Dear Visitor | | IOW's NEWSLETTER #6
November 2023
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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. |
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BREAKING NEWS!
The website has been reconfigured! It features more contents – such as all the past Newsletters – and a lighter visual layout. Surf the website and enjoy the new design and enhanced contents! Huge thanks to Paolo Cagliero and Alex Steiner for their work!
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New keywords:
neurodiversity: what is neurodiversity and how is it understood in different contexts? under which conditions it indicates differences in how people's brains develop and function, or becomes a reminder of being considered not 'normal'? Analyzing the neologism which combines the prefix 'neuro' with the word 'diversity', Andrea Valente critically discusses how, within the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) movements, the term has acquired a great popularity and how its situated applications can lead to challenge or (re)produce Otherness.
- nostalgia: how is nostalgia connected with the (re) production of Otherness? who is the Same and who is the Other in the multi-layered construction of nostalgia? how can the emotional components connected with nostalgia serve marketing purposes or political agendas? which are the rhetorical strategies that shape nostalgia? Read Bilyana Todorova and Gergana Padareva-Ilieva’s new entry, and venture into the multiple aspects and questions that nostalgia arises.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS BY IOWers
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- Giorgis, P., Valente, A. C. 2023. Intercultural Education, Otherness, and Collaborative Literacy. In Other Words Dictionary: A Case Study. In Nektaria Palaiologou (ed.). Rethinking Intercultural Education in Times of Migration and Displacement. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN: 1-5275-2884-7. ISBN13: 978-1-5275-2884-0
Giorgis, P. 2023. Critical Cultural Linguistics (CCL): Challenging the Cultural (Re)production of Otherness. In: Cultural Linguistics, Ideologies and Critical Discourse Studies. (eds. Frank Polzehagen & Monika Reif). John Benjamins Publications. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.103.07gio
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PUBLICATIONS EDITED BY IOWers |
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• Special Issue “Translating Otherness: Challenges, Theories, and Practices” https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/50AA7OB8KD
Paola Giorgis, Ivanka Mavrodieva, Bilyana Todorova and Andrea C. Valente are the Guest Editors of this Special Issue that showcases micro and macro analysis of translated material, from word/morphological to semantic-pragmatic levels in interlinguistic, intersemiotic, and or intercultural translations of Otherness. By now, two articles have been published online:
Amal Abu Zaglan, Zahra Mustafa-Awad, Areej Allawzi: "A Critical Discourse Analysis of Translators’ Narratives Affecting Two Translations of the Same Text: A Case Study of Orientalism”. The article examines comparatively two different Arabic translations of Said’s Orientalism (originally written in English) to show how each translation produces competing narratives of two cultures standing in opposition to one another, with each translation implying that one of these civilizations is unique and inherently competitive with ‘the other’ culture.
Languages 2023, 8(2), 152. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020152
Stefania Taviano: “Translating Migration: Art Installations against Dehumanizing Labelling Practices”. Contrasting dehumanizing views of migration and bordering practices, the article offers different reflections and examples on how resistant translation practices, new languages and art activism can contribute to reversing dehumanizing practices by putting displaced people’s identities at the centre, and challenge the stigmatization of 'the Other'.
Languages 2023, 8(3), 221; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030221
Charleine Iskandar Saad (forthcoming): “Between Domestication and Foreignization: A Study of How an Italian Film Remake in the Arab World Got Lost in Translation”. Addressing film remakes as a kind of cinematographic translations, the contribution discusses the Arabic remake of the Italian movie Perfetti Sconosciuti [Perfect Strangers] which had sparked controversy across the Middle East. In her contribution, the author displays a comparative analysis of the Italian and Arabic version to investigate into the dialectic between domestication and foreignization, and their relation with the (re)production of Otherness. |
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Special Issue “Decolonizing the University”: Victoria Odeniyi (from IOW Editorial Board) and Gillian Lazar have curated this SI on the multilingual and multimodal publishing platform called Decolonial Subversions. The SI addresses the theme of decolonising the university and the role of linguistic diversity in ways that are sensitive to different contexts and positionalities, presenting contributions from authors living and working in Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia and South Africa. The Special Issue is available at http://decolonialsubversions.org
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WHERE YOU CAN MEET IOWers NEXT |
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• 14-16 December 2023, Turin, Italy: Participation to the Torino Conference Languaging Diversity. Languaging Identity in Changing Times: Challenges and Opportunities https://www.languagingdiversity2023.unito.it/home
Paola Giorgis and Ivanka Mavrodieva will co-present IOW Dictionary as an alternative digital genre with specific stylistic features and entries that deal with the languaging of Othering. The title of the presentation is: “The Words of Othering and the Digital Genre. Languaging, Identity, Diversity”.
