LOGOS Conference 2024 - Registration until 22 March 2024

Registration for the LOGOS conference from 20-22 June 2024 is still possible until 22 March 2024!

LOGOS 2024 - DOCTORAL TRAINING

Are you doing a doctorate in the humanities or social sciences and would like to take part in the next LOGOS conference? Then send your contribution proposals by Friday, 22 March 2024 at the latest.

LOGOS is a doctoral school within the framework of the cross-border cooperation between the Universities of Liège, Lorraine, Luxembourg, Trier, Mannheim and Saarland University, which is aimed at doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences.The annual doctoral school offers participants the opportunity to exchange ideas across geographical and disciplinary boundaries and to present and discuss the initial results of their research.

The theme of the next edition, which will take place from 20-22 June 2024 at the University of Mannheim , is "Multilingualism - Interferences - Diversity".

The terms multilingualism, interference and diversity are aimed at those mixtures (the tension, overlapping, friction, conflict and richness of difference) that make up the social, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, literary and discursive reality not only of the present day. The three key concepts of the conference are deliberately broadly defined in order to provide access to various research questions and focal points. For example

topics from the following areas can be considered:

  • Language, mediation and communication
  • Bi- and multilingual communication, code-switching, translanguaging;
  • Foreign language didactics and didactics of multilingualism;
  • artificial languages, global English, linguae francae;
  • loanwords, language change;
  • Borderline varieties, regio-, socio-, ethnolects, language attrition;
  • Linguistic landscaping, multimodality;

Literature, media and cultural processing

  • Translations and self-translations;
  • Literature and historiography, historical and epochal interferences;
  • Literary multilingualism, "poetry in foreign languages";
  • Stubbornness/alienation of poetic language, Macaronic poetry;
  • Gesamtkunstwerk concepts, evocations of synaesthesia;
  • Writing and pictorial writing;

Migration, convivial practices and spaces

  • Cultural, media and gender diversity (from a synchronic and diachronic perspective);
  • Historical approach to social diversity;
  • Different patterns of behaviour and perception in national and cross-border spaces;
  • Postcolonial multilingualism, migration and language change, superdiversity;
  • Transculturality, hybrid texts and genres;
  • Phenomena of hybridity and multimodality

Proposals can be submittedto logos2024uni-mannheimde by Friday, 22 March 2024 at the latest .

The exposés should not exceed 3,000 characters plus a maximum of 10 bibliographical details on the topic and should be sent together with the completed registration form and a short tabular CV (max. 2,000 characters) in a PDF file. Applicants will be informed of their selection by the end of April 2024 at the latest.

More detailed information and the application form can be found in the Call for Papers.

The programmes of previous editions of the LOGOS PhD School can be found here on the UniGR website.

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