“Fifty Shades of Language”International Conference
27-28 November 2021 - London/Online
organised by
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
The Conference invites scholars from the humanities and social sciences to explore whether language is, indeed, a meta-narrative that orderly homogenizes intellectual endeavors and contains self-validating, universal, prescriptive principles, or is itself replete with differences that reflect disciplinary, cultural, gender, ideological, and political interests. Is language, indeed, bewitching human intelligence? What can scholars prescribe for an apparent paradox: Disputes and conflicts are couched in language and, at the same time, language is the axis of their resolution?
Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:
Proposals up to 250 words should be sent by 20 September 2021 to: language@lcir.co.uk. Download paper proposal form.
Registration fee – 90 GBP