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IOW's Newsletter #1

IOW's Newsletter #1

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Dear Visitor 

 

IOW's NEWSLETTER #1

February 2022

 

  

Thank you for subscribing to IOW's Newsletter!

 

 

By subscribing to IOW’s Newsletter, you will be updated about the latest keywords uploaded, and provided news about the project in general and the activities of IOW's collective.

 

The Newsletter will also disseminate Calls for conferences and publications connected to issue of Othering.

 

And you can become an active participant to IOW's dictionary, by proposing and discussing words that are used to (re)produce different forms of Otherness, and/or suggesting keywords that you would like to be discussed!

 

You can visit regularly www.iowdictionary.org to find further info on keywords   and on how to join the project.

 

 

Here are some of IOW's latest news:

 

 

  KEYWORDS
  • latest keywords uploaded: Civic Rhetoric, Corruption, Identity, Incel, Gender, Virtual Political Rhetoric.
  • Coming soon: in December 2021, we have added this new entry in the main menu of IOW's webpage so that you can be updated on the keywords that are being edited and that will be uploaded next.

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 PUBLICATIONS

  • January, 2022: the Special Issue of the Rhetoric of Otherness (Issue 50) was published on the Rhetoric and Communications Journal. Eleven contributions tackle the topic in instigating, creative, and critical outlooks from various methodological approaches and different countries – Italy, Canada, South Korea, Bulgaria, Rumania, Moldova. You can find the articles here: https://journal.rhetoric.bg/?page_id=3065

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 CONFERENCES

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  • 2021, October 22-23, Sussex, UK: four components of IOW's Editorial Board presented at the Sussex Colloquium on the Language of Covid 19: The Language of Covid: discourse analytic and sociolinguistic approaches to an 'unprecedented health crisis, University of Essex, UK. The title of the presentation was: ' "We are at War". The Military Rhetoric of Covid in Cross-Cultural Discourses'.

 

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  • 2022, June 15-17, Alicante, Spain: IOW’s Editorial Board will conduct a Methodological Workshop at the 6th ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue): Conference Dialogue-shared Experiences across Space and Time: Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Practices. The title od IOW’s Workshop is "IN OTHER WORDS. Coming to grips with critical, creative, inter-/cross-cultural dialogue across space and time. A methodological workshop to explore the role of keywords in (re)producing or problematizing Otherness".‍


 OPEN CALLS, SEMINARS, etc.‍

  • The I-Land (Identity, Language and Diversity) Research Centre has organised a series of seminars (16:30-18:30 CET time) as follows:

 

- Feb., 10th: Hate Speech - Session 1

- Feb., 24th: Hate Speech, Session 2

- March, 10th: Gender in Trans-ition

- March, 24th: Genere e sessualità: nuove

  prospettive e approcci metodologici

- April, 7th: Multiculturalità e ricerca

- April, 28th: Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic

  Analysis

- May, 12th: Language and Race

- May, 26th: Language and Style.

 

Seminars will be held in a hybrid mode - in person and online. Following the title, the seminars will be in English or in Italian. For further info:

https://www.unior.it/ateneo/27821/1/the-i-land-seminar-series.html

 
  
  • 9th XPRAG Conference - Experimental Pragmatics Conference will be hosted by the University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia (Italy), on September 22-23, 2022.

    For further info: www.xpragit.com

 

 


We are looking forward to hearing your comments and suggestions, as well as to welcoming your contributions!

 

In the meanwhile, take care & stay tuned!

 

Paola Giorgis

 

on behalf of IOW's Editorial Board

 


For further info, please write to: info@iowdictionary.org

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