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[ecrea] CfP : Narratives of the crisis: myths and realities of contemporary society

Fri Dec 19 21:12:46 GMT 2014




Narratives of the crisis: myths and realities of contemporary society

International Conference, Thessaloniki, June 24

- 26, 2015, Call for papers.

Narratives are present in all societies. They are present in myths, legends, news, rumors, in

historical and artistic texts, in politics, in everyday conversation. Stories are able to construct

reality. As Roland Barthes suggested (1966) the most important issue is to describe the code

by which the narrator and the reader are signified in a narrative. In this sense, an author is not

the one who invents a narrative but the one who possesses best the code used by the

participants. The different social discourses are supposed to reveal what a society considers

as "natural", as requiring no further explanation (the so called "common sense" used by media

discourses). This kind of narrative coincides with the social representations of the audience

and even if this is not always the case, the social subjects normally try to reduce the distance

between the information received and their attitudes: strategies are thus elaborated in order

to maintain a dominant way of thinking.

Narrative analysis has become fundamental for the social sciences, and especially for

sociology. Myth cannot always be clearly differentiated from "reality" in the social discourse

(fiction seems essential to the "reproduction" of the facts): it is necessary to be understood in

relation with the narrated reality.

The "Narratives of crisis: myths and realities" International Conference aims to record and

analyze the myths which narrate the economic crisis in Europe and particularly in Greece, and

investigate the ways media and the diverse political and social discourses represent the crisis.

The Conference is organized by the AISLF, the ISA-RC14, the Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki, the University of Macedonia, the Ecclesiastic University of Thessaloniki, the

Municipality of Thessaloniki and the French Institute of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the

Centre of Sociology of Nantes, the Hellenic Sociological Society and the Institute for

Community Rehabilitation.

The Organizers invite contributions (in French, Greek or English) from the whole spectrum of

social and political sciences, media studies and the study of contemporary everyday life.

Please send abstract proposals of c. 250 words, including affiliation and contact information,

to (narrativesofcrisis /at/ gmail.com) until Thursday, January 15, 2015.

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