deadline extended until January 6th 2019
The language of magic
Call for papers
Pescara: 22th-24th
May 2019
The Department of Lingue, Letterature e Culture moderne,
University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy) is proud to host the 12th international interdisciplinary
conference organized by the ISFNR committee on CHARMS, CHARMERS AND CHARMING.
The conference aims
at a cross—disciplinary approach to the study of charms from antiquity to the present
day. We therefore welcome proposals from different disciplines, including: literature,
folklore, anthropology, linguistics, philology, history, religious studies,
history of medicine, etc.
The focus of the
conference is on language, we would
appreciate papers in the following topics:
·
Charms as texts: meaning, analysis, editions, methods,
translations;
·
Multilingual charms: the interplay in the same texts
or manuscripts between Latin (or other high languages, such as Greek, Hebrew,
Arabic, etc.) and vernacular languages;
·
How to do magic with words: the narrating power of the
historiola, performative language, charm
instructions, the power of the spoken word, speech acts;
·
Oral and written transmission of charms: textual tradition
in a written environment, writing surfaces, the power of the written word, orality,
memory, variation;
·
Charms as verbal remedies: interaction with medical
and religious texts;
·
The rhetoric of charms: argumentational techniques,
belief narratives;
·
What the charms do not say: taboo words, gibberish
language, censorship;
·
The alphabets of magic from the antiquity to present
age.
Language of the
conference: English
Papers should be 20
minutes long with a 10 minute period for questions.
Abstracts due: 1st
December 2018. 6th January 2019
Send proposals, including a title, an abstract of 200-300
words and brief biodata to:
Eleonora
Cianci (e.cianci@unich.it) and thelanguageofmagic@gmail.com
No registration fee will be required for the conference. A tour on 25th
May will be chargeable.
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