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[Commlist] Call for Abstracts/Articles - Diffractions on DEAF CULTURE

Fri Jul 08 10:31:58 GMT 2022






    Call for Abstracts | DEAF CULTURE

Diffractions - Graduate Journal for the Study of Culture

/Issue 7 | DEAF CULTURE/

Deadline for Abstracts: *July 25, 2022*

Guest Editors: Cristina Gil and Joana Pereira

The title for the next issue of /Diffractions/ seems to be yelling at the reader. It is not. Capitalization stands for the representation of sign language in writing. Moreover, in Deaf Studies the capital D in Deaf has been commonly used to address an ethnic minority, although this practice has recently become a source of debate. Nevertheless, capitalization is a way of putting Deaf people and signed languages center stage. Deaf Studies has been, from its onset, a transdisciplinary field of research focusing on cultural, historical, linguistic, and other aspects concerning Sign Language Peoples (henceforth SLPs). Knowledge production in Deaf Studies started in the 1970s, resulting in an immensely varied body of research work which focuses on sign language linguistics and the social and cultural dynamics of SLPs. It is now undisputed that they are linguistic and cultural minorities, which have contributed with important knowledge to the world in fields such as general human cognition and language processing. This has enabled academic discussions that are also relevant in practical fields such as social equity, education, language policy and accessibility. Signed Languages challenge the conceptions of how we understand human languages and the brain, and literature in sign languages has also defied traditional conceptions in Literary Studies. Even the surprisingly old tradition of simultaneous interpretation of signed languages has impacted research in Translation Studies. Furthermore, the power dynamics between Deaf minorities and hearing majorities puts into evidence several social tensions that underlie Deaf activism and associative dynamics.

We now witness the birth of the first ever issue dedicated to Deaf epistemologies and Deaf Studies, proposed by a Culture Studies journal. The issue is open to receiving abstracts/articles from several fields, with diverse methodological approaches, but united by an outlook on Deaf communities from a cultural point of view. We aim at bringing together articles approaching the varied spheres of the Deaf biocultural experience, as well as the social and political representation of d/Deaf people, seeking to initiate a pioneering discussion in Deaf Studies in Portugal.

This issue of Diffractions welcomes diversity and invites all readers to embark on a journey into Deaf Cultures. As Joseph Murray, a Professor in American Sign Language and Deaf Studies, currently the President of the World Federation of the Deaf, wrote:

The experience of being Deaf encompasses an expectation of participation in a society not tailored to Deaf norms as well as the articulation of a separate space of being Deaf, a space that, at times, transcends national boundaries. With coequality, the traditional binaries – of Deaf worlds and hearing worlds, of Deaf lives ‘segregated from’ or ‘assimilated into’ hearing societies–can be seen not in opposition to one another, but as mutually formative. (Murray, 2008, p. 102)

We welcome abstracts/articles on, but not limited to, critical theory, cultural studies, comparative literature, translation studies, postcolonial studies, visual culture, film, media and gender studies, popular culture, memory studies, and sign language linguistics.

Accepted written languages are English and Portuguese. Some possible topics to be explored are:

~  Shared Signing Communities

~  Sign Language linguistics

~  Deaf Culture

~  Deaf Arts/Performance

~  Biopolitics and biopower applied to Deaf communities

~  Deafhood/Deaf Gain

~  The oppression of SLPs

~  Sign Language Translation/Interpretation

~  Cultural translation in Deaf Communities

~  Deaf History

~  Deaf Literature/Visuature

~  Intracultural power dynamics of Deaf/hearing people

/Diffractions/ also accepts book reviews related to the issue’s topic. If you wish to write a book review, please contact us through the e-mail address below.

Abstracts will be received and reviewed by the Diffractions editorial board, who will decide on the pertinence of proposals for the upcoming issue.  Please send abstracts of *150 to 200 words*, and *5-8 keywords* by *July 25th, 2022,* with the subject “Diffractions 7” and your abstract’s title to (info.diffractions /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(info.diffractions /at/ gmail.com)>.

After submission, we will get in touch with the authors of accepted abstracts to invite them to deliver a full paper. Please send full articles by *October 31st, 2022*. The articles will go through a peer-review process that will determine whether they do or do not fulfill the criteria for publication. Authors of accepted articles may be requested to include minor or major changes in their work.

For more information on our submission/review process please consult Diffractions’ website - https://journals.ucp.pt/index.php/diffractions <https://journals.ucp.pt/index.php/diffractions>

Particularly in this issue, we welcome submissions in sign language. If you are interested in submitting a video abstract, you are welcome to do so. The video-abstract file should be an MP4 (with H264 codec), with a maximum duration of 8-10 minutes and with less than 500 Mb. We accept video-abstracts in Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) or International Sign (IS). If you wish to submit in another sign language, the video-abstract must be subtitled or a transcription must be provided in English.

We aim to be as accessible as possible in our communication. Should you have any questions, remarks, or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us through the following address: (info.diffractions /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(info.diffractions /at/ gmail.com)>.

Every issue of Diffractions has a thematic focus, but also contains special sections for non-thematic articles and reviews. If you are interested in submitting an article that is not related to the topic of this particular issue, please consult the general guidelines available at the Diffractions website (https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/diffractions/about <https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/diffractions/about>). The submission and review process for non-thematic articles is the same as for the general thematic issue. All research areas of the humanities are welcome.

If you are curious about Deaf Studies, we recommend three fundamental readings:

Ladd, Paddy. 2003. Understanding Deaf Culture in Search of Deafhood. Clevedon, England; Buffalo: Multilingual Matters.

Lane, Harlan, Richard Pillard, and Ulf Hedberg. 2011. The People of the Eye: Deaf Ethnicity and Ancestry. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bauman, H-Dirksen L., and Joseph J. Murray. 2014. Deaf Gain: Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Quote from:

Murray, J. J. (2008). Coequality and translational deaf studies: Understanding Deaf lives. In H.-D. Bauman (Ed.), Open your eyes: Deaf studies talking (pp. 100–110). University of Minnesota Press.

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Note: No payment from the authors will be required.

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