Victoria Odeiyni will discuss how higher education policies and practices around language do not always reflect the needs of an increasingly mobile and international student body. The title of the presentation is: “Translanguaging as Creative Practice. What can we learn from our students about educational equity?”. |
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• Mid-February 2024: within the activities and the webinars promoted by DiscourseNet (https://discourseanalysis.net), a team from IOW will run a webinar on ‘How to write a new entry for IOW dictionary step-by-step’. The webinar will illustrate how working on IOW dictionary helps students reflect on discriminatory language and find creative ways to challenge and subvert it. Favouring the students’ participation in applying methodological tools of critical discourse analysis, IOW dictionary is a participatory and collective space where theory meets practice, so that it can also be utilized by scholars, researchers, and professors as a practical resource to train students in academic writing and research. Yet, since IOW dictionary can be used in different social and educational contexts, the webinar welcomes activists, educators, volunteers, artists who are interested to utilize or contribute to the dictionary in their fields of activity/work.
The exact date has not been defined yet, so… stay tuned!
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CALLS FOR PAPERS: PUBLICATIONS
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Special Collection on the “Language of Fake News” Editors: Silje Susanne Alvestad, Nele Põldvere and Elizaveta Kibisova (University of Oslo). The special collection in Linguistics Vanguard intends to capture recent developments in research into the language of fake news from a diverse range of perspectives and approaches. Linguistics Vanguard publishes shorter papers (about 4,000-word limit) on a multimodal platform designed to integrate interactive content, including audio and video, images, maps, etc.
There are no publication costs. Abstracts due: 1 December 2023 Contributors are asked to submit a tentative title and an abstract of max. 500 words (excluding references and figures). The submission should be made to the guest editors: Silje Susanne Alvestad (s.s.alvestad@ilos.uio.no), Nele Põldvere (nele.poldvere@ilos.uio.no) and Elizaveta Kibisova (elizaveta.kibisova@ilos.uio.no), University of Oslo. Contributors of selected abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper (3,000–4,000 words excluding references and ancillary material) that will undergo peer review. The full papers should follow general submission guidelines for the journal: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/lingvan/html?lang=en#submit
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CALLS FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCES |
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European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue (ESTIDIA) Exploring Real-life, Fictional and Virtual Dialogues: Similarities, Differences and Complementarities Where: Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania When: 12-14 June 2024 Deadlines: (expired) The focus is on exploring real-life, fictional and virtual dialogues in terms of similarities and differences, overlaps and complementarities, constancy and change in situ instantiations of dialogue as social interaction practice.
Conference languages: English, Italian, French, Spanish, German More info at: https://usercontent.one/wp/www.estidia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CfP_7th-ESTIDIA_conference_Vilnius_2024_FINAL
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Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD)
Borders and Boundaries in/across Discourses
Where: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznanń, Poland
When: 10-12 July 2024
Deadline: 24 November 2023 The Conference will focus on the issue of people moving across borders in search for security and new life from another direction. Yet, the Conference understands borders in a much broader way, including identity (self/other, us/them), time (past/present), politics (left/right, mainstream/extreme), etc.
Details of the conference can be found here: https://cadaad2024.amu.edu.pl/
The conference will be in-person only and online presentations will not be possible. Abstracts for presentations should be 300 words (including references). To submit an abstract: https://tinyurl.com/OxfordAbstractsCADAAD
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International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE)
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB +) in Education to Transform Society
Where: University of Technology, Faculty of Humanities, Institute for Education, Chemnitz, Germany When: 26-28 March 2024 Deadline: 30 November 2023 The Conference addresses the valorisation of all facets of diversity within education, and for critical questioning of the (re)production of educational and social inequalities in different political, historical, and socioeconomic contexts.
