The Call for Papers is available here.
Special panels
The organizers are pleased to announce that the conference will include four special panels; more detail is available below. Paper proposals (200-300 words) for any of the three special panels should have that indicated in square brackets following the title of your abstract [Woolf panel/Shakespeare panel/Science Fiction panel].
I. Moments of Being Virginia Woolf
Panel convenor: Dr Michelle Gadpaille
In 2016 it will have been 75 years since Virginia Woolf walked to her death in the River Ouse during World War II. In acknowledgement of this anniversary of the loss of one of English Literature’s great authors, we would like to propose a special panel at the SDAŠ conference in Maribor, 2016.
Paper proposals are invited and may address (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- Woolf’s modernism
- Woolf and the literary canon
- Aesthetics and Woolf’s Bloomsbury milieu
- Adaptations of Woolf’s works (in any media)
- Translating Woolf’s works
- Reception of Woolf’s writing beyond Britain
- Innovative critical approaches to one or more of Woolf’s works
- Woolf’s literary descendants
II. Shakespeare’s European Afterlife
Panel convenor: Dr Tomaž Onič
In recognition of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016, SDAS would like to mount a special panel on the continuing relevance of Shakespeare’s works in the European theatre.
Papers are invited on any topic related to the adaptation, translation, staging, filming, reception or teaching of Shakespeare’s drama anywhere in Europe. Scholars are asked to ensure that their contributions are securely based in a particular European space, whether national, regional, local, linguistic or cultural.
III. Science Fiction
Panel convenor: Dr Victor Kennedy
This section will examine relationships between science and science fiction, the humanities and science fiction, and the arts and science fiction in all forms of science fiction, including science fiction stories, film, television, radio, and graphic novels.
Potential contributors are invited to submit abstracts on any of the following topics:
- Science Fiction and Philosophy
- Science in Science Fiction
- Hard Science Fiction
- Social Sciences in Science Fiction
- Science Fiction and Climate Change
- Science Fiction in songs and/or poetry
- Papers on other subjects related to science fiction will also be considered.
IV. Pejoratives and Hate Speech in Post-Hebdo Era (Added in January 2016)
Panel convenor: Dr Katja Plemenitaš
In a world marked by an “intolerance of intolerance” (The Economist), it could be said that “free speech” has become an oxymoron. The use of pejoratives, invective or specific epithets all leave the speaker/writer open to the charge of hate speech, which is a serious life-or-death matter in the post-Charlie Hebdo era. The panel invites papers that address the line between free speech and hate speech, with reference not just to contemporary liberal correctness, but to any era, and to both literary and non-literary publication/broadcast.
Paper proposals are invited and may address (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- Elements of hate speech in political discourse
- Linguistic anatomy of pejoratives
- Pejoratives in literary texts
- Stylistic analysis of pejoratives
- Pejoratives in translation
- Visual representation of hate speech in political cartoons and/or graphic novels
- Hate speech and its sociological implications