Call for papers 2024

The Intercultural Confluences Research Centre of the Department of Humanities, Faculty of Economics, Socio-Human Sciences and Engineering, Miercurea Ciuc, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, organizes the International Conference Encounters in/among Language, Literature, and Arts at the Miercurea Ciuc campus of the university on 22-23 March, 2024. The working language of the conference is English.

“How one encounters reality is a choice” – setting out from Martin Heidegger’s idea, and on grounds of Jacques Rancière’s rethinking of the “representative regime” that enfolds the threefold relation between mimesis, poiesis and aesthesis, the conference proposes to explore the ways in which the singularity of disciplines and art forms has given way to the plurality of their connections. It aims to explore possibilities and various meanings of cross-disciplinary encounter in the Humanities, with special focus on manifold transitions, passageways within and among the fields of language, literature, and arts. Encounter implies motion, correlation, transformation, cross-fertilization; it presumes partnership, collaboration and affective impulses to interconnect but also entails tensions, frictions and clashes of difference. The encounter with the Other and, through it, with oneself, often takes place at crossroads, junctions.      

Proposed topics include but are not limited to encounters with/within/across:

• artistic, generic, cultural, ethnic, linguistic, discursive and political boundaries;
• literature and the other arts (words and images, ekphrasis, theatrical and screen adaptations, literature and music, literature and performance, from paragone to symbiotic confluences, etc.);
• intermediality;
• multimodality;
• identity and otherness;
• literature and myths;
• the linguistic and the social (bi- and multilingualism; linguistic landscape etc.);
• language contact;
• language change;
• language and literature (translanguaging, pragmatics, stylistics, etc.);
• the social and the aesthetic regimes;
• the analogue and the digital;
• theory, criticism and research methodology.

Participants are invited to exchange their findings related to the concept of encounter in the following fields:

• Literary Studies (Literary Theory, Literary Criticism, Literature and the Other Arts);
• Linguistics (Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics);
• Film Studies;
• Cultural Studies;
• Intermedial Studies;
• Language Teaching;
• Translation Studies.

 The conference will be on-site and will also include online panels. The keynote lectures will also be transmitted online.

Each paper will be allotted 20 minutes for the presentation, followed by discussions.

Plenary Speakers

1. CSANÁD BODÓ, Habilitated Associate Professor in Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
2. LIVIU LUTAS, Professor in French Literature at Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

Submission Guidelines

In order to participate, please fill in the online registration form.

REGISTRATION FORM

Please submit an abstract of maximum 250 words, written in English. The abstract submission deadline is January 31, 2024. 

Notification of acceptance will be sent by February 10, 2024.

We are expecting original and unpublished articles discussing aspects of encounters in/among language, literature, and arts. A selection of papers based on favourable peer-review will be published in the 2024 edition of Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica, the international scientific journal of the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, indexed in several scientific databases, as well as the conference volume edited by the Scientia Publishing House, a recognized academic publisher.

Registration fee

The registration fee can be paid online or by bank transfer until 25 February 2024. It covers the conference folder, coffee breaks and lunch on Friday and Saturday.

Online payment (RON):

350 RON Regular Fee Payment LINK

250 ron ma and phd students payment link

250 ron virtual panel payment link

Bank transfer (EUR):

• 70 EUR – REGULAR FEE
• 50 EUR – MA AND PHD STUDENTS
• 50 EUR – VIRTUAL PANEL

Universitatea Sapientia, P.L.Miercurea Ciuc, Postal code: 530104

• Tax Identification Number: RO14645945
• Address: P-ta Libertăţii Nr.1, M-Ciuc, Jud: Harghita
• Bank account: RO56 OTPV 2600 0007 3814 EU04
• OTP Bank, Swift Code: OTPV ROBU

On the payment order please indicate: CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT’S NAME – ENCOUNTERS CONFERENCE 2024. If you need an invoice, write before payment to humanconferenceuni.sapientia.ro.

Venue:

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Faculty of Economics, Socio-Human Sciences and Engineering, Piața Libertății nr. 1, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania.

Queries can be addressed to Dr. Judit Pieldner and Dr. Zsuzsanna Dégi on the e-mail address: humanconferenceuni.sapientia.ro 

CALL FOR PAPERS 2024

PROGRAMME

REGISTRATION FORM

We look forward to meeting you in Miercurea Ciuc!