Event Dates
Conference: Anglicists and Americanists Today. Facing Ideology and Its Discontents. Celebrating 100 Years of English and American Studies in Iasi.
Location and dates: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. 8-9 May 2025.
Deadline for submissions: 20 February 2025.
Organiser: The Department of English, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
We invite contributions on the following topics:
- English Studies today
- The impact of English as a lingua franca
- Linguistic theories: classical, modern and contemporary
- Literary Theory and Criticism
- Literary canons: re-configurations and debates
- Literary ages, trends and movements, and their aesthetics
- Translation as a linguistic and/or socio-cultural enterprise
- Transmedia and adaptation
- Convergence (of ideas, cultures, approaches)
- Discourse theory today
- TEFL theory and methodology
- Secrecy, ambiguity, vagueness, suggestive obscurity, différance, etc. in language, culture and literature
Thematic panel streams:
This year, our conference will also offer the panel stream Flowers and Flappers dedicated to the celebration of 100 years since the publication of two key modernist novels: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Participants who may take a particular interest in this panel stream are asked to send their proposals both to the conference email address and to the panel stream keynote speakers and organizers: dnbadulescu@gmail.com; fnastase60@yahoo.com.
Plenary Keynote Speakers:
- Christian Mair (Germany)
- Wolfgang Hochbruck (Germany)
- Adrian Papahagi (Romania)
- Edward Hirsch (USA)
- Patty Seyburn (USA)
Website address
Contact details
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CFP Eng Dept Iași May 2025Event: AICED-26 – The 26th Annual International Conference of The English Department: Writing in a World on Fire: Perspectives on War and Climate Change.
Location and dates: University of Bucharest, Romania. 29-31 May 2025.
Extended deadline for submissions: 15 February 2025.
Venue
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 7-13 Pitar Moș St., Bucharest, Romania.
Keynote Speakers:
- Penelope Corfield, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, University of Bucharest
- Domnica Rădulescu, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
Presentation
N. B. The organising committee reserve the right to reject any abstracts or interrupt any presentations/discussions that might instigate the participants to conflict or intolerance.
Continuing the structure initiated last year, our conference will also offer a number of thematic panel streams that will allow participants to group around their main fields of research and for which potential participants are asked to send their proposals both to the conference email address (listed below) and to the panel stream organizer:
- Crime and the Weird in Literature and the Arts (panel stream organiser: Dragoș Manea, University of Bucharest, dragos.manea@lls.unibuc.ro)
- Inflammatory Wars – Old, New, or Imagined (panel stream organiser: Adela Catană, “Ferdinand I” Military Academy, Bucharest, adela.catana@yahoo.com)
- Literal, Metaphorical, Archetypal Fire in Literature and the Arts (panel stream organiser: Alina Bottez, University of Bucharest, alina.bottez@lls.unibuc.ro)
- Roots and Routes in Ecofiction and Ecocriticism (panel stream organiser: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, University of Bucharest, sabina.draga.alexandru@lls.unibuc.ro)
- The Early Modern World on Fire – Writing in an Age of Turmoil (panel stream organiser: Alina Bottez, University of Bucharest, alina.bottez@lls.unibuc.ro)
- Utopian, Dystopian, and Ustopian Tales of War and Clime (panel stream organiser: Eliana Ionoaia, University of Bucharest, eliana.ionoaia@lls.unibuc.ro)
Panel proposals on any other topics connected to the conference theme are welcome. Potential panel organisers are welcome to submit full panel proposals to the conference email listed below.
Two round tables will be organized to commemorate important figures of English and American Studies in Romania:
- one in memoriam Professors Ana Cartianu and Leon Levițchi: Canonic Figures of Mediaeval, Renaissance, and Victorian Culture.
- one in memoriam Dr habil. Ana-Karina Schneider, associate professor at the “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, editor-in-chief of the American, British and Canadian Studies journal: The ABC of American, British and Canadian Studies
All those interested in contributing short academic papers on these topics or evocations of the three late academics are welcome to contact Alina Bottez, University of Bucharest, alina.bottez@lls.unibuc.ro.
