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CALL FOR PAPERS: Across Languages: Translingualism in Contemporary Women’s Writing Deadline: 12 November 2018, 11.00pm Conference: 30-31 May 2019, Senate House, University of London This conference is organised by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW) in collaboration with the AHRC Open World Research Initiative project ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’, Translingual Strand. It follows on from an exploratory workshop that was held at the IMLR in March 2018 (‘A New Language - a New Life? Translingual literature by contemporary women writers’). Our aim is to bring together scholars working on translingual women’s writing in a range of language fields, in order to explore the particular richness of texts produced by writers in languages that are not their mother tongues. In the current era of mass migration and transnational movement, analysis of translingualism as the mode of expression of this movement is an important area of inquiry. Where static concepts of belonging are questioned and increasingly replaced by hybrid identities and affiliations and by fluid attachments, changing with time, the power of translingual language use and its analysis can become a means to reimagine the identitarian force of language, it can bring to the fore new subjectivities and new forms of community (Kellman, 2000; Yildiz, 2012). Considered in conjunction with questions of gender and power, translingual writing can also reveal powerful ways of conceptualizing emancipatory feminine writing. Beyond concerns of identity formation, furthermore, translingual language use opens up new ways of thinking and of deconstructing established modes of expression through associative cross-language connections. In so transcending the binaries of language use it is apt to reveal new forms of literary writing. We are calling for proposals of papers that engage with any of these issues and are particularly interested in research that addresses any of the following issues: • The theoretical base: translingualism, multilingualism, heteroglossia, code-switching in literary writing by women • Translingual writing and gender • Questioning the concept of the mother tongue: cliché or mooring / relationship between language and mothering • Identity and belonging in translingual texts (multiple / hybrid?) • The relationship between spoken and written language • Questions of ‘authenticity’ • Distance as a creative element • Emancipatory potentials of translingual writing • Translingual writing and the concept of authorship • Translingual writing and the literary market • Questions of translatability. Please send your proposals for papers of 20 mins duration (with a short abstract of your proposed contribution, 200-250 words) to Deirdre Byrnes ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Godela Weiss-Sussex ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by Monday, 12 November 2018. Jon Millington Events and Research Projects Officer OWRI Project Administrator (Translingual Strand) School of Advanced Study | University of London Room 230 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU T: +44 (0)20 7862 8726 | E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> https://crosslanguagedynamics.blogs.sas.ac.uk<https://crosslanguagedynamics.blogs.sas.ac.uk/> | @CrossLangDyn<http://twitter.com/crosslangdyn> The School of Advanced Study at the University of London is the UK's national centre for the facilitation and promotion of research in the humanities and social sciences. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MODLANGSRT list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MODLANGSRT&A=1