Bacău, Romania:
15th - 16th April 2021
This conference is organized by the Interstud and Cetal research
centres, at the Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău, Romania, in collaboration
with:
University of Lorraine, Research centre for mediations (France)
Faculty
of Letters, Languages, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of
Corsica
Pasquale
Paoli (France)
University
of Messina (Italy)
Atatürk University, Erzurum (Turkey)
University
of Bordeaux 3 (France)
Moldova
State University (The Republic of Moldova)
HELMO/ESAS,
École supérieure d’action sociale (Belgium)
The
Francophone University Agency
The
Association for the Development of Francophone Studies, Bacău
(Romania)
The concept of identity has always been a very difficult one to define. Its ambiguity, vagueness, versatility and pervasiveness do not, however, cancel its indispensability in a world increasingly marked by the need to draw clear boundaries of selves and communities. Philosophical, logical, psychological or linguistic research, particularly in its modern and postmodern incarnations, has never ceased to underline that identity cannot be conceived in the absence of alterity. It is indeed in the continuous struggle between sameness and otherness that the elements necessary for the constitution of identity can be found. Such struggles periodically produce the so-called “identity crises” (Erikson, 1968) that are necessary steps for the evolution of an individual or of a group of individuals. Crises become important factors in the continuous formation of identities, as they are based on the confrontation between the old and the new, between past and present, between conventionalized structures and emerging paradigms that challenge those structures.
The construction of identities in today’s world is profoundly conditioned by specific
cultural and technological evolutions. The advent of the digital age has made
possible an explosion of forms of self-expression, but this multiplication of
possibilities has been accompanied by disturbing and rather chaotic social
phenomena. More than at any other time in human history, we need to assume the
task of reconfiguring identities that are augmented, multiplied and ceaselessly
threatened by the spectrum of dissolution. Contemporary practices and modes of
existence predispose identities to a high degree of instability and
ephemerality, resulting from the accelerated change of roles, jobs and
functions. This leads to a kind of anxiety that can be only provisionally
appeased.
The acceleration of processes at all levels in our society
(especially in technology, family and education) renders difficult any analytical
and predictive endeavours in this respect. Understanding identity as “an individual’s or a group’s sense of self”
(Huntington, 2005) stresses the role of psychological factors involved in the
definition of selves. If nations and, more generally, societies can be seen as
“imagined communities” (Anderson, 1983), that is
a result of a number of shared projections and interpretations of events,
objects or territories coagulated into meaningful wholes through
specific memory techniques. The investigation of the modes of preservation,
transmission and alteration of identities is also an investigation of how the
subjective blends with the objective, through numerous discursive
manifestations, building up various and
generally volatile intersubjective identities. We are, after all, but sums of
discourses competing for supremacy in cultures evolving in indestructible and
omnipresent language contexts, and “the
limits of our languages are the limits of our world” (Wittgenstein, 1921).
The relation between individual and collective identities can never be sufficiently underlined, as it is by reference to a system of socially shared and transmitted values that one’s image of oneself is formed. In such formations, discursive forms play a crucial role. Identity has become an ever shifting and heterogeneous mosaic that includes multiple identifications with images provided from competing external systems. Thus, “the ascription of identity is the consequence of a choice among the criteria of identity” (Wieseltier, 1996). Choices of identity criteria are conditioned by predominant ideologies, expressed through discourses of power that create hierarchies of values subtending the vision of man adopted by a certain historical age. Our present world, despite its generous offer of various discursive forms, can render the task of identity very difficult. The lack of any clearly outlined body of ethical principles and values, the viral communication of false information posing as ‘true’, and the speed with which identities are constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed – all these factors create a cultural relativism eventually leading to frustration, unrest and disorientation.
One
move against those negative phenomena would be to find ways of preservation of
achievements, epistemes and values which could constitute solid premises for
the building of perennial identities, at both individual and group levels. The
interrogation of the modes in which our culture seeks authenticity and truth is
essentially intertwined with the types of discourses that could be used to
preserve our memory, to justify our choices and to form consistent and
dependable identities.
