FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS  :  SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS : REGISTRATION FORM
                                                                                                             (the registration form is also downloadable here)
                                                                                                             (an pdf version of the registration form)
                                                                                                             (an html version of the registration form)

CONFERENCE UPDATE:
The conference organizers offer a trip to Koprivshtitsa. Those interested to learn more about the museum town Koprivshtitsa may do so at:
(all links exit the BSBS web page)
 
http://koprivshtitsa.info/english
http://eng.koprivshtitsa.com
http://gallery.guide-bulgaria.com/SW/sofia/Koprivshtitsa/Koprivshtitsa



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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

13th annual conference of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies (BSBS)

Time: November 7 – 9th, 2008.
Venue: Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia

Topic : DISCOURSES OF GLOBALIZATION

    The aim of the conference is to shed light on the impact of global processes on language communication viewed from different perspectives: meaning construction and identity building, literature, translation, language manipulation, language policies and language teaching/ learning; dynamics of globalization discourses in terms of universalization/ particularization, homogenization/ differentiation, integration/ fragmentation, etc.
    We invite submissions from scholars working in the field of:

• Literature and Culture Studies
• General Linguistics
• Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics
• Applied Linguistics, Translation Theory, Language Teaching/ Learning
• Communication Studies, Intercultural Communication
• History, Sociology of Language

Those willing to participate in the Conference can apply for:

1) PAPER PRESENTATION SESSIONS – (20 min. presentation plus 10 min. discussion)

Plenary Speakers
Prof. Fernando Galván, ESSE President
Prof. Martin A. Kayman FRSA FEA, Cardiff University
Prof. Jack K. Chambers, University of Toronto
Prof. Lilyana Grozdanova, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

2) PANEL DISCUSSIONS

a. NATION AND NOVEL

Convener: Prof. Dr. Tatyana Stoicheva, St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

What happens to Anderson’s imagined community of readers in the Anglophone novel in an age of globalisation? How are novels modified when they are socio-culturally and geographically removed for transnational consumption? Is the national novel transcended/evaded? How do you invent a language for people with a different world view? What dialogic spaces are assigned to them? Papers are invited exploring aspects of the subject from the fields of literature, cultural studies, translation studies.

b. Bulgaria and Europe Facing the Challenges of Globalization in the XXth and XXIst Century

Convener: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kostadin Grozev St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

c. GENRES AND TRUTH

Convener: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vladimir Trendafilov South-West University "Neofit Rilski" - Blagoevgrad

3) ROUND TABLE

UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH AS A TRANSCULTURAL LANGUAGE
Convener: Prof. Allan James University of Klagenfurt, Austria

While certain recent studies on language in the context of globalization highlight and positively value the heterogeneous (sub-)cultural and linguistic effects that the spread and adoption of English worldwide can produce (cf. Pennycook 2007 on hip-hop; Dewey 2007 on English as a lingua franca), others critically analyse how language itself functions as a carrier of economic globalization via the use of particular preferred genres and discourses (Fairclough 2006). Both approaches interpret globalization in a generally ‘transformationalist’ framework (Held, McGrew, Goldblatt and Perraton 1999), which in the most general terms sees cultural globalization as “the intermingling of cultures and peoples as generating cultural hybrids and new global cultural networks” (Held et al. 1999: 327). Participants are invited to discuss the topic from various perspectives.



Please specify which format you want to apply for. Speakers for the panel discussions and round table are selected by the conveners

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: August 30th, 2008
Notification of acceptance: September 10th, 2008
Conference dates: November 7th – 9th, 2008

Abstracts should be in a WORD or PDF file of maximum 300 words.
Submissions can be made at: bsbsconference@yahoo.com; mariageorgieva@rocketmail.com


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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

13th annual conference of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies (BSBS) 

Time: November 7 – 9th, 2008.

Venue: Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia

Topic :  DISCOURSES OF GLOBALIZATION

    Globalization is currently transforming the fundamental parameters of the post-modern world, challenging directly the primacy of the nation-state and national identity in their present form. Powerful forces of integration in all spheres of life are reconstituting the world into a single social space, creating possibilities of  global identifications and shared identities - such as ‘customers for the same goods or services’,  ‘addressees of the same messages’, or ‘users of the same lingua franca’ - amongst people far removed from one another in time and space.

      The processes of integration are counterbalanced by equally powerful trends of weakening and dislocating national cultures. Many scholars argue that late modern societies no longer represent unified, well-bounded wholes, with a well-defined centre, developing according to a single organizing principle.  They are fractured and de-centred, crosscut by different internal antagonisms and re-composed around new political or socio-cultural pivots conducive to the emergence of new discourses and the forging of a plurality of identities.

      The aim of the conference is to shed light on the impact of global processes on communication. The topic can be approached from different perspectives: meaning construction through new discourses, characteristics of discursive practices; ways of identification and conceptualization of human action; language policies; language manipulation; Global English and foreign language teaching/ learning; dynamics of globalization discourses in terms of universalization/ particularization, homogenization/ differentiation, integration/ fragmentation, etc.

       We invite submissions from scholars working in the field of:

            Literature and Culture Studies

            General Linguistics

            Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics

Applied Linguistics, Translation Theory, Language Teaching/ Learning

Communication Studies, Intercultural Communication

History, Sociology of Language

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: June 30, 2008
Notification of acceptance: July 30, 2008
Conference dates: November 7th – 9th, 2008

Abstracts should be in a WORD or PDF file of maximum  500  words.

Submissions can be made at: bsbsconference@yahoo.com

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maria Georgieva