28th PASE Conference 2019 : Diversity is inclusive: Cultural, literary and linguistic mosaic

Extended call for papers

28th PASE Conference, 27-29 June 2019, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Diversity is inclusive: Cultural, literary and linguistic mosaic

Gerard Manley Hopkins in his famous poem “Pied Beauty” wrote that “All things counter, original, spare, strange; / Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) / With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim” are the essence of life. Whether or not he was (un)wittingly following Darwin’s discoveries which were a praise of diversity in nature, Hopkins’s argument is as irrefutable as Darwin’s. The two great minds of the Victorian times confirm, from two perspectives, that of science and religion, knowledge and faith, the necessity for difference, vital for the survival of life, be it humankind, fauna or flora. Commonplace and grandiose as it may seem today, this fundamental principle has too often been brushed aside in the ways people treat each other and nature. The world we are living in today displays a tendency to build walls against the Other, whoever or whatever that may be. But there is no just black or white: languages display a wonderful variety in which there is no hierarchy. Philologists are only too much aware of this. It is impossible to study one language and its cultural manifestations without the context of other languages. On a micro scale, English, being a most widespread language, also embraces, too, multiple dialects, literatures, cultures, which – significantly – talk to each other.

Issues to be addressed at the conference:
Linguistic, literary and cultural diversity
Interdisciplinary approaches to language, literature and culture
English language, literature and culture in non-English contexts
Adaptation and appropriation as ways of reviving and preserving languages, literatures and cultures
Hybridity and its manifestations in language, literature and culture
Politics of inclusive diversity in language, literature and culture
We would like to invite our colleagues, linguists, literature and culture scholars to propose papers in which their research can address the issues suggested in the title of the conference. We accept proposals ranging from literary studies, cultural studies, applied linguistics, formal linguistics, sociolinguistics, etc. as well as areas of research which include a variety of approaches and are, indeed, interdisciplinary.

Plenary speakers:
Nicoleta Cinpoeş, University of Worcester
Christiane Dalton-Puffer, University of Vienna
Agnieszka Rzepa, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Gunter Senft, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Magdalena Wrembel, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

Seminars
Adaptation is inclusive: blending novelty and tradition
Out of Many, One: Formal Hybridity in Literature and Cinema since the 1970s
Hybrid media forms in American literature, film, and visual culture
A corpus-based analysis of gender lacunae in the cross-linguistic perspective

For details see http://wa.amu.edu.pl/wa/28th_pase_conference

Important dates
Send (by email) abstracts and seminar proposals (200 words) together with title, name, email and affiliation. Please take notice of the following dates:
Seminar paper abstracts (sent to seminar convenors) – 28 April 2019
General session paper abstracts sent to the conference organizers – 28 April 2019
Notifications of acceptance (after evaluation) – 15 May 2019

The proposals are to be sent to: [email protected], [email protected]

For more information please visit our conference website:
http://wa.amu.edu.pl/wa/28th_pase_conference

Venue
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Collegium Novum, al. Niepodległości 4, 61-874 Poznań

Conference organizers
Chair: Jacek Fabiszak
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak

Conference secretaries
Kornelia Boczkowska
Zuzanna Kruk-Buchowska
Anna Wołosz-Sosnowska