International Conference: "The Trans- Phenomenon in Language, Literature, and Culture"

Schedule

Fri Nov 15 2024 at 09:00 am to Sat Nov 16 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC+06:00

Location

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) | Dhaka, DA

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International Conference: "The Trans- Phenomenon in Language, Literature, and Culture"
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Prof. Guofang Li,
Canada Research Chair in Transnational/Global Perspectives on Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth,
Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Prof. Kaiser Haq,
Dean, School of Arts and Humanities, and Professor, Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, cordially invites you to the 2024 International Conference on The Trans- Phenomenon in Language, Literature, and Culture. We conceptualize the 'trans-' prefix in three dimensions based on existing scholarship. The first dimension of 'trans' is the movement between and beyond established systems and structures. Colonial and nationalist forces territorialize languages, literatures, and cultures into politically constructed categories such as Bangla language, English language, Arabic literature, American literature, Indian culture, Japanese culture, and so on. These territorializations were designed to maintain distinct boundaries between each respective category, preventing any significant overlap or intermingling. The second dimension of ‘trans-’ holds transformative potential as it combines various elements of our linguistic and cognitive abilities, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and social encounters from distinct territorial categories. This combination of different elements leads to the development of new skills, knowledge, and attitudes, ultimately leading to the emergence of fresh translingual, transcultural, and transnational identities. The third dimension of ‘trans-’ is transdisciplinary, as it embraces translingual, transcultural, and transnational experiences as a lens through which to view human sociality, cognition, social relationships, and social structures in an integrated and holistic manner.
We welcome submissions that examine the 'trans-' phenomenon by drawing on recent scholarship in translanguaging, transculturalism, and transnationalism. To begin, translanguaging scholarship highlights a fluid, dynamic understanding of language, in contrast to the socially and politically constructed named-languages such as Bangla, English, and Hindi. Secondly, transculturalism scholarship emphasizes the creative and transformative aspects of cultural adaptation, where individuals position themselves in liminal social contexts and draw upon the values and practices of various cultures to continuously shape their identity and sense of belonging. Lastly, transnationalism scholarship imagines a world where the authority of nation-states to regulate migration and other forms of circulation has been progressively diminished. This paradigm shift entails the merging of cultural and political characteristics unique to nation-states with the emergence of multilevel and multinational activities in a new space that transcends territorial nation-states.
To sum up, the trans- phenomenon encompasses theoretical concepts such as translanguaging, transculturalism, and transnationalism that involve dynamic movement between languages, cultures, and national identities. The trans- phenomenon opposes the political agenda of nation-states that enforce territorial boundaries on languages, literatures, cultures, and nationalities. It aims to promote social justice by empowering individuals, communities, families, learners, and educators whose languages, literatures, cultures, and identities have been marginalized by dominant national languages and cultures. Instead of relying on a predominantly monolingual and monocultural ideology, pedagogical constructs derived from translanguaging, transculturalism, and transnationalism may open up academic spaces where students and teachers can use their entire selves, including linguistic, cultural, ideological, and identity factors, to build new identities with widened dispositions to appreciate linguistic and cultural diversity. In this conference, we invite you to explore the implications of the trans-movement in our practices and pedagogies.
Potential topics might include, but not be limited to:
Translanguaging and translanguaging pedagogies
Transculturalism
Transnationalism and transnational literature
Literary translingualism
Transmodernism/Metamodernism
Trans-technological evolution
Trans-lation, trans-formation and trans-nation
Migration and racism
Diversity and social cohesion
Diaspora studies
Decolonization
Global, local and glocal knowledge structures
Ecologies, trans-ecologies and eco-criticisms
Trans-speciesism and social justice
Gender spectrums
The Politics of Publishing
Teaching languages and literatures of the Global South in Western academia

Selected papers will be published in an edited volume.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract Submission: July 23, 2024.
Acceptance Notification: August 23, 2024.
Registration Deadline: November 1, 2024

​Registration Fees:
International presenters (on-site): 200 USD
International presenters (virtual): 50 USD
Local presenters: 2500 BDT
Student presenters: 1500 BDT
Participants: 1000 BDT
Student participants and On-spot registration: 500 BDT

Abstract submission guidelines
Abstract length: 250 words
Short bio of the presenter(s): 50 words
Abstract Submission: https://forms.gle/AkrbNjdtyqAbfXR89
Abstracts will be double-peer-reviewed, and conference registrations will be invited depending on the outcome.
For inquiries: [email protected]
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