ESSE-13 (2016) Conference – Paper proposal deadline extended

galway2016-logo The following ESSE-13 (2016) Conference seminars have extended their paper proposal deadlines.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S6 “Multimodal Perspectives on English Language Teaching”

Co-convenors

  • Belinda Crawford, Camiciottoli, Università di Pisa, Italy, belinda.crawford@unipi.it
  • Mari Carmen Campoy-Cubillo, Universitat Jaume I, Spain, campoy@uji.es

Multimodal literacy involves the ability to construct meanings from texts that integrate different semiotic resources. In language teaching, the multimodal approach is particularly important to help students learn to exploit modes beyond verbal language (e.g., visual, gestural, spatial) to both understand and produce texts in the target language more effectively. This seminar aims to provide a forum to discuss the role of multimodality in English language teaching. Possible topics for development include: communication processes between teachers and learners that are mediated through multimodal methods and materials, frameworks for teaching multimodal competence, assessment of learning based on multimodal input, assessment of student performance in multimodal tasks and attitudes towards teaching/learning non-verbal communication in the English language classroom.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S8 “Change from above in the history of English”

Co-convenors

  • Nikolaos Lavidas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, nlavidas@enl.auth.gr
  • Jim Walker, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France, Jim.Walker@univ-lyon2.fr

This seminar explores cases of “change from above” in the history of English. Change from above refers to the consciousness dimension of linguistic change, to changes that come from above the level of a speaker’s conscious awareness. It concerns cases of borrowings from languages which the dominant classes consider prestigious, or conscious selection, such as the retention and the re-introduction of affirmative do in seventeenth century documents. The seminar will discuss, among other issues, the (re)introduction of elements by the dominant social class in various stages of the history of English, their correlation with changes in other features, their (non)integration into the vernacular system and the question of the coexistent systems.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S10 “Comparative and Typological Studies of English Idioms”

Co-convenors

  • Anahit Hovhannisyan, Gyumri State Pedagogical Institute, Gyumri, Armenia, a_hovhannisyan@mail.ru,
  • Natalia Potselueva, Pavlodar State University, Republic of Kazakhstan, nata_potz@inbox.ru

The problem of common and specific features in idioms of different languages as compared to English idioms is going to be discussed: a) common and specific features in the structure of idioms compared: in the lexical and functional character of their components, in the grammatical composition of the idioms (e.g.: Verb + Adj + Noun), in the dependence of components within idioms, b) common and specific features in the meanings of the idioms compared, in mechanisms of semantic transformation of their prototype: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, hyperbole, c) common and specific features in the origin of idioms compared, in their functional and pragmatic value. Other adjacent themes are also welcome.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S11 “English Phraseology and Business Terminology: the Points of Crossing”

Co-convenors

  • Victoria Ivashchenko, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine/The Institute of the Ukrainian Language, Kiev, Ukraine, vicivashchenko@ukr.net
  • Tatiana Fedulenkova, Vladimir State University, Russia, fedulenkova@list.ru

We often come across such phraseological units (PUs) as “fallen angels”, “blanket agreement”, “sleeping beauty”, “green shoe” which appear to function as units of business terminology. Papers on business terminology of idiomatic character are welcome to the Seminar. Items for discussion: a) structural, semantic and contextual approaches to business PU-terms; b) types, classifications, and LSP applications of terms of idiomatic character; c) metaphor and metonymy as basic mechanisms of meaning transformation of the PU prototypical word combination; d) characteristics of dictionary entries and definitions of PU-terms and their pragmatic value; e) traditions and innovations in teaching business phraseology at universities.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S15 “English as a Foreign Language for Students with Special Educational Needs – Chances and Challenges”

Co-convenors

  • Ewa Domagała-Zyśk, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, ewadom@kul.pl
  • Nusha Moritz, University of Strasbourg, France, Moritz@unistra.fr

This seminar is designed as a space for discussions and sharing for linguists interested in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) to children, adolescents and adults with special educational needs (SEN). For many years in the past D/deaf, blind, intellectually challenged or dyslexic students were excluded from learning foreign languages in special schools. Today they participate in mainstream education on a par with their peers. This situation creates both significant chances and new scientific problems and methodological challenges. The purpose of the seminar is to share research results and ideas about the following issues: 1). Conceptual representations for words in English in individuals with sensory or cognitive challenges; 2. Teaching and learning strategies to enhance both motivation and language performance; 3. The role of oral communication and sign languages in EFL classes for the D/deaf.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S26 “Icons Dynamised: Motion and Motionlessness in Early Modern English Drama and Culture”

Co-convenors

  • Géza Kállay, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, kallay@ucsc.edu
  • Attila Kiss, University of Szeged, Hungary, kiss_a_m@yahoo.com
  • Zenón Luis Martínez, University of Huelva, Spain, zenon.luis@dfing.uhu.es

