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[Commlist] Taboo Conference 2020 - CfP
Wed Dec 11 22:24:59 GMT 2019
*Conference : Taboo in language, culture, and communication
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*Rome, Italy – September 30th-October 2nd, 2020
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*Call for Abstracts deadline: February 10th 2020 (midnight CEST)*
In a world that seems continuously to be stretching the line of what is
acceptable to the inhabitants of specific linguistic and cultural
contexts, this interdisciplinary conference acknowledges the importance
of investigating taboos and their reinforcement/breaking in various
areas of language, culture, literature and society, and across different
cultures. We propose to explore the delicate balance and subtle
boundaries between the need for inclusion and respect for different
ethnic, religious, sexual backgrounds – which seem to be at the basis
of modern multicultural societies – and a conscious (or unconscious)
push towards the breaking of existing taboos, for example for shock
value, as in the case of comedy and art. In such contexts, investigation
of the linguistic, cultural, social, institutional and personal
implications of taboo reinforcement/breaking appears of extreme value.
For its 5th edition, the Taboo Conference series will specifically
address the intricacies of taboo in language, culture, literature and
communication in its various occurrences from the points of view of
production, performance, and perception/reception. The subject of taboo
in language, culture, literature and communication seems to have become
especially relevant in the last few years, in which political
correctness at both the institutional and individual level has been
seen, on the one hand, as a crucial tool in protecting people from
verbal abuse and in preventing the reinforcement of stereotypes and, on
the other, as a set of measures and a way of thinking which
significantly curtail free speech in many aspects of the public sphere.
The 2020 conference seeks to explore the shifting boundaries of the
acceptability of taboo in their various incarnations as produced and
perceived in today’s multicultural society, from cinema and television,
to news, videogames, literature and different kinds of online content.
The study of taboo in the past, for example through the medium of
literature, is also relevant to the conference. Possible areas of
inquiry include, but are not limited to, political orientations and
political satire, identity and gender politics, ethnic stereotypes,
different kinds of non-normative behaviour, political correctness and
the discourse surrounding it, and the debate between real and perceived
offense through comedy.
We welcome individual proposals or pre-organized panels from different
disciplines pertaining – but by no means limited – to the following
thematic areas and their intersections in various mediatic forms:
Sex and sexuality (e.g. nudity, non-normative sexual practices, pornography)
Racism and sexism (e.g. white supremacy, gender discrimination, transphobia)
Death and dying (e.g. mortality, ageing, funerals and burials, fatal
accidents)
Sickness, disability, and deformity
Scatology (e.g. excreta/effluvia)
Politics (e.g. political corruption, political incorrectness, prejudice,
gender discrimination)
Religions and blasphemy (rituals, prejudice, afterlife)
Addiction
Money (greed, graft, exploitation, waste, extravagance, poverty)
Changing social attitudes towards violence, exploitation and abuse
(prostitution, slavery, trafficking, rape, children’s rights)
Censorship, reactions to it, and its effects.
The Conference will be held at University of Rome, Tor Vergata. The
working language for the conference is English. Each paper presentation
should be scheduled for 15 minutes to be followed by 5-minute question
time to the panel.
300-word abstracts can be submitted through the conference website by
Feb 10th, 2020:
http://taco2020.grupposymposia.it/call-for-abstracts
<http://taco2020.grupposymposia.it/call-for-abstracts/>
<http://taco2020.grupposymposia.it/call-for-abstracts/>
Call for abstracts - TACO 2020
<http://taco2020.grupposymposia.it/call-for-abstracts/>
Taboo in language, culture, and communication. Rome, Italy – September
30 th – October 2 nd, 2020. In a world that seems continuously to be
stretching the line of what is acceptable to the inhabitants of specific
linguistic and cultural contexts, this interdisciplinary conference
acknowledges the importance of investigating taboos and their
reinforcement/breaking in various areas of ...
taco2020.grupposymposia.it
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