Dear Visitor | | IOW's NEWSLETTER #9
December 2024
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. |
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New entry - dis/ability by Stefania Taviano. In this entry, the author addresses predominant views on dis/ability, challenging discriminatory representations and discourses that see disability as the result of a person’s impairment, and which can play a central role in allowing or preventing individuals with disabilities from enjoying human rights.
The entry also features the impressive works of two women artists belonging to the IN/Visible Disabled Women’s National Arts Collective: Caroline Cardus’s, Background noise (2023) and Honor Flaherty’s, Words of Mass Destruction and Other Stubborn Stains (2023). Through their works, these artists explore narratives about disabled women and their rights, highlighting the close connection between justice and arts movements.
Further info at:
https://www.littlecog.co.uk/invisible-exhibition-2023.html
www.carolinecardusartist.com
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IOWers at CONFERENCES and WEBINARS (June-December)
University of Essen, Germany, 3 December.
Paola Giorgis held a Webinar for the students of the course on Queer(ing) linguistics co-conducted by Isabelle Buchstaller and Evelyn Ziegler. She discussed the relevance of positioning in research, presented a a theoretical background on Othering and how Othering is (re)produced through language. She then illustrated IOW dictionary, also showing some examples of critical and creative subversions of discourses on the Other.
University of Malaga, Spain, 7-11 October: 14th Congress of Critical Pedagogies.
Paola Giorgis presented IOW dictionary as a free online resource to problematize Otherness and discriminatory language (in Spanish: Un recurso online para problematizar la alteridad y el lenguaje discriminatorio mediante la creatividad). The conference was hosted by the Faculdad de las Ciencias de la Educación, and engaged about seventy activists and academics from Europe, Canada, North, Central, and South America in dialogic participation and interactions with local educational contexts.
University of Ruse, Bulgaria, 23-24 June. Conference: Identity manifestation in real, virtual and hybrid communicative environment.
Ivanka Mavrodieva presented a study on cyberethnographic observation and content analysis discussing the relation between identity in real and virtual contexts. The results were also published in the article "Identity manifestation in real, virtual and hybrid communicative environments", Journal of Applied Linguistic and Intercultural Studies 4 (2023), 1 – 11
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This is an open space where both contributors and readers can signal books, blogs, podcasts, videos, that they find relevant to the discussion on Otherness, and how communicative strategies and practices work to (re)produce or challenge Othering.
Please send your suggestions to paola.giorgis@iowdictionary.org
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BLOG
Charleine Saad posts the blog Beyond the Words to unveil the secrets of communication, to show how strategies of manipulation work, and raise awareness about the importance of thinking beyond the words. Organized according three main categories – politics, media, and society – Charleine's blog sheds light on several local, regional and international matters. https://beyondthewords.blog/
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BOOK
Karin Zotzmann (forthcoming)
Codes of Corruption. A Critical Realist Discourse Analysis of Illicit Transactions. Routledge.
The book draws on a corpus of videos and audio recordings from Mexico. This corpus was analysed through a variety of analytical tools to show the interactional and discursive work participants engage in to come to an agreement and, at the same time, the structural configurations that enabled, constrained, and motivated the participants. The book will be of interest to researchers and to all those engaged in the design of anti-corruption strategies, training, and education. |
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BOOK
Raymond Watson, What Sort of Artist Are You? Lúbaan Publications. In this book, Raymond Watson, an artist-activist based in Northern Ireland, presents a series of art stories to describe the challenge and process of creating new community projects and exhibitions as, e.g., artwork in conflict zones like Israel and Palestina, in the desert refugee camps of Western Sahara, the sculpture of The Good Friday Agreement, or his work with illegal migrants in Southern Italy. |
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CALLS FOR PAPERS: PUBLICATIONS
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Submissions for a Special Issue on “Gender, Television and Digital Media: Representations and Practices in a Platformized Public Landscape”, for the journal Journalism and Media.
Deadline for full articles: 31 March 2025 Guest Editors: Ioanna Vovou (Panteion University, Greece), Rita Basilio Simões (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and Fabiana Piccinin (University of Santa Catarina in Brazil).
This Special Issue explores the intersections between gender, television, and digital media.
Studies addressing how television and digital media reshape gender constructions, the power dynamics in content production and consumption, and the socio-cultural impacts of transmedia representations and practices are welcomed.
Full CfP here:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/
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Bilyana Todorova of IOW’s Editorial Board is the 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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Ivanka Mavrodieva of IOW’s Editorial Board is the Editor-in-Chief of the
Rhetoric and Communications journal, an open access peer-reviewed quarterly scientific journal. The journal publishes original research papers, review articles and brief reports, aimed to cover all aspects of research into rhetoric, media communication, public communication, intercultural communication, Internet communication, business communication, academic communication, pedagogical communication, advertising communication, visual communication, brand communication, marketing communication, argumentation, and applied linguistics.
More information about the journal and the guidelines for authors can be found at: https://journal.rhetoric.bg/
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CALLS FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCES |
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Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
International Conference: Discourse Across Cultures
Dates: 20-21 March 2025 Deadline: 4 January 2025 The focus is on cross-cultural discourse patterns, as well as on specific communicative practices within cultures. The conference provides the opportunity to use language comparisons between/among cultures in order to get a deeper insight into the language phenomena around us. The event encourages scholars to participate in person, but also offers the opportunity of virtual or hybrid presentations. Abstracts should be sent to:
Elena Buja: elena.buja@unitbv.ro
Cristina Vâlcea: cristina.valcea@unitbv.ro
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Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
International conference: Generics and stereotypes in discourse: A cross-disciplinary perspective
Dates: 5-6 June 2025 Deadline: 15 January 2025 The aim of this international conference is to bring together researchers from various disciplines – linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, communication and media studies, marketing, psychology, history, political science, among others – to further our understanding of how and why generics and stereotypes are explicitly referred to in discourse by speakers. Abstracts of around 300 words (excluding references) should be addressed to:
Laure Gardelle laure.gardelle@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Naomi Truan n.a.l.truan@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Ismaël Zaïdi ismael.zaidi@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Full CfP: https://www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/06/generics-and-stereotypes
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Université libre de Bruxelles (Solbosch), Belgium.
International conference: Discourse and Imaginaries of past, present, and future societies: media and representations of (inter)national (dis)orders. Dates: 7-10 July 2025
Deadline: 28 Feb.2025
The 6th DiscourseNet Congress (DNC6) focuses on the discursive construction of social and political imaginaries. It offers a forum to discuss how social actors imagine and articulate past, present and future societies in a world marked by multiple and overlapping crises. Full CfP: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/dnc6-6th-discoursenet-congress-discourse-and-imaginaries-past-present-and-future-societies-media
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TRANSCULTURAL & INTERCULTURAL ISSUES
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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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