An example of English Renaissance contrariety is the simultaneous presence of motion and motionlessness in cultural representations. The heritage of icons of contemplation and their dynamised theatrical versions, the dramatic adaptations of the tradition of the tableaux vivant, the frozen figures of early modern drama on the stage of the emblematic theatre, the systematically prolonged moments of horrible deaths, the tensions and antagonisms of body and soul, fixation and ascension, passage and stagnation are all examples of an early modern obsession with motion and motionlessness. Contributions are welcome to this seminar from all interpretive angles including early modern cultural studies, Biblical hermeneutics, cultural semiotics, and image-text studies.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S37 “The finer threads: lace-making, knitting and embroidering in literature and the visual arts from the Victorian age to the present day.”

Co-convenors

  • Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, Université Toulouse 3, France, laurence.constanty@gmail.com
  • Rachel Dickinson, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, R.Dickinson@mmu.ac.uk

English studies have recently been expanding in order to accommodate increased awareness of the cultural importance of the “lesser arts” in fashioning narrative discourse but still relatively little interest has been paid to the unique role played by the so-called “feminine” crafts in the construction of literature, knowledge and identity. This session invite papers on the production and the representation of lace-making, knitting and embroidering in literature and the visual arts from scholars of literary studies and material culture as well as art history, text and image studies, or aesthetics.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 500 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S38 “Work and its Discontents in Victorian Literature and Culture”

Co-convenors

  • Federico Bellini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, federico.bellini@unicatt.it
  • Jan Wilm, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany, wilm@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Queen Victoria’s reign is a fruitful testing ground for the interdisciplinary study of literature and work, a research field which has recently come to prominence. The period is characterized by a growing polarization between apparently contradictory stances: some sanctify work as the central value of modernity, while others question the work ethic in favour of the right to leisure. Uriah Heep in Dickens’ David Copperfield expresses a range of paradoxical sentiments about labour explicitly when he laments how in school he was taught “from nine o’clock to eleven, that labour was a curse; and from eleven o’clock to one, that it was a blessing and a cheerfulness, and a dignity, and I don’t know what all.” This polarization regards and informs all the aspects of the culture of the time and is reflected in its literary production. In all fields work and labour are at times represented as positive, useful, valuable, healthy, productive and at other times as negative, dangerous for mental and physical health, and as a primary cause for deep alienation from society and from oneself. For this seminar, we invite scholars to investigate this polarization in order to dig into the relationship between work, labour, and literature in the Victorian era. Considering the complex nature of the object at hand, an interdisciplinary perspective is needed, and we invite participants to engage directly with the Victorian discourses of economics, law, philosophy, medicine, science, religion, as well as with the history of technology and labour in order to offer a multifaceted representation of the history of the idea of work and its relations to literature. Even though the focus of the panel is on the Victorian era, proposals for papers veering into the early twentieth century are also welcome.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S40 “The Neo-Victorian antipodes”

Co-convenors

  • Mariadele Boccardi, University of the West of England, UK, Mariadele.Boccardi@uwe.ac.uk
  • Therese-M. Meyer, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, therese.meyer@anglistik.uni-halle.de

From Patrick White’s Voss (1957), arguably the earliest example of Neo-Victorian fiction, to recent Man-Booker winner The Luminaries (2013), the antipodes are a favoured setting for Neo-Victorian novels. This seminar explores how Neo-Victorian fiction constructs Australia, New Zealand and the Southern Pacific as, variously, the site of uncanny domesticity, an Other to Britain, a landscape to be colonised or scientifically appropriated, a frontier for the testing of masculinity, an occasion for re-writing of canonical texts. We aim to investigate the intersection of Neo-Victorian preoccupations with nineteenth-century discourses with post-colonial theorising of settler colonialism.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S44 “Modernist Non-fictional Narratives of Modernism”

Co-convenors

  • Christine Reynier, University Montpellier3-EMMA, France, christine.reynier@univ-montp3.fr
  • Adrian Paterson, NUI Galway, Ireland, adrian.paterson@nuigalway.ie

The aim of the seminar will be to focus on the non-fictional writings – essays, diaries, letters, etc. – of the modernist period by canonical writers or less famous ones and to explore the way in which they construct Modernism. Are the paradigms they shape the same as those now regarded as modernist paradigms – the ordinary, the unspectacular; the event, etc. What version do they give of them? What other paradigms do they put forward? What narratives do these Modernist non-fictional writings provide of Modernism and how do they compare with the narratives of Modernism provided by critical theory?