Conference presentations must be in English and will be allocated 20 minutes each, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Prospective participants are invited to submit abstracts of up to 200 words. Proposals should be in .doc or .docx format and also include (within the same document): name and institutional affiliation, the title of the proposed paper, a short bio note (no more than 100 words), 5 keywords, and the participant’s e-mail address. Proposals for panel streams (to be organised by the participants) will also be considered. Please submit all proposals to our email address: conf.eng.litcult@lls.unibuc.ro.
Deadline for proposals:15 January 2025.
Conference fee:
- Early bird: 100 Euro (by 1 April 2025)
- Regular: 120 Euro (by 30 April 2025)
- MA students and PhD Candidates: 50 Euro
Payment details will be communicated to the participants upon acceptance.
A selection of papers from the conference will be published in the University of Bucharest Review (ISSN 2069–8658) – listed on SCOPUS, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS and DOAJ. See the guidelines for contributors at https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/.
For further details and updates, see: https://engleza.lls.unibuc.ro/conferinte/. Enquiries regarding the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics section of the conference, which will be running at the same time, should be sent to aiced.2024@gmail.com.
Website address
https://engleza.lls.unibuc.ro/conferinte/
Contact details
aiced.2024@gmail.com
For further details, please check the conference original CFP.
Conference: Constructions of Identity 12 – “Conflict”.
Location and dates: Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania). 16-18 October 2025.
Deadlines: Proposals for papers 15 March 2025; for tentative panels 15 January 2025; for fully formed panels 25 March 2025.
Venue: Faculty of Letters, 31 Horea St., Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
LITERATURE
LITERARY FUTURES: CONFLICTS OF TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, AND GLOBALIZATION
In We’re Doomed. Now What?, American writer and academic Roy Scranton sees conflict as the internal force shaping the “unimaginable multitude” of ideologically informed social structures, “down to the individual human soul, in conflict with itself” (48). It is the force preventing “the entire human species [from moving] together in one direction” and making “the human way reactive, improvised, ad hoc” (48- 9). The mechanism that we have developed for coping with the instability of the world is, Scranton claims, our impressive ability of telling ourselves “the stories that we want to hear” (49). This, of course, raises a series of ethical questions regarding the narrative approaches to and representation of conflict. Coming from a different direction, narrative theorist Erin McGlothlin supports a similar thesis by examining the modes in which narratives can appear to resolve conflicts, “particularly in ways that fulfill the reader’s expectations and produce a satisfying sense of completeness” (111). While Scranton is critical of the (self-)deluding potential of creating narratives to manage conflicts, McGlothlin dismantlesthe importance of closure provided by narrative, which under scrutiny brings up its paradoxical nature. In McGlothlin’s take, narrative’s construction of its own ending produces “ideological closure,” which, while seeming to reflect the “resolution to an extant problem of conflict,” is in fact engaged in the process of producing the initial conflict (111). Following the suggestions of a phenomenological approach to the ethics of narrative, McGlothlin points to the possibility of narratives avoiding “mastery” by illuminating their own perspectival grounding and emplotment tactics. However, as perspective is first and foremost a matter of relation, this opens an avenue into investigating conflict as an unavoidable dimension of our inherent relationality, and, to put it in Judith Butler’s terms, as a form of “nonviolent” resolution.
