[ecrea] cfp - comparativism, identity, communication (CIC2011)

University of Craiova, Romania
Faculty of Letters
The Society of Philological Sciences


COMPARATIVISM, IDENTITY, COMMUNICATION (CIC2011)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Craiova, 21-22 October, 2011
Fourth edition


Call for Papers

Will the emergence of "the global village" create new world citizens 
able to communicate in a globalized culture? D. Wolton (Autre 
mondialisation, 2003) showed that, if the other has never appeared so 
close and accessible, (s)he seems at the same time more threatening and 
different.
By the intersection of the concepts "comparativism", "identity", 
"communication", the conference will focus on the complex 
identities/alterities, interactively engaged in the society "conquered 
by communication" (B. Miège).
The transmodern globalized communication implies rapid, spectacular, 
misleading and ambivalent processes: communication is a means of 
emancipation of the individual/of the nations, but also a means of 
control. It is necessary, therefore, to rethink "the human condition" in 
the context of interculturalism, of "netocracy", both from the point of 
view of the conditioning as well as from the interactive feedback.
The opening towards alterity, accompanying the trangression of 
communication borders supposes identity awareness. The multicultural 
cohabitation is possible if the individuals become aware of the 
inestimable value of identity symbols, if they consciously participate 
in the intercultural dialogue and if they operate with flexible 
reasoning and if they place themselves under the unifying sign of 
Sense/Meaning.
Comparative studies provide new insights into the complex problematic of 
intercultural relations and identity issues, but also for the field of 
communication studies. While focusing on general and comparative 
literature, we do not wish, however to limit the interest of the 
conference to this area. We envisage comparison as an all-encompassing 
scientific method, which might cover linguistics, anthropology, cultural 
studies etc.
The interdisciplinary perspective and the generous thematic spectrum 
will allow the rethinking of the issues mentioned above.

Thematic areas:

1. Comparativism: influence, reception, intertextuality, palimpsestic 
rewriting, comparative poetics, comparative imagology, inter-aesthetic 
and inter-semiotic relations (literature and the other arts); comparison 
between languages and linguistic phenomena.
2. Pragmasemantic aspects of communication: emotive meaning, 
argumentative roles, illocutionary functions, implicit meaning, 
linguistic/semantic context and extralinguistic/situational context.
3. The rhetoric aspects of communication: tropes, figures of thought, 
sophisms; political, journalistic, didactic discourse.
4. New media/communication technologies and corresponding 
anthropological mutations: cyber-culture and cyberspace, virtual 
communities, "secondary" orality, recreation of the text in the context 
and so on.
5. Identities Re-/deconstruction: discourse on identity and cultural 
diversity; post-communist transition and negotiation of identity; "the 
writing" of the multicultural self in the media; alterity and dynamics 
of communicative relations.
6. Postmodern culture: hybridization, polyphony, interculturality.

Interdisciplinary perspectives: comparativism, discourse analysis, 
gender studies, philosophy, imagology, pragmatics, semiotics.

Organizing Committee:

Director: Professor dr. EMILIA PARPAL? AFANA
Members:

Senior Lecturer, PhD. AURELIA FLOREA
Senior Lecturer, PhD. CARMEN POPESCU
Senior Lecturer, PhD. ALINA ?ENESCU
Assistant professor PhD. RUCSANDRA DASC?LU

Scientific Committee:

Professor dr. D.H.C. ZDZIS?AW HRYHOROWICZ, University "Adam Mickiewicz", 
Pozna?, Polonia
Professor dr. CORNELIA ILIE, University of Malmö, Sueden
Professor dr. LILIANA IONESCU-RUX?NDOIU, University of Bucharest
Professor dr. MARIANA NE?, Linguistic Institute " I. Iordan - Al. 
Rosetti ", Bucharest.
Professor dr. NICOLAE PANEA, University of Craiova
Professor dr. EMILIA PARPAL? AFANA, University of Craiova
Professor dr. ANDA R?DULESCU, University of Craiova
Senior Lecturer, PhD. LAUREN?IU B?L?, University of Craiova
Senior Lecturer, PhD. CHRISTIAN ECCHER, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Senior Lecturer, PhD. ROBERTO MERLO, University of Torino, Italia
Senior Lecturer, PhD. CARMEN POPESCU, University of Craiova
Senior Lecturer, PhD. ALOISIA ?OROP, University of Craiova
Senior Lecturer, PhD. ALINA ?ENESCU, University of Craiova

