Dear Visitor 

IOW's NEWSLETTER #8

July 2024

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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.

KEYWORDS‍

New keywords:

• menopause by Isabelle Buchstaller: stigma, taboo, persistent misinformation, the silencing of women’s voices. How is menopause represented in different cultures? Find here a critical counter discourse and many useful links.
  
  
• oligarchy by Cecilia Beaudoin: by discussing how, in the Argentinian history, the term has indicated different 'us' versus 'them', the author provides a significant example of the constant resignification of words in political narratives.
  
  
• terrone by Class 3C: the students have analysed how, in Italy, the term not only encapsulates a geographical divide North-South but also embodies the social prejudices that can perpetuate discrimination.

Forthcoming keywords:

• disability by Stefania Taviano. The term constitutes a social system of representation that marks people and their bodies as subordinate. The author here discusses it as a category, a label that marginalizes individuals marking them as 'Other' for being different from normative groups.
  
  
• il/ils by Romain Potier. By using the masculine il/ils over women and non-binary individuals, the French language enacts patterns of discrimination, invisibility, and Otherness.

   

• ·    remake by Charleine Saad. The term 'remake' is associated with the reinterpretation of an existing work. So, how do remakes connect to Otherness? Do they promote a deeper understanding of the other or contribute to the emergence of resistance to the other values and cultural norms? Do they reshape narratives and challenge cultures and identities? Do they bridge the gap between foreignness and familiarity, and contribute to cultural diversity?

  
  
• translanguaging by Victoria Odeniyi. Translanguaging involves the use of multiple languages in interaction and allows individuals to bring their entire linguistic repertoire into play, contrarily to the categorization of different languages that can (re)produce Otherness.

Additions to previous keywords: ‍

Being online allows IOW dictionary to be implemented from time to time by other information and links suggested by different actors and audiences (e.g., see the two links at the bottom of the entry incel).

In June 2024, a new link to a video has been added to the entry refugee written by Arianna Vettorazzi.

The video is a short stop motion animation based on a true story that took place on the Greek island of Lesvos in October 2016. Lesvos is a north Aegean Greek Island in which more than 500,000 refugees sought refuge in the period between 2015-2020 and still counting. 

Maram stop motion animation, 5', Arabic with Greek and English subtitles, 2020.

Narration, rap: Maram Omar

Direction, script, artwork, photography: Efi Sialevri- Vicky Yiagopoulou

Post production: Alexandros Spathis

Intro ARTWORK: Eleni Rousopoulou

Music: Leonidas Danezos/ Alcalica

https://filmfreeway.com/MyMaram

IOWers AT CONFERENCES (May-Sept)

May 17, University of York, UK: Victoria Odeniyi presented "IOW - A Contextualised Dictionary to Problematise Otherness: Taking stock, four
years on" at the seminar Reassessing self-other constructions in intercultural communication organized by British Association of Applied Linguistics - Special Interest Group in Intercultural Communication. She also discussed the group’s decision-making process and criteria for including or excluding keyword entries.

May 23-25, University of Paderborn, Germany: Conference Talking about Writing.
Paola Giorgis, Bilyana Todorova, and Andrea C. Valente discussed IOW dictionary as collective, dialogic, and participatory writing space where different actors from different social and educational contexts engage in creativity and critical reflexivity, as well as in the use of multilingual and multimodal resources.

May 29, University of Essen, Germany: Paola Giorgis presented IOW dictionary to the students of the course on Queer(ing) linguistics co-conducted by Isabelle Buchstaller and Evelyn Ziegler. She introduced the general characteristics of the dictionary and showed some entries as examples of critical and creative subversions of discourses on Otherness.

 NEW FEATURE: IOW RECOMMENDS

This is a new open space where both contributors and readers can signal books, podcasts, videos, that they find relevant to the discussion on Otherness/Othering.

Please send your suggestions to paola.giorgis@iowdictionary.org

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Russell, L. R. (2021). Women and Dictionary Making. Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Thanks to Cornelia Ilie’s suggestion, we encountered this amazing book that combines a rigorous historical and rhetorical investigation with a  critical and feminist approach to dictionary making to show how “gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women’s participations and innovations in dictionary making” (blurb on the back cover).

In her monumental study of six centuries of women’s participation in the history of dictionary making, Russell's work discusses how rhetorical and social conventions and expectations have influenced both genre and gender. If, on the one hand, women have long been otherized - invisibilized as collaborators and authors in dictionary making, and stereotypically gendered even "in illustrative quotations under neutral headwords" (p.14) - on the other hand, the contributions of feminist lexicography has not only exposed androcentrism and sexism, but has also widely contributed to redefine the genre so that "gendered participants have reshaped dictionary making" (p. 213).

Warmly recommended!

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A Special Issue of the Applied Linguistics Review (2024):

Applied Linguistics, Ethics and Aesthetics of Encountering the Other

The SI discusses how “applied linguistics research might play an active role in both theorising and enabling ethical encounters [that is] those that enact the political vision of an inclusive and just society in face-to-face meetings with particular others, i.e. the Other”. The different chapters consider a “relational framework, which places the subject’s responsibility at the heart of ethical relationships and as a basis for a political achievement of just society in settings of trauma, social stigma and unequal power relationships” (from the Abstract of the Introduction).