Since conflict – in the most generous understanding of the term – affects people’s sense of self and of the world and thus contributes to shaping the way in which collective and individual identities emerge, the twelfth edition of Constructions of Identity seeks to explore its role in the configuration of the storied self and the storied world. We understand conflict as both a thematic and structural phenomenon that cuts across various temporal, cultural, and geographical contexts, a phenomenon which could yet reveal new critical understandings of the self, society, and the non-human world. Literature should and does act as a site where conflict is performed, rehearsed and (sometimes) solved, and where its strategies become both instruments and objects for interpretation. We, therefore, welcome proposals for papers and sessions addressing any aspect of our conference theme and we encourage a wide range of critical and theoretical approaches, including insights from recent developments in critical theory, world literature studies, the digital humanities, and ecocriticism.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- ideological clashes;
- the conflicts between tradition and modernity;
- tensions and struggles within identity politics;
- conflict, trauma, memory;
- tensions in and around migration, colonialism, and globalization;
- the relationship between cores, peripheries, and semiperipheries;
- conflict, protest, war, violence;
- nonviolent conflictuality and narrative as the space for debate;
- nonviolent solutions to conflict and crisis;
- environmental crises & climate degradation;
- human vs artificial intelligence conflicts.
- human vs non-human conflicts.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
- Prof. Jean-Michel Ganteau, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
- Prof. Anne Schwan, Edinburgh Napier University
- Assoc. Prof. Dragoș Ivana, University of Bucharest
LINGUISTICS
CREATING AND RESOLVING CONFLICT IN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES
Conflict approached through a linguistic lens offers numerous possible levels of analysis, from language- and speaker-internal struggles to polarizing attitudes borne out of contextualized uses of language, and beyond humans, in interactions with other media such as technology, and now even more so, AI. Inquiry into both diachronic and synchronic linguistic displays, patterns, and behaviours within communication represents a challenge in itself, as the digital age increased the availability of research and scientific discourse, resulting in a divergence of perspectives on language phenomena. We thus welcome papers which foster the ground for a synergy between various disciplines and research methodologies coming from the fields of Internet linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Psycho- and Neurolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Digital Humanities, Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, Theoretical Linguistics and more. This multi- and inter-disciplinary dialogue between specialists from a variety of fields will account for the complexity of the linguistic phenomena emerging from various conflictual situations and discourses.
We invite proposals for papers and specialty panels addressing any aspect of our conference theme.
Possible topics include:
1. Online conflicts, digital culture and communication
- digital culture, subcultures and conflictual situations;
- online identity construction and communities of practice;
- representation of conflict through multimodal communication and visual culture; human versus AI generated speech;
- hate speech in online social media and linguistic mitigation;
- conflict and online digital activism;
- digital and pragmatic practices in online conflictual situations;
- digital performance of conflict;
- conflict expressed through the use of memes, emojis, emoticons.
2. Cultural and linguistic diversity
- toxic language in various online and offline environments;
- multilingualism and language ideologies: how language unites and/or divides, linguistic discrimination;
- attitudes towards linguistic change and innovation;
- forbidden language: slang, taboos and conflict;
- linguistic trends in lavender languages;
- multilingualism and multiculturalism: migration and identity;
- diverse communities: cases of conflictual situations and mitigation.
3. Theoretical linguistics, neurolinguistics
- conflict as the driving force for diachronic language change;
- inner language conflict as evolutionary pressure for meaning reassignment;
- phonological and syntactic differences of multilingual input for language acquisition in multilingual babies;
- cross-linguistic variation in morphological and syntactical structures;
- interface issues: Conceptual-Intentional to Sensory-Motor;
- language pathologies and the disruption of the intent-output continuum;
- structural disconnections in linguistic impairments.
Confirmed keynote speaker:
Prof. Martin Hilpert, Université de Neuchâtel
GENERAL INFORMATION
Proposals
- For individual 20-minute papers, 150-word abstracts and a short bio note should be submitted here: Constructions of Identity XII “Conflict” – Registration Form, by 15 March 2025.
- For tentative panels, please submit a title and a 100-word description of the topic, here: Constructions of Identity XII – “Conflict” Panel Proposal Submission, by 15 January 2025.
- For fully formed panels, 150-word abstracts for each paper, accompanied by details of the proposed topic, the chair and the speakers, should be submitted by 25 March 2025.
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