[eccr] 2nd International Language - Communication - Culture Conference

>Conference announcement and call for papers
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>Second International 'Language - Communication - Culture' Conference
>Beja, Portugal, November 24 - 27, 2004
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>Conference Venue: Polytechnic Higher Institute, Beja
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>Organised by the staff, students and associates of the 'Culture and Society'
>Postgraduate Programme (University of Lisbon), staff of the College for
>Technology and Management, Beja, and by Mundiconvenius
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>Confirmed keynote speakers:
>Kirsten Drotner, University of Southern Denmark
>Nick Couldry, London School of Economics
>(Other speakers will be announced later)
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>The Conference Venue
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>This year the Second International Language ­ Communication ­ Culture
>Conference will be held in Beja in November. As in 2002, when it convened in
>Evora, it remains in the Alentejo region but moves further south to Beja,
>where it will be hosted by the Polytechnic Higher Institute.
>The decision to accept the Beja Polytechnics invitation for the Conference
>to take place there was made for two main reasons: one is that the town,
>with its remarkable castle and other monuments, combines the many pleasures
>of everyday life with a quiet atmosphere which favours the intellectual
>dialogues the Conference aims at; the other is that the town offers itself,
>looking forward as it does to the dramatic changes an international airport
>will bring, as an example of the complex development from an agricultural
>past to the tertiary present and the informational future.
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>The Language ­ Communication ­ Culture Conference Mandate
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>The world we live in has been aptly characterised as a modernity of risk,
>with its unholy trinity of uncertainty, insecurity and unsafety. It is
>marked by precariousness, wasted lives and corrosion of character: how is a
>future to be imagined without a grasp on the present? The transnational
>relations of power, with their ever-growing inequalities between rich and
>poor human beings and countries, make the phrase the West and the Rest
>sound quaintly oldfashioned. Democratic rights, institutions and practices
>are being curtailed and dismantled, human lives are being made over as
>flexible, discardable tools for unregulated profit-seeking. The politics of
>fear replaces the politics of hope, new capitalism fulfils the wildest
>dreams of old capitalism.
>What do intellectuals, and especially young intellectuals, in their
>practices of teaching, study and research, have to say to the world we live
>in? What work, and especially what new work, is being done all over the
>world in the areas of language, communication and culture? How does that
>work address the issues, problems and challenges of the world we live in?
>The Conferences mandate is to bring together scholars from all disciplines
>and fields of the humanities and social sciences with contributions on
>language, communication, social and cultural themes that analyse the
>contemporary world, its vectors of crisis, its tensions and conflicts, its
>lines of development.
>
>
>The Conference
>
>The Conference will be structured round themed sessions, proposed by members
>of its organising committee, and panels proposed by participants. The
>organisers of sessions will soon issue their cfp; panels will be proposed
>with theme, brief description, names of participants and titles of papers.
>Both sessions and panels are planned for 2 hours and will accommodate five
>20-minute papers.
>
>Deadline for panel proposals: May 31, 2004
>
>Deadline for 150-word paper proposals: July 15, 2004
>
>Visits to the town and its neighbourhood, an excursion (with a visit to the
>Islamic Museum in Mertola), music events and a photography exhibition will
>offer participants as many opportunities to enjoy their stay in Beja.
>
>Full information about the Conference, its sessions, registration, hotels,
>how to get to Beja, etc, will soon be available at www.mundiconvenius.pt

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