Deadline for registration and submission of abstracts: 20. 09. 2011. The 
acceptance will be sent by September 30th, 2011.
Please send the registration form and the abstracts by e-mail, to the 
following addresses:
(cpopescu71 /at/ gmail.com) - Comparativism
(aurelia_florea /at/ yahoo.com) -Identity
(alinatenescu /at/ gmail.com) - Communication
(dascalu_ioana2006 /at/ yahoo.fr) - Postmodernism


Registration Form:

Title…Mr/Ms./Dr./Prof..…
Abstract (maximum 200 words including bibliography, in English or in 
French, Word format, TNR, 12)
Surname……………….
First name………………….
E-mail …
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Conference languages: English and French.

Presentation: the papers presented in plenary session should not exceed 
40 minutes (and 10 minutes for discussions), and the papers presented 
within sections should not exceed 20 minutes (and 10 minutes for 
discussions).
Publication: the papers selected by the scientific committee will be 
published in English or French.
Participation fee: 30 Euro. The conference fee includes the publication 
of the volume. For accommodation and other information please contact us.
The papers are subject to PEER REVIEW evaluation. Papers that were not 
delivered at the conference may also be published in special cases, our 
aim being the achievement of a high-quality research volume.
*

Within the framework of the conference we will also organize a workshop 
entitled:
POSTMODERN CULTURE. CREATION AND INTERPRETATION,
as activity foreseen in the research grant CNCSIS IDEAS -ROMANIAN POETIC 
POSTMODERNISM 1980-2010. A SEMIO-PRAGMATIC AND COGNITIVE APPROACH. 
(Coordinator: Professor Dr. Emilia Parpal?-Afana).
Workshop coordinator: Senior Lecturer, PhD. Carmen POPESCU, 
(cpopescu71 /at/ gmail.com)

Call for Papers
Workshop

POSTMODERN CULTURE. CREATION AND INTERPRETATION

No matter how divergent the various accounts of postmodernism might be, 
we can however agree upon a limited number of criteria for this 
particular poetics. Some of these recurrent themes are: the perception 
of reality and identity as problematic, the issue of the simulacrum and 
hyperreality (Baudrillard), the incredulity towards grand narratives (a 
defining feature for what Jean François Lyotard calls the "postmodern 
condition"), the tendency of deconstructing the historical and cultural 
past, the ambivalent relationship with popular culture, the uncanny 
conciliation of irony and nostalgia.
Intertextuality, irony, parody, literary self-reflexivity, the 
"narcissistic" ethos, polyphony, the decentred and destructured subject 
- these are just a few of the textual coordinates which presumably 
derive from the postmodern mindset or forma mentis. It is quite 
interesting to discover to what extent some of the concepts usually used 
in the analysis of the postmodern globalized society are also compatible 
with the major topics of the postmodern poetics. Among these, the status 
of the sign or the code, the metacommunicational strategies and the 
initiation of a new reading contract are some fundamental elements, 
considering that postmodern poetry is in fact a "semiotic poetry", 
pragmatically focused on the poetic enunciation and speech acts.
We take into account three "waves" of Romanian (and not only) literary 
postmodernism: the '80s, the '90s and the first decade of the 
Millennium, with the specific innovations put forth by these three 
promotions of authors, but also with the foreign influences they have 
assimilated. After 1989, the synchronizing of the local postmodern 
culture with Western postmodernism is accomplished by transcending the 
"postmodernism without postmodernity" practiced by writers of the 
eighties, by acknowledging the "postmodern condition", which, as a 
consequence of the fall of communism, has become a perspicuous reality 
in Eastern European countries as well.
The original strategies present in the postmodern literary production 
are as many challenges raised to critical interpretation. A very 
appropriate approach to postmodernism is the one proposed by comparative 
poetics, which includes interdiscursivity and interculturality, due to 
the fact that it studies precisely the diversity of cultural contexts 
which are welcoming and recreating the prevailing postmodern style. This 
approach supplements the technical framework proposed by the research 
project "Romanian poetic postmodernism. 1980-2010. A semio-pragmatic and 
cognitive approach". This type of analysis might contribute to a better 
description of those invariants or universals that every theoretician of 
postmodernism is looking for.
The contributions are expected to shed new light on the current state of 
this heterogeneous artistic corpus as far as creation and its reception 
are concerned.

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