[Discussion] CFP: Language, Ideology, and the Human (11/30/05; ACLA, 3/23/06-3/26/06)

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From: Sanja Bahun-Radunovic <bahunic@rci.rutgers.edu>

American Comparative Literature Association Conference 2006
(Princeton University, March 23-26)

Seminar-panel

Language, Ideology, and the Human

Organizers and chairs:
Dusan Radunovic, University of Sheffield
Sanja Bahun, Rutgers University

Both, matter and essence, the eternal memory of the humankind and the
ephemeral glitter of the mind, the phenomenon of language has never ceased to
captivate the imagination of the Western civilization. In a wide span from the
controversy of its ontological status («words and things») to the paradoxes of
the language-thought correlation and the ideological (mis)use of language, the
multiple ways in which language structures the human have provoked systematic
and oft-times radical theoretical articulations. We invite proposals that deal
with, but are not limited to, the following set of questions:

- philosophy of language: traditional and modern
- philosophy as language: the twentieth century
- language and the cognitive forms
- the «langue» and its enemies
- the heteroglotic self and the linguistic liberation of the human
- the Bourdieuan analysis: language and symbolic power structures
- language of revolution and revolution in language
- meta-languages and ideology: literature, film, media, etc.

The paper proposals (maximum 250 words) should be submitted through the ACLA
web-site: http://webscript.princeton.edu/~acla06/site/?page_id=4. All inquiries
may be directed to Dusan Radunovic, (D.Radunovic@sheffield.ac.uk).



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