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S57 “Celtic Fictions – Scottish and Irish Speculative Fiction”

Co-convenors

  • Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen, Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza, Spain, jeskeal@unizar.es
  • Colin Clark, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, scoczech@gmail.com

The thesis of much modern Speculative Fiction in Ireland and Scotland is the generation of a creative space in which, imaginatively, solutions are sought and simulated for real political, social and metaphysical problems. Often the result of impasses and failed channels for expression in society, speculative writing may be ludic, genre-hopping and heteroglossic offering refreshing and innovative discursive space. This panel seeks to expose and explore deliberately transgressive texts and engage with authors concerned with negotiating topoi neglected by conventional, institutionalized institutions and to bring together practitioners from various literatures and genres to discuss the potentialities of the speculative mode.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S58 “The Symbolic Power of Humour: Gender Issues and Derision”

Co-convenors

  • Florence Binard, Université Paris Diderot, France, florence.binard@eila.univ-paris-diderot.fr
  • Renate Haas, University of Kiel, Germany, haas@anglistik.uni-kiel.de
  • Michel Prum, Université Paris Diderot, France, prum.michel@wanadoo.fr

The aim of this seminar will be to study the complex normative relationships between the authors of humour and the butts of their jokes regarding gender issues. On the one hand it will examine how women and men have used humour to ridicule or laugh at the stereotypical normative and/or anti-normative gender attitudes. On the other hand, it will attempt to analyse the normative purpose of humour, including its role in the construction of new gender norms. The papers may use approaches from various fields of study: history of ideas, literature, philosophy, journalism, cinema, painting, sciences, arts, etc. No historical period will be excluded.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S61 “Contemporary Irish female writing at the intersection of history and memory”

Co-convenors

  • Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin, Ireland, Anne.fogarty@ucd.ie
  • Marisol Morales-Ladrón, University of Alcalá, Spain, Marisol.morales@uah.es

History has been taught as a continuous narration of events that evaded gaps and inconsistences for the sake of offering a linear sense of the past. However, memory, both as an individual psychological construct and as a collective recollection, has challenged the process involved not only in what we remember, but in how and why we recall the past in a given way. The purpose of this seminar is to look at how Irish writers in the last decade have engaged in the exploration of a type of historical fiction that attempts to place women back in a history from which they were often written out. Female authors, such as Emma Donoghue, Mary Morrissey, Evelyn Conlon, Anne Enright, Anne Haverty or Lia Mills, among others, would be cases in point.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S63 “Biography”

Co-convenors

  • Joanny Moulin, Aix-Marseille University, France, joanny.moulin@univ-amu.fr
  • Hans Renders, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, j.w.renders@rug.nl

Biographical Studies are emerging as a field of research in the humanities, at a crossroads between several disciplines. This seminar would welcome contributions to the study of biography as a genre, considering that it raises specific issues that distinguish it from autobiography. It would equally be interested in approaches to the practice of biography as a method of academic research, from microhistory to literature and cultural studies. For instance, individual papers may address theoretical questions, case studies of particular biographers’ works, the history and the poetics of biography, the impact of the biographical turn, the evolution of biographical dictionaries, or the innovative influences of the biopic and digital humanities.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S72 “Dilemmas of Identity in Postmulticultural American Fiction and Drama”

Co-convenors

  • Enikő Maior, Partium Christian University, Oradea, Romania, enikomaior@yahoo.com
  • Lenke Németh, University of Debrecen, Hungary, nemeth.lenke@arts.unideb.hu

Questions of race and ethnicity have been a permanent source of conflict in American society. Postmulticultural discourse, however, revises earlier essentialist definitions of these concepts and offers newly-arising configurations of cultural and ethnic hybridity like “race-neutral,” “cultural mulatto,” and “post-ethnic/racial/soul.” Interrogations of racial meanings affect the personhood of minorities and the construction of the cultural and ethnic dimensions of Jewish identity. The seminar invites contributions discussing various aspects of this paradigm shift in the re-conceptualization of American cultural identity. We welcome papers that examine innovative ways of “staging” the formation of new American identities.


This seminar invites more papers:

ESSE-13, August 22-26 2016, Galway. Paper proposal deadline extended to March 11 on this seminar. Send a 200 word abstract to the seminar co-convenors.

S84 “Cultural politics in Harry Potter: death, life and transition”

Co-convenors

  • Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, r.jarazo@uib.es
  • Pilar Alderete, NUI Galway, Ireland, pilar.alderete@nuigalway.ie

Concerning Harry Potter’s saga, this panel proposes to investigate death, necropower and its relationship to Capitalism, with special emphasis on cultural representation of rites of passage, from life to death, and sometimes, the other way back. Taking into account Posthumanism and the different postulations on bodies transiting from one realm to another in HP world, we invite participants to analyse any aspect with regard to the novels and/or films.