Submissions via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/iaie2024
Further info at: https://iaie.org/sites/default/files/pdf/CfP_DEIB_new.pdf
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Association for Language Awareness (ALA)
17th International Conference: Language Awareness, Education, and Power
Where: University of Education, Karlsruhe, Germany When: 7-10 July 2024 Deadline: 1 December (extended: 10 January 2024)
Due to the inherent multilingual and multicultural nature of many classrooms around the world, often in monolingual and monocultural institutional contexts, questions around which language(s) to use, to teach and to learn have regained new and important emphasis. The Conference’s focus is on the intricate interplay of factors contributing to the relationships between language(s), education and power.
More info at: https://en.ph-karlsruhe.de/ala-2024
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UNIGHENT, University of Ghent
Unraveling Linguistic Productivity: Insights into usage, processing and variability Where: Ghent University, Belgium
When: 21-23 May 2024 Deadline: 1 December 2023 The goal of the conference is to bring together (psycho)linguists from different horizons (synchronic, diachronic, sociolinguistic, behavioural, neurolinguistic, computational) who take interest in Linguistic Productivity.
Submissions are for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion) or for poster presentations.
More info at: https://www.languageproductivity.ugent.be/conference/
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Nottingham Trent University
Addressing the Underbellies of Neoliberal Academia
Where: Nottingham Trent University, UK When: 5-6 April 2024 Deadline: 6 December 2023
This is the inaugural MCCT (Midlands Conference on Critical Thought) which is an offshoot of the London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT – https://www.londoncritical.co.uk/ please find all streams and their relative calls and deadlines here). Conferences of LCCT feature no plenaries, have no specially invited guests, and they are free for all to attend. This specific stream is meant to carve some space in academia for criticising academia. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and should be sent as a Word file to: midlandscritical@gmail.com
For further questions, please contact matko.krce@gmail.com
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University of Kairouan, Tunisia
Study-day of the English Department on:
Artificial Intelligence in Language Teaching, Learning, Assessment, and Research: Opportunities and Threats Where: University of Kairouan, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of English, Kairouan, Tunisia When: 18 April 2024 Deadline: 31 December 2023 Educators are actively investigating how AI can facilitate the creation and enhancement of educational materials, as well as the process of selecting and adapting content for use in their teaching. Yet, they are not oblivious to the emerging risks associated with these new technologies – e.g., concerns regarding data privacy and security. More info at: https://discourseanalysis.net/sites/default/files/2023-10/study%20day%202024.pdf
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7th Corpora & Discourse International Conference (CADS)
Where: Innsbrück University When: 17-19 July 2024 Deadline: 15 January 2024
Corpora and Discourse International Conference showcases research which combines corpus linguistics and discourse analysis in all forms and under all names in order to how analyze how discourse/s are structured, patterned or received and who use corpus linguistics in their work.
More info at:
https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/cads2024/index.html.en
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University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Research and Practice in Foreign Language Classroom (RPFLC)
From Empirical research to foreign language classroom practice and viceversa
Where: University of Fribourg, Switzerland
When: 6-7 September 2024
Deadline: 18 February 2024 The conference aims to open a space of discourse that permits exchange and transfer of knowledge between teacher education, classroom practice, and research. Initiatives that encourage the building of networks between research knowledge and knowledge arising from classroom practice may contribute to such a dialogue.
Abstracts for contributions and posters may be submitted in German, English, French, or Italian including title in the language of the abstract (max. 20 words), abstract and optional references (between 300 and 500 words), keywords (max. 5). The conference fees will be announced early in 2024 with the hope of keeping them as low as possible (between CHF 25.00 and 40.00) More info at: https://rpflc24.dryfta.com/
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UPDATED INFO ON INTERCULTURAL ISSUES, CALLS, etc.
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| The Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID) facilitates intercultural dialogues through helping scholars learn about the work of international peers, locate researchers with similar interests in other countries, or collaborate for research purposes.
It is a rich and updated online resource that offers a lot of info about intercultural issues, language and linguistics – call for papers, job offers, fellowships, conferences, international programs, interviews, videos, and podcasts.
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org |
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------------------------------- 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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