1 Kubanyiova, M., & Creese, A. (2024). Introduction: Applied linguistics, ethics and aesthetics of encountering the Other. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2024-0083

2 Beiler, I. R., & Dewilde, J. (2024). "When we use that kind of language...someone is going to jail": Relationality and aesthetic interpretation in initial research encounters. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2024-0085

3 Creese, A. (2024). The humanism of the other in sociolinguistic ethnography. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2024-0086

4 Williams, Q. (2024). Towards a sociolinguistics of in difference: Stancetaking on others. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2024-0090

5 Krause-Alzaidi, L.-S. (2024). Becoming response-able with a protest pacard: White under(-)standing in encounters with the Balck German Other. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2024-0087

6 Kubanyiova, M. (2024). (Im)possibility of ethical encounters in places of separation: Aesthetics as a quiet applied linguistics praxis. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2024-0082

7 Brizić, K. (2024). Unsettled hearing, responsible listening: Encounters with voice after forced migration. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2024-0088

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 NEW FEATURE: THANKING IOW 's AUTHORS

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All the work done at and for IOW dictionary is fully voluntary. As Editorial Board, we thought that a way to thank IOW’s Authors for their contributions would be that of publicizing their work on this Newsletter. So, we asked them to pick up what they consider as their 2024 most significant publication, speech at conference, etc. And here are their first responses – more on the next Newsletters since this is to become a regular column.

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Deepa Vanjani, author of the entry chakka (entry co-authored with Rashmi Sahi) presented at the following conferences:

• The Confluence of Literature, History, and Culture: Negotiating Differences through Intercultural Dialogue and Third Space, 23-24 Jan. 2024, St. Xavier’s College, Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu, India, where she discussed "The Graphical Representation of Otherness, Subversion and the Subaltern in Persepoli";
• International Interdisciplinary Conference on Methods, Aesthetics, Genres in Language, Literature and Communication, Poornima University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 2-3 Feb. 2024, where she presented "Degendering the Gender Narrative: Manjula Padmanabhan’s Unprincess and Suki".

Angeliki Peponi, author of the entry silence, has published an article on Crime Times https://www.crimetimes.gr/ on March, 22, 2024.

• She here discusses the scariest aspect of silence: the dark figure of crime, that is crimes that are not reported to official authorities by crime victims. The dark figure is the objective reality of criminality, which though remains silent and invisible. The dark figure of crime reproduces Otherness at many levels: it hides criminality, as it does not appear in the official statistics, and it invisibilizes the victims, depriving them of their voices and of vindicating their rights for justice.

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CALLS FOR PAPERS: PUBLICATIONS

Bilyana Todorova of IOW’s Editorial Board is the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Ezikov svyat - Orbis Linguarum: https://ezikovsvyat.swu.bg/index.php/en/

Orbis Linguarum is the academic journal of the Faculty of Philology at South-West University Neofit Rilski. It publishes materials in the field of linguistics, literary studies, cultural studies, teaching methodology, reviews and opinions on books and academic events.The journal is indexed in several international databases – Scopus, CEEOL, ERIH PLUS, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Crossref and RISC.

You are very welcome to submit your paper/s to the journal. The submissions can be in all Slavic languages, English, German or French.

Please submit your manuscript here: ezikovsvyat@swu.bg.

More information about the journal and the guidelines for authors can be found at: https://ezikovsvyat.swu.bg/index.php/en/pren

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CALLS FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCES‍

Università Orientale ‍Napoli, Italy

18-20 December 2024

International Conference

Enhancing Sustainability: Bridging Corporate Practices with Academic and Popular Discourse

The conference aims to promote an in-depth understanding of sustainability communication while providing innovative insights and practical solutions to current sustainability challenges.

Deadline: 8 September 2024

Notification of acceptance: 23 September 2024
Registration period: 23 September – 10 December 2024


For more details and updates, send an email to enhancingsustainability@gmail.com

or follow the conference

Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/3869472393323146/

and X/Twitter account https://x.com/EnhancingSust

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University of Ausburg, Germany

26-27 March 2025

The Discursive Construction of Reality VI – Interdisciplinary perspectives on a sociology of knowledge approach to discourse research.

Within the research program outlined by the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) the Conference will continue its interdisciplinary discourse on interpretive and sociology of knowledge, as well as applications of SKAD and SKAD-inspired discourse research and related perspectives.

Deadline: 14 October 2024

Contact person email address:

wda@phil.uni-augsburg.de

Network:

www.diskurswissenschaft.de

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Université Grenoble Alps, France

Hate Speech and Emotions: ideological and epistemological issues

21-23 May 2025

The conference addresses the link between hate speech and emotions by investigating its social and ideological reach, along with the articulation of the individual and collective dimensions of hatred according to three main axes: 1. Emotions in discourse; 2. Emotion, politics and ideologies; 3. Epistemological and reflective dimension.

Deadline: 14 October 2024

Proposals in French, Italian, English

Abstract should be submitted on the event platform

https://draine.sciencesconf.org/

Full Call here: https://draine.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/3

More info at: https://groupedraine.github.io/index.html

The decisions will be informed in December, 2024 and the conference program will be released in early 2025.

In addition to individual submissions, proposals for thematic panels are encouraged.

Abstracts must be 350 words long and with 5 references at most; for panels, in addition to the general abstract, each of its proposal it must be briefly presented (title + 200 words).

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TRANSCULTURAL & INTERCULTURAL ISSUES, CALLS, etc.

ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue) is a non-profit organization that fosters dialogue across disciplines and cultures, cultivates contacts with university networks and publishers, and promotes initiatives and projects among its members. ESTIDIA brings together senior and junior colleagues belonging to various disciplines and professional orientations, who wish to establish contacts and to collaborate across cultural and disciplinary borders in Europe and beyond. By becoming a member of ESTIDIA you will be part of a vibrant international community and enjoy several advantages. You can find more info and subscribe here:
https://www.estidia.eu/membership

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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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