragmentation(s) from linguistic, literary, sociological, and historical points of view, or a combination thereof. The conference will be organized in three parallel strands, each chaired by a corresponding GWZ-center (ZAS, Center for General Linguistics; ZfL, Center for Literary and Cultural Research; ZMO, Center for Modern Oriental Studies):
- Literature & Translation (ZfL)
- Language & Linguistic Creativity (ZAS)
- Society & Governance (ZMO)
We invite abstracts for presentations and posters on topics including, but not limited to, the following areas listed below. Interdisciplinary submissions are highly welcome.
Literature & Translation (ZfL)
Writing the city
- Urban soundscapes: Fragments, collages, remixes
- Literary interventions in urban society: Cutting across town
- Multilingual literatures in pluricultural cities
- Plural topographies in urban literatures and cultures
“The ‘translation’ is the message”
- Translating the self: Writers in exile and migration
- Translating the other: Appropriating foreign forms of cultural expression
- The role and function of cultural mediators (artists, publishers, teachers, etc.)
- New subjectivities
- Suburban subjectivities: Figurations of the self in recent post-socialist literature
- (Urban) cultures of affect: Fragmented memories, distorted belongings, violent riots
Language & Linguistic Creativity (ZAS)
Linguistic diversity in the city
- Multilingualism in the classroom
- Multilingual cities as loci of language contact and change
- Migration patterns and linguistic fragmentation
Citylects
- Linguistic creativity / Multiethnolects
- Language change / Language decay
- Language variation and social networks
Language attitudes / Linguistic stereotypes
- Perceptual ethnolectology
- Language ideologies
- Linguistic expressions of style
Society & Governance (ZMO)
Negotiating diversities
- Cultural, ethnic, and religious fragmentation in the city
- Governance of plurality
- Spaces of interaction, spaces of fragmentation
Contesting visions
- Splintering urbanism in networked cities
- Urban contestations and violence
- Unifying and fragmenting visions of urbanism
- Fragmented authenticity of urban heritage
Rethinking Marginalities
- Urban centrality and marginality: Concepts and terminologies
- Urban centrality and marginality: Case studies
Abstract submission deadline: Sept. 12th, 2014
Notification of acceptance: Oct. 30th, 2014
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