We invite specialists in such fields as linguistics, discursive
analysis, literature, communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, arts,
philosophy, epistemology, logic, journalism, digital humanities, etc. to
contribute papers addressing problems related to the issues presented above.
The following topics are suggested, but by no means should they be considered
exhaustive:
- Patrimony and
patrimonialization
- Minorities, media
and new media: problems, realities and perspectives
- New forms and
modes of self-expression in literary and non-literary discourse
- Memorial
discourse and subjective literature
- Fiction and
collective memory
- Identity
constructions and forms of communication
Paper
proposals may be written in English or French and will be peer-reviewed. A
selection of the papers will be published in Interstudia, an academic
journal indexed in the EBSCO, CEEOL, INDEX COPERNICUS databases.
Please fill in
and send a .doc or .docx registration form, by email, to formesdiscursives2020@ub.ro, by 15th January 2021. The
registration form must include:
1) Author information
– Name and surname:
– Academic title:
– Affiliation:
– Personal research
areas:
– Representative
publications (max. 3) :
– Email address:
–
Telephone:
– Regular/mail address:
2) Submission proposal
–
Title:
– Language of
presentation:
– Language of
publication:
– Topic (the conference
topic in which the proposal could be included) :
– Five key-words:
– Abstract (250 words):
– Necessary equipment
(if applicable):
Scientific committee
Audrey
Alves, Crem, University of Lorraine – France
Brînduşa-Mariana Amălăncei, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău – Romania
Veronica-Loredana Balan,Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău – Romania
Ahmet Beşe, Atatürk University, Erzurum –Turkey
Iulian Boldea, Petru Maior University, Târgu Mureş – Romania
Elena Bonta, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău
– Romania
Dumitru Borţun, National
School of Political
and Administrative Sciences,
Bucharest –
Romania
Cristina Cîrtiţă-Buzoianu, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău – Romania
Elena Ciobanu, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău – Romania
Jean-François Diana, Crem, University of Lorraine – France
Mircea Diaconu, Ştefan cel Mare
University of Suceava
– Romania
Luminiţa Drugă, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău – Romania
Felicia Dumas, Alexandru Ioan Cuza
University, Iaşi – Romania
Béatrice Fleury, Crem, University of Lorraine – France
Mihaela Gheorghe, Transilvania University, Braşov – Romania
Ion Guțu, University of
Moldova – The Republic of Moldova
Pierre Humbert, Crem, University of
Lorraine – France
Simina Mastacan, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău – Romania
Nadia-Nicoleta Morărașu, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău – Romania
Pierre Morelli, Crem, University of
Lorraine – France
Emilia Munteanu, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău – Romania
Sergio Piraro, University of Messina – Italy
Jean-Christophe Pitavy, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Étienne – France
Carmen-Nicoleta Popa, Vasile Alecsandri
University of Bacău – Romania
Alina Elena Romascu,
Lisa Laboratory - UMR 6240, University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli –
France
Adriana-Gertruda Romedea,
Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău – Romania
Luminiţa Roşca, University of Bucharest – Romania
Petronela Savin, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău – Romania
Justine Simon, Elliadd, University of Franche-Comté – France
Vasile Spiridon, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacău – Romania
Nolwenn Tréhondart, Crem, University of Lorraine – France
Marie
Michèle Venturini,
Lisa Laboratory -
UMR 6240, University
of Corsica Pasquale
Paoli – France
Jacques Walter, Crem, University of
Lorraine - France
MükreminYaman, Atatürk University, Erzurum
–Turkey
Deadlines
|
First call for papers1 |
25th October 2020 |
|
Proposal submission |
15th January 2021 |
|
Confirmation of proposal |
15th February 2021 |
|
The conference fee – 60 € (or the equivalent in lei)– covers conference materials, lunch, festive dinner, coffee break
refreshments. |
20th March 2021 |
|
Conference
programme dissemination |
10th April 2021 |
|
Conference |
15th-16th April |
|
Paper publication |
October 2021 |
1 Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the
conference has been re-scheduled in April 2021, so that participants from
abroad should be able to come to Romania.
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